@WordsAliveSD

✨Opening opportunities for lifelong success through reading 📚 🌐 https://xitter.cf/t.co/XsheKUZS9Y | 🤝🏽Volunteer + Donate 🧡💙

 San Diego
wordsalive.org
Joined October 2009
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Community Partner Spotlight! Words Alive brings stories to life across San Diego with their Read Aloud program in communities and schools. Research shows that strong literacy habits develop over time, so programs like this make a big difference! 🌟
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❤️📚💚 Leslye Lyons, AB ’79, launched her nonprofit, @WordsAliveSD, in a single San Diego classroom in 1999. Twenty-five years later, the organization helps thousands of kids and teens every year discover the joy of reading. bit.ly/3UDQBR4 #WashU #WashUalumni

A life of words

Alumna Leslye Lyons founded the nonprofit Words Alive to help children and teens find joy in reading.

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WashU@WashU18 Oct 2024
From a small reading group to a national force for literacy, Alumna Leslie Lyons founded the nonprofit @WordsAliveSD to inspire lifelong readership. With a transformative impact on 5,000+ families annually, their story is one of community. bit.ly/406MjVJ
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Four of the brightest lights in the #KidLit community are uniting in #SanDiego to inspire a love of #literacy and make this #HolidaySeason one for #kids to remember. 👦🏿👦🏽👦🌟👧👧🏽👧🏿 Join us on Saturday, November 18th @BNEncinitas for #SeasonsReadings: bit.ly/3s2FrtM. 🎁
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@WordsAliveSD volunteers & staff are incredible! Each box you see in the first photo weighed 15-40 lbs & had to be carried down 2 flights of stairs, packed into trucks & cars that ran 16-mile round trip routes all day, and unloaded and shelved in our new office. #volunteersrock
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We're seeking a new #intern to help us support and grow our largest volunteer mobilization initiative, Page Turners! If you love reading and want to make a difference in the community, you might be a perfect fit! Learn more about the position at: bit.ly/440KHeI
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One last scramble before midnight tonight (Sun 1/29)! @WordsAliveSD has passed 500 donors now and are barreling towards second place in the competition. We just need a few more donors…can you help with a $10 gift? charity.centuryclubsd.org/fu… #charity #readerscommunity – at El Cajon, CA
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One of our Affiliated Programs, Words Alive, recently held a holiday reading event at Westfield Parkway featuring The Grinch and Cindy Loo-Who! Words Alive is a nonprofit reading advocacy organization that opens opportunities for life success by inspiring a commitment to reading.
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Help us congratulate @RachaelVoorheesOrose of @WordsAliveSD on receiving the Collaborative Award for Literacy at our Literacy Champions Reception last week!
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At DEEP, we understand the importance of family engagement to a child’s personal & academic success. Partnering with @FleetScience, @WordsAliveSD, & Motiva Associates, we work to foster engagement through exciting &educational family workshops. #NationalYoungReadersWeek
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⭐Affiliated Program Spotlight: @WordsAliveSD connects toddlers, teens, and families with the power of reading. Their work bridges the gap in access to education for underserved children (0-18) and their families through their “cradle-to-career” model. wordsalive.org/
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How to draw a lion doodle! Yes, I doodle, too! @doubledaybooks @warwicksbooks @WordsAliveSD @conklinpens
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We had an incredible afternoon with @ChrisBohjalian and @LererSeth celebrating reading and Chris’s new book, The Lioness - while raising funds to support @WordsAliveSD’s programs readings with 4,000+ children, teens and families in #SanDiego! #MakeReadingMatter #ReadingRocks
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Join us for a live #reading of "Milo Imagines the World" by award-winning author @mattdelapena at our next Reading Two-Gether Author Visit on 4/22 at 10am! In partnership with @WordsAliveSD @UCSDExtension and funded by @DrSeuss Foundation. Register at: thinkplaycreate.org/learn/ar…
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We are proud to partner with local organizations @MamasKitchenSD, @SDFoodBank, @WordsAliveSD and @JFSSD for our 2nd annual MLK week of service! #MLKDay
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Holiday reading at Parkway Plaza, with @WordsAliveSD! We had so much fun celebrating reading and getting into the holiday spirit.
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Publisher Jeffrey Goldman was motivated to make the foray into #YA by his decade of experience with @WordsAliveSD. "High school kids who barely had an interest in school sparked to the carefully chosen books in its curriculum.” Read more in @PublishersWkly bit.ly/3nE5UJ5
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Please join ArtReach this Saturday for the opening VIP reception for the @WordsAliveSD Art & Lit 2021 Exhibit!
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What an inspiring investment from @umpquabank in @WordsAliveSD and our work connecting families with the power of #reading! Thank you! #MakingReadingMatter
Columbia Bank
@Columbia_Bank3 Sep 2021
It's an honor to announce our 2nd of 3 rounds of 2021 #community grants to fund #nonprofit partners in our five-state footprint. We celebrate all 72 of the latest recipients and proudly support their respective missions. Here's the full story >>> ms.spr.ly/6019X1JEd
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❤️📕❤️Love that @WordsAliveSD’s amazing #volunteers supported this initiative by packing thousands of books for these awesome Little Libraries! Connecting community through books is the best! Thanks @NoraVargasSD, @SDLiteracy, @SDCountyLibrary, for your leadership!
NBC 7 San Diego
@nbcsandiego5 Sep 2021
County Supervisor Nora Vargas, Chula Vista city officials and San Diego County Library officials revealed the county's first 'Little Library' at Lauderbach Park Saturday. The initiative is an effort to boost literacy and foster a love for reading. on.nbc7.com/Bg7GUSc
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