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Join us for our first-ever New Year's celebration at Playland-Not-At-The-Beach in El Cerrito!

Friday, January 23rd
7pm - 10pm

Details coming soon!

Free Early Literacy Workshop

RAR will host a
free early literacy workshop at the Caesar E. Chavez branch of the Oakland Library.

Thursday, Nov. 20
9:30am - 10:30am
3301 East 12th St.
Oakland, CA

Learn how to help children build important early literacy skills that will set them up for future life and academic success!

This workshop will be led by Community Literacy Specalist Dulce Torres 
in the Meeting Room.

Childcare provided!
#GivingTuesday
is coming!
December 2, 2014


On this national day of giving, we encourage you to support Raising A Reader.  

Best of all, thanks to a matching grant from the Despeaux Good Works Fund of the East Bay Community Foundation, each gift is matched 100%.  Your donation will now bring twice the love, laughter, and learning to the families who need it most.

Every donation will support our red bag rotation program, ensuring that 15,000 children and families will share precious moments of book-sharing throughout the coming year.

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Click here to make a donation.
Great children's books for a great cause! 
Click here for more fun photo booth images from our 2014 Educator Celebrations!
November 2014 
'Tis the season for giving thanks!  ...And you're at the top of our list.

Without supporters like you, we wouldn't have experienced the tremendous growth and amazing successes we've enjoyed so far this year.  We've helped with a successful new texting study, we've made new friends, and honored our community's dedicated educators.  We can't wait to see what the coming year will bring!

For more information on our growth, ambitions, and plans for 2015, please see this letter from Executive Director, Molly Wertz!   

Happy Reading!
--
The RAR Team

What's New at Raising A Reader

NYTBeyond the Bay: Parent Texting Study Mentioned in the New York Times

In partnership with Stanford University, Raising A Reader designed and piloted a texting protocol to determine if weekly texts can make a difference in how, and how often, families engage in literacy developing behaviors. The good news: it worked! 

Read about it in the New York Times



WarriorsGolden State Warriors
Award $25,000 to Support
Raising A Reader
Raising A Reader is among the 32 Bay Area organizations that have been awarded grants from the Warriors Community Foundation.

This year, the Warriors Community Foundation has awarded over $1 million to organizations to improve educational outcomes for underserved youth. Among the grantees include San Francisco Unified School District, Oakland Unified School District, and other nonprofit organizations such as the GLIDE Foundation, Summer Search, and many others....


Thanks to you... 
We're top-rated!
We asked our supporters to help us make the 2014 Top-Rated List on GreatNonprofits.org, and you made it happen!  Now that we're top-rated, Raising A Reader will have a chance to make connections, build relationships, and rally more support to keep the good work going.  


 EducatorsRAR Honors Educators in San Francisco & Oakland
Educators are at the heart of Raising A Reader's work.  Without dedicated educators committed to ensuring that our red bags are sent home with students each week, our work would not be possible.  Our educators work hard every day, and we want to honor their continued commitment to enriching the lives of children day in and day out with an evening of fun, networking, professional development, and special awards.  



Best Books: Staff Picks!

 

Fletcher and the Falling Leaves

by Julia Rawlinson

 

"Fletcher the fox is trying to save his favorite tree from losing all her leaves!  This tender story about the changing seasons carries deeper lessons about love, loss and letting go." 

                                                   - Kelsey Gottschalk 

Program Coordinator

San Francisco 

  

 

The Thankful Book

by Todd Parr

 

"This book goes through all the small and silly things we can be thankful for from bathtime to our hair. This is a great book to help us cherish all that we have."

- Kaitlin Pearce

Program Coordinator

Alameda County

 

 

Share the gift of Reading!

We were so excited to host children's author Mac Barnett and illustrator Christian Robinson at our annual holiday celebration.  Now, the wonderful team at Books Inc. has agreed to donate 6% of their sales from Mac Barnett and Christian Robinson titles to RAR for the next two weeks! This means if you purchase any of these stellar books on or before November 28th, you will also be putting books in the hands of children across the Bay Area. You can have the books shipped to you or arrange for pickup in-store. 


 Browse Mac Barnett's titles here, or click here for a full list of Christian Robinson's books.

 

What We're Reading
 
One mom's quest to create a perfect day, inspired by her son's favorite book about adventures in New York's Central Park, left us speechless.  See what mother, son, and father did on their special day together.  How would you bring your child's favorite book to life?

When children experiment, build (and destroy), craft, and tinker - they are learning! Click this link to discover a book filled with great projects ideas for little scientists, artists, and architects.

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