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Oprah – 10 pts Fun -6 pts Books -11 pts You - 6 pts
14 years ago Oprah understood the power of BookEnds -Creating Readers and Leaders. She named 12 year old Brandon Keefe, BookEnds Co-Founder, as a young hero. Today, BookEnds Kids have collected and hand-delivered over 2.3 million of their gently used books to educationally underserved youth in Greater Los Angeles.
BookEnds is celebrating! Come join us at the 4th Annual BookEnds Scrabble Challenge on Thursday, March 8, 2012!
Enjoy a buffet dinner, hosted wine, beer and valet, and bid on 5 star hotels, famous and yummy restaurants, gourmet wines, all equipped guest house nestled on a river in the Sequoias, jewelry, sporting events and memorabilia…. And this, just prelude to the light-hearted, spirited game of Scrabble. There are some serious players, but novices, aplenty. Kevin McKidd, Gray’s Anatomy star and Scrabble enthusiast, will MC. Please join politicians, celebrities, and lots of really good people interested in having fun while doing something really good! 
Imagine! Schools in Los Angeles opened in the fall of 2011 with 1000’s of books locked inside their libraries. You see, LAUSD could not afford to hire librarians! Enter… BookEnds Kids, flooding classroom libraries with their current, gently used books.
A few years ago the grand RFK Learning Academy opened on the site of the famed Ambassador Hotel in LA. One problem, the classroom bookshelves were largely empty, no budget for books! Enter BookEnds Kids! When our economy is experiencing scarcity, BookEnds is creating abundance!
Collecting an average of 1,200 books per drive, STUDENTS power the drives, then so meaningfully hand-deliver their treasure trove to student recipients. They read together and enjoy gifts of gratitude ranging from bakery goods to drill team and musical performances… All in all - unforgettable! One Beverly Hills veteran teacher remarked upon returning from a delivery, “This was the best thing I’ve done with my kids in 30 years of teaching.”
Gloriously, last year’s Scrabble Challenge helped volumes, raising monies equaling $340,000 worth of gently used books. You see, BookEnds Creating Readers and Leaders is most efficient! Every $100 donated results in at least $500 worth of gently used books, a 500% return! Now where else can we get that!!
So, BookEnds Scrabble Challenge means everyone’s a winner, but there are special trophies , Casual and Competitive, and a Vintage Scrabble Game and Book Drive honoring the Grand Prize winners.
If you’re in the LA area - bookends.org for tickets and lots of other information. Do join us to provide the vital resources to support BookEnds powerful program. Hopefully, you’ll come away so enthused, knowing you made a difference in the future of many deserving Los Angeles children.
Yours sincerely, Patti Tanenbaum – Scrabble Challenge Co-Chair
