To date, First Book- Mahoning Valley has distributed over 10,000 books to children in the Mahoning Valley. While we would love to stop and celebrate this wonderful achievement, there are countless children in our area who still do not have their own new books at home. Having these books at home to read at their disposal increases test scores, literacy skills, and often inspires children to look forward to futures that they may not see in their immediate environments.
Help us continue to get books into the hands of the children who need them. There are several events you can participate in:
Sat, May 10 at the Youngstown Playhouse
Spring Speed Read with a Frog and Toad production
1:00 pm in the Moyer Room
Registration of $25.00 before April 21 guarantees
1 free adult ticket to the play. Every child in attendance will receive a new Frog and Toad book.
Additional tickets available for purchase.
Collect pledges from you colleagues, co-workers, friends and family to help purchase books for children. Every $25.oo buys 10 books for a child. Every $100 buys 40 books for children.
How many children can you help us get new books to? All proceeds go directly to book purchases as we are a strictly volunteer organization with no overhead.
Saturday,
August 16 1st Annual Golf Outing
Bedford Trails
We need golfers and hole sponsors. Donations are also accepted for prizes.
More information can be received by emailing fbmvgolf@yahoo.com
WISH LIST
We need your help!
First Book- Mahoning Valley is in need of the
following items:
postage
working laptop computer
donations for printing costs (update brochure needs printed)
volunteers (can't attend meetings- send us your email and we'll let you know when an event is coming up)
Donations of color and b/w ink for a Lexmark x1240 printer
All donations are tax deductible. Buying a new laptop- we would love your old one! We have in-kind donation forms available for recording tax deductions
If you can help us out- please email me! amyneral@yahoo.com
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Plant the Seed to Read Event April 5
Please join us at the 2nd annual Youngstown Bookfair at the education center at Fellows Riverside Gardens Saturday, April 5 from 10 am - 4pm.
First Book- Mahoning Valley will be on hand to distribute 1000 books (1 each) to children who visit our table at the event. Adults can take this time as an opportunity to register for our May fundraising event:
Saturday, May 10 at 1:00 pm
a special spring
Speed Read
featuring the production of
“A Year with Frog and Toad”
Saturday, May 10, 2008
at 1:00 pm in the Moyer Room
of the Youngstown Playhouse
600 Playhouse Lane
Youngstown, Ohio
Register for $25 and receive 1 adult ticket to the play following the Speed Read event.
Additional tickets available for purchase at time of registration.
Every child at the performance will receive a Frog and Toad book to start their personal library at home.
Register now and
help give new books to children!
Readers will collect pledges and bring them to the
Speed Read. Each reader will have 15 seconds to read a passage as quickly as they can.
For registration information email Amy at amyneral@yahoo.com
First Book- Mahoning Valley will be on hand to distribute 1000 books (1 each) to children who visit our table at the event. Adults can take this time as an opportunity to register for our May fundraising event:
Saturday, May 10 at 1:00 pm
a special spring
Speed Read
featuring the production of
“A Year with Frog and Toad”
Saturday, May 10, 2008
at 1:00 pm in the Moyer Room
of the Youngstown Playhouse
600 Playhouse Lane
Youngstown, Ohio
Register for $25 and receive 1 adult ticket to the play following the Speed Read event.
Additional tickets available for purchase at time of registration.
Every child at the performance will receive a Frog and Toad book to start their personal library at home.
Register now and
help give new books to children!
Readers will collect pledges and bring them to the
Speed Read. Each reader will have 15 seconds to read a passage as quickly as they can.
For registration information email Amy at amyneral@yahoo.com
Monday, November 19, 2007
Grant Application Deadline extended
If you are an organization in Youngstown that works directly with preschoolers, please email amyneral@yahoo.com for a book grant application. Our deadling has been extended. All applications must be postmarked by Dec. 1
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Milk and Cookies with Santa Speed Read at the Oakland
Join us one and all for the first ever
First Book-Mahoning Valley Speed Read
and
Milk and Cookies with Santa
at the Oakland Center for the Arts
on Tuesday, Dec. 18 at 7:00 pm.
Register now!
We will send you a pledge packet and information on the Speed Read event and First Book- Mahoning Valley. You collect pledges in advance and then come to the event where you will be invited on stage to read as many words as you can in 15 seconds.
Every $2.50 buys a new book for a child, but we need your help!
Not interested in reading, make a donation!
Have a child who loves to read? They can Speed Read as well!
Following the highly hysterical readings, Santa will be on the premises for last minute wishes. The first 500 children will receive a new book.
Milk and cookies will be available, as well as a basket raffle.
Milk and cookies will be available, as well as a basket raffle.
The event is free and open to the public. We hope you will Speed Read with us and help end illiteracy in our community.
Have an organization you would like to promote at our event? Just register to read, collect pledges, and when it is your turn to read take a minute (maybe 2) to tell everyone what you do! We want everyone who is revitalizing Youngstown to be heard !
To register or request additional information, email amyneral@yahoo.com.
Please note: the books that will be given away and those in the basket raffle are not from fundraising efforts. All funds raised by First Book- Mahoning Valley go to purchasing books. We don't use any for administrative costs or promotional purposes. We are soley a volunteer organization- no salaries, rented office space, nada- its all about the books and children.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Calling all Youngstown Preschools
First Book- Mahoning Valley and PBS 45 & 49
are pleased to invite you to apply for a special book grant for organizations in Youngstown that serve preschool children.
We appreciate the work you do in teaching preschool children the beginning skills needed to become great readers. In an effort to increase literacy skills in Youngstown, PBS 45 & 49 was awarded a grant from the Marie Denise DeBartolo York Foundation.
This grant stipulates that new books be distributed to organizations that fulfill First Book grant guidelines,
which include:
*80% of the children your program
serves must be low income
*The books must become the property of the
children to create personal home libraries
*Your organization must not discriminate
If selected, you will be provided with 1 book per child in your organization for a six-month period. You will agree to allow First Book- Mahoning Valley volunteer(s) to distribute the books to the children each month. During the time allotted for the distribution, the volunteer will give a lesson to the children based on the PBS Ready To Learn Learning Triangle.
You must complete a grant application to be considered.
All applications
received on or before November 16, 2007
will be considered. No exceptions will be applied.
Grant application requests must be sent to amyneral@yahoo.com.
are pleased to invite you to apply for a special book grant for organizations in Youngstown that serve preschool children.
We appreciate the work you do in teaching preschool children the beginning skills needed to become great readers. In an effort to increase literacy skills in Youngstown, PBS 45 & 49 was awarded a grant from the Marie Denise DeBartolo York Foundation.
This grant stipulates that new books be distributed to organizations that fulfill First Book grant guidelines,
which include:
*80% of the children your program
serves must be low income
*The books must become the property of the
children to create personal home libraries
*Your organization must not discriminate
If selected, you will be provided with 1 book per child in your organization for a six-month period. You will agree to allow First Book- Mahoning Valley volunteer(s) to distribute the books to the children each month. During the time allotted for the distribution, the volunteer will give a lesson to the children based on the PBS Ready To Learn Learning Triangle.
You must complete a grant application to be considered.
All applications
received on or before November 16, 2007
will be considered. No exceptions will be applied.
Grant application requests must be sent to amyneral@yahoo.com.
First Book- Mahoning Valley
Remember the magic of your first book? Mine was Benjie Engie- a little golden book about a slow locomotive who was given a faster engine so he could speed through the countryside. With the new engine he couldn't see the cows, the children playing, or the flowers anymore. Everything was a blurr. Going through life so quickly tired the engine and made him sick. The engineers brought him in and made him a slow locomotive again. He was happy and fulfilled enjoying the beauty around him.
My mom read me that story so much I had it completely memorized and could flip through the pages as though I were reading word for word by age 2. Are there children you know who have that same opportunity? What about the children who don't have their own books?
Everyone should have a memory of a first book. Our goal at First Book-Mahoning Valley is to create that memory by helping all children read and own their first new book.
Take the time to learn more about us. We meet the second Wednesday of every month at 7:00 m at Barnes & Noble in Youngstown, Ohio.
Except this November- we will have a different meeting date due to our current grant cycle.
Interested in learning more? Email me. Visit http://www.firstbook.org/.
My mom read me that story so much I had it completely memorized and could flip through the pages as though I were reading word for word by age 2. Are there children you know who have that same opportunity? What about the children who don't have their own books?
Everyone should have a memory of a first book. Our goal at First Book-Mahoning Valley is to create that memory by helping all children read and own their first new book.
Take the time to learn more about us. We meet the second Wednesday of every month at 7:00 m at Barnes & Noble in Youngstown, Ohio.
Except this November- we will have a different meeting date due to our current grant cycle.
Interested in learning more? Email me. Visit http://www.firstbook.org/.
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