Today's post is short and sweet. Award winning author Dallas Woodburn has created and has maintained a yearly holiday book drive for underprivileged children and YOU CAN HELP! It’s the 10th annual holiday book drive to benefit underprivileged children! through Write On!
Last year Write On! For Literacy collected nearly 1,000 books (bringing our grand total to more than 12,000 books!) that were distributed to various schools and charities including the Boys & Girls Club, Casa Pacifica, and Project Understanding. Please do your part to help children have a better holiday season. Help beat illiteracy and give the gift that lasts forever: the gift of reading!
Make a difference and give the gift that keeps giving.For all the details go to:http://dallaswoodburn.blogspot.com/2011/11/10th-annual-holiday-book-drive-to.html~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Until next time,
Karen Cioffi
Our journalist friend, Dallas Woodburn is the founder of “Write On! For Literacy“, a nonprofit organization that encourages kids to discover confidence, joy, self-expression and connection with others through reading and writing endeavors. In the past eight years, they have donated 11,117 new books to disadvantaged kids. They also teach writing workshops in schools, hold poetry, fiction, and essay contests, and award scholarships for young writers in middle school and high school to attend summer writing camps.
Write On! is one of seven national finalists for a $5,000 grant through the Glamour Magazine/Sally Hansen “Best of You” contest. They need your vote!!
Dallas with stack of new books for her awesome Write On! For Literacy Program
Dallas Woodburn/Write On is the final contestant listed. All it takes is thirty seconds of your time to vote. The website asks for your name and contact information to ensure that every e-mail address only votes once, but they will not use your information or give it away to anyone.
For every vote they receive, $1 will be donated to DKMS, the World’s Largest Bone Marrow Donation Center. Just by voting, you make a difference!!
If everyone could vote and then pass along the link to two or three friends, this could really take off.
Dallas said, “Thank you in advance for your support. This grant really would mean the world to us. It would help bring Write On! to a national level, creating more chapters of Holiday Book Drives, awarding more scholarship money for young writers, AND helping increase the confidence of young people by giving them an outlet for creative expression by publishing their work.”
Thank you SO much, Debbie!! And my deepest thanks to everyone who takes the time to vote! We have already raised more than $1,000 for DKMS!!
What you are doing, Dallas, is to be commended! I wish you great success!