We're less than 48 hours from our December 14th "Family & The Spirit of Giving" reading clubs, and we need another dozen volunteer readers for this Saturday!
Click here to submit your RSVP,
then "join" the
December 14th reading club event on Facebook and invite
your friends!
You can also
tweet, post to Bluesky, Facebook, and Instagram, and
message your friends that we still need more volunteers.
If we are full when you check our website, please
keep checking back today and tomorrow for new spots to replace folk who need to cancel.
If you are signed up but know you can't join us,
cancel your RSVP here immediately so someone else can read in your place!
Santa Visiting
at these Reading Clubs!
The Pasadena Jaycees are providing our Santa suits for 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!
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STEP UP AT
THIS SATURDAY'S READING CLUBS
We also need more of our experienced volunteers to help in any of the following roles this Saturday, so please e-mail us at info@readingtokids.orgif you can help:
- GLC at Alta Loma (2nd grade), Esperanza (K or 3rd), Politi (2nd), or Tenth St. (4th)
- Training Coordinator at Alta Loma or Politi
- Site Operations Helper at 8am at any school - your Site Coordinators always welcome help!
If you can take on any of those roles, please visit our home page at www.readingtokids.org and submit your email address in the yellow box, as usual!
Then, e-mail us at info@readingtokids.org to tell us the above role you would like to take on to help create wonderful reading clubs!
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OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING
ON ZOOM TONIGHT AT 7PM
Want to help us run our reading clubs each month?
Join us tonight at 7pm for our
Operations Committee
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 tonight's Zoom link!
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READING TO KIDS AMBASSADORS
WANTED TODAY & TOMORROW!
This afternoon or tomorrow for an hour or two between 7:30am and 1pm, we need your
help conducting quick classroom walk-throughs to encourage kids to come to
this Saturday's reading clubs.
We are especially looking for volunteers who can pass out flyers to parents when school lets out at around 1pm to 2:15pm tomorrow.
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
ANNUAL FUND DRIVE UPDATE:
3RD 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 third
2024 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 $32,728 donated by 251 donors - halfway to our goal this year!
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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