Hi there.

Right now, we at 826LA are in the middle of our first full year running programming at both 826LA West (our original location in Venice) and 826LA East (fronted by the Echo Park Time Travel Mart). So far, we've

• broken daily attendance records at drop-in tutoring,
• started regular evening journalism workshops in Echo Park,
• and helped nearly 300 students write college-application essays;

So, here's how it works:

1. Take a look at all the items in the catalog.
2. Decide which one(s) you'd like, and click the donate button below the item(s).
3. Enter all your info—if you'd like to make a donation in someone else's name, you can do that too. Just enter their name, address and email in the "notes" box before you confirm your payment.
4. Get a cool letter and tax receipt in the mail!

Several thousand local kids will be thrilled that you've helped 826LA this winter. We hope you'll find lots of things in the catalog that'll help you complete your holiday shopping! Happy Holidays from all of us here at 826LA!

Pencils	Binding Strips	Case of Paper	A Chair
Ten New Books	A Table	iMac Donation	A Photocopier
A Workshop	Drop-In Tutoring	In-School Tutoring	A Field Trip
One Month of Programs	One Week of Programs	One Day of Programs	Make Your Own Donation

Pencils

For just under nine dollars, you’ll put a bundle of 100 pencils in our pencil cups, every one of them ready to be worked down to a nub in the service of a student’s homework assignment or hilarious story. Pencils, we’ve found, work equally well for algebra problems and for tales of jellyfish named Milton.

$8.98

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Binding Strips

The difference between a bunch of ugly, floppy sheets of paper and a gorgeous, professional-looking book is the tiny black leathery-looking piece of material we use to turn our students’ work into books. On average, one box of binding strips is enough produce 90 Storytelling and Bookmaking field trip books, or 200 chapbooks, or 100 English Language Learner Camp magazines—any of which might contain the story of a cookie that saves the world, which is a story that needs to be told.

$28.99

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Case of Paper

With one Case of Paper, we’ll be able to print field trip books for 710 kids, or 200 copies of a Dogtown Books anthology—with enough left over to let Xena print out her essay for class, and allow Anthony to have a clean copy of his story about fire trucks for his dad.

$34.99

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A Chair

When used in combination with an enthusiastic tutor, chairs increase student productivity by something like 84%. We see 30 drop-in tutoring students every day, and another 30 students on field trips, and every one of them needs a place to get to work.

$59.99

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Ten Spanking New Library Books

Our kids read fast—ten new books will help keep our library fresh and full of things they want to read.

$131.24

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A Table

One table provides four kids and two tutors with a workspace during drop-in tutoring, or six field-trip kids with a place to write their endings. And every so often, it’ll turn into as a celebrity signing center for six drop-in kids here to put their John Hancocks on a Dogtown Books chapbook.

$368.97

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iMac Donation

In a single week, one iMac at 826LA helps Uriel write a guide to whining, lets 90 elementary schoolers each take home their own book after a field trip, and gives us a way to communicate with 550 volunteers.

$1,199.00

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A Photocopier

A photocopier will help with every single student program we run—and it'll allow us to produce fliers for our workshops and our drop-in tutoring program, which means those programs will bring in new students every time.

$5,650.00

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A Workshop

A workshop can provide 15 to 20 students with two to three hours of quality creative learning time that they can't get anywhere else. Past workshops have inspired our students to invent holidays to honor cheese and alternative universes that hinge on the fate of shoes, and to write the most exciting stories pets have ever heard.

$600.00

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A Drop-In Tutoring Session

A Drop-In Tutoring Session donation gives us the resources we need to shower one student with three hours of personalized, one-on-one help with their homework and writing. Adan, a first grader, started coming to 826LA for help during drop-in tutoring at the beginning of last year. Every week he worked with our tutors to prepare for his spelling tests. Slowly but surely, Adan started getting 80 percents, then 90 percents, and then consistently started bringing home perfect spelling test scores each week, thanks to the help of his 826LA tutors.

$500.00

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An In-School Tutoring Session

Each week, 826LA sends 15 volunteers into classrooms across the city. These volunteers help students draft college essays, prepare for AP exams, and create their own Frankenstein monsters, and they help teachers who can always use the extra manpower. Our volunteers are also running an in-school ‘zine project at LA High—if you’d like to contribute to that effort specifically, we’ll include a special shout-out to you in the back of the first issue (just let us know!).

$500.00

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A Field Trip

What happens when 30 third-graders get together with one of our storytellers? Shorty McShort Shorts: Lost in New Shorts. Or Stinky's Quest for Breath Mints. A Field Trip donation will allow a teacher to access our program at no expense and provide their students with an experience that is overtly fun and covertly educational.

$700.00

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One Month of Programs for All Our Students

By funding a month of programs at 826LA, you’re providing 65 students with free tutoring, 200 kids with a free field trip, and 40 kids with weekend workshops. You’ll also help us send volunteers to schools all over Los Angeles, where they’ll help 206 students write college essays, produce literary magazines, and create monster safaris. Parents and teachers all over Los Angeles will feel the impact of this donation – they’ll know there’ll be a place where their students and children can go to become better students, better writers, and more confident individuals.

$38,633.34

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Week of Programs

A week of programs at 826LA gives 65 students free tutoring, 60 kids a free field trip, and 10 kids a weekend workshop—things that’ll give them a leg up on the rest of their year.

$9,658.35

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Day of Programs

It could be a Tuesday or a Thursday or even a Wednesday, but the day you make possible will mean free tutoring for 20 students and a free field trip for 30 kids. You’ll also help us send volunteers to LA High, where they’ll help 20 students produce their literary ‘zine.

$1,931.67

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Make-Your-Own-Donation

You rebel. You don’t like prescribed donation amounts, or chairs or pencils—well, that’s just fine. That’s why we created this option, the Make-Your-Own Donation button. You can make up your own donation amount and even write your own explanation—we’ll be grateful for whatever you can give us.

$???,???.??

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