HarperCollins has donated 50,000 books to Book Rich Environments, a program dedicated to providing books to book deserts and public housing communities.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Other
- SECTOR: Education, Trade
- Type of initiative: Other
- SECTOR: Academic, Trade
HarperCollins and Amistad donate to the Hurston/Wright Foundation, which provides services, supports and opportunities that mentor, recognize and provide community for professional and aspiring Black writers.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Training
- SECTOR: Other, Trade
HarperCollins and News Corp have partnered to offer employees enrollment in the Carbonauts’ Sustainability Bootcamp, an engaging six-week program where you’ll discover the fundamentals of sustainable living and how to apply them in your own life.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Best practice
- SECTOR: Academic, Other, Trade
The Journal of Bacteriology (JB) is piloting a double-anonymized peer review option. Double-anonymized peer review is when the author(s) and the reviewers do not know each other’s identities. By including this option the journal aims to provide a more equitable and representative scholarly publication process by reducing bias with respect to gender, race, country of origin, or affiliation.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Event
- SECTOR: Trade
HarperCollins President and CEO Brian Murray accepted the Literacy Leadership Award at Literacy Partners’ annual gala, celebrating 30+ years of partnership with the organization. Brian introduced Viola Davis, Oscar−winning actress, producer, New York Times bestselling author of Finding Me (HarperOne), and founder of JVL Media, as she received the Champion of Literacy Award. The evening, marking Literacy Partners’ 50th anniversary, raised over $1M to support literacy education and advocacy in NYC
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Other, Training
- SECTOR: Trade
HarperCollins has long supported Girls Write Now, an organization dedicated to empowering underserved youth through writing and mentorship. HarperOne collaborated with the group to publish a hands-on guide to storytelling—conceived, written, and edited by the young people of Girls Write Now.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Event, Other, Statistics
- SECTOR: Trade
For the fourteenth year in a row, HarperCollins partnered with Volunteers of America for Operation Backpack. HarperCollins donated dictionaries and children’s books; employees volunteered to fill backpacks with books and school supplies. The bags were distributed to school-age children living in New York City homeless or domestic violence shelters.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Other
- SECTOR: Trade
HarperCollins believes in fostering a marketplace where consumers choose what to read. In response to rising censorship and book banning, we joined challenges to unconstitutional legislation that restricts access to books, including a lawsuit against Iowa’s book-banning provisions of SF 496. Additionally, HarperCollins donated to Unite Against Book Bans, the National Coalition Against Censorship, PEN America, and Little Free Library, and published resources on its website.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Other
- SECTOR: Trade
Employees volunteered with Chapter One, an online volunteer tutoring program that helps first and second grade students from underprivileged communities learn to read.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Other
- SECTOR: Trade
Employees fundraised money to support City Harvest, a nonprofit committed to helping New Yorkers in need by rescuing good food that would otherwise go to waste and delivering it to soup kitchens, food pantries, and other community food programs across the city.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Other
- SECTOR: Trade
HarperCollins has donated nearly 180,000 books to Save the Children. The organization focuses on preparing children for kindergarten and helping them learn to read by third grade, particularly for vulnerable children in rural America where early learning resources are scarce. In addition, HarperCollins employees colored bookmarks and wrote notes that were then included with the books we donated.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Event
- SECTOR: Trade
HarperCollins’ New to Publishing and Access Aspiration programs encourage people from underrepresented and low-income communities to enter the publishing field.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Other
- SECTOR: Trade
Collins, Farshore, and HarperCollins Children’s Books are excited to be working with Wastebuster on the not-for-profit recycling program, Recycle to Read. We will be supplying books as rewards to participating schools who organize and promote toy, textiles and battery takeback collections in exchange for vouchers to spend on books.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Best practice
- SECTOR: Trade
HarperCollins saved the equivalent of 3.2 million gallons of water and 2.8 million kg of CO2 emissions in fiscal 2023 through its use of Rolland Envirobook paper (the only book publishing paper made in North America consisting of 100% post-consumer waste recycled fiber), and Rolland Opaque paper, which consists of 30% recycled fiber.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Best practice
- SECTOR: Trade
Reducing plastics in book production at HarperCollins, including the elimination of approximately 1.5 metric tons of microplastic-containing glitter on HarperCollins UK products.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Training
- SECTOR: Academic, Trade
HarperCollins UK launched two new initiatives to recruit from underrepresented backgrounds: the Marketing Manager Program for talented individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds with marketing experience, and the Socioeconomic Traineeship designed to bring in talent from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Other
- SECTOR: Trade
Since 2013, HarperCollins has donated books—including Spanish language titles—to Project Cicero, an organization that creates and enhances classroom and school libraries in under-resourced New York City public schools.
Relevant SDG’s
- Type of initiative: Other
- SECTOR: Trade
HarperCollins supports Housing Works, a New York-based nonprofit dedicated to fighting AIDS and homelessness for the past 10 years. During this period, the company has donated more than 230,000 books to the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, with donations of nearly 30,000 books this fiscal year. One hundred percent of the store’s profits go toward funding the organization’s lifesaving services.
Relevant SDG’s
