\n\tMarysol Castro, Ben Aaron, and Marcia Parris<\/p>\n
\t\t9 hours ago\n<\/p>\n
NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 Tony Weaver Jr. is a passionate advocate for youth literacy and the power it holds to change lives. <\/p>\n
Through his Nerds for Literacy Initiative, launched last year, he mobilized his loyal fanbase in the \u201cnerd community\u201d and literacy advocates everywhere to raise over $142,000 in individual donations to purchase books for underserved schools and libraries. <\/p>\n
The initiative has impacted 19,000 kids in Title I schools to date and boosted business for independent bookstores in several communities across the country. Weaver Jr.\u2019s efforts did not go unnoticed; \u201cWicked\u201d star Cynthia Erivo endorsed the campaign, which you can watch here.<\/p>\n
The second annual fundraiser is happening now to raise an additional $200,000 for the cause. You can learn more about the initiative and donate here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marysol Castro, Ben Aaron, and Marcia Parris 9 hours ago NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 Tony Weaver Jr. is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-340255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}