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Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,
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Your friends, co-workers, and family members may be looking for a trusted organization to support. Last month Reading to Kids earned a 2020 Platinum Seal of Transparency on GuideStar (the online standard for nonprofit accountability) by sharing our key metrics and highlighting the impact we're making!
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FINAL NINE DAYS TO GIVE TO OUR
2020 ANNUAL FUND DRIVE!
It's the final nine days of our
2020 Annual Fund Drive, and we need your help to reach our goals before the end of the year!
Thanks to the Facebook fundraisers created by volunteers Matthew Jones, Mariel Rubio, Emily Sandersfeld, Mark May, Vicky Nesia, Andrea Smoot, & Prince Selvage, our overall 2020 Annual Fund Drive total is now $41,501 from 406 donors!
Here's how you can help us meet our $60,000 goal before our fund drive ends on the 31st:
DONATE TODAY!
1) Make a pledge to donate by check or donate online
today by visiting our
2020 Annual Fund Drive. Contributions of any amount are
greatly appreciated!
2) Show your support by asking friends and family to
contribute!
Visit our
2020 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 of your
friends and family 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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JANUARY 9TH READING CLUBS
NEARLY CONFIRMED
Our partner school teachers are on their Winter Break but have been confirming as Zoom hosts for next month's virtual reading clubs on
January 9th!
Next week when we confirm enough teacher hosts we
will then open
our RSVP system for those "Mysteries & New Adventures" reading
clubs!
These January reading clubs will be smaller because the schools will still be on their Winter recess, so please keep checking www.readingtokids.org to see if you can submit an RSVP!!
OPERATIONS VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
(Click the above image to see full sized!)
For our virtual reading clubs we need experienced volunteers to
help train volunteers to use Zoom or be a second or third virtual Site Coordinator
in our Zoom reading clubs for any of our schools.
Being a Site Coordinator guarantees you a (non-reading) spot at our next reading clubs, so please e-mail us at
info@readingtokids.org if you can help us create wonderful reading clubs!
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SUPPORT US WITH AMAZONSMILE
Are you doing any gift shopping on
Amazon.com? If you shop using
AmazonSmile, they will donate 0.5% of
your purchases to Reading to Kids!
Click here for easy directions on how to start using
AmazonSmile!
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3 MORE RUNNERS WANTED FOR THE
2021 LA MARATHON,
1/2 MARATHON, OR 5K!
The Los Angeles Marathon announced three weeks ago that they have rescheduled the LA Big 5K to Saturday,
May 22nd and the marathon to Sunday,
May 23rd. This means more time to train!
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 2021 Los
Angeles Marathon on Sunday,
May 23rd!
We're looking for three more marathon runners or 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 are too daunting, you can join us in the LA Big 5K (that's just 3.1 miles) near Dodger Stadium the day before the marathon on Saturday, May 22, 2021.
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 Los Angeles Marathon website.
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Thanks, and we wish you a very merry Christmas week!
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