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PROJECT CICERO is a partnership of independent, public, and parochial schools, private and public organizations and corporations whose primary goal is to supplement or create classroom and school libraries for children in under-resourced New York City public schools through an annual citywide book drive. PROJECT CICERO also puts books into homeless shelters, juvenile detention facilities, community centers, and wherever else there is a need. This past year, its seventh year of operation, PROJECT CICERO distributed 140,000 books. To date, PROJECT CICERO has placed nearly 1,000,000 into 5,500 classrooms and school libraries reaching 180,000 children in under-resourced schools in New York City.