We will need hundreds of volunteers for our September reading clubs, so please
tell everyone you know about your favorite volunteer opportunity!
To get started,
sign up with us today. Then join our
September 8th Facebook event so your friends
will see that you will be attending.
Tweet @readingtokids, post to Facebook, and email your
friends (perhaps using this
template), letting them know that we still need more
volunteers.
Make sure to tell your friends and family:
1) The reading clubs are the morning of September 8th near Downtown LA
2) Volunteers must sign up online at
www.readingtokids.org
3) The school at which you will be reading
You can also help us by
printing out this flyer and posting
it at coffee shops, the gym, your office, or favorite
community bulletin board.
Finally, set up a group to volunteer with us. E-mail us at info@readingtokids.org and we'll get your group added into our volunteer group list!
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BACK-TO-SCHOOL SUPPLIES NEEDED
FOR SEPTEMBER 8TH
We want to give school supplies to each kid who attends the September 8th clubs.
If you happen to have the following laying around (or want to
pick some up at back-to-school sales), these are the
specific items we are looking for:
NEW
Spiral notebooks
Colorful 2-pocket folders
3-ring binders
3-ring pencil pouches
Large erasers
Stores such as Office Depot, Staples, and Target are promoting
great back-to-school specials. If you're going to be there
anyway, why not pick up a folder or ten for the kids?
Please email
us at
info@readingtokids.org or call us at (310) 479-7455 if you
have any supplies to donate. September is always a fun month,
and made much more so with the giveaways!
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SEPT. CRAFTS & CURRICULUM MEETING
THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 19TH
Help us create the activity and craft guides for the September books - join us this Sunday, August 19th for our next Curriculum Committee Meeting at 12:30pm at the Reading
to Kids office. Our address is in our signature below.
Click here for our Facebook event or
click here for the Evite!
For details on any of our
events, check out our handy
calendar on our website.
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READING TO KIDS AMBASSADORS NEEDED!
Help promote Reading to Kids at our partner schools as a Reading to Kids Ambassador!
Over the next several weeks you can help at
Kindergarten Orientations, Teacher Breakfast Deliveries, and
Back-to-School-Nights.
We'll supply everything you need, including what to say at the Kindergarten Orientations. Although it's great if you can speak Spanish (even a little), all of our parent materials are bilingual, and there's always someone who can translate for you at the school.
Our Ambassadors always have a great time with the
kids and parents - come find out why!
If you can be an Ambassador, please e-mail us at
info@readingtokids.org or call (310) 479-7455.
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HELP! SITE COORDINATORS WANTED
READING TO KIDS IS HIRING - APPLY EARLY!
Reading to Kids is hiring a
Literacy Coordinator through AmeriCorps for a 12
month position starting in November! The position is posted on our
website, where you can read it by clicking on the Literacy
Coordinator button below Latest News.
Please also share the above link to the position with anyone
you think would be a good fit, especially if they have
volunteered with us as readers or other roles!
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RUNNERS NEEDED FOR MARATHON,
1/2 MARATHON, OR 5 K!
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 the 2019 Skechers Performance Los
Angeles Marathon on Sunday,
March 24th!
We're looking for eight more full marathon runners and five Charity Challenge runners (the last 13 miles of the course) to join us in one of the best marathons in the country.
If either of those distances is too daunting, you can join us in the Big 5K (that's just 3.1 miles) near Dodger Stadium the day before the marathon on Saturday, March 23, 2019.
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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Thanks, and we hope to see you and your friends for our
September 8th reading clubs!
