At Saturday's Reading Clubs we received $4,283 from 81 donors
towards our 2018 Annual Fund Drive!
The names of the new donors have been added to our
2018 Annual Fund Drive page, and here are
the school competition stats so far:
SCHOOL COMPETITION WINNERS!
Highest percentage of volunteers who donated at the Dec. 8th reading clubs:
1st: Alta Loma (a new leader with a whopping 53%!)
2nd: Esperanza (26%)
3rd: White (25%)
Highest dollar amount raised at the Dec. 8th reading clubs:
1st: Esperanza
2nd: Alta Loma
3rd: MacArthur Park
Highest percentage of volunteers who have donated overall so far:
1st: Alta Loma
2nd: White
3rd: Gratts (only 2% behind White!)
Highest dollar amount raised overall so far:
1st: Esperanza (thanks to Angel fundraiser Mark May's Facebook)
2nd: Magnolia
3rd: Alta Loma
Our overall goal by the end of the year is to raise
$55,000 from
550 donors by the end of this month.
Here's
how you can help, with your donations still being counted towards the
school competition:
1 - Donate online or make a pledge to donate by check
today by visiting our
2018 Annual Fund Drive page. Contributions of
any amount are greatly appreciated!
2) Show your support by asking friends and family to
contribute!
Visit our
2018 Annual Fund Drive
page and look under the "Help us Fundraise!"
header for resources, including information on creating your own
personalized fundraising page on Facebook, our handy
donor sheet for raising money with your friends and
co-workers,
tips for fundraising, and so much more.
Once they know about Reading to Kids, many will want to donate -
we just need you to ask!
Also, if your workplace matches donations to nonprofits, please share
with them your donation, and ask them to consider matching it. In this way you double your donation and share with others your enthusiasm
for Reading to Kids!
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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 the 2019 Skechers Performance Los
Angeles Marathon on Sunday,
March 24th!
We're looking for four more marathon 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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Thanks, and we hope you can join us at our next reading clubs on Saturday, January 12th!
