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Help Kids Get Great Books to Read

August 20, 2010 By Olu Johnson Leave a Comment
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Raising Reader distributes thousands of books to Bay Area children and their families each year

Love books? Love kids? Love to help kids get great Raising A Reader books? Volunteer for Raising A Reader!

If you’re available Saturday August, 28th you can help sort and pack Raising A Reader books and other materials for our wonderful Raising A Reader families.

Raising A Reader is a take-home book bag program, which successfully reaches the toughest, most critical population: low income families with poor readers or parents that do not speak English well. It targets the first five years of life, a vital development window when 90% of brain growth occurs.

We will be at the San Francisco Food Bank (900 Pennsylvania Ave, in Potrero Hill). We have four hours to sort through all the materials, and we need help!  It’s easy work—we  just need more hands, and you’ll be supporting the San Francisco Raising A Reader program benefiting more than 5,000 of the toughest-to-reach young children and their families.

We’ll be at the Food Bank with piles of kids’ books from 10am – 2pm. There will be excellent treats for your excellent volunteering.

Come for 2 hours or to stay for all 4 hours—we appreciate any amount of time you can spare.

Bring your kids! Bring your friends!  We’re looking for 15 volunteers. Please let us know if you can join us & we’ll send more details…
To volunteer contact Betsy Keever, bkeever@uwba.org, 415.808.4343 or Lynne Maes, lmaes@uwba.org, 415.808.4403.

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Back to School

August 4, 2010 By Olu Johnson Leave a Comment
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BRE Properties employees dropped off some backpacks at our offices yesterday

It’s back to school time, which can be fun for kids who as much they may not want to admit it, look forward to going to shopping for clothes and school supplies. Unfortunately, some kids don’t have this opportunity and aren’t able to get the basic supplies they need, things like pencils, notebooks and binders.  But with your help we can change that for many local children during our second annual backpack drive.

There are three ways you can help:

  1. Donate backpacks filled with supplies from the list below and deliver to United Way’s San Francisco office.
  2. Donate $35 gift cards from retailers who sell school supplies and send to United Way.
  3. Make a donation, which United Way will use to purchase supplies.

Already backpacks have begun streaming in, and we’ll be collecting supplies and backpacks through August 21st!

To learn more, of if you have any questions? Contact Aditi at aaggarwal@uwba.org or 415.808.4407

Supplies needed include:

  • Backpacks
  • Markers
  • Crayons
  • Binder paper (lined)
  • Stickers
  • Water-colors
  • Paintbrushes

See the full list here.

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Taking A Stand For Your Community

July 6, 2010 By Olu Johnson Leave a Comment
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As part of helping the Bay Area get ready for the next disaster we’ve encouraged people to find out about and enroll in Emergency Response Training on a local level. Sometimes called NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Training)  these community emergency response teams are composed of private individuals who sign up to receive training so they know what to do during the wait for first responders to arrive – whether it takes five minutes or five days.

But what is the training actually like? Well over at Mission L@cal they have an excellent multi-part series about the training and what you could expect.

The training is usually done by emergency responders such as fire, police, and EMT personnel and covers all the information necessary to know when disaster strikes. The types of disasters covered are extensive and begin with the basics like what to have an on hand/ emergency kits; covers the common situations like what to do in case of gas leaks, fires, or earthquakes; and even deals with less common but not unlikely events like chemical, biological or terrorist attacks.

Check out the whole series, as it is a good look at the way individuals in communities are taking the lead to prepare for disaster so they can help their neighbors.

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