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Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,
Start off your new year by sharing great books with eager kids - click here to volunteer for our January 11th Mysteries & New Adventures reading clubs!
Help! 101 MORE READERS NEEDED
IN JUST 9 DAYS
FOR JAN. 11TH READING CLUBS!
Yikes! With all the holiday events of the past two weeks and colleges being out of session, we now urgently need 101 more readers to join us for our January 11th reading clubs.
Here is how you can help us meet our commitment to the kids!
- If you haven't already, please visit our
website now and sign up.
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Share and join our
January 11th reading club event via Facebook to let
your friends know the fun you'll be up to this Saturday!
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Whether or not you can volunteer that Saturday, tweet, post to Bluesky, Facebook, and Instagram @readingtokids your
friends and followers. Here's a sample
post you can use:
"My favorite volunteer organization, Reading to Kids, is looking for more volunteers for their reading clubs
on Saturday, Jan. 11th. The theme is "Mysteries & New Adventures".
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, January 11th, near downtown LA
- Volunteers must sign up online by 3pm Friday, Jan. 10th, 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' 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!
(If you
have signed up and can't make it,
please cancel to make room for another volunteer.)
A DOZEN LEAD VOLUNTEERS WANTED:
SITE COORDINATORS, SITE OPERATIONS HELPERS, GLCS, TRAINING COORDINATORS, AND CHECK-IN HELPERS
For these reading clubs we very much 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!
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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 January 11th 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, January 10th.
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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GOT A NEW COMPUTER OR TABLET?
GIVE YOUR OLD ONE TO A KID
ON JAN. 11TH!
At these 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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ANNUAL FUND DRIVE SUCCESS
AND SCHOOL WINNERS!
You all did it together! Thanks to the support of so many of you, our 2024 Annual Fund Drive was a huge success, with 408 donors helping us raise $76,779!
We haven't been able to check our mailbox for the past 10 days so we still expect we have received a few more checks in the mail. We also expect corporate matching donations, all thanks to your individual and collective efforts to support reading to children!
Our very special thanks go out to our three
fundraising Angels:
Jessica Chong
Matthew Jones
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Mark May
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Click here to see how much each raised – together they raised $11,134 from 54 donors!
School Competition Winners!
Highest overall percentage of volunteers who donated to the Annual Fund Drive:
1st: Magnolia Elementary!
2nd: Alta Loma Elementary (just 3% behind Magnolia!)
3rd: MacArthur Park Elementary
Highest overall dollar amount raised for the Annual Fund Drive:
1st: Esperanza Elementary (thanks to Angel fundraiser Mark May!)
2nd: Magnolia Elementary
3rd: Alta Loma Elementary
Volunteers at all of the schools together raised
$20,315, most of which was also double or triple-matched by our generous matching donors!
Finally, we extend our deep appreciation to all our
AFD Speakers who helped raise these critical funds over the last three reading clubs!
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RUN WITH US
AT THE 2025 LA MARATHON 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 on Sunday,
March 16th!
This is our 11th time running the marathon, and we're looking for more marathon runners to join us in one of the best marathons in the country.
Or, 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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Sincerely,
Charlie Orchard, Yancy Rodriguez Coe, & Anna Davies
Reading to Kids
1600 Sawtelle Blvd, Suite 210
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 479-7455
(310) 479-7435 (FAX)
info@readingtokids.org
www.readingtokids.org
www.facebook.com/readingtokids
www.x.com/readingtokids (formerly Twitter)
Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/readingtokids.org
www.instagram.com/readingtokids
Make a donation:
www.readingtokids.org/HowToHelp/HelpDonate.php
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