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Reading to Kids News
December 8, 2022
 

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!

Santa at Alta Loma reading 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!

  1. If you haven't already, please visit our website now and sign up.

  2. Publish to your Facebook feed and share with your friends our December 10th reading club event to encourage them to volunteer!

  3. 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.

  4. 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!

  5. 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.)

The Pasadena Jaycees are providing our Santa suits for this Saturday!

If you are interested in volunteering for Operation Santa and bringing joy to children in need on Christmas Eve, click here or email them at OpSanta@PasadenaJaycees.org!
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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!

 Team Reading to Kids logo

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.

Team Reading to Kids LA Marathon runners
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Reading to Kids Annual Fund Drive

Thanks, and please help recruit volunteers for this Saturday!!

Sincerely,

Charlie Orchard, Yancy Rodriguez Coe, & Diego Cruz
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

DECEMBER 2022
Reading Club RSVPs
School RSVPs Capacity
Alta Loma 34 34
Esperanza 34 41
Gratts 22 26
Los Angeles 33 54
MacArthur Park 28 46
Magnolia 34 54
Politi 24 43
White 18 25
TOTAL 227 323
DECEMBER Books. . .
Kindergarten book
Kindergarten
First Grade book
First Grade
Second Grade book
Second Grade
Third Grade book
Third Grade
Fourth Grade book
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade book
Fifth Grade

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