Today or tomorrow for an hour or two between 7:30am and 2:30pm, we need your
help conducting quick classroom walk-throughs and/or passing out flyers to encourage kids to come to
these Sept. 13th reading clubs this Saturday.
We are especially looking for volunteers available from about 1:15 - 2:45 next today or tomorrow.
It's an exciting experience and we'll provide everything you need. 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!
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THANK YOU NBC4, TELEMUNDO 52,
& COMCAST NBCUNIVERSAL!
We are proud to announce that Reading to Kids is a winner of a 2025 NBCUniversal Local Impact Grant in the amount of $26,136!
In Southern California, NBC4, Telemundo 52, and Comcast NBCUniversal awarded $227,272 to five local nonprofit organizations, and Reading to Kids is one of them! Nationally, 2025 NBCUniversal Local Impact Grants are providing $2.5 million in funds to 69 nonprofits. Read more here.
By winning this competitive grant, we hope to continue driving impact in our community. Grant programs like this help us achieve our mission of inspiring underserved children with a love of reading, thereby enriching their lives and opportunities for future success.
This grant is more than an award to our program - it is a celebration of our mission, and we are very happy to continue sharing your love of reading to the children of our partner schools!
We also thank long-time White Elementary School volunteer Haley Stoessl, who informed us of this grant offered by her employer!
Perhaps your employer has grants you can help us earn – just let us know!
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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 have to renew
your registration each year
on or after September 1st, so please renew again for this
year!
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BACK-TO-SCHOOL SUPPLIES
WANTED FOR 2026
We gave so many school supplies to each kid who attended our August reading clubs that we need to re-stock for next August!
If you happen to have the following lying around (or want to
pick some up at back-to-school sales), these are the
specific items we are looking for:
NEW
Spiral notebooks
Colorful 2-pocket folders
Colored pencil sets and marker sets
Pencil pouches
Glue sticks
Large erasers
Mechanical pencils (especially "fun" ones)
Stores such as Office Depot, Staples, and Target are promoting
great back-to-school specials. If you're going to be there
anyway, why not pick up a folder or ten for the kids? 
Please email
us at
info@readingtokids.org or call us at (310) 479-7455 if you
have any supplies to donate!
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SEVEN MORE RUNNERS NEEDED
FOR THE 2026 LA MARATHON,
13.1 MILE CHARITY HALF 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 2026 Los
Angeles Marathon or 13.1 Mile Charity Half Marathon on Sunday,
March 8th!
This is our 12th time running the marathon, and we're looking for seven Charity Half Marathon 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 7th.
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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