Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,
Our "Family & The Spirit of Giving" reading clubs are this Saturday, and we need 96 more volunteers to read aloud to an expected hundreds of kids eager to hear a story and see Santa live at the reading clubs for the first time in three years!
96 MORE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR THIS SATURDAY'S IN-PERSON CLUBS!
We have until 3pm tomorrow (Friday) to recruit the volunteers we still need for our reading clubs on our partner school campuses this Saturday!
Volunteers for our reading clubs must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and wear a mask while indoors on campus for the reading clubs. The kids will also be required to wear masks while indoors.
Here's how you can help!
- If you haven't already, please visit our
website now and sign up.
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Publish to your Facebook feed and share with your friends our
December 10th reading club event to encourage them to volunteer!
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Whether or not you can volunteer this Saturday,
Tweet @readingtokids, post, and message your
friends and followers. Here's a sample
post you can use:
"Santa + reading to excited kids + holiday spirit = the best way to spend your Saturday morning! My favorite volunteer organization, Reading to Kids, is looking for more volunteers for their reading clubs
this Saturday, Dec. 10th. The theme is "Family & The Spirit of Giving", and the kids are eager to see Santa when he visits the reading clubs that day.
Join me at ###
Elementary School for a fun, heartwarming morning of reading to elementary school kids near downtown LA. To join me, sign up online today at www.readingtokids.org." If you write your own
post, please be sure to include the following two
things:
- The reading clubs are this Saturday morning, December 10th, near downtown LA
- Volunteers must sign up online by 3pm tomorrow, Dec. 9th, at
www.readingtokids.org
If you have people in mind who you think would really
like to read with us, tag them in your post. It will
alert them to the reading clubs and show up in their
friends' news feeds.
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Copy from our easy message template at
http://www.readingtokids.org/News/SampleVolRecruit.pdf
to encourage people you know to sign up to read with us!
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Print out this flyer at
http://readingtokids.org/ProMaterials/VolunteerTearOffFlyer.pdf
and post it somewhere others will see it. Make it a
personal and fun social event by including the school at
which you'll be reading or encouraging them to read at your favorite of our eight partner schools!
(If you
have signed up and can't make it,
please cancel to make room for another volunteer.)
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15 MORE OPERATIONS VOLUNTEERS ALSO NEEDED THIS SATURDAY
We also need help from experienced volunteers in any of the following roles, so please
reply to this email if you can help:
- Training Coordinator at Politi
- Check-in Helper at Los Angeles
- GLC at Alta Loma (5th), Esperanza (2nd), Gratts (1st or 3rd), Los Angeles (2nd or 3rd), MacArthur Park (3rd or 4th), Politi (K or 1st), or White (K or 1st)
- Santa's Helper/Mrs. Claus/Elf at MacArthur Park!
If you have volunteered with us before and can help in any of those roles, please visit our home page at www.readingtokids.org and submit your email address in the yellow box, as usual!
Then, e-mail us at info@readingtokids.org to tell us the above role you would like to take on to help create wonderful, in-person reading clubs again!
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11 RUNNERS NEEDED FOR THE 2023 LA MARATHON, 13.1 MILE CHARITY CHALLENGE, OR 5K!
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 2023 Los
Angeles Marathon on Sunday,
March 19th!
This is our 9th time running the marathon, and we're looking for at least four more marathon runners and seven Charity Challenge runners (the last 13.1 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 LA Big 5K (that's just 3.1 miles) near Dodger Stadium the day before the marathon on Saturday, March 18, 2023.
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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