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Reading to Kids News
December 21, 2017
 

Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,

We wish you a merry Christmas filled with great books!

Santa and Mrs. Claus

JANUARY 13TH READING CLUBS

Our next reading clubs are 3 weeks away, so click here to submit your RSVP for our Mysteries & Adventures clubs on January 13. Click here for our Facebook event to join it and help spread the word.

Note about MacArthur Park: For the weekend of January 13th, MacArthur Park Elementary is closed while the campus is being painted.

For our January 13th reading clubs, we encourage you to volunteer at any of Reading to Kids' other 7 schools! For a map of all of our school sites, click here.

Our reading clubs will return to MacArthur Park Elementary on Saturday, Feb. 10th, so mark your calendars!
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102 MORE DONORS NEEDED
IN LAST 11 DAYS OF 2017!

Reading to Kids Annual Fund Drive

It's the final 11 days of our 2017 Annual Fund Drive, and we need your help to find 102 more donors to reach our goals before the end of the year!

Here's how you can help before our fund drive ends on the 31st:

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.  Reach out to your social media contacts, too!

3) Double your donation! Ask your employer to match your donation to Reading to Kids and double your impact.

Once they know about Reading to Kids, many will want to donate - we just need you to ask!

Note: If donating by check, please make sure the check is dated on or before December 31, 2017. If donating by credit card, the donation must be made on or before December 31, 2017.

Reading to Kids Annual Fund Drive
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5 USED COMPUTERS AND IPADS WANTED

At the January 13th reading clubs we are eager to give away a computer or iPad 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 7 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 for details.

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4 MORE MARATHON RUNNERS NEEDED

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 next year's 2018 Skechers Performance Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday, March 18th!

Team Reading to Kids 2018 Skechers Performance Los Angeles Marathon Team Reading to Kids logo

We're looking for four more runners to join us in one of the best marathons in the country. 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 Skechers Performance Los Angeles Marathon website.

Team Reading to Kids 2018 Skechers Performance LA Marathon
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Thank you very much for donating to Reading to Kids, and hope you have a wonderful weekend and Christmas day!

Sincerely,

Charlie Orchard, Jessica Brown-Clark, & Jake Bakke
Reading to Kids
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Los Angeles, CA 90025
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JANUARY 2018
Reading Club RSVPs
School RSVPs Capacity
Alta Loma 21 40
Esperanza 29 68
Gratts 21 60
Los Angeles 27 60
Magnolia 15 76
Politi 10 51
White 17 49
TOTAL 140 404
JANUARY Books. . .
Kindergarten book
Kindergarten
First Grade book
First Grade
Second Grade book
Second Grade
Third Grade book
Third Grade
Fourth Grade book
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade book
Fifth Grade

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