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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. My job at its best is very freewheeling. It’s a grab a parachute and drop in on a school strategy with a “Duck! Here comes $10,000 in new math textbooks!” approach. Thankfully, we’re not bound by a lot of bureaucracy so we can parachute in to the rescue at a moment’s notice. Here’s an example. This month the publisher Pi R Squared and author Steve Slavin generously donated over $200,000 in brand new Basic Mathematics textbooks. (I have to thank our friends at American Mensa for spreading the word among their members.) This gave me the chance to get on the phone and donate this great resource to some of the poorest, most under-resourced schools in the country. I picked up the phone and in a handful of hours the textbooks flews out the door. Hey, this job is really fun! Pine Ridge High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation asked for $18,000 worth, Red Lake High School on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota requested $18,000 worth, John Essex School in Demopolis, Alabama wanted $12,000 worth, and Lake Providence Junior and Senior High in Lake Providence, Louisiana wanted $30,000 worth, to name just a few schools that gobbled them up. We also shipped $30,000 worth of math textbooks to the Jones County School District in Ellisville, Mississippi as part of our Hurricane Katrina relief effort. All in all, that was the most fun day I have had lately! Here is a note from the Mississippi School Boards Association about the textbooks and our most recent Katrina Relief book shipment.
Every month Reader To Reader gets more effective at delivering free books, software, and teaching materials. Our resources grow and just as importantly, we’re a bit smarter, as we learn a bit more each month about the needs of each school. Our goal is to serve these schools ever better. In other news, there is a new public library on the Navajo Reservation. The Navajo Community Library will make books accessible to so many who have none, and over the coming months and years we look forward to building their resources. We spent last week filling boxes for them and the first mountain of books to fill their shelves is already on its way! New schools this month include Mapletown High, Greensboro, Pennsylvania, Mildred Jackson Elementary in Hughes, Arkansas and Pine Ridge Elementary in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. We keep on growing! That's all for now. Until next month, Sincerely,
David Mazor
Please help us with a tax-deductible donation. Here are some of our recent books shipments: Joyce Elementary, Detroit, MI
Lubec Consolidated, Lubec, ME
Lake Providence High, Lake Providence, LA
PS 178, Brooklyn, NY
Shaw High, Shaw, MI
Ray Brooks High, Benoit, MS
Grand Caillou Elementary, Houma, LA
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