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Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,
FINAL DAYS TO DONATE TO AND CHEER ON
OUR MARATHON RUNNERS!
Team Reading to Kids has until this Sunday to reach their $10,000 fundraising goal!
Please donate a buck a mile today as they prepare to run the Los Angeles Marathon this Sunday!
They have been training since before the pandemic, and so far our runners have raised $9,585 in support of our
monthly reading clubs.
Your donation will make all their months and miles of training pay off in books for the kids we serve!
HAND OUT WATER DURING THE MARATHON!
Help represent Reading to
Kids during the marathon by handing out water to the runners!
Our
group will be at Water Station Mile 5 at Glendale
Blvd., between Bellevue and Kent St. in Echo Park, this
Sunday, November 7th from 5am - 11am.
Click this link to sign up. Our group is
Reading to Kids and our shift location
should be listed in green. Click the box to the green
J05 Water Station Mile 5 shift,
complete the form, and sign up to volunteer!
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You can also cheer on our marathon runners this Sunday at our course support booth located at Burton Way and N. Oakhurst Dr. from 8:30am - 1:30pm. Stop by and be inspired by the runners streaming by!
Course Support Booth
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RSVP FOR NOV. 13TH READING CLUBS
Last week we
opened the
November 13th reading clubs RSVPs, and the spots filled very quickly!
We definitely want to have enough volunteer readers, so please keep checking readingtokids.org to see if we were able to open new volunteer spots for our "Seasons & the Natural World" virtual reading clubs, even if it's your first virtual reading club!
(If you are signed up but can't attend after all, please
click here to cancel ASAP so someone else can take your place!)
We must continue to limit RSVPs for these virtual reading clubs only to returning
volunteers - people who have volunteered with us at least once before
at any of our previous face-to-face or virtual reading clubs. See below for how virtual clubs work.
We expect we can add more reader spots as more teachers commit to hosting for us on November 13th.
If you check our website and find all reader spots are full today or over the next eight days, please keep checking back so we'll have enough volunteers.
STAND-BY READERS WANTED!
If all spots are full you can also let us know at
info@readingtokids.org if you are willing to be a
"stand-by" reader for Saturday, November 13th. A "stand-by" reader is someone willing to fill in for any grade at any school if we have any last-second reader cancellations.
Stand-by readers must be available that Saturday morning from 8am to around 11am and willing to read via Zoom to any grade at any school. It's a really important role!
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HOW VIRTUAL READING CLUBS WORK
Because LAUSD has not yet determined when volunteer organizations can return to on-campus events, we continue to use Zoom for these virtual reading clubs.
The reading clubs will be hosted by participating teachers at each school
using their school Zoom accounts, but you will need your own Zoom account to
join the reading club. If you don’t already have a Zoom account, you can sign up
for a free, Basic account here:
https://zoom.us/pricing
IMPORTANT:
You will need to use Zoom from a desktop or laptop computer. The phone and
tablet versions of Zoom do not have the necessary features for our virtual
reading clubs.
Ideally, anyone who
volunteers for these virtual reading clubs will be comfortable using
Zoom. If you wish to test out your Zoom connectivity prior to the
reading clubs, we encourage you to email us at
info@readingtokids.org so we may do a brief test run with you before the
virtual reading clubs.
The Friday before the
reading clubs you will receive a link for a Zoom "check-in" session with your
Site Coordinators that will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. that Saturday.
Click here to review the schedule for these virtual reading clubs.
Once you and your fellow
volunteers are checked in, that same Zoom session will have a Zoom Volunteer
Orientation / Virtual Reading Club Training that will start promptly at 9:15
a.m.
At 9:30 a.m. you and your
volunteer partner will leave that Site Coordinator session and then join the
teacher's Zoom session. The teacher will host the Zoom call and make you
co-hosts. The first 30 minutes will be for troubleshooting and a prep session
for just you and your reading partner and the teacher.
The kids will join that
same reading club Zoom session at 10:00 a.m., and it will likely go until 10:30
or 11:00, at the teacher's discretion.
After the reading clubs
end you will then rejoin your Site Coordinator's Zoom call for a brief wrap-up.
To screen share the book
you will be reading with the children, you will need Adobe Acrobat or the free
Adobe Reader from
https://get.adobe.com/reader.
We will provide you a PDF
of the read-aloud book so you can prepare for the reading clubs. You can see the
read-aloud book titles for this month at
https://readingtokids.org/Books/BooksMonth.php.
We will provide at the
above link activities and simple craft ideas the kids can do at home. You would
prepare to lead the kids in an activity and craft, though you may not actually
do a craft, depending upon how the Zoom session goes. The kids may just want to
talk to new faces!
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BE ONE OF OUR 1ST 100 DONORS
IN OUR 2021 ANNUAL FUND DRIVE!
Our 2021 Annual Fund Drive continues to grow with $8,626 donated from 78 donors!
Those who have donated can see their names listed on our
2021 Annual Fund Drive page. Donate today to join them as one of our first 100 donors!
Our Annual Fund Drive lasts until December 31st, and our ambitious goal this year is to raise $60,000 from 600 donors. Please help us meet that goal by spreading the word to your friends and co-workers!
How Can You Help?
1) Make a pledge to donate by check or donate online
today by visiting our
2021 Annual Fund Drive. Contributions of any amount are
greatly appreciated!
2) Show your support by asking friends and family to
contribute!
Visit our
2021 Annual Fund Drive
page and look under the "Help us Fundraise!"
header for resources, including information on creating your own
personalized fundraising page on Facebook, our handy
donor sheet for raising money with your friends and
co-workers,
tips for fundraising, and so much more.
Once they know about Reading to Kids, many of your
friends and family will want to donate -
we just need you to ask!
Also, if your workplace matches donations to nonprofits, please share
with them your donation, and ask them to consider matching it. In this way you double your donation and share with others your enthusiasm
for Reading to Kids!
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