Please be sure to sign up for the next reading clubs!
Click here to submit your RSVP for our "Magic & Monsters" reading
clubs on October 10th.
Our October reading clubs are even more popular than September,
so we'll need even more volunteers. Please be sure to tell everyone you know about your favorite volunteer opportunity!
On October 10th we'll also have magicians performing at each of our schools! And as usual, volunteers are encouraged to wear kid-friendly costumes!
We will need many more volunteers for these October reading clubs, so please sign up early and recruit your friends, co-workers, and family members as volunteers!
Note about MacArthur Park Elementary:
They still have an interim principal, so for now we have closed the RSVPs for MacArthur Park. We will email all recent MacArthur Park Elementary volunteers if we get to open the RSVPs for the Oct. 10th clubs.
For our
October 10th reading clubs
we encourage you to volunteer at any of
Reading to Kids'
other schools! For a map of all of our school sites,
click here.
Note about October 10th volunteer spots: We hope to be able to open more spots at some schools as we determine if we can expect more kids to join us that morning.
Thus, if you find your school already filled this week, please sign up for any of our other schools, or keep checking back to see if we have opened new spots at your preferred school.
THANK YOU, DAVID, JANET, NINA, & KIARRA!
MORE OPERATIONS VOLUNTEERS
NEEDED OCT. 10TH
David Rickard, Janet Webb, Nina Maxey, & Kiarra Dikes
(Click on the above image to see it full size)
We had some really large Milestones on Saturday at Esperanza Elementary! David Rickard received his 290th reading club milestone certificate!
Also receiving her 160th milestone certificate that morning was Site Coordinator Janet Webb, pictured above with Nina Maxey (50 reading clubs) and 5th grade GLC Kiarra Dikes (10 reading clubs)! 
BE LIKE JANET & KIARRA!
We urgently need experienced volunteers to take on more leadership with us by
checking in volunteers as they arrive, helping train new and returning volunteers, being a GLC, or especially being a second or third Site Coordinator
at any of our schools.
If you can help in any of those roles, please e-mail us at info@readingtokids.org to help
create wonderful reading clubs! 
Jason Tran receiving from Site Coordinator Jessica Dunning his
140th reading clubs milestone certificate at Charles White Elementary
(Click on the above image to see it full size)
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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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PLEASE HELP US FIND
MORE BINGO PRIZES & AUCTION ITEMS
Our next Legendary Bingo fundraiser at
Hamburger Mary's in West Hollywood will be on Wednesday, October 21st. Please help us gather new prizes for auctions and bingo winners that night!
To help you get started, here is information about Reading to Kids to share with potential donors, as well as a donation form for them to complete.
We especially enjoy awarding gift certificates,
amusement park and theater tickets, gift bags, and
autographed items! Anything unique is great, too!
If you work at or have a connection with products or services to offer, please help us by asking for a donation to our events.
You may have gift cards you haven't used which would make excellent prizes if you'd like to donate them to us! E-mail us at info@readingtokids.org to arrange mailing them to us!
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HELP US FIND GRANTS!
Did you know Reading to Kids receives about half of our funding from corporate and foundation grants? For example, over the last five years alone seven of our volunteers helped us receive nearly $170,000 in grants from their employers!
Please check to see if your employer offers grants that Reading to Kids can apply to and let us know at info@readingtokids.org!
You may help us buy thousands of books for kids!
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