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Everybody Wins!

South Florida

January is National Mentoring Month and today, January 24, is "Thank Your Mentor" Day.  We want to thank each of you who mentors a child, and especially our Power Lunch Reading Mentors.  The time that you spend reading with your students each week means so much and changes their lives for the better.

Children who are part of mentoring programs benefit in concrete, positive ways. They are:

  • 52% less likely to skip school;

  • 46% less likely to begin using illegal drugs than their peers, and;

  • 27% less likely to begin using alcohol than those without a mentor. 

You make a difference. Thank you!

With this program, everybody truly does win, especially the children.  It is amazing to see the difference that one hour can make in a child’s life.  - Senator and Power Lunch mentor Tom Harkin (D-IA)

Is there someone who mentored you? Or still does?  Don't forget to "Thank Your Mentor" today.  Here are three suggestions of how:

Power Lunch is a lunchtime literacy and mentoring program proven to improve reading skills and attitudes.  Volunteers are paired with elementary school students and devote one lunch hour a week to the program. Reading pairs choose books and read together, then chat about what they have read.

Help Everybody Wins! win $10,000 in the Facebook Causes Giving Challenge

Join the Support Children's Literacy - Everybody Wins! cause and donate $10. The top 13 organizations will get a total of $200,000 in prizes. Right now, we need 82 more donors to get there. With your help, we can do it!

Then, send a note about the challenge and this link: www.everybodywinssouthflorida.org/facebook.html to your friends, family, and colleagues and ask them to donate $10 too.  All donations, plus any prize amount, benefit Everybody Wins! South Florida directly.

Everybody Wins! South Florida is always looking to serve more students.  Right now, we are especially looking for Power Lunch Reading Mentors for schools in South Miami, Hialeah and Opa Locka. Please contact Everybody Wins! for more information.

One mentor. One child. One book at a time.

EVERYBODY WINS! South Florida

9830 SW 77 Ave, Suite 225

Miami, Florida 33156

Phone: 305-299-8847 Fax: 786-206-8607

www.everybodywinssouthflorida.org

 

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