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Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,
Last Saturday 186 kids, 81 volunteers, and 29 teachers & staff
helped to make our December 11th reading clubs a most festive time!
Click above image to see Zoom Santa full size.
Click this link for a look behind the scenes!
We especially thank our Zoom Santas for bringing welcome holiday spirit to the reading clubs. Two of them wore Santa suits generously provided by the Pasadena Jaycees!
The Pasadena Jaycees need lots of volunteers and toy donations for their socially-distant version this weekend of Operation Santa.
Help them bring joy to children before Christmas -
click here or email them at OpSanta@PasadenaJaycees.org!
Check out the below group whiteboard holiday card 4th and 5th graders at Magnolia created for their teacher, Ms. Guerra, as she hosted for these reading clubs!
(Click on the above image to see it full size)
Our volunteers at all of our schools turned out for a very festive morning of reading!
Volunteers checking in for our Zoom reading clubs at Charles White Elementary
(click above image to see full size)
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ANNUAL FUND DRIVE UPDATE & WINNERS SO FAR:
DOUBLE YOUR DONATION THIS WEEK!
On and since Saturday we received another $3,185 from 29 donors towards our 2021 Annual Fund Drive!
The names of the new donors have already been added to our
2021 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. 11th reading clubs:
1st: Politi (still the leader, this month with 57%!)
2nd: MacArthur Park (40%)
3rd: Los Angeles (33%)
Highest dollar amount raised at the Dec. 11th reading clubs:
1st: Esperanza (thanks to Angel fundraiser Mark May)
2nd: Politi (thanks to Angel fundraiser Stan Thompson)
3rd: White
Highest percentage of volunteers who have donated overall:
1st: Politi
2nd: Los Angeles
3rd: Esperanza
Highest dollar amount raised overall: 1st: Esperanza
2nd: Politi
3rd: MacArthur Park
All of these Dec. 11th volunteer donations will be doubled or tripled by our matching donors at every school, and their offers still stand!
That's right, you can still double or triple your donation and easily change the above standings by donating this week!
Just donate via our Annual Fund Drive page and indicate your school in the notes or comments field of your donation!
Alta Loma: Ramana Prakash & Shalini Reddy matching up to $250 combined donations
Esperanza: Janet Webb matching up to $2,000 combined donations
Gratts: Bernice Hernandez matching up to $300 combined donations
Los Angeles & Politi: Melissa Sanders matching up to $2,500 combined donations
White: Robyn Chew matching up to $1,000 combined donations
Help us reach the above matches by donating today!
We have now raised $34,878 from 319 donors so far. Our overall goal by the next 16 days is to raise $60,000 from
600 donors.
Here's
how you can help, with your donations being counted towards the
school competition:
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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FOUR MILESTONE READERS!
Virtual reading clubs count towards our milestones just as much as our face-to-face reading clubs!
Though we couldn't provide printed milestone certificates to them, we honored these four volunteers by sharing their milestone certificates at their schools' Site Coordinator debrief sessions after the clubs!
• Rasheeda Washington (10 reading clubs)
• Antonina Maxey & Lijie Yang (20 reading clubs each)
• Edgar Hernandez (70 reading clubs, mostly as a Magnolia Site Coordinator)
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JANUARY 8TH READING CLUBS ON ZOOM,
RSVPS TO OPEN SOON
We are eager for next month's virtual summer reading clubs on January 8th and have already begun recruiting teachers at every school to be Zoom hosts for them.
As soon as we confirm enough teacher hosts, you can then
submit your RSVP for those "Mysteries &
New Adventures" reading
clubs on our website!
These January reading clubs will be smaller because the schools will still be on their Winter recess, so be sure to sign up as soon as we open the RSVPs for them!
(We remain in regular communication with the principals about when we may be able to return to in-person reading clubs on their campuses.)
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your purchases to Reading to Kids!
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NINE RUNNERS NEEDED FOR THE
2022 LA MARATHON,
13.1 MILE CHARITY CHALLENGE,
OR 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 2022 Los
Angeles Marathon on Sunday,
March 20th!
We're looking for at least three more marathon runners and six Charity Challenge runners (the last 13.1 miles of the course) 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 Big 5K (that's just 3.1 miles) near Dodger Stadium the day before the marathon on Saturday, March 19, 2022.
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 Los Angeles Marathon website.
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Thanks, and please double your donation this week and keep checking www.readingtokids.org for when we can open the RSVPs for our January 8th reading clubs!
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