It's the final hours of 2022 and our
Annual Fund Drive, and one of our co-founders, Brad Hall, is offering to match up to $2,500 all donations made this weekend!
Please help us meet Brad's challenge by making your first or perhaps a second donation today at our
Annual Fund Drive page!
So far 369 donors have given $46,102, with more donation checks still arriving in the mail.
Here's how you can help us earn Brad's match by tomorrow night:
1) Donate by check or
online today. Contributions of
any amount are greatly appreciated!
2) Become our 4th Fundraising Angel and ask friends and family to contribute! We've
made it super simple - just create a quick
fundraising page on Facebook, or download and share our
donor sheet
and start asking, or spend a few minutes personalizing and
sending our
sample message.
3) Double your donation! Ask your employer to
match your donation to Reading to Kids and double your
impact.
We have so far received (or are expecting) matching donations from The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation, Disney,
Oaktree Capital Management, Comcast NBCUniversal, LinkedIn, Netflix, GE, Roblox, and Blue Shield of California, all through the efforts and requests of our volunteers who work for those companies.
Once your employer, friends, and family know about
Reading to Kids, many will want to donate to us
and are looking for a great cause to support -
we just need you to ask!
Note: If
you want to count your donation towards your 2022 charitable giving, please make sure your check is dated on or
before today, December 31, 2022, or that your credit card or Venmo donation is made today.
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JOIN US & RECRUIT FOR OUR
JANUARY 14TH READING CLUBS!
Our "Mysteries & New Adventures" reading clubs on January 14th are only two weeks away,
and we need 165 more volunteers.
You can help by joining
our
January 14th reading club event
so your friends will see that on your wall.
Then go to our website and
sign up with us.
Please
tweet, post to Facebook and Instagram, and
message your friends that we still need more volunteers.
Please also
print out this flyer and post it at your
work, school, church, synagogue, mosque, or favorite
community bulletin board.
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STEP UP TO A BIGGER VOLUNTEER ROLE
AT OUR JAN. 14TH READING CLUBS
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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.
