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Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,
It was the most wonderful time of the year on Saturday as 1,125 kids, 466 volunteers,
91 parents, and 25 teachers & staff
enjoyed fantastic books and crafts at our December 10th reading clubs!
We extend a special thank you to our Santa Clauses, Mrs. Clauses, and elves for bringing the North Pole to the reading clubs, and to the
Pasadena Jaycees for once again providing the
Santa suits!
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
OperationSanta@PasadenaJaycees.org!
JANUARY 14TH READING CLUBS
Sign up for the next reading clubs!
Click here to submit your RSVP for our "Mysteries &
Adventure" reading
clubs on January 14th.
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2016 ANNUAL FUND DRIVE:
SCHOOL COMPETITION WINNERS,
OUR FIRST ANGELS,
FINAL 16 DAYS TO DONATE!
Thanks to 98 generous volunteer readers this past Saturday, we have now raised $26,109 overall from 414 donors! This puts us closer to our goals of raising $50,000 from 500 donors within the next two weeks!
The names of these new donors have been added to our
2016 Annual Fund Drive page, and here are the school competition stats so far:
SCHOOL COMPETITION WINNERS!
Highest percentage of volunteers who donated at the Dec. 10th reading clubs:
1st: Alta Loma (maintaining their lead with 44%!)
2nd: Magnolia
Highest dollar amount raised at the Dec. 10th reading clubs:
1st: Esperanza
2nd: Magnolia
Highest percentage of volunteers who have donated overall so far:
1st: Alta Loma
2nd: MacArthur Park
Highest dollar amount raised overall so far:
1st: Esperanza
2nd: Magnolia
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THANK YOU TO OUR 1ST ANGELS!
Congratulations and thanks to Matthew Jones &
Kosha Patel for being our first
2016 Annual Fund Drive Angels!
They became Angels when each gathered donations from friends for our 2016 Annual Fund Drive,
and we invite everyone to become an Angel during this fund drive.
We have just 16 days to raise $23,891 from
86 donors.
Here's
how you can help, with your donations still being counted towards the
school competition:
1) Donate online or make a pledge to donate by check
today by visiting our
2016 Annual Fund Drive page. Contributions of
any amount are greatly appreciated!
2) Show your support by asking friends and family to
contribute!
Visit our
2016 Annual Fund Drive
page and look under the "Help us Fundraise!"
header for resources. In particular, please consider
personalizing and sending the provided
sample email to friends and family, or posting our handy
donor sheet.
Once they know about Reading to Kids, many 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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6 MORE MARATHON RUNNERS NEEDED
Are you a runner? Do you know any runners?
Please forward this email to them and ask
them to join
Team Reading to Kids in next
year's 2017 Skechers Performance Los
Angeles Marathon on Sunday,
March 19th!
We urgently need
six more runners to join us in one of the best
marathons in the country. You can
share this Facebook group with any of your runner
friends to encourage them to join our team!
Runners can run either the full marathon or a half-marathon,
and the dollars raised will go to support our monthly
reading clubs.
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 Skechers
Performance Los Angeles Marathon website.
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Thanks, and we hope you can join us at our next reading clubs on Saturday,
January 14th!
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