This Saturday's People & Places Around the World reading clubs now have a few open spots! If you can join us please visit
www.readingtokids.org today or tomorrow to sign up and replace someone who had to cancel!
If we are full when you check, please
keep checking back today and tomorrow before 3pm for new spots.
(If you
have signed up and can't make it after all,
please cancel your RSVP online immediately to make room for another volunteer.)
TWO "ROAMING READERS" NEEDED AT TENTH ST.
THIS SATURDAY MORNING!
We have such a great relationship with our partner schools that at these reading clubs we have an exciting opportunity for two of our experienced volunteers to bring your joy of reading to more kids!
During Saturday's reading clubs, Tenth St. Elem. is also holding Saturday School (Saturday Intervention) for students who need additional academic help. The principal wants us to bring Reading to Kids to these students, too, and we need two more experienced volunteers to help make that happen!
We are invited to read to those Saturday School students for 40 minutes in each Saturday School classroom. Our Saturday School "roaming readers" probably won't do crafts with the kids, but will instead "roam" to two classrooms to read aloud one of this month's books, then give each kid their own prize book, as we usually do. Their teacher will remain in the classroom, too.
Since this Saturday morning is also the first day of Spring Break for the kids, roaming readers will probably get to read to more kids than we expect at the "regular" reading clubs that morning! This is also a great way to read to kids who probably don't come to our reading clubs!
E-mail us at info@readingtokids.org if you are an experienced volunteer with us and can be a Roaming Reader this Saturday morning! If you are already signed up at a different school, we'll even happily move you from your current school to Tenth St. Elem.!
FOUR MORE LEADERS WANTED:
GLC, TRAINING COORDINATORS,
AND SITE OPERATIONS HELPERS
This Saturday is the perfect time for those who have volunteered with us a few times recently to step into and learn any of our important 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:
- GLC at Gratts (1st grade)
- Training Coordinator at Mac. Park or Politi
- Site Operations Helpers at any school - your Site Coordinators need your help!
If your school is full and you are an experienced volunteer with us, let us know if you can fill any of the above roles and we'll happily add in your RSVP.
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READING TO KIDS AMBASSADORS
WANTED THIS AFTERNOON
OR TOMORROW!
Since Saturday's reading clubs fall on the first day of the kids' Spring Break, it is especially important we remind the kids to join us this Saturday morning!
Thus, this afternoon or tomorrow for an hour or two between 7:30am and 2:30pm, we need your
help conducting quick classroom walk-throughs and/or passing out flyers to encourage kids to come to
Saturday's reading clubs.
We are especially looking for volunteers available from about 1:15 - 2:45 today, or volunteers who can pass out flyers to parents tomorrow at 7am or when school lets out at around 12:30pm.
It's an exciting experience and we'll provide everything you need. 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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LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
APRIL 26-27:
VOLUNTEER IN OUR BOOTH
This year's Festival of Books will take place April 26-27 on the University of Southern California campus.
Please join us in our booth to share your enthusiasm and
Reading to Kids knowledge
with other book lovers!
Click here to see all available shifts. If you're interested in volunteering, reply or e-mail
info@readingtokids.org.
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3 COMPUTERS OR TABLETS
WANTED FOR MAY
At our May reading clubs we would love to give away a computer or iPad/tablet to one lucky kid at each school, but we need three more of them to make that happen!
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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PLEASE HELP US FIND
BINGO PRIZE & AUCTION ITEMS
Our next Legendary Bingo fundraisers at
Hamburger Mary's in West Hollywood will be on May 21st and in the fall, so we need your help gathering prizes for auctions and bingo winners!
To help you get started, here is information about Reading to Kids to share with potential donors, as well as a donation form for them to complete.
We especially enjoy awarding gift certificates,
amusement park and theater tickets, gift bags, and
autographed items! Anything unique is great, too!
If you work at or have a connection with products or services to offer, please help us by asking for a donation to our events.
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THANK YOU TO
THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION
Please join us in thanking
The Albertsons Companies Foundation for their most recent $2,500 grant supporting Reading to Kids, our sixth donation from them in the last eight years!
Volunteers Prince Selvage III and Joe Morchy made these grants possible by sponsoring us through their employer.
These grant funds will go towards purchasing the hundreds of books we donate to our eight partner schools' libraries each year, and to the thousands of books we give to participating kids the second Saturday of each month!
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