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If you’d like to support my program, Chronic Readers Club, and its mission to help provide books to young chronically ill people, pledge to be our patron on Patreon! If you sign up anytime from now through January 5th, you’ll receive a FREE “chronic reader” pin on top of all the benefits we already offer! Donations start as low as $1 per month! We are grateful for any help!
In 2018, I started a program called Chronic Readers Club. The program sends care packages that contain books to young people who are chronically ill! To qualify for a package, you must love to read, be chronically ill, age 30 or under, and living in the contiguous United States. If that’s you and you’d like a free book from your personal wishlist, apply now! This year, I was finally able to create a separate website for the program, so if you’d like to apply, or for more information on the program, visit chronicreadersclub.com! And please feel free to share this post to spread the word about the program!
On this last day of the Chronic Readers Club fundraiser, I just want to say thank you. I am so happy to share that over the past two weeks, enough money was raised to purchase every chronic reader on the waiting list a book and to ship every package!!! And so many additional items have been donated to include that will make these some of the most fun packages ever! So thank you, from the bottom of my heart, to everyone who has been kind enough to donate in any way! I am so appreciative of your generosity, and I’m so excited to get these packages sent out! ❤️
P.S. You can still order a “chronic reader” shirt through today but this is the last day! So if you want one, be sure to order soon! bonfire.com/chronic-reader
FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITY #7: Spread the Word!
The final way you can help Chronic Readers Club is by spreading the word about the program and the good it does!
Even if you aren’t able to donate, please feel free to share any and all posts from this fundraising venture!
I am so incredibly appreciative of every kind of support this program receives, not just monetary support!
And I want to thank everyone who has already liked and shared these posts! Your kindness has not gone unnoticed! ❤️
Recently someone asked me why it’s so important to me that everyone who applies for a package gets one. I felt like that was a silly question!
I know many that send out care packages can’t possibly get a package to every applicant, which I totally understand!
But for as long as I am able, I want every chronic reader who applies to get a package, even though it sometimes takes awhile!
I want everyone who is chronically ill to feel special and seen. Often, life as a chronically ill person can be sad, or lonely, or weird, or just downright boring! And I want to do as much as I possibly can to help fix that.
So that’s why I try so hard to make sure every chronic reader who applies for a package gets one!
FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITY #6: Small Item Donation!
Another way you can help Chronic Readers Club is by donating small items to send along with the books!
In each Chronic Readers Club package, the recipient finds not only a book from their personal wishlist, but also a multitude of other little gifts hand-selected just for them!
Chronic Readers Club can accept items such as notebooks, pens, pencils, erasers, sticky notes, socks (we ALWAYS need cute comfy socks!), stickers, bookmarks, lip balm, and the like! If you have any questions about what is needed, just send me a quick email! And they don’t have to be expensive items – I always have way too much fun shopping for little things at my local dollar store!
If you’d like to help provide these extra items that make these packages extra fun, email me at [email protected]!
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED…what the most requested books are for Chronic Readers Club packages?!
The top 5 most requested books since the program began:
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett