We are thrilled to announce that at our November 9th reading clubs we will begin reading at
Tenth Street Elementary, our first new school since April 2016!
Please help inspire students at Tenth St. Elem. with a love of reading by signing up to volunteer for this momentous occasion! This is your chance to be at a first reading club at one of our schools!
Specifically, we are looking for Site Coordinators, Training Coordinators, GLCs, a Bagel Runner and/or Food Runner, and experienced volunteers to start at Tenth St. Elem. If you are interested in getting more involved, please contact us at
info@readingtokids.org.
IMPORTANT: If you are already signed up for another school for November 9th and you want to switch to Tenth St. Elem., please contact us as soon as you can at
info@readingtokids.org.
We will also need a coffee pot that can brew at least 20 cups of coffee at a time. If you can donate one, please let us know!
HELP! 23 MORE READERS
NEEDED IN 9 DAYS
FOR NOV. 9TH READING CLUBS!
Now that we are at 8 schools, we urgently need another 23 readers to join us for our November 9th reading clubs.
Here are 5 super-helpful things you can do right now!
- If you haven't already, please visit our
website now and sign up.
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Share and join our
November 9th reading club event to let
your friends know the fun you'll be up to on the 9th!
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Whether or not you can volunteer on the 9th,
Tweet @readingtokids, post, and message your
friends and followers. Here's a sample
post you can use:
"My favorite volunteer organization, Reading to Kids, is expanding to an 8th partner-school and is looking for more volunteers for their reading clubs
on Saturday, Nov. 9th. The theme is "Seasons & the Natural World", and the kids are eager to hear great books read aloud to them.
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 Saturday morning, November 9th, near downtown LA
- Volunteers must sign up online by 3pm on Friday, Nov. 8th, 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!
November is our college spirit month,
when we count the college logos volunteers wear that morning to see which college shows the most spirit. Will you recruit the most volunteers from your school and win the competition?
(Click on the above image to see it full-sized!)
MORE OPERATIONS VOLUNTEERS
ALSO NEEDED NOV. 9TH
Have you volunteered with us a few times recently? Then November 9th would be a fantastic time to step into any of our vital Operations roles - all training very pleasantly provided!
Please e-mail us at
info@readingtokids.org if you can volunteer for any of the following roles on Nov. 9th:
- GLC at Alta Loma (4th), Esperanza (K), Gratts (4th), Politi (2nd), Tenth St. (5th), or White (1st)
- Training Coordinator at any school
- Check-in Helper at at any school
- Site Operations Helper at 8am at any school (your Site Coordinators need your help!
Even if your school is full, we can add you in if you have volunteered for at least three prior reading clubs with us and will fill one of the above roles!
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READING TO KIDS AMBASSADORS
WANTED NEXT WEEK!
Next week on Thursday or Friday for an hour or two between 7:30am and 2:30pm, we need your
help conducting quick classroom walk-throughs to encourage kids to come to
our November 9th reading clubs.
We are especially looking for volunteers who can pass out flyers to parents when school lets out at around 2:15pm next Friday, November 8th.
This can be a lot of fun and we'll provide everything you need. If you have volunteered with us before, please reply to
info@readingtokids.org or call the office at
(310) 479-7455 if you can be an Ambassador for an hour or two next week!
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FOUR MORE RUNNERS NEEDED
FOR THE 2025 LA MARATHON,
13.1 MILE CHARITY CHALLENGE,
OR LA 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 2025 Los
Angeles Marathon or 13.1 Mile Charity Challenge on Sunday,
March 16th!
This is our 11th time running the marathon, and we're looking for four Charity Challenge runners (the last 13.1 miles of the course) and more full marathon runners 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 5K (that's just 3.1 miles) near Dodger Stadium the day before the marathon on Saturday, March 15, 2024.
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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8 COMPUTERS OR TABLETS WANTED
TO GIVE TO KIDS!
At our January reading clubs we would love to give away a computer or iPad/tablet to one lucky kid at each school.
If you or your employer have any working computers that are less than 6 years old running Windows 10 or later, or any Macintosh computers less than 7 years old, or any iPads or similar tablets, we can give them to deserving kids!
We especially need working computers (CPUs), whether or not they come with monitors, keyboards, etc. Please email us at
info@readingtokids.org to help make a kid very happy!
A Charles White Elementary 5th grader with perfect Reading to Kids attendance
leaps for joy after winning a new iPad
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