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Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,
If you follow us on our Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook, or
X (formerly Twitter), you may have seen our remarkable collections of notes from kids from over the years.
Click on the above to see two of them full size, and see below for how you can create more wonderful book memories at our
Dec. 14th reading clubs!
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JOIN US & RECRUIT FOR OUR
BIG DEC.
14TH READING CLUBS
WITH SANTA!
We need another dozen or so readers and a dozen leaders for our always-popular "Family & The Spirit of Giving" reading clubs next Saturday, December 14th!
Please go to our website and
sign up with us, then help recruit others by joining
our
December 14th reading club event
so your friends will see that on your wall.
You can also
tweet, post to Bluesky, 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.
Santa Visiting
at these Reading Clubs!
The Pasadena Jaycees are providing our Santa suits for that Saturday!
If you are interested in volunteering for
Operation Santa
and bringing joy to children in need on Christmas Eve,
click here or email them at OpSanta@PasadenaJaycees.org!
A DOZEN LEAD VOLUNTEERS WANTED:
SITE COORDINATORS, SITE OPERATIONS HELPERS, GLCS, TRAINING COORDINATORS, AND CHECK-IN HELPERS
Our larger reading clubs means we need more of our experienced volunteers to help train new and returning volunteers, be a GLC, check in arriving volunteers, or especially be a second or third Site Coordinator
at any of our schools.
If you have read with us at least a few times and can help in any of those roles, please e-mail us at
info@readingtokids.org to help
create wonderful reading clubs!
OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING
ON ZOOM NEXT THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12TH
Want to help us run our reading clubs each month?
Next Thursday, Dec. 12, join the
Operations Committee for their
Quarterly Zoom meeting from 7 pm - 8:15 pm .
We are always eager for more
Site Coordinators, so please email us at info@readingtokids.org for the Zoom link!
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READING TO KIDS AMBASSADORS
WANTED NEXT WEEK!
Next week on Thursday or Friday for an hour or two between 7:30am and 2:30pm, we need your
help conducting quick classroom walk-throughs to encourage kids to come to
our December 14th reading clubs.
We are especially looking for volunteers who can pass out flyers to parents when school lets out at around 2:15pm next Friday, December 13th.
This can be a lot of fun and we'll provide everything you need. If you have volunteered with us before, 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
FIRST TWO FUNDRAISING ANGELS!
We thank and congratulate Matthew Jones and Jessica Chong for being our first
2024 Annual Fund Drive Angels!
That's Matthew in the photo above, and each became Angels through their Facebook fundraisers by gathering donations from at least 10 of their friends. Thank you to them and everyone else gathering donations for Reading to Kids!
We have now raised so far $30,164 donated by 229 donors!
All who have donated can see their names listed on our
2024 Annual Fund Drive page. Donate and we can add your name there, too!
Our Annual Fund Drive lasts until December 31st, and our ambitious goal this year is to raise $65,000 from 500 donors.
Here's
how you can help!
1) Make a pledge to donate by check or donate online
today by visiting our
2024 Annual Fund Drive. Contributions of any amount are
greatly appreciated!
2) Show your support by asking friends and family to
contribute!
Visit our
2024 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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TWO MORE RUNNERS NEEDED
FOR THE 2025 LA MARATHON,
13.1 MILE CHARITY CHALLENGE,
OR LA 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 2025 Los
Angeles Marathon or 13.1 Mile Charity Challenge on Sunday,
March 16th!
This is our 11th time running the marathon, and we're looking for two more Charity Challenge runners (the last 13.1 miles of the course) and more full marathon runners 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 5K (that's just 3.1 miles) near Dodger Stadium the day before the marathon on Saturday, March 15.
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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4 COMPUTERS OR TABLETS WANTED
TO GIVE TO KIDS!
At our January reading clubs we would love to give away a computer or iPad/tablet to one lucky kid at each school.
If you or your employer have any working computers that are less than 6 years old running Windows 10 or later, or any Macintosh computers less than 7 years old, or any iPads or similar tablets, we can give them to deserving kids!
We especially need working computers (CPUs), whether or not they come with monitors, keyboards, etc. Please email us at
info@readingtokids.org to help make a kid very happy!
A Charles White Elementary 5th grader with perfect Reading to Kids attendance
leaps for joy after winning a new iPad
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