HOW YOU CAN HELP
Please join Zibby in supporting or promoting these or other non-profits in the literary and health care industries.
Bernie’s Book Bank: Offering 18 million free quality books to under-served children across Chicago.
Book Industry Charitable Foundation (BINC): Booksellers have been hit hard. Support individual booksellers struggling to make ends meet by contributing here. Read Zibby’s profile about why she gave to BINC here.
Books for Kids: An organization that provides libraries and literacy programming to underprivileged preschoolers in NYC.
The Center for Fiction: This cultural event space, bookstore, shared workspace and treasure trove of novels in Brooklyn is a true gem.
Child Mind Institute: The Child Mind Institute put together a comprehensive list of resources for parents and children during COVID-19. Read here. Join Zibby in donating here to help families with children coping with mental health challenges.
First Book: Making resources like books attainable and affordable for 450,000 educator members to serve children in need.
Jumpstart: Zibby sponsored the Read for the Record campaign. Check out Jumpstart’s initiatives to encourage reading.
Mount Sinai Health System: Mount Sinai was at the epicenter of the coronavirus hot spot in New York City. Please join Zibby in supporting the Susan Felice Owens Program for COVID-19 Vaccine Research, named after her later mother-in-law.
Mount Sinai Parenting Center: Give pediatricians the tools to effect real change in their patient education interactions to help caregivers get the tools they need to parent.
No Kid Hungry: Millions of children are going hungry right now. Click here to help prevent this.
The New York Public Library: Committed to providing access to books, education, and resources to everyone.
PEN America: The leading literary global organization dedicated to free speech.
Poets & Writers: Want to help writers who are struggling to make ends meet, now more than ever? Join Zibby in contributing to the COVID-19 fund to support authors who submit applications for emergency aid. Click here.
Share the Magic Foundation: Led by former NFL player and children’s book author Malcolm Mitchell, Share the Magic provides books to children in low-income households through their schools to promote literacy.
We Need Diverse Books: An organization of children’s book lovers who want to promote diverse characters in literature.
WorldReader: Help readers around the world create a better world. Hear more about it in Zibby’s podcast with founder David Risher or watch it on YouTube.
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