Dear Friend of Reader To Reader,

I hope you enjoy this newsletter about the Reader To Reader Book Project. Our success is very much due to your donations of books, postage money, and most of all your generous spirit. Please forward this newsletter and help us spread the word. It’s fall and we are hard at work packing mountains of boxes. Some of the boxes are for schools that we have been aiding for years and some are for schools that contacted us as recently as an hour ago. Here is one of the latter.

Dear Mr. Mazor

I represent the Klamath River Early College of the Redwoods (KRECR), a charter high school and early college with more than 90% Native American enrollment. KRECR is located on the Yurok Tribe Reservation, a reservation with telephone and electrical service to less than 20% of its inhabitants. Less than 3% of Native American students in our area graduate high school with the minimum course work completed for enrollment in California State Colleges, and well over 25% never graduate or obtain a GED. The main elementary feeder school for KRECR has an API of 1.

Despite those challenges and many more facing KRECR, our students are experiencing academic and social success far beyond expectations. However, we are in urgent need of basic materials such as supplies, and above all, books.

Please consider KRECR, its successes and its needs, when you are able to expand the number of schools Reader to Reader serves. Thank you, and please contact me if you wish further information or to begin a dialogue.

Sincerely,

Dennis Conger
Klamath River Early College of Redwoods
Crescent City, CA

I am pleased to report that four boxes of books were packed for Klamath River Early College of Redwoods within one hour of receiving the above email. Many more will follow. Here is the note I received when I told them that the books were being packed.

Dear Mr. Mazor

I cannot thank you enough! It has been a struggle to provide appropriate material for our students. Because our students are high risk, most have below grade reading levels, and we are using literature in an attempt to capture their interest in reading. The Yurok Tribe has provided tutors to work with individual students to improve reading skills, and above all, comprehension. The books from Reader To Reader will provide the tools for our students and tutors.

Thanks again,

Dennis Conger

Speaking of books for Native American students, we received a terrific donation of over 700 books on Native American history, poetry, and fiction. These books span all reading levels with the majority suitable for college-level students. We spent the last few days searching through a number of tribal college library catalogues in order to place the books at the schools that need them most. The boxes are now packed and heading to Dine College, Tohono O’odham Community College and Salish Kootenai College. Other schools receiving books from this collection include Navajo Pine High School, Red Lake High School, and Pine Ridge Elementary School.

We have so many generous donors all across the country mailing us thousands of books each week. I want to thank you all since without you the work we do would be impossible. I am also asking that in addition to books you consider making a financial donation, large or small, because mailing books to schools costs many thousands of dollars. As our organization reaches ever more schools, so does our need for the financial resources to continue to provide a free resource lifeline that will bring knowledge and inspiration to those who need it most.

That’s all for now.

Until next month,

Sincerely,

David Mazor
Executive Director
Reader To Reader
http://www.readertoreader.org
email: dmazor@readertoreader.org

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