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- Organization devoted to promoting access to books and reading wherever needed.
Founders: Darcey Steinke, Toby Bryce, Rene Steinke, Natalie Standiford and Biz Mitchell
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- Organization devoted to promoting access to books and reading wherever needed.
Founders: Darcey Steinke, Toby Bryce, Rene Steinke, Natalie Standiford and Biz Mitchell
Board: Ada Calhoun, Kim France, Elizabeth Gilbert, Elliott Holt, Judy Hottensen, Sara Nelson, Paul O'Donnell, Katha Pollitt, Jeffrey Rotter, Martin Ruiz - Privacy Type:
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- ReadThis members in New Jersey collecting books for
The Women's Academy of Excellence, a public high school in the Bronx
When: November 11 - December 11, 2009, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Where: FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY
285 Madison Avenue
Madison, NJ 07940
Contact: Meghan Droge
meghan_droge@student.fdu.edu
Drop-Off Location on the first floor of the Mansion lobby (Hennessey Hall) next to the advising table on the left. Click here for directions to the campus: http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=238
How: These high-school students need everything, especially plays, including Shakespeare, Miller, Sophocles, and Wilson; collections of short stories, dictionaries, thesauri, and supplies for AP classes. The only caution is that the nonfiction needs to be up-to-date. Also please do not donate books with underlining.
If you can't get to the book-drive location, but would like to donate books by mail, please contact readthisorg@gmail.com for posting instructions to the school.
If you would like to get on our email list, contact us at readthisorg@gmail.com or join on Facebook: ReadThis.
For more information on the Women's Academy of Excellence: http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/08/X282/default.htm
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Thanks to the ReadThis members who bought the whole wishlist for the Brooklyn Collegiate library. These middle- and high-school students thank you. From last year, when they had barely any library to this year after your donations, their one month lending rate went from 23 books to 219 a month.
Thomas Berger
Crystal Black
Diana Combs
Joan Danzansky
Karen DeCesare
Lisa Govan
Christopher Griffault
Megan Griffault
Suzanne Mitchell
Tamara Moscowitz
Katha Pollitt
Jeffrey Rotter
Mary Soghomonian
Kieran Viola
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Thank you to all the donors who made Fourth of July 2009 a bit better for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan by sending care packages of books. The donations were greatly appreciated.
Rene Ashley
Peter Barlow
Denise Brodey
Toby Bryce
Lesley Clark
Walter Cummins
Frank Espada
Melody Feldman
Gloria Feldt
Chris Finck
Kelley Davis Flanders
Kim France
Juan Gaddis
Samantha Gillison
Elliott Holt
Wendy Zipes Hunter
Michaela Kashgarian
Marjorie Keyishian
Terry King
Tim Lousma
Paula Maxwell
Martha McPhee
Michael Miller
Michael Lee
Herbert Leibowitz
Craig Marks
Terra Meierdierck
Chloe Yelena Miller
Michael Miller
Andrew Mitchell
Suzanne Franco Mitchell
Stephanie Mitterko
Ceridwen Morris
Eileen Houlihan Moustats
Barbara O'Dair
Rita Signorelli Pappas
Joy Press
Susanna Russell
Laurie Schafer
Janelle Small, and her fourth-grade class
Lorena Smith
Regan Solmo
Marisa Schwartz
Rene Steinke
Tifferet Journal
Shawn Toops
Anna Utevsky
Tammy Dudley Weisinger
Jill Brickus Wilson
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Thank you letter from the Leadership Institute, a public high school in the Bronx:
May 27, 2009
Dear ReadThis,
For the past three years our school has been without a library or an appropriate space to accommodate a full library. The Leadership Institute will be graduating its first senior class this year. We have done our best to provide a quality education to our students, but without a library or computer lab it has been a struggle.
The Leadership Institute High School and Student Success Center would like to give a heartfelt thank you to all the hard work and effort it took to organize this book drive. It is greatly appreciated to see the importance and the love for reading we all share. We are amazed that you understood the need schools have for a well stocked library with variety of genres to choose from. We would also like to say thank you to each individual person and institution for selecting books that would be of interest and beneficial to our high school students.
The books that have been donated to us will assist in making a library a possibility.... The Leadership Institute wishes to continue this wonderful relationship that supports the fundamental values of providing students with the necessary tools to succeed. Good literature is the best place to start.
Sincerely,
The Student Success Center
Ginette Sosa
Crystal Reyes
Natia Williams
Pourcher Jenkins
Syfur Alock
Catherine Ceballos
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Thanks to the people who bought the 30 copies of Animal Farm online for the English classes at the Leadership Institute in the Bronx. The students have begun studying the book, and 15% of the sales will go directly from Book Culture, an independent bookstore in Manhattan, to the school as a donation.
Lucy Anderson
Allison Devers
Kim France
Chris Griffault
Lexi Mitchell
Mary Soghomonian
In March, ReadThis hosted a series of events to create a library for the Leadership Institute, a public high school in the Bronx, that had no library. Now they do.
Our biggest thanks goes to our hosts and drivers. They gave the use of their homes, time and muscle:
David Blaustein
Terry Kaelber
Craig Lively
Maren McCarter
Katha Pollitt
Alexandra Ringe
To the book donors at the drives:
Diane Archer
Jeanne Beaumont
Caroline Bishop
Sally Bondor
Katherine Bouton
Marie Ellen Butera
Ada Calhoun
Marie-Jeanne Callahan
Rachel Cantor
Sarah Chalfant
Desert Island Books
Lisa Govan
Elliott Holt
Rose Fox
Friends of Leonard Library
Emily Goodman
Jen Jones
Joseph Lulgjuraj
Steven Lukes
Lisa Kassel
Richard Kassel
Thomas Maeglin
Megan McCafferty
Becca Menon
The Nation
Doris Palca
Tara Polen
Jeffrey Rotter
Gail Rubin
Thea Schell
Ruth Silver
Hillary Weisman
The Wylie Agency
and many more who donated without registering their names
Thanks to those bought books or served as volunteers at the Books of Wonder event:
David Levithan, organizer of the Teen Author Festival
Peter Glassman, owner of Books of Wonder, and all of the extremely helpful employees at the store including Patty and Conrado.
Cathy Andronike
Elise Broach
Elka Cloke
Rene Combs
Sari Cooper
Elizabeth Fineberg
Abbie Hornburg
Elisa Karp
Dina Klaeyman
Justine Larbalestier
E. Lockhart
Megan McCafferty
Natalie Standiford
Darcey Steinke
Rene Steinke
Adrienne Maria Vrettos
and many more who donated without registering their names
If you contributed and do not see your name on the list, please let us know at readthisorg@gmail.com
Thanks to the Friends of Leonard Library for partnering with ReadThis to send 210 books to troops in Iraq at the end of February.
On Martin Luther King Day, we hosted a book drive to provide books to Brooklyn Collegiate, a public middle/high school that had virtually no collection. We had the participation of over 77 active volunteers. ReadThis delivered the books on the morning of Inauguration Day.
Thanks to our volunteers, on site and off:
On site:
Joan Altman
Dorothy Barnhouse
James Barry
Chris Beckett
Roslyn Biskin
David Blaustein
Sally Bondor
Hannah Broholm-vail
Toby Bryce
Kathleen Chambard
Cassie Charles
Frances Chewning
Mike Ciardi
Michael Connor
Jillian Corbett
Meghan Czerwinski
Pam Dick
Kiara Downey
Mike Dressel
Christine Foley
Kim France
Su Friedrich
Lauren Gaskill
Erin Gentile
Rebekah and Jacob Gluvsheski
Andrea Hill
Elliott Holt
Karen Hudes
Terry Kaelber
Khadija Kamara
Wendy Klemperer
Yuri Kwon
Ann Landowne
Craig Marks
Emily Maynor
Mariah McClean
Kavita Menon
Biz Mitchell
Lexi Mitchell
Christine Newhard
Chris Norton
Leslie Nuchow-Hartzell
Beth Price
Ellen Rand
Meghan Redding
Valerie Ringe
Selina Rutovitz
Natalie Sandoral
Ann Schaetzel
Adam Simon
Janelle and Mark Small
Tabeo Soriano
Erin Spaminato
Natalie Standiford
Caitlin Steitzer
Dialto Stevens
Terese Svaboda
Rene Steinke
Caitlin Steitzer
Eri Stop
Elisabeth Subrin
James Thacher
Julie Turley
Carol Walkin
Stuart Weinberg
Kate Wisda
Caleb Wisdorf
Off-site donors who mailed books:
Lucy Anderson
Trey Beck
Lori Bednar
Liz Riley Bressel
Sarah Chalfant, Wylie Agency
Rachel Cohn
Ann Dagmar
Kelly Davis Flanders
Peter Finfrock
Lisa Govan
Judy Hottensen
Melissa Hulse
Ann Dagmar Johnson
Susan Miller
Addie Mitchell
Elizabeth M. Mitchell
Beth Myers
Christina Prostano
Jeff Rabhan
Janet Rietman
Sally Sebastian
Mary Della Torre Soghomonian
Chris Sulavik
Weinstein Publishing
Gypsie Winslade
In December, we hosted a book drive for troops overseas and a toy and book drive for kids living in poverty in New York. We were able to ship over 1,200 books to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and deliver 18 large boxes of books and toys to Catholic Charities for distribution through Brooklyn and Queens.
Thanks to:
Kelly Aderhold
Philip Bardin
Julie Bleha
Henry Bostic
Myrf Bowry
Julie Bryce
Letty Bryce
Marie Butera
Ada Calhoun
CavanKerry Press
Walter Cummins
Barclay DuPriest
Fairleigh Dickinson University English Dept.
Chris Finck
Christine Foley
Elizabeth Gilbert
Megan Griffault
Elliott Holt
Harry Keyishian
Matt Lee
Linden Tree Preschool
Ann Mitchell
Chris Mitchell
Sam Mitchell
Theresa Montalbano
Nan Mooney
Ceridwen Morris
Beth Myers
Sara Nelson
Linda Pellegrini
Gaia Schermerhorn
Sarah Stewart
Gennie Stuart
John Stuart
Chris Sulavik
Jennifer Sunderland
Tiger Lily Postal Service
Jena Watson
Kate Yourke
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