Love how fast you guys are at responding to questions. Thank you so much! 

Another amazing read-a-thon year in the books. This year we raised $58,600 and read over 650,000 minutes. Amazing!!! RAT is a no brainer when it comes to fundraising. Families, friends and the community are so willing to donate money to enrich literacy and education in our youth. It is such an easy ask that it is hard for anyone to say no. Most people dread fundraising and asking family or friends for support financially, but we had over 87% participation that were over the moon happy that we were reading to raise fund for our school. We would get emails and text message all week saying... My house is so quiet. Everyone is reading. Thank read-a-thin team for doing this fundraiser. Can we do the read-a-thon all year long, my child has never been so motivated to read in their life, but for a light up ring or Limo Lunch he can’t seem to put the books down. Thank you for all the support

It was a great success as well as all the other years! We are so thankful for this opportunity that your company gives us. We look forward to doing business with you again next year!

Our Read-A-Thon was very successful! Started off with some organizational hiccups - 2 teachers were left out of our shipment and had a glitch with student info pulling correctly on a tracking page - other than that, very easy to manage and the kids had a blast. Thank you!

Read-A-Thon was an amazing experience. The students had so much fun and our students were so excited about reading! We surpassed our fundraiser goal and it was so easy! The program is so organized and carefully planned out. The read-a-thon team is available to answer every question along the way. We will definitely host another read-a-thon next year.

Read-A-Thon was a amazing way to get students to read and raise funds for the school! We have been amazed with our results and we look forward to doing it again next year. 

It went really well!! We polled our families and they prefer the Read-a-thon to other fundraisers. We chose the model with no prizes and came up with our own school wide intensives. It worked well. I loved the website you had. It was very easy to use!

Thanks. The process was great overall.

It has been another fantastic year for our Read-a-thon!

Everyone loves participating in the Read-a-thon!

The Read-a-thon was excellent! 

Our Read A Thon not only reached and surpassed our fundraising goal, it crushed it! We loved Reading and Raising together.

Another successful Read-A-Thon for Campbell Elementary! We love the focus this fundraiser puts on education and the simplicity of running the Read-A-Thon.

The Read-a-thon fundraiser was such a success for our school! We exceeded our goal of $20,000 and the students enjoyed all the reading time. We had mystery readers for the two weeks and two authors come speak to the students. It was truly an easy and enjoyable fundraiser!

Our students LOVED the Read-A-Thon! What a great way to raise funds... and as a double bonus - encourage reading! I've done many fundraisers, but this by far takes the blue ribbon!

Daulton's Read-a-Thon was a success! It was a positive experience for all. Thanks to Tiffany Alexander for always answering my questions and helping me through the process.

Awesome! The set up and process are easy and I love all of the reporting that is available throughout the time frame. The staff is always SO helpful and quick to respond. Overall, it is really terrific. THANK YOU!

I loved the read-a-thon. It was very easy! 

We had a great Read-a-thon this year! We raised the most we have in 3 years. The Read-a-thon reps were very helpful trouble shooting a few little hiccups and always very responsive. It would be nice to be able to easily filter reports. It would also be nice to have additional information on donors- perhaps what state donations are coming from so that we could build in some additional challenges for our students. We have appreciated that the minimum donation amount was lower to $10. That makes a big difference to our school population.

Great success. Easy, easy! Once suggestion would be to allow readers to donate a percentage of their donations for the online store to go back to school.

This was awesome! Thank you

We love the Read-A-Thon. Our students read over 200,000 minutes and raising money while doing so is just icing on the cake. This is the easiest and most rewarding fundraiser our school has ever done. Thank you!

We LOVED it! Your system is so easy to use, your staff is absolutely wonderful to work with - so responsive AND friendly. Highly recommend to any school looking for a new way to fundraise! The only reason we are not doing another RAT is simply because we usually do 1-2 years and change it up.

This was an amazing experience. It was a great way to promote reading, school spirit, and community involvement. Your company had everything organized so well. We chose not to go with the prize option. The time read to earn a prize did not seem realistic. We are excited to hold this event again next school year. Thank you!!

Yes the teachers appreciated the event and we were happy to raise money in a positive way. A few concerns were the prize levels were high for many of our participants.

This may be available already but an FAQ would be great to have regarding simple questions. Overall we had a great experience so far with this fundraiser and we will certainly do it again!! Thank you.

This was an amazing experience! We are thrilled with how easy it was to use the site and how it was all set up. The only issue we ran into was the site lagging behind causing people to add double minutes by clicking to many times. This was important as we were running a contest for most minutes read. Other than that it was wonderful!

I really liked the Read-A-Thon. It was very easy to use and the customer service was very responsive to questions. My only comment is to improve the prize center a little bit. A lot of the prizes seem a little babyish for elementary school kids - especially the older ones.

Our read-a-thon went well. This is our third year and this year and last year were about the same. The first year we did much better. The first year had several business sponsors. Since you raised the minimum amount our businesses rather give us the money directly and advertise with us because it is more affordable. $250 for a small business is a lot. We will continue to do a read-a-thon because we believe in the no sell approach when it comes to fundraising and prefer the enrichment aspect of the read-a-thon.

This was an amazingly easy fundraiser for our school! Our goal was to raise $10,000 and we surpassed that!

Our students and staff love the Read-A-Thon fundraiser. Not only do we raise money for our school but the students get excited and competitive about reading.

This was Gordon Elementary's first ever Read-A-Thon and we could not be more pleased. The fact that the program was all online is a huge plus and the personalized material made the program easy to launch. We had about 70% participation from our students which makes this a great start for our first year! As a school we were able to focus on the reading aspect as we tied this into our school book fair - fantastic. There were some learnings along the way, but again - that's to be expected for the first year. Thank you for all quick responses to our questions and for helping us run a successful event!

Great support. Thank you for being there for us to answer all our questions and to walk us through everything.

This Read-a-thon was awesome and the results created an amazing experience that will be very memorable and rewarding! Our Teachers, Readers, Parents, and Sponsors loved how their reading habits picked up, not just for prizes and rewards, but also to pick up a random book and immerse their imaginations in travel, animal life, and stories they could relate with. Overall, Read-a-thon was one of the best fundraisers we’ve ever done, and will do again. Thank you Kari for being with the Kyrene de la Esperanza PTO throughout this event!!! The only complaint during this event was some had payment issues, and some resolved those issues on their own and others just gave up. We would like to understand why and how to overcome these problems in the future.

We were very happy with this year's read-a-thon, as we raised over $12,000 for our school! The kids really enjoyed logging their minutes and several students developed solid reading habits as a result of their participation.

We were absolutely amazed with this program. We made way more than we thought and it was easy on our end. Thank you so much. I do think it would be nice to end the donations at the same time as the read -a-thon so we would be able to get our money sooner.

Our school had a great experience and it was a success!

This is P.S. 116's second year using Read-a-thon.com and we love the convenience and user-friendly features!

It went well. Everyone was very helpful and answered our questions. It will be helpful from the back end to search students individually and also have pages with total reading minutes for the entire school.

This was a fantastic experience! The students and supporters love it!

This is our third year doing a Read-a-thon and we love it. The teachers love how easy it is, and it can be run by one person!

It was a good year again! We did better last year, but Hurricane Irma definitely hindered our fundraising. We will do a Read-A-Thon again next year!

The Readathon staff, site, and tools really made our Readathon easy, both for administrators and families. I love the real-time dashboard and student/teacher reports. I used them daily (usually multiple times). Our liaison, Kari, was friendly, responsive, and very professional. I personally used the email and social media tools (Facebook in particular), which I did not do as a parent last year. It was easy, AND we saw results beyond my expectations! Our biggest challenge is getting parents to go to the site, register, and USE all the great tools (we do have a number of parents for whom English is a second language, and there may be some cultural barriers we need to overcome...more research needed on both fronts for us!). If you have advice there or "best practices," please let us know.

North Shore Academy’s Read-a-Thon went very well, we raised 11K of our 15K Goal ????. We exceeded last years Goal o. We are hoping over the next few days that the remaining $4000 will be donated. Thank you for your support.

This is our 2nd year. What an easy and great fundraiser!

We enjoyed it but hoped for a better outcome. It didn’t do as well as we hoped for, but we still really enjoyed doing it. Maybe if there was more promoting help or even an assembly where somebody came out to get the kids excited like (apex or fun run). We would like to give it another try in the future I think, thank you for all the help and a chance to participate in this program.

Our RAT went better this year (our 2nd year) as we went above

We love the Read a thon. So easy, and successful every time. Thank you

Our read-a-thon was much more successful this year over last year. 

This was a fun and easy fundraiser! Thanks so much for your assistance. We raised money for our school while the kids did what they love to do....READ!

This was our first time doing a read-a-thon at our school, and it was a great success! To promote literacy and a love for reading, AND raise funds for our school, is a winning combination!

Love how easy the read-a-thon is to facilitate in our elementary school.

it was amazing. It was super easy to use and a great way to raise funds. Our only suggestion would be to have a way to turn off minutes prior to the official start. We started getting kids signed up a week before and they immediately started logging minutes which made it a little difficult to keep track of who was actually the top class and readers.

This was a fabulous fundraiser. I appreciate how all of the papers came grouped together by teacher. Super easy!!

We have loved the Read-a-thon. It's great seeing students excited to read! Thank you.

So easy and wonderful. Teachers, students and parents loved it!

We had hoped to reach $15,000

Our Read a Thon was a huge success once again! Thank you so much for the opportunity to encourage reading AND raise money. It's a win-win situation because all students can participate even if they are unable to collect donations.

This was a GREAT 1st Read-a-thon!! Thank you so much for all the printouts and videos. The only thing that I would suggest would be a Thank You letter that could be printed after the event to send to parents and also a printout that promotes the gifts that the kids get. Many of our parents did not understand this part and a printout would have been wonderful. Thank you all so much!!

I think our first time doing the Read-a-thon went fairly well. The website is simple to use and we love having the ability for our students to collect online donations. We also really like getting away from the pledge and then collect model. Knowing that when the fundraiser is over, it is over and we know how much we have is a great feeling. No more hounding parents and supporters to send in their pledged amount.

Loved doing this as a fundraiser....easiest fundraiser ever!!

Love the Read-A-Thon. 

This was a great experience overall! We'll definitely use you again. The only feedback we have to offer would be to improve the quality and age appropriateness of the prizes. There really wasn't anything for the older kiddos.

This was a phenomenal read-a-thon process. So thankful for all of the assistance I received learning how to use your program. Our teachers and students are so thankful for how much Read-a-thon has done for our school, Leo Croce!!

Read-a-Thon offers a lot of support and the dashboard makes it very easy to use. The mobile sites are very functional as well.

The read-a-thon went well. We raised 1,400 hundred more than last year.

Went really great!! Several thing surrounding kids inflating their hours read that I would like to change. The edit your reading sessions should be only the dates that our even is going on they should not be able to add dates prior to when our event starts. Additionally, we should be able to limit the amount of hours read per day. Also, their edits/and daily entries should have timestamps on them so that we can see when they entered and if they sat down one day and entered extra reading for the past week or two. When you have prizes at the school for reading minutes and you have little to no way to verify cheating it can create a challenge.

The whole program went really well. We were very happy with the process.

The Read-A-Thon went very smoothly for our school. The students, staff, and school community were supportive of the event. The Read-A-Thon staff was very responsive to any questions that we had, and they gave us answers in a timely manner. It really sparked an interest in reading and provided great support for reading from our school community.

This was one of the BEST fundraisers we have ever done. Both teachers and parents alike loved that it encouraged our students to READ! We surpassed our fundraising and school wide minutes goals. The students are so incredibly proud of their achievement. Your site was so easy to use...it really is as simple as 1, 2, 3. Our documents were delivered promptly, the website is user friendly, the reporting was a life saver, and the constant feedback from my personal service agent was great. We loved it!

Our school is so excited about the results of our Read-a-thon! It was simple and the kids had a great time! It's is a total Win-Win!

This is a great fundraiser, and a good return on the money. I like that the kids get to spend a portion what they earn. We have a $5.00 store by us, so the $5.00 and up prizes could be a little better. Also our kids are older and a lot of the prizes are geared toward the elementary ages. The reporting tool was very simple. I liked the real time reporting. We could not get the read a thon website link to work, so it was hard to send out to parents. A link that would let the sponsor search for their kid would be nice. 

Read a thon was super easy to use and was a simple fundraiser to facilitate at our school. It didn't require any volunteers and raised over $10,000!

What a great and EASY fundraiser this is! Thank you Read-A-Thon! Superb customer service and a fundraiser that actually encourages our reading goals! Love it!

The read-a-thon went very well. This was our first year doing it and it exceeded our expectations. The program it very easy to set up and use. We will be making this an annual fundraiser for our school.

We raised over $10,000.00 for our school and the kids had a great time competing for most minutes read. Our kids read close to 200,000 minutes for the 10 day period which exceeded our goal of 100,000. This was a great program and a very easy fundraiser to conduct.

We enjoyed using this website to promote, communicate and excite our Readers. I would like the option to customize and select our Minimum donation. The global $10 reduced our total sponsorship and in California things are so expensive and with the % taken by Read-a-thon we need to generate funds of over $10K. I would like reports to identify emails successfully sent. I would like to maintain dual emails, as we have cases where grandparents are involved in the caring of the kids during the day or parents are divorced as well and need dual communication. Thanks again!

We loved the online option! All of your employees were kind and helpful. You made our job easy! Thank you!

The Read-A-Thon is the simplest and most effective way to hold a fundraiser! The staff are very helpful and go above and beyond to help any school be successful. Don't use any other company but them!

We really enjoy the Read-A-Thon. Thank you for making it so seamless to run with our school. The only suggestion I would make is to have the report by last name, first initial. We use a model where the families that raise a certain amount get a grand prize so it makes it cumbersome to comb through the reports this year. Otherwise, everything is great!

This was our school's first year to participate in Read-a-thon and it has been a great experience! Your computer system is very user friendly - for the administrator, teachers and readers. One of the great things about this fundraiser is that you can raise thousands of dollars with just one volunteer, the administrator. Most other fundraisers our school has done in the past require a lot of volunteers to raise an equivalent amount of money. The parents and family members of the readers also love the fact that children are learning while they raise money. Thank you!!

This was such an easy fundraiser. Everything is so easily laid out.

The most exciting part was to see the current status of the effort. It helped us stay motivated to reach our school goal. Wich we did!

We met our goal! The kids read more than we ever imagined and we were kinda surprised that we raised as much as we did!

We loved our experience with Read-A-Thon! Thanks for making fundraising so easy!

This was our second Read-a-Thon and we loved it! So easy and the support we received was wonderful! The only suggestion we would have, is adding a line about accepting cash donations at school that can be credited to reader accounts.

We enjoyed the Book-A-Thon! We met our goal and the students loved the reading sessions. This was our first Read-A-Thon and we brainstormed ideas to help us be even more excited next year.

We had a very positive experience with this Read-A-Thon and will plan to do it again next year!

We had a phenomenal turnout for our Read A Thon! The experience was great and pretty easy to manage. The only hinderance was for people who did not have online accessibility but we did send out some forms for cash donations and collected an additional $550! Thanks to all the support and the personalization forms for each child is what makes the difference, it made parents stop and read the paperwork we sent home. Excellent program, would totally recommend it to other groups!

This was a wonderful experience for our school and our students.

The read-a-thon went great. The glitches we've had in the past with the online interface have been improved and it was easy to use. Our school loves this fundraiser. We will likely do it again next year. Thanks! Cindy Pedrioli Green Gables Elementary PTA

We are ecstatic with the results of this read-a-thon! Not only did we raise more money than we could have ever imagined, but the students enjoyed the experience and the read-a -thon team couldn't have been more helpful! This was by far one of the best--if not, THE BEST fundraiser we have ever participated in!

Love this easy to use fundraiser. I highly recommend other schools to use this read-a-thon program

This was such an easy fundraiser! Exceeded our expectations financially and reading goals!

I think that the read-a-thon went really well over all. I had a few kids who had issues logging their minutes, but they were few and far between. I think that the cash donations we receive should be totaled and then deducted from what is sent to us, instead of requiring a credit card or check to make the donation. It just seems like a lot of work on both ends to manage that.

Everything went great, one comment I would make is that on the paperwork that is sent including dates of the event. I didn't realize it wasn't on there so it was a bit confusing for parents. Otherwise we look forward to doing this again!

I love this easy to use and quick fundraiser. Our top 3 readers with sponsors received a KINDLE! I find that if you provide incentives along the way, students are super excited and more willing to participate. For the second year in a row, we raised over $9,000.00. The money that comes back to us is being saved for new and replacement playground equipment.

It was an amazing experience for all of our kids!!!!

This was our first year doing a Read-a-thon, and we couldn't be happier with the outcome. It was easy to setup and communicate with teachers and readers. It would be great if there was a way to set multiple goal settings for each student, class, or school in regards to how many minutes to read or how much to raise.

We love this fundraiser! The only challenging part is setting up the picture...it often doesn’t center and turns sideways.

This was a fantastic fundraiser for us! Thank you!!

I have been pleasantly surprised at how well our read-a-thon did at our school. We had approximately 38% of students participate. We exceeded my personal goal of $5800. The staff was great to work with and the supplies were awesome. This is by far the best fundraiser I’ve personally contributed to. We are changing of the guards this year at our PTO, but I would chair this event again in a heartbeat for our school.

It was great. Although our numbers were not what I was hoping for-it was a very busy couple of weeks. Now that we know what to expect, we will set up committees and greatly improve our numbers next year. :)

Our Read-A-Thon was such an awesome experience. The students had so much fun and were so excited about reading! We doubled our fundraiser goal and it was so easy! The program is so organized and carefully planned out. The Read-A-Thon staff is always on hand and available to answer any question we had along the way. We will definitely host another Read-A-Thon next year.

It was a great experience and fund raiser. Our board is mostly new to this and we look forward to getting more corporate sponsorships next year.

This program made our read-thon so much easier to manage!

Our Read-A-Thon went really well! The Read-A-Thon folks were super helpful anytime I had a question and answered really quickly. Also we got started really late (*I* got started really late), and they shipped out materials ASAP to get us going. Super customer service. Thanks!

Overall just a few things that would be better, mostly from a technology standpoint. If people want to donate, and it is not possible to do with some systems, it would be great if that info was relayed to the people trying to donate. It was not clear that they should use paypal. We had quite a few users very frustrated. I don't want to lose any potential money because people can't get the system to work.

Thank you for the support around the READ-A-THON. It was a great experience and fun to watch the students work as a class around their goals. It would be great to have sample prizies to show students.

This fundraiser was so simple to facilitate and easy to track. It was a welcomed change to selling the same items over the years. Not to mention, we raised just as much money! Highly recommended!

I LOVE this fundraiser! It is so easy and it encourages our kids to read!

We enjoyed the read-a-thon very much, and plan on participating again next year. Thank you!

Everything ran smoothly.

Amazing fundraiser

This was the first fundraiser I’ve ever run by myself. I was shocked by how easy Read-a-Thon.com made it. The website interface was easy to understand and user-friendly. I would definitely recommend using Read-a-Thon.com to raise money for our school.

Great! Extremely easy to work with.

We love using you for our Read-A-Thon. This is an easy fundraiser while promoting reading. It's been fun to watch the students compete for the "Top Minutes Read" spot. We will you use you again next school year.

We love our read-a-thon! We plan to do it again next year.

We were overwhelmed with the phenomenal amount of support for our Read-A-Thon this year! We greatly surpassed the goal we set for our school this year.

Our school loved our Read-a-Thon! We are pleasantly surprised with how much money we raised in just two weeks. The communication through the website (especially the reports) was fabulous as was the color-copied personalized materials that were provided for each student. We could not have asked for anything more and plan on doing this again next year for our Read Across America Celebration in March. Thank you!!!!

For our second year in a row the Read A Thon was a great success for our schools!

This was the easiest fundraiser ever!

It was a great experience again. We did it in correlation with Virginia Reads One Book which worked well. You all do a great job of making this program user friendly. We personally thank you so much for helping our school earn much needed funds in a time that other funds are very limited.

Our school absolutely loved this Read-a-Thon! We are very excited about the money that was raised for our school. We look forward to having another Read-a-Thon next year. Thank you!!

All in all, it went well for a Title 1 School. Ways to improve - 1. Include cash donation forms that can be sent home with children. As a Title 1 school, this would have been helpful. 2. Have a way to add sponsors who are donating items not money. For example, we are having a pizza party and we couldn't add the pizza place that donated pizza.

Love it, easy to use, administer, get people involved. Families love it too

The Read-A-Thon is great! It is a great way to raise money and encourage the students to read. The teachers had good feedback about the fundraiser and I exceeded my fundraising goal. The only thing that could improve my experience would be the reports. I would like more robust reports, with more information. I'd like to be able to run a report for a date range, and I would like the report to be in an Excel file format, not a CSV.

We were very pleased with the Read-a-thon!!! The classes had contests with each other. A very fun program. I had a lot of questions and your staff was amazing. We will be doing this every year and probably twice a year from now on.

This was the first time Sherman Elementary PTSA participated in the Read-A-Thon. What a great way to raise money for the school and not have to sell chocolate. Sherman will most definitely be raising money with Read-A-Thon next year. The support and staff were amazing! Sincerely, Jenny Boyle Sherman Elementary PTSA President

The communications with the Read-A-Thon was fantastic!

It was great!

Since I have such a large district, this fund raiser was PERFECT. The staff were quite helpful and friendly. It was the easiest way to make money I've ever tried! Thanks Read-A-Thon!

Thank you for providing an easy to implement platform for raising money! It was pleasure working with all of you. I enjoyed the ease of gathering and sharing data for each class and each reader. Thank you again!

It was super easy and it was great way for parents and families to support the school readers! It is our biggest fundraiser of the year!

You made doing the Read-a-thon very easy and it was user friendly. We had a great experience and did well our first time. We will be looking into continuing this every year!

What a fun easy to manage fundraiser!

Great experience! So easy and super positive feedback from our school families!

Went well the children enjoyed it.

We absolutely loved hosting our Second Annual Read-A-Thon! I do know that we had a lot of technology difficulties towards the beginning. The one suggestion is that when the timer is done, there should be a bell or some kind of sound to show that time is up.

It has been great! We've raised 3,000 and have only had to read to do it! Hoping we can get a bit more in the next week or so. I won't be the librarian next year so I don't know if they will do it again, but I hope so!

This is the easiest fundraiser I’ve ever done in 18 years as an educator!

Really love this fundraiser! Easy to do and the split is fantastic.

Entering a reading session was confusing because of the two reading session tabs. It would be helpful if the texting option to ask to donate specifically said to enter your own cell number, not those you wanted to donate. Overall, this is a great fundraiser and super easy to run! Thank you!!!

This is such an easy fundraiser for the school and contributors. The online pages and social media ease make donations easy!

Super fun and easy way to make money for our school!

This was our first read a thon and it was easy to navigate and made fundraising so easy!

We love this fundraiser every year. The only suggestion from a parent is that if there was a higher amount button to pledge, their family and friends would have clocked that button. Easier to click $150 or $200 than to type it in. So several simply clicked the $100 button, but would have given more. Will participate again next year!

Very easy way to raise money and promote reading!

This was a very smooth fundraiser! Look forward to doing this for the next school year. Thank you!

Read-a-thon was great! We met our school goal and it's so easy.

This Read-a-thon was such a low stress fundraiser. The staff was awesome to work with when I had questions! Thank you for an amazing fundraiser for our school!

It was really fun watching all the donations come in and seeing the reading minutes go up. It was lots of fun.

This was our first time doing the Read-a-thon and it exceeded our expectations. Our students were very excited as well as our staff. I can't wait until next year to host another Read-a-thon! Thanks again for your support!

The Read-A-Thon was a wonderful experience in our school. There are a few things that I would have preferred be different, but they're not necessarily a "fault" of the Read-A-Thon corporation. 1) Most of the materials are strongly geared towards younger kids. We are a middle school and I had to make most of the promotional material and informational videos myself. The items provided by Read-A-Thon were too juvenile for our school 2) We had a HUGE problem with the program duplicating minutes. Scott, in IT, was INCREDIBLE. A huge hats off to your entire customer service department. They were kind, gracious, and helpful; adeptly solving each problem. They are a CRUCIAL and UNIQUE part of your program and a major reason why our Read-A-Thon was successful. Overall, this was a fantastic experience for our school. My favorite moment was half way through the first week, when one student said to another, "This is WAY better than a book fair." Thank you so much for enlivening the joy of reading in our school.

Great site! Very easy to use.

We appreciate Readathon and have done three in the last 18 months, raising nearly $20,000. 

This was an awesome fundraiser. I will definitely do it again next year. It was beneficial to our students and a great way to raise money. The teachers loved it. I have recommended it to all of the media specialists in our county.

This has been a great fundraiser for our school! The principal and teachers did an amazing job of getting the kids excited and reading. The families loved the opportunity to share a fundraiser with family they normally can’t “sell” to. The Read-A-Thon immediately followed a very successful fundraiser and we were still able to blow our goal out of the water. (Our expectations were low after realizing we had timed the 2 fundraisers back-to-back.). We will definitely do a Read-A-Thon again!!!

Students and teachers loved the Read-a-Thon! It generated a lot of excitement for reading (and the prizes!)

We utilized this program 2 years ago, then last year decided to do on our own. After evaluation, decided to go through your program again. You make it easy. Staff super helpful! Wouldn't change anything about this program. However, I did have a few families mention they were worried about on-line safety!

Read-a-thon went great. We will likely do this again next year.

Our students loved the Read-a-thon. We will definitely be using it again!

This is a fundraiser the school will likely try again in the future. This was an initial test run and it seemed to work well. I would love to see us do it again in a bigger way. Thank you for your help with getting us from the start to the finish line!

Our read-a-thon was a great success

We loved the Read-A-Thon! It was super organized and easy to administer. Whenever I had questions, everyone was informative and pleasant. I highly recommend the Read-A-Thon to promote literacy while fundraising for your organization.

We loved it!

The read-a-thon went well for the first year. I plan to have another one and fixing any of the problems we occurred this first year.

Our Read-A-Thon went well. Your staff has been very helpful.

Our experience with your company was great. The ladies I spoke to were very helpful

It went well. Thanks for your help!

This was the easiest fundraiser our school has ever held! We will definitely hold another one next year!

Overwhelming very well for the first time. We will definitely be participating again.

It was a great experience. We will be doing this again next year, especially now that we know what we are doing.

Thank you for all you have done to help organize and run our Read A Thon.

W.H. Ford School

Regina, SK, Canada

This was a good event. You have to do one to understand how it works. There are a ton of great tools for teachers and students. Thanks for a great site, and a great event. We will be doing this again.

This was a wonderful fundraiser for our school! Thank you for your help in setting up and answering questions.

This was highly successful for us. We are a small school and last year's Read-A-Thon earned our PTA around $1800 without an on line donation option. With the online donation option, quality advertising and huge principal support this year's Read-A-Thon earned us over $4500! I'd say it was a huge success!

Hi there! You guys made it super easy to have this read-a-thon. Thanks for everything! Liz

It was a wonderful fundraiser! We had great success and we hope to do this every year!

The read-a-thon was easy to set up, easy to promote via email and social media, and our school had excellent participation!

Everything went well with our Read-A-Thon. We raised more money than anticipated and it has been the most successful fundraiser ever for the School. The only suggestion I’d have is to make the various models for fundraising more visible, as I was under the impression only the prize model was available.

It was a great success! My students loved tracking their minutes and building their reading stamina. I did get a lot of feedback from parents that setting their child up was confusing and so they were not able to do it. As a teacher, I would like to see what the student set up process looks like so I can talk to parents trouble shooting it.

Teachers enjoyed the simplicity in the event without having to collect money and the emphasis on reading. A few concerts were prize levels were set to high for this community.

We LOVED the ease of this read-a-thon.

The Read-A-Thon program has really been easy to use and run. All of the online tools are available to run a successful Fundraiser. Also, if you have a question, the staff is only a phone call away and they were always helpful. We will definitely use the Read-A-Thon program again to raise money for our school.

I would love to have the date of donation added to the All Donations by Reader report. It would be useful in being able to see most recent donations.

Our first Read-a-thon was a seamless success. We were able to encourage our students to develop a love for reading while earning over $ 3,000 to support school activities! If you want your students to grow as readers, this is the fundraiser for you.

Best library fundraiser we have ever done! I'd never go back!

Thank you Read-A-Thon for having such a fun easy fundraising tool! Our school is health

This was our first year attempting a Read-a-Thon. We were pleasantly surprised with the turnout and anticipate doing this again next year!

By far the easiest fundraiser to run at our school. Our students we excited to log in their reading minutes during March is reading month. We hope to have several more participants next year. Thank you for making this so easy for our PTA and parents!

The read-a-thon was very easy to roll out thanks to your assistance and all of the materials you provided. The prize center is always an incentive, but I had some families that were willing to opt out of the prizes in order to give the earning back to the school. Maybe that could be considered in the future? My final suggestion would be for it to be mandatory for all families to enter an email when creating their pages. That way we could have utilized the messaging more effectively.

We loved our read-a-thon! It was the perfect way for our school to promote our amazing reading programs and encourage our students to read, especially with family and friends.

This was great!

Loved it!

Went great! Will use it in the futurw

I think the overall experience was great! It was a great way to get students invested in reading.

We are a small non for profit preschool and this is by far our most successful fundraiser every year!! We love it because it is education based and we are not asking the parents to buy things they do not need or sell things to friends and family that they don't need. We love Read-A-Thon!

I love this program, i just wished I knew how to get more involvement.

This was our first time and it went smoothly. We had a difficult time starting due to weather and getting students to participate. That's whey we decided at the last minute to enter all students thanks to the quick work of your staff. Support was always available as needed. Yes, we will be participating again next year.

As a small K-8, this program seemed to work out. Each student had a great support team and the comment were awesome. It was hard to find businesses who could buy ads or donate money. That said some were very supportive in donating items for top readers/fundraisers. The website seemed to be glitchy at times (student page login, reports, payment, etc). Could use some fliers for the final days (picking prizes before suspense). Soon, we will see how the kids like their prizes and how the pay out works. The support team were fantastic, checking on stasticking tus, sending the materials, and promptly answering questions.

Hello The Read A Thon went fantastic! We would like to have more tools in Spanish made available as we have parents who have English as a second language. Materials geared toward special education as well would be beneficial as we now have that population. Our school really got behind this, we had a book sale at a local bookstore, guest reader and exceeded our plan by almost $2,000!

This was incredible! Such a simple and yet meaningful way to raise money for our class. The only thing that would have helped would be to have a helpful video for parents on how to activate their child's profile.

Would love to see videos geared more towards upper elementary students. Love the updates to the website.

Awesome program! We loved it. My contact Tiffany was so helpful and got right back to me when I emailed with questions.

I loved the simpleness of the read-a-thon. It would great if kids could create their own goals to at least show sponsors.

This was our second of many more Read A Thons to come. It is easy and very user friendly to manage. We love all the printed materials that are included to in this program.

Our read a thon went well. Very easy to use. We already have ideas on how to improve the next one!

We enjoyed our read-a-thon. We had a lot of parents say that they like this fundraiser much better over the fundraisers where you sell things. We even had a reading time at the school where we invited all grandparents to come read with their grandchildren on grandparents day. It was well attended even with the rain that day. Thank you for providing a different way to do a fundraiser for our school while encouraging them to read.

Read-a-thon was incredibly easy to do and everyone involved loved it - administrators, teachers, media specialists, PTA, parents and students. Thank you!

we had a better go at it this year. Last year was low participation. This year so much better.

Another successful read-a-thon. Super easy to manage, kids excited about reading and money raised for a very worthwhile cause. Thanks!

Our Read-A-Thon was great! It was easy to disseminate information to our students, teachers, and parents. The various reports available were very useful in promoting competition between classes. I would like a way to be able to sort individual donations by date.

This was an incredible experience for our students. We were able to raise money for our school in the simplest way possible, but more importantly it spurred our students on to read. They were so excited about reading! They loved to check their minutes and each class set their own goals! You could hear the classes cheering when they reached their reading goal! Thank you for making this such a positive experience. We will be doing it again next year!

It went really well. I wish there was clearer instructions as to how everything worked. Once things got started it was easier, but prepping teachers for it was a little hard. Some didn't know what was going on. Other than that, It was a great experience.

I enjoyed the ease of the program , my only suggestion is to better explain how it works on the parent sheets.

It went well for the first one we ever had.

The students really enjoyed the read-a-thon! It was a great success for us.

This was our first time using the online read a thon. It was wonderful. They made everything so easy to do. The students loved the safari theme. I am already looking forward to next year's event.

The Read-a-thon went well and I appreciate all your support!

All of Grand Avenue would like to thank you so much for your support! Our Read-A-Thon was a great success and we look forward to building our classroom libraries with new books.

This read-a-thon has been a great experience for our school. We have used it as a way to promote reading and to help raise funds for equipment. I will do it again!

I have had a good experience and i would like to send my special thanks to Kari who have been helping me organize the read a thon. Thank you

Overall, I think it has been very successful and will consider holding another one next year. I do think the FAQ information should be clearer that if you select the prize model option the school is not entitled to any remaining money the students do not spend.

This was very easy to do! You offered great support and all the supplies. We are considering ways to increase involvement next year. Thank you!

We had a great read-a-thon, all the money goes to our teachers for supplies in there classroom. Thank you.

This fundraiser was great and so easy! I was able to admin it on my own, which meant a lot because we don't have a large pool of parent volunteers to draw from. Tiffany and Kari were incredibly helpful and supportive. And I really think our families liked the ease of having an online donation option! The words of encouragement for our students were very heart-warming to read. Thanks for everything Read-a-Thon!

The Read-A-Thon exceeded our expectations. It was an easy way to fundraise while encouraging the Students to read. The feedback from the parents and teachers was very positive and everyone was happy to support a good cause while earning money for the school.

This was our first RAT, an amazing experience !!!! Thank you !

We loved using Read-a-Thon.com!! We will be using you again next year for sure!!

This was our 1st time hosting a Read-A-Thon and we think it went VERY well! We are excited to make this an annual event and increase our fundraising goal for our school's library. Thank you for making the process easy and user friendly. We have received lots of positive feedback from our school's families. Thank you Read-A-Thon.com! Sincerely, John Garcia Casey Librarian

Our read-a-thon was a great success. It was great to support our library through reading!

The Read-A-Thon was a fun and easy fundraiser for our school!

Our families loved it and participation exceeded our expectations!

Everything went very smooth with our Read a Thon. This program is so easy to use and a great way to get students involved. I loved how friendly and helpful the staff is. I appreciated the fact that I could just email our list and they would upload them for me. Thank you!

We loved this experience. Thank you for helping make this a successful event for our school.

This read-a-thon really made my students excited about reading! Throughout the year its hard to keep them motivated to read, this was a great way to ignite the love of reading!

This was a great fundraiser. It was easy to do because the Read-a-Thon team helped with every step of the way.

The Lee F. Jackson Read-a-Thon was great. The website is easy to setup and is easy to use.

Everybody at Read-A-Thon is so helpful and we were able to raise even more money this year. Wonderful!

Went very well. Thanks for having such a user-friendly website!

Kids at Coleman loved participating in this Read-A-Thon! It was our first one and incredibly successful. We stressed minutes read vs. money collected to celebrate and create a habit and love of reading. This was a great and easy way to support our goal.

The Read-A-Thon was a huge success for our small school.

This is a great program thank You ! We love it !

It was fantastic and the perfect fund raiser for my reading lab.

So fun and very successful

The Read-A-Thon went well - the customer service we received from Tiffany, for any questions we had along the way, was excellent! Thank you.

It went well. This was a great fundraiser for our school. Thank you.

It was simple to run, we enjoyed it!

It was great!

It was super easy and we loved the experience. We will definitely be doing this again!

We are so happy to have found Read-a-thon. It was a simple and yet effective way fundraiser. We are one step closer to our goal of buying a new school bus.

We loved the ease of this fundraiser! Thank you!

This was easy and your staff was wonderful. We can't wait to do it again next year. Some families had issues setting up their pages and making donations but it was cleared up quickly.

I loved this concept! For the first year I think things went very well. Perhaps there could be more pre-event videos that we can send to parents sprior to the start of the fundraiser to get them a little more excited. My students had fun and I loved how we could interact via social media. Thanks for a great first year! I look forward to doing this again next year!

This has been the easiest fundraiser we’ve ever done. The girls had the added benefit of bettering themselves through reading and learning. Thanks for making it great!

It was an awesome way to fundraise! Looking forward to doing it again soon!

Loved how easy it was!!!

The students and I enjoyed the read-a-thon. I will be doing this fundraiser again next school year, never have I found something so easy for both the students and myself.

This was my very first Read-A-Thon and I cannot wait until our next one. What a wonderful way to encourage and promote reading at home and at school!

Loved it! So easy and soooo glad the handouts were printed by Read-a-Thon instead of having to do it myself!

We loved the read-a-thon and we will definitely participate next year.

We had a wonderful experience with Read-A-Thon! Kari helped us every step of the way and was fantastic! She was a huge help and answered all of our many, many questions right away. We raised more money than a lot of our board members expected and believe it will be even better next year when we pursue business sponsors. Looking forward to doing another Read-A-Thon next year.

Super Easy, will definitely do it again!

We had great success again this year. Our initial papers to send home did not have student names printed on them. That caused some problems, but we were able to re-print pages with names on them.

This has been a great tool for raising much-needed additional funds for our library.

A Read-a-Thon is an easy way for an organization to raise money while promoting the joy of reading.

This was our PTO’s first year using Read-a-Thon.com and it was a very postitive experience. The website was easy to navigate and understand. We loved the personalized color copies that came to us sorted and stapled by class. This was very helpful and ensured that we got the materials distributed on time.

It was easy and the support center was helpful with my questions. We will definitely do this again.

This is a great way to raise money to support initiatives at your school! This is the second year we have conducted a Read-A-Thon and it has been extremely successful.

This really encouraged our students to read more and got them excited about reading!

Our Read-a-thon went very well. It is easy to run for great returns. I like that the Read a thon admin covers everything for us, even sorting and sending the prizes. I also like that the directions on the website are easy to follow and have videos for when I needed extra support.

This was awesome! Thank you!

We Love Read-a-Thon!

Our inaugural Read-A-Thon was a big hit with our students. We plan to host a Read-A-Thon at the start of each school year using www.read-a-thon.com. We were pleased with the support we received to troubleshoot system bugs and we look forward to a more productive run next school year.

The Read-a-thon went really well for our first time. I am already looking forward to next year. Now that our staff knows what to expect and do, we will be more successful.

This has been an awesome experience! Thanks so much!

It went well. Easy to operate. We just struggle geeting all students to create a webpage and sharing through social media. We have a very small percent of students who raise the money for the Read-A-Thon.

Thank you to ALL of the Read-A-Thon crew, especially Tiffany and Colby, for your support, help, and willingness to help our Read-A-Thon fundraiser for Zane North PTA. It was very nice to work with such a great team and know our questions are always answered in such a short time with detailed answers. We look forward to working with you again next year for Read Across America Week! Take care! Sandra Nesbitt Treasure Zane North PTA 2017-2018

Great experience! Thank you!

We loved the Read-A-Thon!!! Thank you for providing this opportunity. We plan to take advantage in the future, please don't go away.

Awesome !

I was very pleased with our read-a-thon for our very first fundraiser ever!. My building is a preschool building and we are just introducing families to a positive school experience and this one was easy and educational! Thank you!

We loved the read-a-thon. It would be nice if administrators could leave updates/posts on the school group page. I also think it would be nice if supporters could view the school group page as well as the student's page.

It was awesome!! Thank you so much for the opportunity. We will be doing it again next year.

Tiffany was great. I am doing two fundraisers at the school right now and I never could have done it without her.

It was fantastic! We loved the experience and will definitely do it again. We raised $1,220 for our campus which is HUGE!

We are a very small school. For the first time doing something like this we really enjoyed it. Thanks

Our students and families love Read-A-Thon. Reaching our reading goal is lots of fun!

We absolutely loved this low maintenance fundraiser. It was educationally driven, and easy to manage. We will definitely do it again next year!

Love supporting literacy in young children while raising money for playground renovation.

Our students have loved the read-a-thon.

We are so thrilled with how supportive our school family was this year. We raised money to purchase new bikes and other classroom materials. This is a wonderful and rewarding event/program!

Thank you for this fabulous opportunity to easily raise money for our library. It was awesome!

We loved doing this. It was a Great way to encourage reading at the same time as raising money. Everything was so easy.

great experience.

Thank you for a great fundraiser. It all went well!

This was the best program we have ever used.