READATHON 2023

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Organized by Tompkins County Public Library Foundation

$23,570

327 Supporters

78% of $30,000 goal

Raul and Olivia Palma

Fundraiser since Mar 2023

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$275

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55% of $500 goal

Raul and Olivia Palma's Story

With much gratitude for those who have supported our fundraiser in past years, we're thrilled to be returning to this year's READATHON (our fourth year participating!).

We'll be reading excerpts from Robert C. O'Brien's "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh"--a moving story about mice and rats and a cat named Dragon. But it's also about community, the debts we owe one another, and what it means to live a good life and to honor friendships.

We hope you'll tune in for our reading. In the meantime, please help us raise money for our local library. We're aiming for $500 this year. Donations will be used to buy books, films, and other materials patrons depend on to remain informed, entertained, and educated.

About the Readers:

Olivia Zowie Palma is 9-years-old and a student at the Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School of Ithaca. These days, she's leaning into her passion for art, music, and the Legend of Zelda's Breath of the Wild. At home, she's reading The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Baby Sitters Club series, and, together, we're reading Les Miserables.

Raul Palma is Olivia's father, an associate dean of faculty at Ithaca College School of Humanities & Sciences, and the author of "A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens" (forthcoming from Dutton) and "In This World of Ultraviolet Light" (Indiana University Press).

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The READATHON is our annual read-out-loud challenge to raise funds for the collection at TCPL!

In this, our 11th year, reader-fundraisers will read from their favorite books and ask their friends, family, and colleagues to join them in supporting the public library. Your donation, in any amount, is very welcome.

Every dollar raised helps to buy books and other materials our community so desperately needs. Nearly a million items are used each year—a remarkably high level for a community of our size—and 100% of the funding comes from private support, like that raised by our READATHON participants.

Money raised by the Readathon goes toward purchasing books, films, e-books, audiobooks, and other materials that our patrons depend on to remain informed, entertained, and educated.

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Campaign Ended

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327 Supporters

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READATHON 2023

By Tompkins County Public Library Foundation

READATHON 2023

Be the public in public library - donate today!

With much gratitude for those who have supported our fundraiser in past years, we're thrilled to be returning to this year's READATHON (our fourth year participating!).

We'll be reading excerpts from Robert C. O'Brien's "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh"--a moving story about mice and rats and a cat named Dragon. But it's also about community, the debts we owe one another, and what it means to live a good life and to honor friendships.

We hope you'll tune in for our reading. In the meantime, please help us raise money for our local library. We're aiming for $500 this year. Donations will be used to buy books, films, and other materials patrons depend on to remain informed, entertained, and educated.