Elisabeth Morrow School to Partner with Project Cicero NNJ for Book Drive

The Elisabeth Morrow School (EMS) in Englewood, New Jersey will once again partner with Project Cicero NNJ to host a book drive that will benefit local schoolteachers from under-resourced schools in Northern New Jersey. This past March, in its inaugural year, Project Cicero NNJ collected approximately 35,000 books from individuals and families from 21 local schools to help supplement or create classroom libraries for teachers of the Englewood Public School District and Teach for America- Greater Newark. Approximately 200 teachers from those districts attended the book drive at The Elisabeth Morrow School held on March 9, 2013 and were able to select books to take back to their classrooms, thanks to the generous donation of boxes from Staples and Lowenstein Sandler LLP and a truck supplied by North Jersey Media Group.

Project Cicero, which was created 12 years ago and is named after famed Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero, has reached 425,000 children by placing more than 2 million books into 10,000 schools and libraries. Project Cicero receives donations from individuals and families from over 100 independent, public and parochial schools each year, and has received generous contributions from many book publishers. Project Cicero NNJ was started in 2013 by Teddi Hunter and Jennifer Backer, two Bergen county residents, who have known each other since childhood and who sought to replicate the incredible work of Project Cicero in NY.

Now in its second year, Project Cicero NNJ is planning to include more donor schools and is excited to expand the number of teachers who can benefit from the book drive.

The following 21 schools participated in book collections last February and March:

The Elisabeth Morrow School?Temple Emanu-El Religious School?Dwight-Englewood School?Northern Valley Middle School?Luther Lee Emerson School (Demarest)?Merritt Memorial School (Demarest)?County Road School (Demarest)?Bergen Academies?Fort Lee Elementary School #4?Lewis F. Cole Middle School (Ft. Lee)?Fort Lee Elementary School #1?Tenafly Smith Elementary School?Tenafly High School?Solomon Schechter School?Ridgewood High School?Ridge Elementary School (Ridgewood) ?Englewood Cliffs North Cliff School?Englewood Cliffs Upper School?Glen Rock Elementary School?Ralph S Maugham Elementary School?Walter Stillman Elementary School

The 2014 book drive will occur on Saturday, March 8, 2014 at The Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood. Please email us at projectciceronnj@gmail.com if you would like to have your school or organization conduct a book collection for the 2014 Project Cicero NNJ book drive. All teachers who would like to benefit from the drive must pre-register by emailing projectciceronnj@gmail.com.

Project Cicero accepts new and gently used hardcover and paperback books for children (pre-K through grade 12) and young adults. Project Cicero does not accept textbooks, adult books, library discards or out of date non-fiction/reference books.

For more information on Project Cicero, please visit: projectcicero.org.

To post a comment, you must register and login.