2016 Read-a-thon Impact Report

Thank you Walton parents, family, students and community!  You helped us surpass our goal of raising $12,000 so that our school library can continue to provide fun, interesting, and educational (...ssh!) resources to help our minds explore and expand.  Here's some information about what we did to raise the money, and what the funds will go towards.
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$14,040

Thank you Walton Community! Together, we fundraised $14,040

Have a few extra bucks to give? You can still donate.

985 new books and 200 repaired books 

With this new funding, over the next 4 years, the library will be able to purchase approximately 985 new books, and keep 200 existing books in circulation.

3,712.5 hours read

The 550 Walton students read 15 minutes a day from Jan 4th to 31st.  A great assortment of books were completed like The Tales of the Beedle Bard, The Chronicles of Narnia, Star Wars and Pinkalicious Pinkie Promise. Well done!  

The Walton Reading Tree was tended to by Ms. Augustyn. Each leaf represents a book read by a student.

Goals!

The WHL Coquitlam Junior A team, the Coquitlam Express visited the school and read to every classroom, and played hockey against the grade 4's.

Our students did a good job of holding their own and scored some pretty goals!  I lost track of the score :)

5 Flexpasses won

The Coquitlam Express gave us 5 flex passes to give away.  We held a raffle and pulled names from the students who had read a book and posted it on our fundraising site:
​Aneil, Div. 11
Emiliano, Div. 9
James, Div. 18
Adam, Div. 16
Sydney, Div. 5
Enjoy the games!

10 Sponsors

If you see any of our sponsors, be sure to give them a high five to thank them for their contribution.  Altogether, they matched $5500 of your donations, dollar for dollar: 

• Pediatric Dental Group
• Monarch Dentistry
• A Buyer's Choice Home Inspections - Tricities
• Cortney Lessard - Realtor
• Church's Chicken
• James Garbutt - Realtor
• Zac Jacobson (Corbin & Jazmine's dad)
• Dave & Jenny Tang (Faith's parents)
• Kho Tian Hu (Daphne's grandparents)
• Tri City Chinese Canadian Association

$0 Fees

Chimp, the site that we used to facilitate the fundraising, and the company that I work for, has agreed to cover the cost of the credit card processing (2.8%). That is, 100% of all donations will be going to the Library. ​ 

Have questions about other ways Chimp can work for you, or company or your community? Contact [email protected]

Walton Read-a-thon from Jen Sing on Vimeo.

1 Campaign Video

A few of the students helped me make this fun video to tell people about our fundraiser.  

I've heard a few people whistling that catchy tune around...

Walton Read-a-Thon from Chimp on Vimeo.

1 Head Shaved

Craig Mah, the school principal, volunteered to have his head shaved if we reached our fundraising target.  
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"When someone makes a promise, he/she needs to follow through…even if it is something as silly as a “hair cut”" - C.Mah

Our Story

Read about our fundraising effort.

See the original article here.

Your Feedback Requested

Please complete the brief survey to help us understand how to fundraise better in the future.  

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​[email protected]

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Thank you everybody for making the 2016 Walton Read-a-thon a Success!