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Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,
We are in the final four days of our 2023
Annual Fund Drive and just $7,445 short of our goal!
So far 371 donors have given $52,555, so we need YOUR help to reach our $60,000 goal by midnight this Sunday, December 31st. Here is what you can do to help:
1) Donate by check,
Venmo, or online today. Contributions of
any amount are greatly appreciated!
2) Become our 6th Fundraising Angel and ask friends and family to contribute! We've
made it super simple - just create a quick
fundraising page on Facebook, or download and share our
donor sheet
and start asking, or spend a few minutes personalizing and
sending our
sample message.
3) Double your donation! Ask your employer to
match your donation to Reading to Kids and double your
impact.
We have so far received (or are expecting) matching donations from The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation, Disney,
Oaktree Capital Management, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Comcast NBCUniversal, Numerator, Netflix, GE, Roblox, Blue Shield of California, PlayStation, and Sony Pictures - all through the efforts and requests of our volunteers who work for those companies.
Once your employer, friends, and family know about
Reading to Kids, many will want to donate to us
and are looking for a great cause to support -
we just need you to ask!
Note: If
donating by check, please make sure the check is dated on or
before December 31, 2023. If donating by credit card, PayPal, or Venmo, the
donation must be made today, tomorrow, Saturday, or Sunday.
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JOIN US & RECRUIT FOR OUR
JANUARY 13TH READING CLUBS!
Our "Mysteries & New Adventures" reading clubs on January 13th are only two weeks away,
and we need 93 more volunteers.
You can help by joining
our
January 13th reading club event
so your friends will see that on your wall.
Then go to our website and
sign up with us.
Please
tweet, post to Facebook and Instagram, and
message your friends that we still need more volunteers.
Please also
print out this flyer and post it at your
work, school, church, synagogue, mosque, or favorite
community bulletin board.
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STEP UP TO A BIGGER VOLUNTEER ROLE
AT OUR JAN. 13TH READING CLUBS
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READING TO KIDS
25TH ANNIVERSARY
PARTY PLANNERS WANTED
Our Special Events Committee is in the early planning stages of creating our 25th Anniversary party next year on May 11th!
Please e-mail us at
info@readingtokids.org if you would like to help plan that party!
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THREE 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 one more marathon runner and two 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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Over the last 24 years you changed the lives of many thousands of kids, whether you read at the clubs, volunteered in our
Taskforce committees, donated money or supplies, attended our events, or spread the word about Reading to Kids!
We hope you have a great New Year and we will see you in 2024!
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