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Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,
Our very popular Halloween, Magic, & Monsters reading clubs are in about two weeks on October 14th, and we still need magicians and readers to meet our commitments to the kids!
THREE MORE MAGICIANS URGENTLY NEEDED!
The kids are eager to see magic at our October reading clubs, so we are still looking for three more
magicians to perform for 10-15 minutes on October 14th!
If you or someone you know possesses the powers of magic and illusion, please contact us at
info@readingtokids.org or (310) 479-7455!
119 MORE VOLUNTEER READERS NEEDED!
Our October 14th reading clubs need 119 more volunteers - so please join us and help recruit them!
Here are 5 easy things you can do right now to help!
- If you haven't already, please visit our
website now and sign up.
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Publish to your Facebook feed and share with your friends our
October 14th Facebook Event to encourage them to volunteer!
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Whether or not you can volunteer on the 14th,
Tweet @readingtokids, post, and message your
friends and followers. Here's a sample
post you can use:
"My
favorite volunteer organization, Reading to Kids, needs more volunteers for their
October 14th reading clubs. The theme is "Halloween, Magic, & Monsters", and the kids will also enjoy a magician performance. Join me at ###
Elementary School for a fantastic 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, October 14th, near downtown LA
- Volunteers must sign up online by 3pm on Friday, Oct. 13th, 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 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!
Set up a group to volunteer with us
Do you have a group at your work, college, dojo, alumni gatherings, etc. looking for a fun, meaningful activity to do together?
E-mail us at info@readingtokids.org and we'll get your group added into our volunteer group list!
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MANY VOLUNTEER LEADERS
ALSO NEEDED OCT. 14TH
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NINE RUNNERS WANTED FOR THE
2024 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 2024 Los
Angeles Marathon on Sunday,
March 17th!
This is our 10th time running the marathon, and 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 16, 2024.
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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SUPPORT US WITH GROCERY STORE ESCRIP
Did you know you can support Reading to Kids just
by shopping at the grocery store or using your credit card?
eScrip
and
Ralphs both have programs that are NO COST ways
for you to donate to Reading to Kids.
All
you have to do is
call Ralphs or go online and register your grocery
cards. When you use those cards at a participating
store or service provider, the store will donate a
percentage of your purchases to Reading to Kids!
Click here for simple instructions
on how to sign up or renew! Or, you can
call Ralphs Community Contribution
Program at
(800) 443-4438. Explain you want to register your Ralphs
card number and your telephone number.
Reading to Kids NPO# is BR278.
Note if you have previously signed up: You must renew
your registration each year
on or after September 1st, so please renew again for this
year!
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