Fundraising Events
Even with the tremendous dedication of hundreds of volunteers, WCC must raise funds to cover the costs of bringing our services to students. Learn more about why a volunteer program needs funds, and check out the results of our annual fundraising events.
Read-and-Write-a-thon 2011
Read-and-Write-a-thon organizers Mark Pasley and Annie Stine (at left) welcomed dozens of WriterCoach Connection friends and associates to the Willard Middle School library in Berkeley on May 21, for our biggest fundraiser of the year. Writer coaches, WCC site coordinators, and Community Alliance for Learning staff and board members read aloud from the favorite works in a non-stop chain of words and images that stretched from 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.
Readers chose from a wide range of their favorite sources for their twenty-minute shifts at the front of the room, from short fiction, essays, and poetry to their own original memoirs, poetry, and fiction.
Readers chose from a wide range of their favorite sources for their twenty-minute shifts at the front of the room, from short fiction, essays, and poetry to their own original memoirs, poetry, and fiction.
We heard the works of Colette, James Thurber, Sherman Alexie, Emily Dickinson,Tina Fey, Marcel Proust (read in both English and French by political reporter and commentator, and WCC coach, Larry Bensky), and even Abraham Lincoln, when CAFL board member Denis Clifford made his traditional Read-and-Write-a-thon presentation of the Gettysburg Address.
The event was successful in reaching its goal of $25,000 in support of WCC! Donations are still accepted online or by check. |  WCC coach Pam Fadem introduces the RWAT audience to Thank You, Mr. Falker, by Patricia Polacco. |
