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Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,
What a jolly time we had on Saturday with 653 kids, 201 volunteers,
114 parents, and 24 teachers & staff
enjoying festive books and crafts at our December 10th reading
clubs!
(Click on the above image to see it full size)
17% of the overall student population at all of our eight partner schools joined us for these reading clubs!
We extend a special thank you to our Santa Clauses, Mrs. Clauses, and elves for bringing the North Pole to the reading clubs, and to the
Pasadena Jaycees for once again providing the
Santa suits!
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!
Reading to Kids thanks
Pico Cleaners for once again generously donating dry cleaning of the Santa suits after the December reading clubs!
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JANUARY 14TH READING CLUBS
Please be sure to sign up for the next reading clubs!
Click here to submit your RSVP for our
"Mysteries & New Adventures" clubs, then "join" the
January 14th reading club event on
Facebook and invite your friends!
We'll need hundreds of volunteers for these January reading clubs, so be sure to sign up early and recruit your friends, co-workers, and family members as volunteers!
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ANNUAL FUND DRIVE UPDATE & WINNERS SO FAR:
FINAL TWO WEEKS TO DONATE!
Since Saturday's reading clubs we received another $4,145 from 37 donors
towards our 2022 Annual Fund Drive!
Thanks to those generous volunteer readers and the Facebook fundraisers created by volunteers Matthew Jones, Mark May, and Alyson Beckman, we have now raised $32,420 overall from 317 donors!
This puts us closer to our goal of raising $60,000 from 600 donors within the next 17 days!
The names of the new donors have already been added to our
2022 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. 10th reading clubs:
1st: Politi (a new leader with 22%!)
2nd: Esperanza
3rd: Magnolia
Highest dollar amount raised at the Dec. 10th reading clubs:
1st: Esperanza
2nd: Magnolia
3rd: White
Highest percentage of volunteers who have donated overall so far:
1st: Esperanza
2nd: MacArthur Park(only 1% behind Esperanza!)
3rd: Los Angeles (only 1% behind MacArthur Park!)
Highest dollar amount raised overall so far:
1st: Esperanza Elementary (thanks to Angel fundraiser Mark May)
2nd: Los Angeles
3rd: Magnolia
All of the Dec. 10th volunteers' donations will be doubled by our matching donors at every school!
Our overall goal by the end of the year is to raise $60,000 from
600 donors.
Here's
how you can help, with your donations being counted towards the
school competition:
1) Make a pledge to donate by check or donate online
today by visiting our
2022 Annual Fund Drive. Contributions of any amount are
greatly appreciated!
2) Show your support by asking friends and family to
contribute!
Visit our
2022 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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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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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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Thanks, and we hope you can join us at our next reading clubs on Saturday, January 14th!
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