Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,
What a joyous day we had on Saturday! 1,165 kids, 407 volunteers,
169 parents, and 32 teachers & staff
celebrated holiday literary spirit at our December 12th reading clubs!
We especially thank our Santa Clauses, Mrs. Clauses, and elves for delighting the kids as the reading clubs, and to the
Pasadena Jaycees for once again providing the
Santa suits!
If you would like to volunteer for
Operation Santa
and bring joy to children in need on Christmas Eve,
click here or email them at
OperationSanta@PasadenaJaycees.org!
JANUARY 9TH READING CLUBS
Sign up for the next reading clubs!
Click here to submit your RSVP for our "Mysteries &
Adventure" reading
clubs on January 9.
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2015 ANNUAL FUND DRIVE UPDATE: SCHOOL COMPETITION WINNERS, OUR FIRST ANGELS, 2 WEEKS TO DONATE!
Thanks to 92 generous volunteer readers this past Saturday, we have now raised $28,429 overall from 388 donors! This puts us closer to our goals of raising $45,000 from 500 donors within the next two weeks!
The names of all new donors have been added to our
2015 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. 12th reading clubs: 1st: Politi Elementary (a new leader!)
2nd: Charles White Elementary
Highest dollar amount raised at the Dec. 12th reading clubs: 1st: Esperanza Elementary
2nd: Gratts Elementary
Highest percentage of volunteers who have donated overall so far: 1st: Charles White Elementary
2nd: Esperanza Elementary and Politi Elementary (tied)
Highest dollar amount raised overall so far: 1st: Esperanza Elementary
2nd: Gratts Elementary
THANK YOU TO OUR 1ST ANGELS!
Congratulations and thanks to Matthew Jones, Kirstin Harper-Smith, &
Mark May for being our first
2015 Annual Fund Drive Angels!
They became Angels when each gathered donations from friends for our 2015 Annual Fund Drive,
and we invite everyone to become an Angel during this fund drive.
We have just two weeks to raise $16,600 from
112 donors.
Here's
how you can help, with your donations still being counted towards the
school competition:
1) Donate by check or
online today. Contributions of
any amount are greatly appreciated!
2) Ask friends and family to contribute! We've
made it super simple - just print out our
donor sheet
and start asking, or spend a few minutes personalizing and
sending our
sample email.
3) Make your donation a match! Ask your
employer to double your donation.
Once they know about Reading to Kids, many will want to donate -
we just need you to ask!
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6 MORE MARATHON RUNNERS NEEDED
Do you know any runners? Please forward this email to them and ask them to join
Team
Reading to Kids in the 2016 Skechers
Performance Los Angeles Marathon!
We urgently need
six more runners to join us in one of the best marathons in
the country on Sunday, February 14th (Valentine's Day).
You can
share this Facebook page with any of your runner friends
to encourage them to join our team!
Runners can run either the full marathon or a half-marathon, and
the dollars raised will go to support our monthly reading
clubs.
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 marathonreadingtokids.org
for all the details.
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 Skechers
Performance Los Angeles Marathon website.
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3 USED COMPUTERS, MONITORS, AND IPADS WANTED
At the January 9th reading clubs we are eager to give away a computer or iPad to one lucky kid at each school.
If you have a working computer that is less than 6 years old running Windows 7 or later, or a Macintosh less than 7 years old, or an iPad or similar tablet, we can give it to a deserving kid!
We also need more working computer monitors (LCD screens only, please). Please email us at
info@readingtokids.org for details.
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Thanks, and we hope you can join us at our next reading clubs
on Saturday,
January 9th!
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Sincerely,
Charlie Orchard, Tiara Johnson, and Emma Rees
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
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