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RAISING A READER NEWS
Monday Club Raising A Reader Summer Book Drive Launch on May 92022 EQUITY & ACCESS TO LITERACY: GETTING MORE BOOKS TO CHILDREN. We will collect new and “gently loved” children’s books (Infant – Grade 6) from the community and deliver them to the SLO Food Bank to be distributed via a program called “Breakfast Bags.” We will also donate books to the County-wide Raising A Reader program events in October. Join us as we launch this year’s book drive on May 9 at 1:30pm at The Monday Club with a presentation of a donation to the Community Foundation for Raising A Reader. Everyone from the SLO Community is welcome! Book Drop-off dates: 2nd & 4th Mondays in May, June and July, 2-5 pm. Note: drop-off time for May 23 is 12-3 pm. We hope you all will join us in donating a book for this exciting project! Click here for a printable flyer to share!
RAISING A READER is a national, award-winning, early childhood literacy program which helps family develop, practice, and maintain home literacy routines. RAR provides children a bookbag, 4 books (rotating the selection weekly), and library introduction with first library card RAR also provides parents and guardians training and resources for literacy and oral language development, to support a child’s reading readiness and family bonding. TMC members on the Raising a Reader Committee:
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DONATE TO RAISING A READERIf you would like to make a donation to go directly to Raising a Reader, please fill use the form below, and choose Donation Category "Raising A Reader." Thank you for your generosity! (The Monday Clubhouse Conservancy is a 501(c)3 Public Benefit Charitable Foundation, Tax ID 95-1679667.) |