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On June 21, 2010 20 volunteers from Southaven, MS worked through the summer heat to pass out 1,000 fliers promoting our book donation in West Nashville!  On June 22, 2010 we returned to the West Park Community center and donated over 150 books to the children at the center.  We then moved to the St. John’s United Methodist church where we invited the community to stop buy and choose books for their children.  In all, we donated almost 900 books to the children in West Nashville! 

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Just because it is summer does not mean we have stopped delivering books!  On Monday, June 7th, we donated books to the pre-kindergarten students at Margaret Maddox YMCA.  As we pulled into the YMCA we were greeted by cheers from the children.  We then read one of our favorite books, His Finest Hour, to the children.  After the book reading each child got to choose a book to take home with them.  It was a great start to the summer for both …

Congrats to Amy Markovich on winning the custom Homegrown frame at DSG! 
 

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We donated 3,312 Wilbooks books to middle school teachers who teach reading! These books are going to be used to assist struggling readers increase their reading abilities! This is one of the most exciting donations we have made yet. These books are going to directly impact the lives of thousands of middle school students!

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The Earth Day 2010 celebration was a great success.  Several RfR volunteers chatted with hundreds of future supporters and volunteers.  We teamed up with the Oasis Center and Walk/Bike Nashville, two local non-profit organizations who are also associated with the cycling community, to create a cycling based non-profit area.  Walk/Bike hosted an amazingly successful bike parking stand, while the Oasis Center collected bikes for their “Build a Bike, Teach a Friend” program.  We passed out many fliers and stuck many RfR stickers as you can see by …

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The Cumberland University chapter of Ride for Reading made an amazing book delivery on April 9, 2010 to the 250 first and second graders at Coles Ferry Elementary School!  Tim Hall, CU’s cycling coach, eight team members, and founder, Mathew Portell set out from the university with books packed in backpacks.  The fleet arrived the cheers of the elementary students.  Tim spoke words of encouragement and set them on a mission to read and ride bikes. The highlight of the delivery was when one …

You will be seeing the Ride for Reading logo on the podium in 2010!  Team Niner/Ergon, an amazingly successful professional mountain bike team, has chosen to endorse Ride for Reading in their 2010 race season.  They are going to assist RfR in furthering our mission by bringing attention to the much needed fight for literacy!  We would like to thank Team Niner/Ergon for all of their support and we wish them the best of luck in the 2010 race season!

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On March 26, 2010, 12 Ride for Reading volunteer riders set out on a 25 mile round trip ride from the RfR building to Paragon Elementary School to deliver almost 700 books.  The volunteers came from as far as Memphis, Tennessee to participate in this distribution.  The riders were met by 150+ cheering 2nd and 3rd graders excited about the gift that the volunteers were packing in backpacks and trailers.  With many books requests including The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Junie B. Jones, many …

Teacher Book Pick-up 12/15/2009

 
Teacher Book Pick-Up 12/10/2009