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Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,
December has arrived and Reading to Kids is busily preparing for the always exciting
December 10th reading clubs!
URGENT! 152 MORE READERS NEEDED IN 9 DAYS
FOR DEC. 10TH IN-PERSON CLUBS!
We urgently need 152 more readers to join us for our December 10th reading clubs in-person on our partner school campuses.
Volunteers for our reading clubs must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and wear a mask while indoors on campus for the reading clubs. The kids will also be required to wear masks while indoors.
Here are 5 super-helpful things you can do right now!
- If you haven't already, please visit our
website now and sign up.
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Share and join our
December 10th reading club event to let
your friends know the fun you'll be up to on the 10th!
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Whether or not you can volunteer on the 10th,
Tweet @readingtokids, post, and message your
friends and followers. Here's a sample
post you can use:
"Santa + reading to excited kids + holiday spirit = the best way to spend your Saturday morning! My favorite volunteer organization, Reading to Kids, is looking for more volunteers for their reading clubs
on Saturday, Dec. 10th. The theme is "Family & The Spirit of Giving", and the kids are eager to see Santa when he visits the reading clubs that day.
Join me at ###
Elementary School for a fun, heartwarming morning of reading to elementary school kids near downtown LA. To join me, sign up online today at www.readingtokids.org."
If you write your own
post, please be sure to include the following two
things:
- The reading clubs are Saturday morning, December 10th, near downtown LA
- Volunteers must sign up online by 3pm on Friday, Dec. 9th, at
www.readingtokids.org
If you have people in mind who you think would really
like to read with us, tag them in your post. It will
alert them to the reading clubs and show up in their
friends' news feeds.
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Copy from our easy message template at
http://www.readingtokids.org/News/SampleVolRecruit.pdf
to encourage people you know to sign up to read with us!
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Print out this flyer at
http://readingtokids.org/ProMaterials/VolunteerTearOffFlyer.pdf
and post it somewhere others will see it. Make it a
personal and fun social event by including the school at
which you'll be reading or encouraging them to read at your favorite of our eight partner schools!
One More Santa and Five Santa's Helpers Needed!
Santa and Mrs. Claus at Alta Loma Elementary in 2018
At least once in your life you should experience being Santa or one of his helpers - and here is your chance!
We need one more person willing to be Santa, and five more people to be Mrs. Claus or an assisting "elf" at our reading clubs on December 10th. We've
had Santas of all shapes, sizes, and gender, and
we'll provide the full Santa suit.
Santa or his helpers do NOT need to be veteran Reading to Kids volunteers, so please ask your friends if they can be Santa, Mrs. Claus, or an elf on the 10th!
There's nothing better than seeing the students' excitement
when Santa visits our reading clubs!
If you can be Santa, Mrs. Claus,
or an assisting "elf" on December 10th, please email us at
info@readingtokids.org. You won't be able to read that day, but you'll see hundreds of smiling faces!
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PLEASE STEP UP TO A BIGGER VOLUNTEER ROLE
AT OUR DEC. 10TH READING CLUBS
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READING TO KIDS AMBASSADORS
NEEDED NEXT WEEK!
Next week for an hour or two during the school day we need your
help conducting quick classroom walk-throughs or handing out flyers to encourage kids
to come to our December 10th reading clubs.
This can be a lot of fun 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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ANNUAL FUND DRIVE UPDATE:
2ND FUNDRAISING ANGEL MARK MAY!
(Mark May in Halloween costume as avid birdwatcher Principal Rumble at Esperanza in 2017.
Click on the above image to see it full size.)
Thank you Mark May for becoming our second
2022 Annual Fund Drive Angel! Mark became a fundraising Angel through his Facebook fundraiser by gathering donations from at least 10 of his friends. Thank you to Mark and everyone else gathering donations for Reading to Kids!
We have so far raised $23,994 from 255 donors!
Our Annual Fund Drive lasts until December 31st, and our ambitious goal this year is to raise $60,000 from 600 donors.
Here's
how you can help, with your donations counting towards the
school competition:
1) Make a pledge to donate by check or donate online
today by visiting our
2022 Annual Fund Drive. Contributions of any amount are
greatly appreciated!
2) Show your support by asking friends and family to
contribute!
Visit our
2022 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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11 RUNNERS NEEDED FOR THE
2023 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 2023 Los
Angeles Marathon on Sunday,
March 19th!
This is our 9th time running the marathon, and we're looking for at least four more marathon runners and seven 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 18, 2023.
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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