Project Cicero Book Drive

public and parochial schools as well as from publishers and other corporate, religious and group donors. More than 1000 students, parents, teachers and other diverse groups and individuals assist Project Cicero’s hands-on, working board in the collection and distribution of the books. At the annual March weekend distribution, over 1,200 teachers (all during their free time), including hundreds of teachers from the NYC Teaching Fellows and Teach for America New York, select books for their libraries. Project Cicero, an all volunteer organization, operates under a fiscal sponsorship agreement with the New York Society Library and receives important support from Vornado Realty Trust and the New York Post. Project Cicero is proud to help protect the environment through its reuse activities, affording book donors the opportunity to repurpose their books, and is delighted to be part of the New York City Materials Exchange Development Program. Project Cicero is named in honor of the Roman writer, statesman, orator and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero, who created extensive libraries in the first century, B.C. He shared his love of literature and learning, just as Project Cicero seeks to encourage literacy and education through its distribution of books to under-resourced schools.