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Student and Volunteer Participation Statistics

Last updated  November 11, 2024

Volunteer Participation by Grade Level (All Time)
Note: In-person reading clubs were suspended from March 2020 through August 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our Zoom virtual reading clubs statistics run from May 2020 - August 2022.
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More Facts about the Program (through November 2024)

Current number of active volunteers (volunteered
at least once within the last six months before
the COVID-19 pandemic):
1,034
Current number of active volunteers (volunteered
at least once within the last six months including
during and since the COVID-19 pandemic):
524
Current number of recent volunteers (volunteered
at least once within the last twelve months before
the COVID-19 pandemic):
1,464
Current number of recent volunteers (volunteered
at least once within the last twelve months including
during and since the COVID-19 pandemic):
908
Total number of volunteers who have read at least once with
Reading to Kids since May 1999:
24,467
Current subscribers to the Reading to Kids email update list: 10,516
Total number of hardcover books donated to the
participating schools' libraries since May 1999:
36,285
Total student attendance at reading clubs since May 1999
(children receive prize books for their home libraries):
193,556
Value of volunteer hours:
(3 hours per volunteer per reading club)

1999:             $   10,684                 (708 volunteer hours @ $15.09/hour)
2000:                  47,275              (3,015 volunteer hours @ $15.68/hour)
2001:                  85,419              (4,563 volunteer hours @ $18.72/hour)
2002:                111,292               (5,961 volunteer hours @ $18.67/hour)
2003:                137,247              (7,152 volunteer hours @ $19.19/hour)
2004:                163,625              (8,289 volunteer hours @ $19.74/hour)
2005:                163,328              (8,022 volunteer hours @ $20.36/hour)
2006:                186,201              (8,808 volunteer hours @ $21.14/hour)
2007:                278,541            (12,684 volunteer hours @ $21.96/hour)
2008:                355,111             (15,699 volunteer hours @ $22.62/hour)
2009:                400,412            (17,097 volunteer hours @ $23.42/hour)
2010:                337,601            (13,962 volunteer hours @ $24.18/hour)
2011:                276,581             (11,175 volunteer hours @ $24.75/hour)
2012:                317,894            (12,222 volunteer hours @ $26.01/hour)
2013:                335,203            (12,726 volunteer hours @ $26.34/hour)
2014:                370,806            (13,800 volunteer hours @ $26.87/hour)
2015:                349,289            (12,660 volunteer hours @ $27.59/hour)
2016:                373,025            (13,107 volunteer hours @ $28.46/hour) 2017:                379,799            (13,056 volunteer hours @ $29.09/hour) 2018:                377,729            (12,612 volunteer hours @ $29.95/hour) 2019:                343,049            (10,887 volunteer hours @ $31.51/hour) 2020:                126,844              (3,774 volunteer hours @ $33.61/hour) 2021:                103,800              (2,919 volunteer hours @ $35.56/hour) 2022:                148,347              (3,975 volunteer hours @ $37.32/hour) 2023:                270,811              (7,014 volunteer hours @ $38.61/hour) 2024:                247,529              (6,411 volunteer hours @ $38.61/hour)

TOTAL: $6,297,509
(242,301 volunteer hours through November 2024)

Dollar value of volunteer time estimated by Independent Sector

Participating schools: Gratts Elementary School (first reading club: May 1999)
Esperanza Elementary School (first reading club: March 2000)
Magnolia Elementary School (first reading club: March 2001)
Noble Elementary School (April 2003 through June 2006)
Hoover Elementary School (June 2006 through July 2010)
Politi Elementary School (first reading club: November 2006)
White Elementary School (first reading club: April 2007)
Los Angeles Elementary School (September 2007 through June 2024)
Alta Loma Elementary School (first reading club: May 2008)
MacArthur Park Elementary School (first reading club: April 2016)
Tenth St. Elementary School (first reading club: November 2024)
Student Participation by Grade Level (All Time)
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