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Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,
We wish you a merry Christmas filled with great books!
JANUARY 13TH READING CLUBS
Our next reading clubs are 3 weeks away, so
click here to submit your RSVP for our Mysteries & Adventures clubs on January 13.
Click here for our Facebook event to join it and help spread the word.
Note about MacArthur Park: For the weekend of
January 13th, MacArthur Park Elementary is closed while the campus is
being painted.
For our January 13th reading clubs,
we encourage you to volunteer at any of Reading to Kids'
other 7 schools! For a map of all of our school sites,
click here.
Our reading clubs will return to MacArthur Park Elementary
on Saturday, Feb. 10th, so mark your
calendars!
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102 MORE DONORS NEEDED
IN LAST 11 DAYS OF 2017!
It's the final 11 days of our
2017 Annual Fund Drive, and we need your help to find 102 more donors to reach our goals before the end of the year!
Here's how you can help before our fund drive ends on the 31st:
1) Donate by check or
online today. Contributions of
any amount are greatly appreciated!
2) Ask friends and family to contribute! We've
made it super simple - just print out our
donor sheet
and start asking, or spend a few minutes personalizing and
sending our
sample email. Reach out to your social media
contacts, too!
3) Double your donation! Ask your
employer to match your donation to Reading to Kids and double your impact.
Once they know about Reading to Kids, many will want to donate -
we just need you to ask!
Note: If donating by check, please
make sure the check is dated on or before December 31,
2017. If donating by credit card, the
donation must be made on or before December 31, 2017.
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5 USED COMPUTERS AND IPADS WANTED
At the January 13th reading clubs we are eager to give away a computer or iPad to one lucky kid at each school.
If you or your employer have any working computers that are less than 6 years old running Windows 7 or later, or any Macintosh computers less than 7 years old, or any iPads or similar tablets, we can give them to deserving kids!
We especially need working computers (CPUs), whether or not they come with monitors, keyboards, etc. Please email us at
info@readingtokids.org for details.
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4 MORE MARATHON RUNNERS NEEDED
Do you know any runners? Are you a
runner? Please forward this email to them
and ask them to join
Team Reading to Kids in next
year's 2018 Skechers Performance Los
Angeles Marathon on Sunday,
March 18th!
We're looking for four more runners
to join us in one of the best marathons in the
country. You can
share this Facebook group with any of your runner
friends to encourage them to join our team!
If you or a runner you know is interested in
becoming one of our fundraising runners or
creating a fundraising team, please email
Chris Martin at
marathon@readingtokids.org!
IMPORTANT NOTE: To register to run
on behalf of Reading to Kids, you
MUST receive from us a special web address
to use when registering on the Skechers
Performance Los Angeles Marathon website.
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Sincerely,
Charlie Orchard, Jessica Brown-Clark, & Jake Bakke
Reading to Kids
1600 Sawtelle Blvd, Suite 210
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 479-7455
(310) 479-7435 (FAX)
info@readingtokids.org
www.readingtokids.org
www.facebook.com/readingtokids
www.twitter.com/readingtokids
www.readingtokids.blogspot.com
Make a donation:
www.readingtokids.org/HowToHelp/HelpDonate.php
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