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

Wow! Amazing! Engaging! For the last two weeks those have been the most common words we've heard! We are so excited about the results and the incredible support we received by our students, parents, friends, and local businesses. Kari Styne was amazing with her support...I don't think I ever waited more than 15 minutes for response to my questions...and I had many! We learned a lot as we went, and look forward to building from here. OUr first RAT and we raised OVER $53,000! Our goal was $12,000! Thank you and we look forward to the next one. As far as improvements or changes. Oh the minute logging was quite "creative". If only there was a better way to monitor that, but definitely a bit of a challenge. Ability to download daily reports into excel would be very helpful as well. We ran several daily goals, and transferring the information to track was a bit tedious. Otherwise, this was an excellently run website, support system. Thank RAT! I'm sure our Principal would love to provide a testimonial as well. Thank you from Immaculate Heart of Mary Elementary School, in Wilmington, DE.

This was an effective fundraiser in a difficult year. We are very pleased with the results.

I absolutely loved my Read a Thon. It was so well organized and I had so much support from my coordinator Stephanie. One thing I would like to see added is a Rat bucks email to parents about how to use Rat bucks with a how to video.

Wonderful experience! The website was so easy to use. The kids LOVED the Read-A-Thon! Other than a couple of hiccups with the system we were extremely happy!! Thank you!!

The read a thon went amazing! We really enjoyed this fundraiser! Thank you!

This was such an easy (and successful!) fundraiser. Our rep, Tiffany, was so courteous and answered any questions right on the spot. We will definitely participate in this fundraiser again!

It was great this year, and our students really showed up to raise a lot of money for our school. This was my first year being the Read-a-Thon person, and I completely didn't know what I was doing. Tiffany was always extremely helpful and prompt, and seemed to be really understanding and patient with with my frazzled approach to everything. Thanks for this super great fundraiser--it was the perfect way to raise money safely during a pandemic!

We have done Read-A-thons in the past using a different system but this year, due to Covid-19, we decided to go all virtual. The read-a-thon.com system was easy to use and any questions/issues that we did have we were quickly answered/resolved by our RAT service rep.

Read A Thon went really well for Campbell this year! We changed our prize system to a raffle this year and I think that helped energize students. My only piece of constructive criticism would be to enhance the reports. Given we were doing a raffle, I had to pull reports often and it would have been helpful to sort the students by last name or by teacher's last name. Other than that, Tiffany was wonderful and prompt in answering any questions I had! Thank you!

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.

From an administrator view, I felt this was easy, efficient and very successful. We are looking forward to our next Read-a-thon.

It went better than we hoped. It was so easy to set up and ran smoothly! Only problem we've heard is that when people had multiple kids, sometimes the email links for both kids wouldn't reach donors even though emails were entered correctly.

Read-a-thon is a fantastic fundraiser that is easy to set up and maintain. We love our experience with Read-a-thon.

This was awesome! I will be highly recommending your company to next year's Fundraising Chair for the Cassingham Elementary PTO. Our parents and grandparents had very few problems logging in and donating. A few changes that I would like to see on your site. I'm sure that the functionality existed in your dash board, but I was not able to find it. A function that I really wanted to use was to find out the total of one individual student. Example, I wanted to be able to type in "Jane Doe" and see how much she had raised to date. The other functionality, that I would have liked was to see who had raised what per day. For instance, if we raised $1000 October 29th, I would have liked to have seen that $1000 broken out by each individual for just that day.

This was a wonderful experience. Kari was a valuable source of support.

This was a wonderful fundraiser for our school. Our students were very excited to read. We will be making this our spring fundraiser every year.

Stephanie was fantastic with all of our questions.

The Read-a-Thon went very well. It raised more money than I expected. I do think that the program is a bit cumbersome for some things. I feel that teachers and parents should not be able to add and delete students. Only the admin of the program. This causes issues and mistakes in regards to rewards and who has donated money. Also, I think that the way the rewards lists work should be a little more user friendly. Other than that, it was great!

Went great!

We Love Read-A-Thon?? This is the easiest, and most successful fundraiser we have ever done! A few system updates/features could definitely make things easier. For example, a way to set up and track specific financial goals for schools that are doing their own rewards. It would be great to run daily reports for specific financial goals that have been met by the students. $page activation $50 goal $100 goal $250 goal $500 goal

We didn't know what to expect and were blown away with the results! Highly recommend and will be doing this again!! Thank you Read-A-Thon!!

The ReadAThon went very well for our first time using this online. We have had a great two weeks and it was a big success!

This is our 6th year holding a Readathon at our school. In all past years we have run the readathon ourselves using pamphlets and parent volunteers to log and count minutes. It's a lot of work but 100% of the proceeds went to our school. With Covid, we needed a digital platform and found Readathon.com. The sales pitch was very smooth and splashy so we thought the admin site would be too. We were a bit disappointed with the options- especially the marketing options. They are VERY crude and not what we're used to since several of our board members are graphic designers. However, at the end of the day your site helped us raise $5,000 more than we ever have and it's been nice for us not to have as much work. But with the marketing and prize gathering we put in on the backend it was still a lot more than we had hoped. Tiffany was wonderful to work with and extremely helpful and responsive to our questions and needs.

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. 

The online platform was super easy to use and we love how it motivated the students to read!

This was a great event for our school!

It was fun and easy! The students loved the store and all of the fun incentives.

It was a great fundraiser for our PTA! We received many compliments from staff

This was the easiest fundraiser ever! Our kiddos will surely enjoy the playground equipment we raised money for. Kari was so helpful along the way!

This fundraiser exceeded any expectations we had prior to starting it!! We are blown away with the success of our Read-a-thon and we greatly appreciate the support we have received from our school families and community!

We were so impressed with the engagement of our students in this fundraiser. They well exceeded our fundraising and minutes read goals for our campus. It's a great program that encourages readership and healthy competition.

THIS IS MY 5TH YEAR DOING THIS AND RICHLAND'S 7TH YEAR. AND THIS YEAR HAS BEEN THE SMOOTHEST ONE YET. WE THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR US AND TAKING THE TIME TO BE SO PATIENT WITH ME THIS YEAR. WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU GUYS AGAIN NEXT YEAR!!

For our first year we felt this went really well. Our staff liked that it didn't involve at lot of extra time on their end. We will be evaulating and gathering feedback for next year. 

We had a great time running our Read-A-Thon! Looking forward to holding one annually.

We enjoyed our read a thon. We now know better how to run it in the future, and we raised way more than we thought we would. Thank you!

We are amazed by our donations and by the total minutes read by students. Our students enjoyed participating. All in all, our read-a-thon has been a positive experience. One suggestion we have is that there should be a "Thank You" email that is generated automatically to all donors once a donation has been made.

Loved this fundraiser! We will be doing it again next year!

It was awesome, thank you so much!

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!

Wow! Best fundraiser ever! It was super easy to hold the Read-A-Thon, raised a lot of support for our library, and the customer service was top-notch. We will definitely be holding another Read-A-Thon.

Definitely some technical glitches but overall an easy process. I’d say the model of taking 25% is a bit high. Even with prizes. Not sure if we will continue given the large percentage we have to give up.

We reached our financial goals and supported our schools love of reading. We are very happy with our readathon.

This was our first Read-a-Thon and it went beautifully! We'll make some prize adjustments; but absolutely loved working with the Read-a-Thon team.

We've been amazed at the success of this fundraiser! We discontinued a fundraiser that made about $5000 and decided to try something new with read-a-thon. Our parents have LOVED it and we made over $20,000. They loved the emphasis on reading and encouraging academics. And it was easy to email grandparents and donors for support. We will definitely make this a yearly tradition!

It was wonderful!!

Thanks. The process was great overall.

We had a great time with the Read a Thon! It was INCREDIBLY easy to use, and we did all of our own events and prizes. The kids absolutely loved it, and we are so happy with how well it went

Our read a thon went very well. Thank you.

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

Another great year!

I think there could be improvements noted with your handouts and posters were not large enough. I think the individualized log in options can be very confusing. I think if there had been one blanket log in option that it would increase number of participants. I think the whole premise of the readathon is great! We have other schools in our district interested though.

We had a great Read-A-Thon!!

Thanks for another great fundraiser!

Our Read-a-thon event was absolutely incredible! We achieved high numbers amoungst our student readers and a huge amount of donations. The school rep, Mrs.Stephanie was phenomenal and made this fundraiser a very easy process for our organization. We are so thankful for this program and cannot wait to host another Read-a-thon next year.

Hello! Thank you for this great service. Your customer service was great! We experienced a couple of software glitches along the way where users were allowed to do something they probably shouldn't be able to do, for example, deleting a student when it had other data attached to it. It would have been nice to throw up a message and say what data you had to take care of (or move) before you allowed the student to be deleted. Somehow students got added to other teacher's classes. I feel like that should be prevented. It made it confusing for the teachers. The customer service that Tiffany provided more than made up for any of the software issues we came across! We were able to come closer to our goal than we thought possible. Thank you so much!

Everyone loves participating in the Read-a-thon!

The read a thon went even better than expected! We had some issues with people logging in and getting their kids registered, but overall it was great. We look forward to working with you again next year.

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.

We had another fantastic Readathon this year! Thank you so much for your great service and website.

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.

We had so much fun with this! Kari was amazing and it was easy to use. Kids were super motivated to read and all the good things!

We LOVED Read-a-Thon — it was so easy and effective. We will definitely repeat this fundraiser for our schools!!

It was awesome! This was so easy for us to implement to make so much money that our school really needs this year. This is our second year with Read-a-thon and we raised way more money than we did the first year by following the instructions given to us by Tiffany. It was a wonderful experience!

We have done Read-a-thon for the past few years and love it. 

Iles School enjoyed the read-a-thon. During a very challenging school year due to the covid-19 pandemic with some students remote and some students in-person learning, the read-a-thon gave the children a unified aim.

It was much more successful than we had anticipated. The students really got into it and the teachers were so pleased to see their kids excited about reading!

Overall, our first Read-a-thon has gone well. We've definitely learned some things along the way that will help us improve if we hold another Read-a-thon in the future. Thank you.

My Read-a-Thon went very well. The only thing I would say needs improvement is the communication between the RAT rep and the campus administrator who is hosting the RAT at the campus. She did not really check on me throughout the process and this was my first time doing Read-a-Thon.

We loved it!

This was our fourth annual Read-a-thon and it was a great success! It was easy to implement and practically ran itself. We raised more than we thought possible and our kids read a ton. We will definitely hold another Read-a-thon next year!

Our fundraiser was a huge success despite this school year looking different than ever before! Despite the current pandemic, we were able to raise over $15,000 for our school! Kari was amazing and we are so thankful for her support and guidance before, during and after our fundraiser! This was the 5th year we have hosted a Read-A-Thon and parents and students continue to enjoy it!

This is our school's fourth year using Read-A-Thon and my third year managing it for my children's school. This is a great fundraiser that teachers, students, parents, and family members enjoy. This was our most successful year yet!

Our Read A Thon was a great success! The Read A Thon Fundraiser is a well thought out program and easy for our school to use. Read A Thon has great support and overall, I would recommend it to anyone who asked. The IT dept and customer service staff at Read A Thon were very helpful throughout the entire two weeks. Thank you! Lisa Hickenbottom Brandywine ES PTO

This was an AMAZING fundraiser. It's so easy to run and the entire school loved it!

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!

I am beyond thrilled with hosting our first Read-a-Thon. This event raised abundantly more than any book fair could! Thank you for this wonderful opportunity for our school library.

This was a GREAT fundraiser!!! We were able to keep more money than we have compared to our other fundraisers, and family and friends loved to give because this was focused on reading! 

I was very impressed with how quickly questions and concerns were answered by our Read a thon coordinator Tiffany. I loved how easy it was for parents and donators to sign on, and it was a great way for our school to be involved in something that had meaning.

Everything went well! Our school loved it.

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.

This is an amazing fundraiser that is so little work for so much profit...and it gets the kids excited about READING! Will definitely do it again.

Our Read-a-Thon was wonderful! We had such encouraging feedback from parents, teachers, and staff!

Our school loved the Read-a-thon! I think a good parent should be able to create a username and password verse having a student code. A lot of our parents, creating more than on fundraising page for their kids because the student code email was going to their junk/spam folder. Some parents were not able to access their child’s fundraising page because of this which caused them not to bother. A family page would be nice so families that have 2 or more kids don’t have 2 fundraising pages that they are trying to log onto. With a family page, it could automatically divide pledges evenly among siblings. Overall, I feel like this platform was not the most user friendly which I believe caused us not to raise as much money as we could have.

This was very successful for our school. We are going to send out a survey to the parents when everything is complete on our end to get their feedback as well. The only thing I would change is I like the original dashboard - not a fan of the new layout

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!

This was the perfect fundraiser for us this year. We were able to run it without coming on campus (volunteers still aren't allowed), and we still raised a great deal of money!

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

Our Read-a-thon was great! The kids and teachers loved it!

Kari and her team are incredibly helpful.

We have had great success raising funds with the Read-a-thon! This year we exceeded our goal by over $1500. We did miss being able to process checks through the Read-a-thon site this year, but have noted that change for next year. We also had some feedback from some parents regarding the grammar of the solicitation email that the site generates. They felt that it was too casual and the grammar errors were off putting. As an administrator, it would be nice to have a report by date that gave a more precise snapshot of that day- basically if you could have what is on the dashboard in a report form. It would really help us track if our advertising campaigns are working and data year to year. I resorted to pulling data from multiple reports to put together my own report, but it would save time on my end if it was an auto report option. I did find our customer service rep to be very responsive and helpful in correcting any issues we had. Thanks Tiffany!

Our Read-A-Thon was a great sucess! Our students were so motivated to read and we raised more than we anticipated! Things that you might do to improve: Add a way to track cash donations :)

This was our first time doing a Read-a-thon and we LOVED it!! Everything was very easy to set up and navigate. We heard from several students and parents about how much they have enjoyed this fundraiser. Our favorite part was that we could encourage a love of reading while raising money for the school. Thank you for making this the easiest and most successful fundraiser we've had!

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.

Awesome experience!!! Looking forward to next year!

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.

What a great Read-A-Thon! THANK YOU BROOKE for all your help!

With very little prep work we launched Read-a-Thon. Within out first week we have received over $10,000! We ended up bringing in over $19,000 and our PTA is thrilled. We opted for the 75% track, so our students got to shop from their own online store and everyone is a winner! We are looking forward to returning to this fundraiser again next spring with even more prep work and communication with teachers, we know we can exceed this year's numbers. Thanks Readathon!

We LOVE Read-A-Thon! Everything is so convenient and simple to use. This is our second year using RAT and we will definitely continue to do so. We would love to be able to utilize Paypal as a payment option in the future.

Rockdale had a very successful Read-a-thon!! Thank you to Kari for walking us through the process. Everything was so easy to navigate and we were super happy with the entire Read-a-thon process. We are looking forward next year’s Read-a-thon!!

We are so excited that we chose to do this program for our school community. Not only did it encourage more reading among our students, but the money raised exceeded our expectations!

We loved the Read-A-Thon. One suggestion was for siblings pages to be connected so parents only have to send out one link to each family member for all kids. Another suggestion is to have an app in the future.

We did not imagine how amazing this fundraiser would turn out! The parents and teachers thoroughly enjoyed it. We didn’t have to do anything but send reminders. Our students enjoyed logging their reading minutes and earning cool prizes. This will be an event that our community will look forward to each year! Thank you so much Read-a-thon!

Everything went very smoothly. The customer service was fantastic and always available to help.

This was awesome! Thank you

It was great--thank you!

This was such a fun, easy and amazing program! Thank you so much!

We are thrilled with the success of our Read-a-Thon event! Parents loved seeing their kids challenge themselves with a reading adventure and commented on how easy the system is to use. Our PTO organization is amazed at how much money we raised in such a short period of time. Tiffany, at Read-a-Thon, was extremely helpful throughout the whole process. This program is a win for everyone!

We loved the readathon! I was very easy to do and manage. However, the secret code for every student was a nightmare and not user friendly. We did find a way around that where students could link from the school page and then find their name under their teacher. But, other than that, it was great.

Very informative and easy to follow and track winners.

The Read-A-Thon went really well for us! The reports were not as accurate as we would have liked.

Great experience!

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!

Our Read-A-Thon went great. It is an easy fundraiser with how it is set up.

We are very pleased with how our Read A Thon went. Being the first time holding a Read A Thon Fundraiser we feel like we have learned the 'ropes' a little bit and look forward to having another one! Thank you for guiding us through this process and helping us have a successful fundraiser this year, when we could not hold our usual large book fair event.

This was amazing!!!

it was great. i would love ideas to keep donation motivation up towards the middle/end when donating slowed.

We are very excited about how well we did! Thank you for all your support.

It was a huge success. The codes still confuse our families. But it was less confusing than last year. Now that our kids are all or partially remote they have school-issued email addresses they some used to sign up. Those email addresses cannot except external email so that was something we had to work around.

This was St. Patrick's School first ever Read-A-Thon and we were amazed. Our school was filled with excitement as our Faculty and Staff along with our Shamrocks were ready to promote literacy and support our school. The Read-A-Thon website was amazing and very user friendly. I couldn't ask for anything better. We loved every part of our Read-A-Thon. We are looking forward to next year's Read-A-Thon! Thank you for an amazing fundraiser. May God continue to hold you in the palm of HIS hand. Many blessings, Raymond Carranza Jr. St. Patrick School PTO President

Thank you for all of your help and support. We will certainly do another Read-a-thon next year!

Read-a-thon far exceeded my expectations! Tiffany was friendly, professional and willing to answered all of my questions. Thank you Read-a-thon! MES PTA

The read a thon went great. I like the new dashboard. It was very easy to use.

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.

It has been an awesome event! So easy to participate. Anything to promote literacy while raising funds is a great thing!

Our Read-A-Thon was awesome! Our students really got into it, and our community support was amazing. We will definitely do this again in the future!

Our school loved participating in our first ever Read-a-thon! We got great, positive feedback from families, especially grandparents enjoying the touching messages and cheering their students on. We experienced a few glitches with the system where donation comments didn't go through but got amazing support and customer service from Kari at all times (even in the evening hours). Thank you, it was a fantastic fundraiser, especially under the circumstances!

Our school loved participating in our first ever Read-a-thon! We got great, positive feedback from families, especially grandparents enjoying the touching messages and cheering their students on. We experienced a few glitches with the system where donation comments didn't go through but got amazing support and customer service from Kari at all times (even in the evening hours). Thank you, it was a fantastic fundraiser, especially under the circumstances!

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!!

We made more than last year! What an amazingly easy and motivation fundraiser. We will be using the Read-A-Thon for years to come! Thank you!

Our Read-a-Thon was awesome! The teachers, students, and parents loved it! It was super easy to run and the customer service was outstanding!!

Thank you for making the process so smooth! Our kids had a great time with the read-a thon!

It went great and we were very pleased with read-a-thon. One thing that would improve for us is choosing the prizes a little later in the process and not having them printed on the back of the secret codes. We had to change prizes because of Covid and that caused some confusion. Thanks for a great fundraiser!

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!

Thank you for allowing me to continue the readathon for purposes of tracking minutes, even though donations stopped. It was helpful for students to keep striving for prizes with their reading minutes.

Thank you for an amazing fundraising experience! Our students were excited about participating and it was very easy for parents and families to support us. Our teachers were thrilled with how much reading their students were doing as well!

We love Read-a-thon !!! kids and teachers enjoyed and have fun :)

Our Read-a-Thon was a great success! This was the easiest fundraiser we have ever done. We made more money on this fundraiser than two of our previous fundraisers combined. I think our parents loved the Read-a-Thon because they didn't have to sell cups, candy, or magazines that people really don't want. Most parents, relatives, and community members would rather just donate money. The icing on the cake was how much our students enjoyed the competition and reading! We loved the Read-a-Thon and will do it again!

Read-a-Thhon was an incredible experience on campus. Our students have never been more engaged in reading! The excitement about books on our campus was exuding from every student.

This was such a fantastic event. Students loved watching the reading minutes climb each day. Many students have already asking if we can do it again next year!

This was our most successful read-a-thon ever. Thank you for a program that is easy for us to run and fun for our families to participate in!

It certainly met my expectations but I would like to hear from the school how they think it went. We had a rough start so I think we would have had higher participation if we had started a week sooner and we may rethink it over the holiday's. But we met our fundraising goals and got so close to meeting our reading participation goal.

The read-a-thon went great. It was our school's first time participating. It was super easy to get the ball rolling and for readers to sign up. We'll definitely do this again next year. Thank you!

Watching the students read and get excited to open a book, logging minutes, setting timers to make sure they counted every second. Seeing the teachers getting involved and promoting, parents and grandparents, friends on Facebook donating all for a great cause. Thank you for making this process so seamless and taking all of the work out of running an event such as this; Kari, I could not have done it without you!

What a wonderful event! It s a win win when you can promote literacy and raise money for the school!

This was our first time doing a read-A -Thon it was a huge success we will definitely be doing this again next year! We may change the time frame and do it in the Fall and hopefully get more teachers to participate.

Our Read-a-Thon exceeded our expectations. We went above and beyond our donation and minutes read goals. Our school agrees that everyone enjoyed this and we will definitely do it again!

We have participated in the Read-A-Thon for multiple years and have found this fundraiser to be the easiest and the most fruitful of any we have used in our 37 year history. We completely recommend it to every school!

The Read-a-Thon was such an easy fundraiser for the PTO, Teachers, Students and Parents. Also, supporting the kids reading was better than trying to sell some stuff people don't need nor want. We did an amazing job this year and raised over $13k of profit. This was our 3rd year doing this and the first two did well but not as good as this year as we tripled the results. This year we also did the prizes for students and offered prizes for winning classrooms and I think that helped a lot.

This was our first experience with a read-a-thon and we are thrilled with the outcome! It will certainly become an annual event/fundraiser at our school. Thank you so much for all of the support!

Above expectations.

Above expectations.

The read-a-thon was amazing, it went better than we had imagined! It's possible that this may become an annual event for Calvin Christian School!! Thanks so much for your patience, availability and friendly customer service Tiffany, you helped relieve lots of stress during this entire process! Read-a-thon is a great fundraiser because it helps promote literacy and encourages students to read above and beyond their normal reading habits and they have fun doing it!! Thanks again :)

This fundraiser was a great success! It was easy to navigate the platform and print out daily reports.

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.

This was such a great fundraiser for our school, and our students loved it. We will definitely consider having another read-a-thon next school year!

Thanks for your help! So nice to be able to talk to a real person when calling with a question!

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 a very easy fundraiser. The students were excited to read and record their minutes.

This was our very first Read-a-thon and it went very well! Everything was provided for us with clear instructions on distribution of materials. The only feedback I would provide is it would be very helpful if the Instant Rewards could also be downloadable as an Excel file. It would have made tracking the awards a little easier.

This has been a phenomenal fundraiser during the pandemic. We made so much more money than we anticipated and it was super easy!

We had a fantastic Read-a-thon. Thank you so much for all your support.

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

Just so amazed at how our Read-A-Thon! Almost the entire student body participated and it is truly amazing how many supporters the students had!

We had a wonderful experience with this read-a-thon. Kari and Stephanie were amazing to work with! Stephanie was available throughout the entire process and she was so quick to respond with any questions or advice. We were shocked with how much money our read-a-thon raised and we were in awe of how many students in the school participated! I will definitely recommend this to everyone who is interested in hosting a read-a-thon!

Fabulous program just like last year!

This has been a great way for our school to continue to fund raise during these challenging times.

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.

We had so much fun during our Read-A-Thon!

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!

Everything was made so easy for us! I believe that adding printable certificates for top readers, largest amount raised, etc. would bring it up to the next level. Educators are always using certificates.

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.

This has been a great experience, and our students have enjoyed it greatly. Your program is very well organized and easy to run. The only issue we have had is with student account access after the initial account is created. Some of this is the caused by students making duplicate accounts. Thanks!

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.

Our Read-a-thon rep, Kari Styne, was great - knowledgeable, responsive, patient, professional! And the tools offered by the RAT sight are excellent. Our printed materials came quickly and were very accurate. It was a very positive experience and one I would recommend for other schools. I had thought the Photo Showcase would be more of an incentive but didn't realize only teachers could submit photos. It didn't get much traction for us, was just one more thing for teachers to manage. We'll try to handle that differently next year.

We loved doing the Read-a-Thon. It was easy to carry out and we are so pleased with the money we raised.

It would save us a lot of time if the coupons the kids receive were more customizable. I had to print on top of the coupons that were sent to us because the coupons didn't match what our teachers requested, so I had to choose a generic prize coupon. Another option would be to expand the choices available. I would also like see an app that parents can use on their phones which would be more user friendly. Overall, the ease of parents and families to pay in a secure way online was exceptional, the accessibility to use paypal as an option to pay was big. I have done a "manual or by hand" read a thon years ago and this was FAR easier, less maintenance and work and we raised more money. The amount that was kept by the company was a bit much for the services they provided, a lot parent complaints about the amount kept by company. Reports from the teachers view were confusing, user friendly dashboard for each teacher would be nice and they would participate more. We may look for a company that keeps less amount, has an app and is more user friendly for the teachers to use on a daily basis for next year. Thank you all for your service for this year. I hope to see you guys do more improvements by the time our read a thon comes around next year to make it worth it for us to use your service again. Not sure yet if we will use you again, we will see what upgrades and a better balance of money kept by company for next year.

The only issue this year with COVID would have been the ability to ship prizes directly to the students. Its unfortunate your company couldn't accommodate this as it has been a logistical nightmare for myself in trying to provide times for prize pickup for registering and now all prizes will be sent via egift cards because your prize option couldn't accommodate shipping directly to the reader. Other than that each year we get more participation from our teachers and our students/community. We didn't raise more money than last year but about the same.

This was a great fundraising event for us. Read-a-thon made it so easy. Compared to our other fundraisers this was hands down the easiest. We didn't need a ton of volunteers to make it happen. Having a mobile app would be a great enhancement to this program.

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!

We are very pleased with our Read a thon! It was easy to facilitate with the materials provided by the company.

We loved our first Read A Thon and plan to make this an annual fundraiser for our elementary school! The students were so excited and loved logging their minutes!

Overall we are very happy with the way the Read-a-thon went for us! Next year we plan to get started a little sooner, but for a first time fundraiser, we did amazing! It was awesome to see kids who don’t normally read, pick up a book to try and earn a prize!

Was a great platform once everyone figured out how to use it (teachers/parents). Still are not sure it's worth losing 20% of our funds, however.

Stephanie was very prompt with responding to any questions I had. She was very helpful and patient. This is a great program! Thank you for the opportunity.

For the first time using this program, we are thrilled with how much we were able to raise. Our support person Tiffany was a fantastic help and quick response to any questions we had. Thank you and we look forward to working with you all again.

This has been a great easy fundraiser to do while lots of families are virtual. Thanks for making it easy!

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

We loved it! It was so easy!

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.

We had an awesome read a thon. We raised 14,000. I was unaware of the extra recess incentive. I may have selected that, but was not aware. It ended up being a great incentive, but I may use it differently next year!I may set a goal for the read a thon and then all students will receive an extra recess if we meet the goal.

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!

The tools are easy to use. I would have like to see a few more columns in the reports for teachers--Title

The Read-a-thon went WAY beyond our wildest imagination of what we could raise! We set a goal and more than tripled that amount!

Our Read-a-Thon was a huge success! It was a fun two weeks with spirit dress up days, a family reading night, and ending in raffle winners to silly string the principals!! In a year when fundraising was difficult, Read-a-Thon was an easy, no-stress process that yielded amazing results! Thank you Read-a-Thon!

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 Read-a-thon was Fabulous! My Contact Tiffany was absolutely amazing to work with! And the system/program was a dream. Thank you so much for helping us with a successful Fundraiser option this year!

Read-A-Thon was so easy, so efficient, and surpassed our expectations!! We are so happy with how it turned out, and how accessible this fundraiser was to all students.

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 was a great fundraiser! Way more than we could’ve ever imagined! The staff was very helpful and responsive! Thanks for a great event...till next year!

We absolutely LOVED this Read-a-Thon!!! We are a small community and a small school and always ask the same people to buy products that they don't really even want at fundraiser time. Not this time! Friends and family were happy to donate to the good cause of encouraging our students to read. And, best of all, it was easy for parents to share it out on social media without having to go door-to-door to sell, collect money and delivery products. We will be doing this again next year at Reading Month!

We had a great time with the Read-a-Thon and it went very well for our school! The kids had a blast, the teachers were involved, and it was so easy for us to manage thanks to the website and dashboard. Thank you!

Would love to have had the reminder sheets to be 'live' so that only those who have not created their page set up reminder sheets will print out--otherwise that is a waste of paper and time to sort through for those students that are needing the reminder.

It was fantastic! The kids had a wonderful time, we raised a lot more than last year! The daily incentives really made the difference!

What a wonderful way to earn dollars but more importantly it gives our students and families the opportunity to read together and encourage everyone to read.

It went great! Easy and encourages reading wonderful will def do again!

This was a great event to help our library raise money for books and technology for our makerspace area. We paired this event with a One Book, One School event and it was GREAT! The kids loved logging their minutes. So much fun!

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

Such a great experience. Easy setup and tools. Will do it again next year. For improvements, I couldn't find a way to download personalized flyers when they had been printed... we had a few instances where the flyers were lost.

The R.A.T. was an easy way to fundraise and get the word out that our students love to read. The real time information is an excellent feature. Being able to email, text, and post via social media that our R.A.T. is happening is an added bonus. There's no need to physically track anything. Having a coordinator to keep us on track, answer questions, and provide support is very helpful and useful. The biggest disappointment was the functionality of the webpage when donating. There is a complete disconnect after a donor provides payment information. Many donors including myself did not get email receipts and did not have an opportunity to post messages to the reader(s). Sometimes when this info was entered the website would not save the info and allow submission. It just stalled and froze. This technical problem needs to be resolved as some donors were unsatisfied, including myself because the children enjoy reading the encouraging messages and motivated them.

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.

Great program! I liked the improvements to the site from last year.

We had a great experience with RAT! The support from Tiffany was amazing! Off the top of my head, the only thing I can think of to improve the process would be 1)to have a printed page of a more detailed explanation of the process for teachers that they can read. They were a bit confused. 2) To have the Parent introduction letter already printed and put in the packet and to have it translated to Spanish. 3) Make it easier to enter the reading log minutes manually for the administrator. I had to enter students' minutes and it was very tedious. 4) It was not clear from the beginning who was responsible for providing the actual prizes (not the coupon or voucher to receive one). It seemed a bit misleading. Other than that, we really enjoyed this fundraiser and look forward to doing it again next year! Thanks so much, RAT!

This was much better than shutting the library down for a book fair.

This was our first Read-A-Thon that went extremely well! We are so proud of our Dolphin Readers and I expect that we will have another Read-A-Thon again. Way to Go Cedar Road Elementary School!

This was a great way to raise money and it was fun die the kids. So easy to collect donations. The dashboard was very helpful. The only thing I would change is how to view the prize levels or a daily total that was easier for me to complete on my end. With such a large school, it was a challenge.

This has been a huge success for our school in contributing to our Annual Teacher Fund. The students love it!

This is definitely the best fundraiser! We raised more money than we ever have before. Very, easy to use the platform and great customer service! We loved the program and will definitely continue to do this annually!!

This was such a successful event. Read-a-thon makes fundraising so much easier!

Our read-a-thon went very well! A couple things: Would you be able to enter email addresses for all participants at the start? Also would it be possible to provide a custom flyer or poster through your website? Maybe you could provide a template? Also, being able to edit the language in the readers personal page would be a great feature. Thank you!

The best fundraiser that promotes literacy and love of reading while building community. Our 1st Annual Read-a-thon raised almost $13,500 while our children read almost 100,000 minutes, in class and at home over two weeks!

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

This was a fantastic experience and so easy! We will definitely be using again! Thanks!

This was our first time and it went very well.

Unbelievable how easy this fundraiser was to take part in. The materials, both print and digital, were professional and engaging. It truly runs itself!

I think it went really well!

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

Thank you for your help and support. We are very pleased with the results of our Read-a-Thon. We look forward to working with you again in the future.

This was our first read-a-thon, and the community seemed to really enjoy it.

We were pleased with the Read-A-Thon and how easy it was to set-up and edit/add students or provide codes to parents who misplaced theirs. It's wonderful to see the comments that parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and friends leave for the little readers they are supporting!

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!

We loved our first experience with Read-a-thon! We were impressed with our promotional box and how organized it was explaining step by step what we had to do. We most definitely do it again :)

Thanks for making this so easy!

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!

Our kids LOVED doing the readathon. We got great parent support and the process was easy and painless. We will definitely be doing another readathon!

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

Our Read-a-thon was an incredible success; our students had a great month and we brought in nearly $13000 in donations. Due to COVID this year, our ability to do traditional fundraisers was severly limited, and our Read-a-thon not only filled the gap in some of our fundraising, but our students had great fun participating in this year's event. We are looking forward to doing this again in the years to come.

This is our school's second read-a-thon. This year we increased participation from students from 38% last year to 50% this year. All of our teachers supported this fundraiser this year (not all did last year). We exceeded the goal we made monetarily this year. Read-a-thon customer service is the absolute best. Thank you for the support from beginning to end.

We had an amazing Read-A-Thon. It ran itself. Thank you

This was our first Read-A-Thon, and we were pleasantly surprised with the amount of participation from our students and families. It definitely helped us reach our fundraising goals and continue to build our school's reading culture. There was a learning curve, but after I became familiar with the online program, the records were easily accessed and helpful.

Went much better than expected! Ran smoothly . The tools from the Readathon team really helped us launch and roll with this fundraiser. We intend to make this an annual thing!

There needs to be some other way to make kids accountable about their reading. There was also one reader who was able to enter a lot of minutes at the end, too many minutes to have been read on a school day. Otherwise everything was great!

It was great, look forward to doing it again next year!

I was very pleasantly suprised with how well the Read-A-Thon program worked. I appreciated all the support and information from the website. Read-A-Thon was the perfect way to get kids back to the great habit of reading after covid. It was fantastic for getting teachers and students off the technology and back to books for reading everyday. I was shocked at the money that we raised. I was not pushing for donations during this covid time. I was hoping for a couple hundred dollars to buy books. I was astounded to watch thousands of dollars being donated to the school through the Read-A-Thon. I think families are showing their appreciation and support for the school through donations and we are feeling the love!

Ours did ok. I feel as though the current conditions have but a huge hurt on it.

It was amazing! Better than we expected!

Excellent Services with great help!

I can not believe how amazing our Read-a-Thon went. We decided to try this due to being in the middle of a pandemic, and not able to hold an in-person Book Fair. The participation and excitement from our students, families, teachers, and community just blew me away. I would definitely hold another Read-a-Thon (the fact that set-up was so easy, was definitely a bonus)!

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!!

The kids had a great time with our Read-a-Thon! The parents and teachers love not having to gather cash. And the kids are excited about reading and the Spirit Days! All while raising money to buy more books! It's been great, thank you for offering this service and having great customer service. The easy to use website has been great! I have made morning announcements giving the kids updates on the highest reading classes and students, the highest earning classes and students -- I can hear them cheering from their classrooms! So great! And I couldn't have done that without the easy Reports and tallies you offer! Thank you!!

We loved the read-a-thon and it was a great success for our school. This will definitely be an annual fundraiser for our school. The customer service was incredible and loved dealing with the people at read-a-thon. The students took such a big interest in the reading and that is a success all be itself. The website was extremely user friendly and I can’t think of anything that would make it better. Thank you Starkbrights!

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

We are impressed with how easy it was to raise money and encourage students to read with this program.

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

We had a wonderful experience encouraging the love of reading and raise funds for technology. Students were excited and motivated to read!

The Read-a-thon went better than we could have ever imagined. Kids were reading and excited about it. We were able to make a lot of money for our school in a very short amount of time with very little work on our part. I would recommend to anyone looking for ways to motivate kids to read and if your school needs money.

First time - loved it!

We had hoped to reach $15,000

Our Elementary has thoroughly enjoyed the ease of Read-a-thon! We have now done this 2 years in a row and have had a great experience both times. I like the notices you can send out to readers and parents. The only suggestion I would make is a few notices to encourage getting pledges after a school is a few days into it. We generally didn't need the notices for setting up pages, we needed reminders for the cause. I hope that makes sense?

Our Lady of Hope Catholic Academy did the Read-a-Thon for the first time this year. We did not know what to expect but was truly surprised by the outcome. We raised $8800 for our school and it was the easiest fundraiser we ever did! The children enjoyed reading while contributing to a fundraiser for their school. They enjoyed the ability to shop for prizes with their earnings. We look forward to doing another Read-a-Thon!

We are very happy with how the read-a-thon turned out. We had a lot of engagement from supporters and the friendly competition among the classes for minutes.

Our school loves this fundraiser!! Who doesn’t want to support kids reading?? This was our most successful fundraiser yet and it was so easy to do. Thank you!!

We could not be more pleased with our results. My only suggestion is that on the donation page where people can leave their reader a note of encouragement is for it to say, "Your note will be made public to all readers."

This was a great experience for our readers, teachers, our donors, and our administrators. We plan to do it annually!

I love this RAT program because it can be tailored to fit our exact needs from the timeline to the prize structure. I am wondering why you do not offer a pay-per-minute option though. I had quite a few parents asking about that and missing that feature. Thanks, and until next time! ~Sarah Lee RAT Chair

We loved our Read-a-Thon. The kids read so much and we raised over 11,000 even though we are a small school! We will definitely participate in another Read-a-thon!

This is our 3rd year in a row using Read-A-Thon as a fundraiser for our school. We can't be more happy with how easy it is to use, also how much money we've raised each time, and lastly how reading is stressed to the students and parents. If you are using any other fundraiser you should stop immediately and switch to Read-A-Thon. You will not be disappointed.

Easy set up. Prize selection could be better but overall pretty good! Easy to collect donations. Easy to send reminders. Easy to stop. Over all 10/10 Would recommend.

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 is the 1st time we have tried a READ-A-THON. Your company makes this very easy to run and we could not have asked for a better turnout! Jefferson students were so excited about reading during the month of March.

The Read-A-Thon was by far the most COVID friendly option for fundraising for our school. We set a goal of 30,000 minutes read as a school, and our students read more than 85,000!!! The funds will go to helping our students feel a bit more normalcy as we can provide events in a safer way now.

This was awesome!!!! Thank you for everything!!!

We had a great time! And, all things considered, I think the fundraiser went really well.

We loved the Read-a-Thon! Our students were so motivated to read and excited about raising money for our school! The whole platform was so easy to use, and customer support was always available and very helpful. Thank you so much.

Hilltop loves Read-A-Thon. Our students and staff get so excited about reading and raising money for our school! Th

This was the most wonderful fundraiser that we have participated in.

I appreciate all the help. It is hard to manage the site through the phone and it takes a long time to load most pages which eats my battery even if I’m in WiFi. Everything else was great!

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.

We had an amazing Read-A-Thon! This was my first time hosting a Read-A-Thon and I will definitely be holding one next school year. Thank you for making this so easy to run.

Our Read-A-Thon was a huge success again this year! Thank you so much for this great opportunity! It is a great way to encourage reading

This was a great virtual event! Our school has done this event for a few years now and the students love it! As a first time admin., the only thing that would have been more helpful would have been social media images. Over the last few years, many families look to social media for information.

We love the Read a Thon!

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.

It went great. Even though we didn't meet our goal we were so close. Thank you Oaklawn PTO

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

Everyone enjoyed the RAT. This was our first one so we have some things we are going to do differently next year, but felt that this was an excellent way to get kids to read and raise some money in a year that we couldn't hold events.

This was a great experience. Really easy and when we had questions Tiffany answered them straight away.

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.

All good. Yes we will do another.

Thank you for answering our many questions, Kari!

Things went well, but the reader/parent interface was not user friendly and many parents were put off by the immediate push to Facebook (an option to post there is fine, but presenting FB as if it were a requirement to activate the reader account turned many of our parents away). We would consider using Read-A-Thon again only if the Reader/Parent interface is updated and streamlined, and the push to Facebook is removed.

THANKS SO MUCH!! WE LOVE THIS!!

Easy to use. We will add this as a yearly fundraiser for sure.

Easiest fundraiser ever!! Loved it!

All was awesome!

We found the online system to be very friendly. As an administrator we would love more freedom in running a variety of reports (for example , weekly totals by reader).

This is one of the easiest fundraisers to run for a school of any size! Your company always provides wonderful assistance throughout the entire event. Thank you!

We were very pleased with our Read-a-thon. This was the first time we've held one, and your company (Stephanie, specifically) was wonderful to work with.

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

I love the Read-a-Thon. As a busy teacher it is so easy to use and it gets my kids reading! Along with a huge benefit to my classroom. I would love to see some prizes for reading minutes as well.

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.

It went well ! Our Rep Tiffany Alexander was so much help !!

The Read a Thon has been a wonderful way to encourage our students to read

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 was our first read-a-thon and it went better than expected! We are pleased with the outcome and the program was so easy to navigate. I am thankful for all the set up and printing of the packet they did. There are only a few PTO people that help so this was nice because it didn't take a lot of man power. The teachers and school staff were so helpful in promoting it, especially since parents can't be in the buildings because of covid restrictions.

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!

Its the easiest fundraiser! So intuitive and simple for parents and teachers to add minutes and for family and friends to donate.

Wonderful experience. We seem to do better each year. Thank you for providing us with this opportunity.

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!

It went well. I think I learned how to get more kids motivated for the next one!

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.

This Event has been amazing! We've been able have a winning combination of Reading and Raising Funds for our School! We have shared your site and this program with other schools in and out of our area!!! Thank you Meryl Gallagher King HSA Literacy Chairperson Jefferson Elementary School West Caldwell, NJ

LOVE the new online system and tools! We had good feedback from parents. Kari is great, too (I ask her so many dumb questions, and she's always patient). It's an easy AND fun way to fundraise.

Our school's first Read-A-Thon has been amazing! We are so proud of our students, parents, faculty and staff, the entire school community. We are grateful for our supporters and will be working to maintain their support and express our gratitude. Thank you for the opportunity to grow our readers and fundraise with "Read-A-Thon". We can't say enough about the ease of utilizing the platform and the customer support. We're looking forward to more Read-A-Thon adventures!

love this! so easy

We absolutely loved our Read-A-Thon experience! Our students and families enjoyed the ease of the fundraiser and we consider this to be a very successful first experience. One thing I would love to see improved is the functionality of the site/reports available.

This is our second RAT, and it was just a great as the first. We will continue our fundraising with your company. Thanks for making it easy and fun!!!!

This fundraiser is great to do in "normal times", and even better to do during pandemic times. The total online presence makes material distribution and promotion easy and social distance friendly. While there were some website issues at the beginning of our Read-A-Thon, they were resolved quickly. Kari is always quick to respond to email inquiries and has all the answers I'm looking for.

This was our second Read-A-Thon and it was extremely successful and so simple to do! We will have our third Read-A-Thon next year! We highly recommend it!

Very smoothly, just like years past. And great support help from our rep. She checked in occasionally and was always ready if we needed anything. Thank you!

Thank you for this excellent program! Kari Styne was incredibly patient and helpful and I am so grateful to her. Thank you!

Thank you for this excellent program! Kari Syine was incredibly patient and helpful and I am so grateful to her. Thank you!

Wonderful experience for our students and a great fundraiser for our Library.

It went well. I wish the website was cell phone friendlier. The reports would be nice if you kept track of the grade as well since we do prizes for those who read the most in each grade and it takes forever to go back and forth to figure out the grade the teachers are in.

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.

This years Read a thon went so much better than we anticipated. We are so pleased with the participation level and the amazing support from our school community.

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!

I was worried about how difficult it would be to pull this off, but was so pleasantly surprised. Your company made this the easiest fundraiser that we have done to date.

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

We absolutely loved it! tiffany was so helpful

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 is my third time doing a Read-a-Thon and I love the ease of it. This is our most successful one to date!

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

The marathon was a reading experience for most students. Our school would definitely participate again. This is one fundraiser that I know of that directly impacts students' learning. Thank You

Our Read-a-Thon went pretty well, considering we had to complete the second week from home due to the Covid virus. The kids had a great time, and really enjoyed reading! Thank you to all of the Read-a-thon employees who answered all of our questions along the way- you made this such a simple and easy-to-use fundraiser!

This is our first time using this company to do a fundraiser for the school's PTA. We enjoyed it; it was simple and easy to use.

First, I want to give Kari a shout out!! She was fabulous! Any questions I had she answered quickly, even if it was after business hours or on the weekend. You have a real gem there, she was such a great support to me, especially since this was my first Read-a-Thon! Second, the Read-a-Thon platform is easy to navigate. I loved that I could advertise using the data FB and our school website with the links you provide. Third, online rewards was such a blessing! I didn't have to organize prizes! Thank you for a wonderful fundraiser! We will definitely put this on our calendar for September 2021! Mrs. Nancy Miller - ICCS Library Media Specialist

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!

This is the second time we have done a Read-a-thon, and we love it! It is super simple and we have found success with it both years we have done it. We can't wait to do it again next year!

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

One of the easiest fundraisers out there, we love it!

We did amazing with our Read a Thon!! We will definitely be doing this next year!! Thank you!!

Easy and interactive- appreciate the flyers and reminders. We had a problem with language we’d like to let you know about. About 50% of our students are Spanish speaking. 1. School district policy is that English/Spanish translation is the same. Thank you for putting Spanish on the back, but it has to be in color. 2. Wristbands need translation. 3. Posters need translations.

Thank you for providing a fabulous, fun, and easy fundraising experience.

We thoroughly enjoyed our Read-A-Thon and I would like to thank you all for creating this platform for us to raise money for our school.

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 were beyond excited to do a Read-A-Thon this year. With everything going on we weren't sure if we would be able to do a fundraiser and RAT made it possible! We raised way beyond what we thought we would and I truly believe it was the smoothness of the site nd being able to send out invites and reminders to family and friends. Doing it online this year was the only option we had and we were grateful we found you because it was 100% online or over the phone. Thank you so much for a successful fundraiser and we cant wait to do it again!

This was a fantastic way to encourage the love of reading while raising money for our school! Our entire school community was excited about it!

Awesome experience!

I loved the data you offered. It would have been very helpful to target students that created a page but didn’t share it out. I wanted that data. I wanted to message just those people. I also wanted a few more options for pre-written messages. A possible big change- many of our parents use texting much more than email. We would have reached more people if we could text them instead of just email. Could you possibly collect phone numbers during page creation as well as email addresses?

The read a thon was very successful. We had some technology difficulties when using a mobile device but nothing we couldn't work around. Thank you for your support

This was a great fundraiser because reading is such an important thing to focus on and celebrate. My favorite feature was that notes left by donors were visible on our group page. These were so much fun to read. I learned a lot this time and know that it will go even more smoothly in the future. I appreciated the printed send home sheets and would love a third send home sheet to go home at the end of the Read-A-Thon to discuss prize store and RAT bucks redemption because I am not given email addresses for all parents. Although, we were not thrilled with the quality of prizes and may not choose this model again. The customer service I received from Kari and the team was top notch, especially when the website took a dive!! This alone would be enough for me to choose Read-A-Thon over another fundraising company. We met our goal today and had fun getting there. Thank you!

This read a thon was absolutely amazing!!! We loved your company and so thankful we found you! Everyone loved the way they could have their own page and keep track! Our teachers wished they could use this system all year round to keep track of their kiddos! So thank you!!!!

This is such a great and easy fundraiser, plus it gets the community excited about reading. Thank you!

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!

It went better than we expected! Very easy to sign up. I'm definitely recommending it to other schools.

We enjoyed the Read-A-Thon. Our school is very happy with the support for our students and the reading programs our PTO will be able to provide as a result of our generous sponsors. Thank you to the Read-A-Thon company and all of the students, parents and families that helped support our goals.

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!

Our first Read-a-Thon was great. It was easy to start, run and end it. When I have questions customer service was very helpful. I wish there was a way for my school to write a check for cash donations. We have a large population of parents who do not speak English they don't have Facebook, twitter or email. I know they would have donated cash if they could. Our school district is strict about how we deal with money and our school could only send cash donations to Read-a-Thon with a check but I was told you only accepted pay pal or credit cards.

Our read-a-thon was a great success,

We love it and had great results despite pandemic. Thank you. We will sign up again next school year!

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

This year was our third year and our best year yet!

Such a seamless fundraiser.

this was a great way to raise money for us

We had a really great time doing the Read-a-thon. Everything was very easy to do. I wish I could have printed a report that showed me minutes they read at home, minutes from their teacher and minutes from admin. I wanted to reward students who read at home. Next year we are going to try the prizes embedded. Thank you for such a great fundraiser, so many of our kids loved reading and it motivated them.

This was the first time that I participated in the Read-a-thon fundraiser and it was easy and simple.

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

This was so much fun for our readers! We were surprised by their motivation and even more surprised by the generous donations of our families.

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!

We raised so much more money than we anticipated! This was so easy and great. We will definitely do a read a thon again!

This fundraiser was so easy to implement and so motivating for our students! We'll definitely do this again!

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

This is the best and easiest fundraiser we have ever done. We will be doing this every year!

We have really enjoyed the Read-a-Thon! We have had students of all grade levels spending more time than average digging into books, and the no-cost and low-cost incentives we used were really fun for the kids (and teachers). Everyone has found this to be a huge success for our readers. It was recommended that your company consider creating an app for parents to use. For parents with multiple students, it was quite a bit of work logging in and out each day into the various accounts, so a parent suggested an app with preset reading amount buttons (20 minutes, 30 minutes, etc.) that would allow them to click on their student's name, then the amount of time.

Very easy platform to use to run a read-a-thon. Very successful for our school.

This was a great easy way to earn money for our school. Thank you!

This is a wonderful fundraiser! The students were excited to read and get sponsors. Thank you!

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

Very grateful! MCE is is very excited about the success of our Read-A-Thon. We would like to say thank you to everyone for donating, all the students and staff for their participation, and the Read-A-Thon company for making everything run smoothly. Amazing fundraiser while promoting and growing the love of reading!

NSPS was very pleased with our Read-a-thon! It was the easiest fundraiser and the students and staff loved it!

Our read a thon exceeded all of our expectations. The students were so motivated by the rewards and the leaderboard! We would definitely do a read a thon again.

Great.

Thank you for making it easy to manage this fundraiser at the school.

This was a great fundraiser for our school! It was so easy to set up on the front end and little work during it-- the parents do most of it by sharing on social media!

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.

This read-a-thon was an AMAZING fundraiser for our school! It was so easy to set up and run. We will definitely be using your company again next spring!

It was very tech-friendly, and both Stephanie and Kari were helpful. Thank you,

It was an amazing and thrilling experience to see how the numbers kept going up! Very impressed on how user friendly the whole fundraiser was. It will be the beginning of a yearly tradition for our school.

This was our first Read-a-Thon and it exceeded my expectations! Parents sent emails/text about how much they loved this form of fund raising compared to fundraisers in the past. We will definitely participate in Read-a-Thons in the future.

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!

The whole process was easier than I expected it to be and we raised more money than I ever thought we would. If your school is looking for a way to raise money without being burdened with a lot of details and extra work, I highly recommend you give this a try.

We loved it!

Another great Read-a-thon! Thank you for providing such an easy way to raise funds for our worthwhile cause. It's great to not have to handle any money, to get kids excited about reading and to provide us with all the tools needed in one handy place.

I am more and more pleased each year with Read A Thon. Our students and parents love this fundraiser!

this was a great motivator for our students to read and track their reading activities! The benefit of not having to sell product was an added bonus!

I made a lot of flyers for emailing to families. I would have loved a template (now I have them for the future) and more fun clip art to put on flyers. :) Otherwise, it went great!

Every aspect of the Read-A-Thon was great! 

We had a slow start but once the teachers started promoting, it went very well. We did have quite a few readers report issues getting their secret codes; it would have been helpful to have the secret code look-up live but I gather our event ran just before that feature was implemented. We also had a few parents report issues posting encouraging messages to their readers; that issue was never resolved, which is a little disappointing.

Our school has had a wonderful experience with our Read A Thon! It was so easy to enter all of the students and class information prior to the event, and very easy for our families to share on social media and promote our event!. We will be using Read-a-thon.com again in the future!

We very much appreciate the customer service support. Our questions and concerns were addressed quickly. This has further built our confidence and trust with your company.

The support for this event from Tiffany was wonderful. Thank you.

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.

Our Read-A-Thon went smooth, especially during this time of school at home. It was a great easy, virtual fundraiser that was minimal effort aside from social media and email posts. The only comment we had from anyone within our student body was that the requests for money from parents was worded and made certain people feel as though they were being called a not so great parent if they didn't donate more money. They page that says "Most Parents, Superhero Parents, Super Star Parent, etc". Our PTA as a whole who hosted the Read-A-Thon felt as though it was a very user friendly and easy to run fundraiser. Thank you, Miranda

We had a great experience working with Kari! We are a brand new PTA this yeaer and this was our very first fundraiser. We were so thankful how easy read-a-thon was to promote both reading and getting donations! Your dashboard and online databases were easy to navigate and very straight forward. We will definitely use read-a-thon again for future fundraisers!!

The Read-a-Thon went very well. We raised a lot of money and the children read beyond our expectations!

The Read-A-Thon was a great event for our school and students. Students were motivated to read and earn prizes. 

This was a very easy fundraiser to do and we look forward to doing it again.

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

It was great to have no money pass hands. Everyone was on a credit card. It was fun to see the total everyday. My only suggestion would be the prizes. We had a lot of certificates and only 3 prizes. The pen could be better quality. Kids said it didn't work after a day.

It was great to have no money pass hands. Everyone was on a credit card. It was fun to see the total everyday. My only suggestion would be the prizes. We had a lot of certificates and only 3 prizes. The pen could be better quality. Kids said it didn't work after a day.

It went well! Much better than expected! Thanks!

It was an easy and fun experience!

This was an AMAZING event and can't wait for next year!

This was a wonderful and successful fundraiser for our school. We received lots of positive feedback from staff, parents and students. We plan to run this again in the fall as our main fundraiser for the year! Very impressed

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

Read-A-Thon is great! It's an easy fundraiser and best of all, it gets our students reading.

The read-a-thon went very well! It exceeded our expectations for the first one. We will definitely be doing another one in the future. It was super easy and our rep Tiffany was very helpful!

This went really well. Kari was amazing, as she always is. My only negative comment is that the prizes were not so great this year so I feel like we should have been warned as I might have changed our prize option.

another great event, thanks

This fundraiser was amazing. So easy and the staff was very helpful. We will definitely be back!

Loved having this fundraiser. We will be making this a yearly fundraiser.

Our Read-A-Thon we a great experience this year. It is such an easy fundraiser to do, while promoting Reading!

This was Journey's first Read-A-Thon and it went so well! It was the easiest fundraiser I have ever begun and the kids loved participating in it! I cannot wait to host another!

Our first attempt at Read-A-Thon was a great success! During the pandemic we needed a fundraiser that didn’t require volunteers or selling merchandise. This was perfect. It was very simple to set up and easy to use during the fundraiser. Support was fantastic. The option of sharing information online and using all the RAT prompts were invaluable. We are so happy to have tried it and will definitely do another one next year!

Easy to set up, website really friendly to use! Love it!

We had a great experience!! Can't wait to do it again next year!!

I have mixed feedback about the new prize model. I liked that prizes were given concurrently with the read a thon. However, I did not like the lack of prizes. I have struggled greatly to come up with enough prizes on my own, and it's eating into our profit more as a result. Also, I really would like you to keep this year's records for our school so we can plan better for next year. I would love to see how many supporters we had, what the mean donation was, and how many donations were at the $25, $100, etc. It would be very helpful for next year's planning.

Love Read-A-Thon!!

So successful and super easy! Perfect during a pandemic!

Our kids were on fire this year raising over $8000 and reading over 66,000 minutes. We had so much fun with Read A Thon this year!!

It was amazing! It went great! Thank you.

Our read a thon was so smooth! The kids had a blast and was one of most successful fundraisers!

We loved this fundraiser! It was so fun and really got the kid reading!

The Read-a-thon was a good fundraiser, however this time around our teachers were not able to use their dashboard properly nor receive the emails. Found out that the emails were entered wrong on most of the teachers. Thank you for all your support throughout.

Our school loved it! We would probably have another READ-A-THON EOY! The only feedback is to give sponsors a choice to remain anonymous or not while submitting their comment

This was definitely a success. We doubled and then some our donations from last year. I would say that’s a success!!

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.

This is my favorite fundraisers. We get kids reading and make money that we need!

Another great year...thank you!

As always, the Read-a-thon went well. You guys make it so easy to run, especially during these crazy times. My suggestion would be to grant the principal her own code to get in so she/he has complete access

This really was great and more importantly, had an academic function! We for sure will join again next year!

Our first Read-A-Thon went much better than expected. We are so excited to have our scholars read more and raise money for our school in the process. The RAT team made it extremely simple, and now that we have completed our first one, we can definitely say it will not be our last. Thank you RAT team!

We use Read-a-Thon every year to fund our Accellerated Reader progrom. It is easy and fun for the students. Cyndi A. Springmyer Elementary School Secretary

I appreciate the customer service from Tiffany. This fundraiser is the easiest fundraiser for a busy Parent Club President to facilitate for the school. The colorful copies that the company sends out to send home with students is eye catching and looks more appealing than a black and white photocopy. I love the ability to have teachers share their classroom Read-A-Thon page on their social media pages for support for their students. This was a wonderful COVID-19 friendly fundraiser.

Such a great fundraiser! Can’t wait to do it again next year!

This was a great experience as a school fundraiser. I'm looking forward to all the fun things we can incorporate into our event next year. The entire process was smooth and effortless. Thank you!!

Wonderful Experience!

Simple, easy format.

We love the Read-A-Thon format. The Read-A-Thon team makes fundraising easy, from the printed materials to the support from your awesome Staff! Our kids love that they get to choose their own prizes. This is our second year and we exceeded have our fundraising goal each year!!!

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. :)

This is our very first Read-A-Thon and it was such a fantastic experience! The Read-A-Thon team was awesome and so very helpful, always available to answer questions. Our school had a fun time reading, what a great way to raise money! Thank you for the opportunity and look forward to doing it again next year.

It was FABULOUS! We did WAY better than expected. Very easy to implement and lots of advice along the way as to how to best manage it and get the word out. We had one little glitch and had immediate support.

This was a great fundraiser and super simple! Students logged an amazing amount of time and we got great donations!

I am blown away by the ease of the Read-a-Thon fundraiser! All the hard work was done for me! I am also blown away at the participation of our school community. We raised much more money than I expected and had students log well over 40,000 minutes. The daily prize reports were fabulous. The teachers and students both enjoyed watching their progress on their personal and class dashboards. This encouraged them to set goals, meet those goals, and set new goals.

This was our second Read-a-Thon and we did better this year than we did last year!

This is our 2nd year to participate and we LOVE it! It is so easy to manage and the students and parents enjoy it so much.

The system and staff were incredibly user-friendly. This was a fantastic program.

This was great! Thank you for your support!

Our first Read-a-Thon went great! We ended up getting more readers registered and more donations than I thought we would our first time doing this. I hope to make this a yearly event at Lombardy Elementary.

Our School loved the Read-A-Thon!

It went very smooth despite school covid issues! Otherwise, as a new pto member... I had zero issues. Thank you!

Kari provided us with amazing support. The program is put together well and easy to facilitate.

This was a great and EASY fundraiser. It was our first year so we'll learned some ways to promote more for next time. Thank you for all your prompt replies and help.

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.

Love, love, love the experience we had with Read-A-Thon! Your support staff is amazing and made starting a breeze. Our students were so excited to log their minutes and classes were competing for who had read more. Kids were talking about reading at the bus stops and during lunches. The notes friends and family could leave when making donations were so inspiring to our students.

This fundraiser far exceeded our expectations. It made the students excited to read and the amount of support we got from our families was amazing!

This was the best fundraiser we have ever done. Everything went smoothly, the kids loved the reading rewards and competition between classes. In this year of a pandemic, this fundraiser was fun and something to look forward to each day.

It would be better if the sign up page was directed at parents/guardians instead of at the child-- we had an issue with some children cheating their minutes, and tried to make parents take over all data entry, but the messaging directly from read-a-thon.com was contradictory. I can't imagine we're the only school that has had kids cheat, and it's a frustrating thing to deal with.

It was fantastic! I got sick in the middle with the flu so I didn't personally get to promote to the kids as much as usual. But it all turned out great!

Thanks again Kari for all of your help! You always answered my emails promptly! I really appreciate all of your help!! Sometimes navigating the website wasn’t always feasible if I was at work, and there questions about different things! Again, thank you for your patience and help this year?

This has been so amazing for our little school. The ease of donating was perfect to reach a larger donation audience. Our students and teachers enjoyed the focus on love of reading. We have really enjoyed this program!

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 was excellent for our school. So easy to manage and run. We will definitely have a Read A Thon once a year for our school.

We surpassed our goal, raising over $8,000 and our students read over 29,000 minutes! Thank you for making this such a fun and easy way to raise money for and increase reading at our school!

We loved our Read-A-Thon experience! The students were so excited and it could not have been any easier to manage! We raised over $7000.00 in just 2 weeks!

This was a very engaging and rewarding experience for students and parents. Thanks for making this a viable fundraising option.

We have come to love this fundraiser. Super easy to make/receive donations and promotes literacy. LOVE!

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!

The students loved the Read a Thon. They were very excited about reading and earning prizes. We earned more than $8000. We will definitely do it again next year. However, our representative was very unresponsive, taking several days to respond to emails.

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.

It was not quite as clear or easy as we thought it was going to be - at least the intitial set-up. That being said, once we got going and found our way through the website, it is vey do-able. We plan to do another one nextyear.

This was our 1st attempt at any kind of A-Thon and we LOVED it! We will definitely do this again.

This was an awesome program to work with!!!

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 is our first time hosting a Read-A-Thon and it was fantastic! It is a very simple fun way to raise money for our school.

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!

After a few bumps in the beginning, the read a thon went great and ran easily. We appreciated the ease in which they can spend their points. However, the older kids quickly figured out that their prizes came from donations and not their actual minutes read so I think we would do the other prize model next time. However, that is trickier to do virtually. If there was a way to have a reward store model that rewards the minutes read, that would be great. Also - if there was a way that students could set their reading goals. Some students read a lot more than others and met the 500 minutes read in a weekend. Being able to personalize goals would be beneficial. Thanks so much. We'll do it again!

It went really well! Unfortunately, we did not hit what we did last year do to Covid-19.

Our students and their parents loved it. As the Read-A-Thon school contact person, I loved it tool It was fun and easy. Thank you!

We absolutely loved the Read-a-Thon!! It was a huge success. Very easy to implement and very easy to follow through to the end. It was effortless to get kids involved, even the remote learners. If I could make one suggestion it would be that when you are signing up and choosing your prizes, you should have everything laid out for you at once. Meaning, you should know every item that is a prize and every item that will get a prize all at the same time. I hope that makes sense:)! It was a great experience all around!

Stephanie was amazing to work with! It was our first Read A Thon. We didn't know what to expect but this experience far exceeded what we thought.

I loved the new way to contact potential businesses, but I was disappointed it didn't generate any responses/leads. :(

Many positive experiences and feed back from families and teachers. Kids loved to see their progress tracked everyday. We had a few issues particular to our school that was not compatible with the Read-A-Thon system and that we did not anticipate before the start of our fundraiser. First, our school is a private with grades PreK thru 8th. While the Read-A-Thon was perfect for our elementary school and younger, it was not a good fit for our middle schoolers. Our PTO tried to adapt it to make it age appropriate by offering our own challenges and activities but those students were still reluctant to activate accounts or fundraise given that the target audience of the Read-A-Thon system is obviously younger. Second, we were unaware that the flyers and materials would automatically include dress-down day announcements. This was not approved by our school prior to the planning of the event but there was not an option to modify the print outs. Finally, the school administration would not allow student's names to be entered into a "third party website" until parents were given the opportunity to "opt-out". We were delayed in preparing/advertising our fundraiser because of the need to communicate and gather responses from all families in our school In all, our school was happy with the money raised and using the Read-A-Thon system. Thank you for working with us.

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

Wonderful! Thank you!

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

This was a huge success! My own children loved that they could see their times going up. We will definitely be doing this every year.

The Read-A-Thon experience was amazing! Our scholars were extremely motivated and enjoyed the challenge of reading as many minutes possible. This event was a huge success.

Thank you for providing a great, user friendly option for schools! So many fundraisers are full of paper work, data entry, and time. The Read A Thon makes it easy for teachers and families to log their reading minutes, donation collection is a breeze with the ability to share a link on Facebook, and the home page is straight forward and easy to use. We will see you next year!

Everything ran smoothly.

This went wonderfully! The kids loved it and it was fun to promote in the school.

Thank you, it went well.

Our Read A Thon went really well! In this time of uncertainty I wasn't sure how we would do but I was very pleased by the amount we received. I also appreciated several of the improvements from last year such as the improved dashboard.

Amazing fundraiser

For a small private school like ours, the Read-A-Thon was a dream come true. Linking the power of reading to fundraising in the way the Read-a-thon team does was powerful for us and helped us tap a never before reached source of donations to better support our children with enrichment activities. Our year one results were beyond our dreams! We can't wait to do this again next year and are already starting to plan how we can put more into the program!

Easy, well run 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.

This was an amazing fundraiser for our school. Everything ran incredibly well. We will be doing this again next year!

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.

This has been the most stress free fundraiser. Kids were excited about reading. Win win for all.

This is the first time our school participated in the Read-a-thon. I thought it was easy to set up and great given that we are distance learning. I like that we can choose regarding prizes and payment models. Some teachers found their page set-up to be a bit confusing. Overall, I think we would do it again but it might be easier to do it in person so we can get the handouts to everyone. I am happy with the results given that this year was really challenging for our school with fire evacuations in the fall, covid and distance learning along with long-term power outages. Our main goal was to have fun and encourage reading. Thanks for your help in this endeavor. I am only clicking no we won't be doing another read-a-thon because I will not be the leader of the group next year. We would not be doing another one for the 2020-2021 school calendar year but I will recommend to the next PTO board to do one in 2021-2022.

The read a thon once again has been a very successful and easy fundraiser.

Super easy, successful and fun fundraiser!

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

Everything was fine. It would be great if you offered more rupees of printable awards

This was great! I love how easy it was for EVERYONE! We will definitely be participating in a Read-a-Thon 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.

Thank you so much for helping us raise money for our school library. I appreciate all of the work that is done on your end -- that makes things so much easier on MY end! I also appreciate how responsive customer service always is when I have a question. Kari -- thank YOU!!!

We had a wonderful experience with our Read-a-thon. The staff at your site were incredibly helpful and we will absolutely be doing this again in the future.

We were very pleased with the success of our Read-a-thon! It was a meaningful and easy fundraiser to hold. We will be looking to participate in the coming years!

Our first Read a Thon was a wonderful experience. We had many readers excited about reading! We expect to do this again next 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!

The Read-a-thon was awesome! Not only did it inspire our students to read more, we raise money for our school. The process to sign up was super easy, materials were printed and sent to our school for distribution to our students' families, and the website keeps accurate information for administrators and teachers to check to verify participation.

This continues to be a great fundraiser for our school. We are on our fourth year!

Overall, it was a great experience for our school. We raised more money than we ever thought we would. Students were excited to get involved and loved our reading sessions during the school day. I would like to see the website improved. I found that the website took a while to load and I had to refresh the page several times throughout the last few weeks because the site seemed to be malfunctioning (the text box wouldn't allow me to type anything or the page itself would just be blank). When teachers entered in a class reading, sometimes the white box that popped up to let you know the time had been entered wouldn't go away after clicking "okay," and then the session would be doubled, resulting in admin having to go in and adjusting the times. Again, overall, it was a great experience; I would just like to see the technology part of this fundraiser improved. Thank you!

Our Best Read-A-Thon yet!

This is our 3rd read a thon. Each time we have one the read a thon representatives have been extremely helpful. I belong to the Friends of the Free Dover Public Library in Dover, NJ and hope to start a read a thon there as well. Thank you

We enjoyed the Read-A-Thon. It was our first year and so we did learn some things. For instance, I wasn't sure of the definite start date or end date. But, we learn, and next year should go even smoother! I really liked how hands-off it was for our staff and teachers.

This was our school's 2nd year participating and we are absolutely in love with this Read-a-Thon experience! By far the easiest and most successful fundraiser we have been a part of!

What an amazingly easy and fun fundraiser!!! Can’t wait to do it again next year!!!

This was our best Read-a-Thon yet! We love our yearly event!

This was a great, safe way to fundraise during the COVID-19 pandemic! Thanks for all you did to help!

The Read-a-thon was terrific. We raised over $2,000 more than last year and our readers logged thousands of minutes. Some students showed improvement in their Accelerated Reader scores during the Read-a-thon as well. There was much excitement on campus because students could see their minutes being recorded and the R.A.T bucks they earned each day.

This was our first Read-A-Thon and I think it was a big success. We encouraged students to read and were able to celebrate all students, regardless of how much money they raised (our school is very socioeconomically diverse). We raised a lot of money, despite school being virtual due to the pandemic. I think we would raise even more money during a normal school year.

This was our first time doing Read-a-thon. It was a great experience. We didn't raise what we thought possible but we have a very poor community, even our businesses struggle to stay open. After talking with many teachers and participants, comments were made that it would be nice to have PayPal or Venmo as a choice to make payments. Other than that, it went very well. We appreciate all the assistance given in our beginning stages, Kari was great.

We are amazed on well our Read-a-thon went!! Our students were so excited to read and log their minutes! We were blown away with the amount support we had!

I'd prefer my first automatic reward to require kids to set up an account AND send it to 3 people. I would also like to be able to print a list when they hit a threshold of 100 dollars or 3 supporters (2 prizes we added). Overall, great program. Will use again!

Your staff is immensely helpful and make it so easy with your website to host this event/fundraiser! We coincide Read-A-Thon with I Love to Read month! This year we raised over $7,000 and read over 90,000 minutes!

Our Read-A-Thon was wonderful. We has so much positive feedback from parents!

This was our first experience with Read-a-thon and everything went very smoothly! We are looking forward to receiving the check so we can start buying more books for our school. We will definitely do this again because it really stimulated a school wide/family response! Thank you!

The read-a -thon was a success for the first time running it

This was our 1st Read-a-thon and it exceeded our expectations! We were able to raise double what was expected. Students loved the incentives of staff members doing wacky activities when we reached donation milestones.

We weren't sure how much to expect to raise from this as it was our first. But we were pleased with the overall experience and the amount raised, especially since it did not create any extra expenses. The few kinks our donators experienced were quickly resolved. Admin website was very user friendly and Kari was a huge help whenever we had questions.

It was a great experience for our students and parents. Thank you!

This was by far the easiest fundraiser to do.

We just needed more of the larger read a thon posters. otherwise, it was a complete success!

This was the easiest fundraiser ever!

This fundraiser went really well! The students read a lot and the money raised will help our school with field trips and books.

Read -A-Thon is the best fund raiser we have had in many years! We loved that it promoted reading while earning money for our PTA!

It went well for the effort. We didn't get participation from the high school. They were not interested in the rewards that were given life free recess etc.

This fundraiser was very easy to organize and complete. The kids loved it and we earned a lot of money. Well done!

We loved this fundraiser so much! We will definitely be participating in another read-a-thon next year.

Our Read-a-thon was amazing. The website was so easy for all of our students and staff to access and use. Read-a-thon’s support staff was extremely helpful with any questions we had as well as easy to get ahold of.

We had a great experience with our fundraiser! Thank you for giving us this opportunity and we will gladly be back next year! Bethel Academy

Best Fundraiser EVER!

This was a true success! We loved the fact the staff can be involved in fundraising for their classes, and the group webpage helped us fundraise with staff who weren’t tied to specific rooms and students. We would love to be able to handle communications better- our parents largely disregarded messages sent from the Colby address, if you could develop a way to reach everyone and plug-in the school name as sender somehow would be awesome. We would also like an option for parents to donate their RAT bucks to the school if they do not want to spend in the RAT store.

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.

Great readathon!

We loved how organized the website is and the materials available for setting everything up. Our consultant Stephanie was available to help us with any questions we had. The Prize Store has fun prizes for the kids as an incentive to keep reading and participating. We had a great overall experience!

Our very first read-a-thon went GREAT!!!

It was awesome!! Thanks for everything!

Our school's Read-A-Thon went very well this year! We were able to double the amount we raised last year. Everyone was very excited to raise money to support our school's library media center. We will definitely be doing it again next year!

The children and teachers look forward to the Read-A-Thon each year. Out-of-town family members feel that they have a part in helping the school. Reading is the main focus and the children are rewarded with prizes. It's a bonus for all participates. The company was helpful, friendly, and prompt. It's the most well organized, hassle-free, easiest fund raiser ever!

Our department has gone so quickly that our budget couldn't keep up. This Read-A-Thon was focused on students reading and it gave a way for their families to support them even if they didn't live close. The company was very supportive and positive. They were always available to answer my questions. It has been the best fund raising experience EVER!.

All was great for our first R.A.T. Customer service was amazing and always answered our phone calls and questions! We will be back for another R.A.T. !

The read a thon was amazing! It was easy to use and the students loved to see the class minutes go up! Thank you for all your support!

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!!

Hi Read-a-Thon, Kari was great and very helpful throughout the process! One suggestion for improvement is to make improve the software user interface. The business support portal and email system can be better - it is somewhat confusing. Best regards, Kevin

Our Read-a-Thon was successful and surpassed what we expected given the current climate, and that at least a 1/3 of our students are learning remote. Thank you for your help, Tiffany, and thanks to Read-a-Thon.com for offering a service allowing us to reach all families both in school and at home and raise money for new books for our school library and classrooms!

We think this fundraiser was a great success. We had some teachers really take this and run with it, while others didn't even seem to mention it to their kids. We plan on doing this next year, but with experience on our side, we will try and engage the teachers more. Overall, this was super easy, well organized and a great way to raise money and encourage reading. Thank you!

It really is good. This year we didn't have anyone directly in charge and it virtually ran itself. We now have a couple of volunteers who say they would like to be part next year...so we hope to make it bigger and better. :)

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.

This program is very well designed and ran. Everything was at our fingertips and ready to use. The few issues that we had we were able to have resolved very quickly. Students love the RAT Bucks and the store.

It was a fantastic experience! All of us, students, teachers and all enjoyed this experience! Thank you so much! We will do this again!

We love how Read-a-thon brings our families together to reach our goals. The kids get excited about reading and it's a fun and easy way to raise money for our school.

The Read - A - Thon was amazing! Students looked forward to the daily pleasure reading sessions and discovered new authors to explore.

I was really pleased with how easy this fundraiser was and how much we made. We will definitely be back next year!

We really enjoyed the ease of your program. We were able to raise more funds than we expected in a short period of time. I wish there were ways to remedy duplicate readers more easily. Some of our readers had an account created at school and then created a secondary account at home. This made our reporting incorrect and required hand-counting of information on number of minutes read. I also wish there were more reports. I would like to know which teachers created class minutes and populated their classes. Finally, I wish you had more facebook ready promotional material. We ended up using screenshots more often than not and feel this area could be improved.

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

Our Read-a-thon went great. We raised more than we did last year. The site is great

I probably had it open for too long. But not too shabby

What an experience! Signing up was simple. Customer support was friendly, personal, instructive, and immediate. The printed materials sorted by number, were amazing. The website with the dashboard, reports and fundraising tools was nothing short of phenomenal! Our event had a limited timeframe and several hurdles attached to it and we still couldn't be more pleased with the outcome. Read-a-Thon will be our first fundraiser next Fall. Our goal is to triple the donations and minutes read. Thank you so much for creating such a fluid and comprehensive program.

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.

Another record setting year for Lincoln Elementary School for the Arts! I will NEVER do another type of library fundraiser as we LOVE Read-a-Thon.

I love the Read-A-Thon!! It encourages students to read while fundraising for our Literacy Center.

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 Read-a-Thon was easy to administer, the students loved it, and we hit our goal within the two weeks schedule. A win-win-win.

This year went great, I like the changes you made in your system since last year! The teachers and families really appreciate the ease of this program. Thank you!!

The online donation function works very well. However, the reporting function doesn’t work very well. It was extremely difficult to track prizes when we tried to hand them out twice a week.

The Read-A-Thon was great! This platform is so easy to use! My only suggestion would be to show readers the top five like the admin. It creates competition and they try even harder to raise/read more right at the end. Other than that, this was a great fundraiser! Thank you so much!

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

This was super easy and students loved hearing the top 5 stats each morning. I was impressed with how well organized all the materials were and how quickly they arrived.

It was great! The only thing i would change is a little more information on the hand outs to the children and parents. I had to explain a lot at first

We enjoyed having all the materials provided for us. The website for admins was easy to navigate. Your customer service was wonderful and thorough to all questions and concerns we had during our read-a-thon.

This was our first On Line Read-a-Thon and we couldn't be happier with our experience. It is a great platform to use for years to come!

We are so happy with our turnout. We surpassed our fundraising goal!

Read-a-thon was a great fundraiser! It was super easy and went really well. It re-energized our students and their love for reading.

Great and easy to administer.

We love how simple it was to raise money and how easy we could find students, do rewards and easy for our Parents and staff. We will do this again!

Super Easy! This is our second read-a-thon and it was very smooth. I do like how they can earn prizes for both donations and minutes read. Two possible suggestions... We have had parents request a pledge type model... so they could come on and pledge that they will pay $.25 for each minute their child reads.. then it encourages the children to read rather than just a flat donation. Secondly, it would be very helpful if the date printed for EACH individual reward would show. Instead, the last time an award was given to a student shows on the printout. For example... if a student gets their ice cream reward on 02/12 ... then gets their treasure chest item on 2/14, the comprehensive list will show that all items were awarded on 2/14. We also had some students that got double rewards because the system pulled them up for rewards on multiple days.

It was great!

It went great! There was a little confusion with our families who have split households and how to log in (we figured it out on our own). But we had almost all of our families participate and collect donations - it was a great program to have during the pandemic!

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!

This was one of the easiest fundraisers we have done! We had amazing participation!

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!

This fundraiser is AMAZING! I feel that people are more willing to donate to students reading efforts than to purchasing an item.

This was the easiest fundraiser we have ever done. We will certainly do this again.

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!

We absolutely loved the event! We have both in person and remote students so the Read-A-Thon was a great event and fundraiser for everyone to participate in.

What a fun easy to manage fundraiser!

It was an amazing experience! I am overwhelmed by the generousity of our students and families! Thanks for providing this awesome platform!

The Read-a-thon was another successful event for our PTA. Students participate. The tools were fairly easy to use, I wish there was one button were you could just download all the activity by each day and download one final report. An Admin tool not a by reader or by teacher just one report that downloads everything with one click at the end of the program.

This was the first year we have used an online form for the read-a-thon and everyone from the teachers and parents enjoyed how simple it was. We saw an increase in participation, reading, and sponsors which all helped us reach our goal and more. I highly recommend Read-a-thon! You will love working with their team and their system. Columbia Christian in Portland, Oregon

Our Read-a-Thon was a success! Some parents felt the initial form that went home didn't include enough of an explanation. Otherwise, we received positive feedback.

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

We had the best experience ever! Looking forward to next year!

This was the easiest fundraiser ever! It probably would have been more successful for our school if the students were on campus. Due to distance "virtual" learning there were only partial participation, but we still raised more than I thought we would!!

The read a thon went great. The printed materials that were provided were extremely helpful.

We were amazed that we made close to the same amount of money this year, when we weren't physically at school!

We had some issues with data being lost or missing at the beginning, but the team was great at handling it and also was very responsive to requests. I wish the interface was a little cleaner and the site was more user friendly, but overall we are happy so far.

Our Read-A-Thon went well. We received a lot of positive feedback regarding how user friendly the website was.

Children had a great time. It created good competition between the classrooms. But best of all they had fun.

This was a great fundraising campaign for an otherwise difficult school year. It allowed students and parents to get engaged with the school event without risk of social gatherings. I would highly recommend.

We are very pleased with the results of our read-a-thon. Our students loved winning the rewards and logging their reading minutes. It was extremely easy to manage.

This was the first online fundraiser for our school. I was very impressed with how simple everything went. I would highly recommend it to anyone. Thanks for making it a wonderful experience.

This was fantastic. I love entire platform but especially the reporting features. It allowed us to give daily shout outs to our students which helped keep them engaged. ~ Briddell Family Foundation

We had issues understanding the method that students could read at school and at home. A video to teachers describing when and how to get students to sign up at home and then use it at school may help.

I am holding off comment until we go through the prize phase. I am hoping there is a decent selection of prizes for the students. Truthfully, I expected to receive more donation. 25% to give up seems like a lot based on what we took in.

We'd love some way to do different prize lists, one for K-5 and one for 6-8th because we are a K-8 school and our middle schoolers aren't interested in group prizes, or being called out for making goals.

Thank you! Choosing Option 3 helped us raise more money than last year. Looking forward to another next year.

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.

Our Read-a-thon wen very well. You made it very easy for us. Working with children is a fast paced business. I am positive that we will be working with you in the future.

We love doing our annual read-a-thon. Students, teachers, and parents look forward to this fundraiser every year.

This was our 2nd year participating in the Read-A-Thon and raised over $5,000. What a wonderful fundraiser and event for our school. I am hoping with all that is going on in the world right now that we will still get to celebrbate with our Author visit in May! Many thanks for a wonderful experience. Michelle Blum Lincoln School Edison

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!

We really loved this fundraiser. Things were very easy to follow for the most part. We talked and do wish there was a way for there to be a shorter log in for the students. Maybe the first time could be the big log in but then maybe they could make their own passwords or something. Some days the rewards were not accurate. I would check on the overall awards and things would not always show up. Otherwise we loved the program and how it was set up. We can't wait for next year.

Our Read-A-Thon did better than expected. It was our first year and I didn't know what to expect but it was easy, effective, and students were reading!! We will definitely do another one next year. Thanks for the great service.

Thank you so much for such a user friendly fundraising option! This was our districts first online fundraiser and we feel like it was a huge success!! We will definitely be hosting another Read-A-Thon next year!

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

I will let Tiffany know if we receive more feedback, but overall I thought it was a great way to raise money for our school during such a different year! I think we would consider doing this again. I especially like that people from anywhere can participate without having to order something that they don't want or need. One comment I did hear from parents was when they set up their child's reading page, they did not like being prompted multiple times to send emails, post to Facebook, etc. They were wanting to explore the reader page first and possibly reach out to sponsors then. Especially for the family that may not be able to financially support the school, but does want their child to read, I think it would encourage those parents to want to log their child's minutes reading if the student page set up had fewer prompts.

If we are doing our own prizes, I'd love to be able to customize the online prize categories. i understand that you won't be able to print the prize sheets and that is fine. We can make our own prize sheets. Bur for tracking purposes it would be great if we could customize that.

We loved the Read-a-thon and will definitely do it again next year. It was super easy to administer and I love the convenience of the website to see how we were doing throughout.

Read-a-thon.com made our annual event so much easier this year. In the past, we have counted and tabulated minutes to determine prize levels. This year, read-a-thon.com did all that work for us, and we were able to track our progress in multiple ways. Thank you.

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

We are very happy with the way our Read-a-thon went! It was stress free and by fair the easiest fundraiser we have done! We will definitely return to do more Read-a-thons.

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!!!

Love it!

The Read-a-Thon was organized well and really easy to use!

This was SO easy! We raised quite a bit of money and the students were very excited!

Our school LOVED it!! Got the students reading and our PTO made some money. A win/win for all!

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

Went very well. I believe we exceed our last 2 years of raising funds and minutes read! Thank you so much for your support!

Awesome fundraiser! We didn't get as much participants as we hoped, but we will definitely do this again next year!

It was great experience!. I think that could improve, by printing some diplomas and having more read-a- thon promotional videos and images. Also explaining the whole process since the beginning in a bulletin. This was the first time I did a Read-a-thon and I discovered how it works in different steps, and it was more difficult to plan ahead. Thanks you have great people, kari guided me all the way.

It was a great success!

Thanks! Our Read-a-thon went well despite the unusual circumstances this year. We look forward to another one next year!

Thank you to Rep. Tiffany our first Read-a-thon was very successful. We are so glad to have had the opportunity to work with your team to help us accumulate funds for our campus. We definitely would like to keep in touch to do this virtual fundraiser next year.

My read-a-thon went well for this being my first time doing this at a new school. The only advise I have is to please proofread all the information given to read-a-thon.com. All of my teacher account emails were incorrect so it made it difficult to get started. I was able to go in and fix them all, but the flyers that went home had the wrong information. I think we could have had much more success with accurate promo material. The assistance I got from the rep was awesome.

I think our Read-A-Thon went well. We had some students not participate, but not too many. I liked the ease of the read-a-thon and how it basically ran itself. I sent daily reminders to students and families, to promote this fundraiser. I think there is definite room for improvement next year

I loved doing this. Something that I would improve on, is having more templates to send out via email to the readers/teachers thoughout the 2 weeks.

It was awesome! Best fundraiser we've ever done!!

We beat our goal this year to beat $4,000! Tiffany was super helpful whenever reached out. Managing the prizes was difficult and I wished each teacher could have managed distributing prizes.

Another great fundraiser. Thanks to Kari, our rep, for all of her help. Thanks Read a Thon!!!

This fundraiser was so easy and the students had a lot of fun with it! It was a wonderful way to get students reading more! This fundraiser worked great during COVID as well!! The consultant was always available to answer questions. Thank you, Read-a-Thon!

Would like to see more certificates to print. Our students really enjoy this.

This was our first Read-a-thon, and it was easy, fun and so very safe! Tiffany was wonderful, patient, kind and so easy to work with, Thank you! I am very confident we will be doing this again!

This is one of the best, easiest fundraisers ever! Thank you for making it stress free on our part and being so prompt in answering all of our many questions that we had. It's a GREAT fundraiser to also encourage student reading and to get them excited...even if for some it was just for one week. It was WELL worth it all! Thank you so much!!

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

Our kids were excited to participate! Every morning looking at our board to see if we have reached our goals!

This year went better than expected considering our school has been virtual for over a year. Thank you to Tiffany for all of her assistance no matter the questions asked!

This was an amazing experience. We wanted to raise money for an author to come to our school. Not only did we raise enough money to do that but to also buy books for our school library. We raised over "$5,000 in 2 weeks!!! Thank you sooooo much!

This was a great experience for our school. We learned a lot from it and have plans for next years event. Plan ahead and advertise your event. Getting businesses involved is a great boost. Our kids stepped up in ways many didn't believe could happen. A success for us...

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

Once again, the easiest fund raiser! Kids are competing to read more while raising money for a great cause. Thanks for providing such a great fundraising opportunity for our school.

Due to the unfortunate events with the covid19, this was not one of best times to fund raise. Hope that everyone stays safe. Thank you for helping us out.

The Read-a-thon was a success. Our school absolutely loved it. Our students were motivated to read and our school raised money. Thank You.

This was a super easy fundraiser for our school with a great opportunity to promote reading! Will do this again!

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!

This was our first time hosting a Read-a-Thon and we are pleasantly surprised at how easy it was!

Very easy way to raise money and promote reading!

Everything was wonderful! Tiffany and Brooke were both so helpful. Any time we had a question they responded immediately, and if there was any action to be taken they had things resolved quickly and easily. Our students loved participating and we had a great response with donations considering this crazy year, and so many of our students still being remote, and the rest hybrid (2 days a weeks). I would highly recommend Read-A-Thon to others! Thank you for a great fundraiser!

We just had a record breaking Read-a-Thon for our media center and absolutely love this fundraising option! Personally, I'll never go back to the other fundraisers that our library has done.

This was the best fundraiser ever! Super easy to run and the kids were excited. I loved seeing all the encouraging messages from family on the home page.

We really enjoyed our 4 read a thon.

This read a thon was AWESOME. We raised a lot more money than we expected. It was very little work. Thank you all so Much!.

We are very happy and excited in the amount we have raised this year. Read-a-thon is extremely easy to navigate and for the parents to understand. We will definitely be participating in the Read-a-thon in the future.

This was our second Read-A-Thon and it was a huge success again! Thank you for such a great fundraiser.

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!

Our school commnity realy enjoyed the Read-A-Thon. It was very easy to handle and understand.

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.

This was our first time doing a read-a-thon and it went well. We had a great experience working with you. We will probably do another read-a-thon in the future. We needed to contact support since some of the rewards were not showing up. They were very helpful and got the problem fixed quickly.

We really enjoyed the ease of this fundraiser. We weren't expecting for students, parents, and teachers to get as excited as they did to be involved in the Read-A-Thon. Needless to say we were pleasantly surprised and are in the process of discussing doing this again next year!

We can't emphasize enough how easy this "fundraiser" was for our school! It was also a fun way to keep promoting reading as a school goal! We started our fundraiser one week before the mandated school closings and we don't feel this effected the outcome at all. It was also a way to stay connected. We will definitely be doing another one in the future! Thank you for making things so easy and enjoyable, wait what, a fundraiser, easy and enjoyable? Yep! Thanks again!

Great experience and everything was so easy! Our Rep was fantastic even though we had email issues (not her fault) and she did everything to make sure we finally were receiving them.

Super easy and quick to manage.

Great site! Very easy to use.

It exceeded our expectations. I will follow up with some suggestions

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!!!

Our Read-A-Thon went great! We are thrilled with the program and the results.

It went great (well for as long as school was open due to Covid-19).

Read a Thon went so well for the first time we ever did it! The best thing was the excitement of the students reading and competing to be on the leaderboard each day! Sparked excitement in our school!

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

Loved it! This was by far the easiest money our school has ever earned. Our students loved it and got busy reading and getting donations. We surpassed our reading goal and are planning a reading celebration to celebrate reaching our goal as a school. We will definitely be doing it again next year and will be selling advertising to bring in even more money. Thanks for making it so easy!

Thank you!!! This was super helpful and easy to use!!!

We loved this!

Oh my goodness! This fundraiser went above and beyond my expectations. The best fundraiser of all times! I didn't have to do anything. This company did it all and we got the money. How easy is that?

The process was easy, and the kids really enjoyed it!

The children loved participating in the read-a-thon. This was super easy to run.

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!

It was a great experience for our students.

I loved it!

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!

Even during this virtirual learning, we had a great experience. Thank you very much!

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!

This was a great fundraiser to help build up our reading school library!

The kids were super excited and the respond from the school community was great! Probably the best fundraiser we have planned! Thanks!

What an easy way to raise money for our school! Thank you for making things so easy!

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!

We absolutely loved participating in Read-A-Thon. From logging in the first time to ending the it, everything was easy to do. Our associate,Kari, did an outstanding job of answering our questions in a quick and timely manner. RIdge raised over $1500 before we even went live with our Read-A-Thon. Parents loved the online tool and sharing via social media. We did make it a school competition and teacher and students tired to raise the most money or read for the most minutes. Unfotunately our fundraiser was cut short due to our state closing our schools. We continued to post but did not recieve many donations.

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.

It was great and the online process was easy to use! Parents loved it!

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

It was fun and easy! There are a couple of items that need improvement, however, if we decide to use this company again.

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

It was great. It might be a nice idea to include possible templates for certificates that can be printed for students (participation, most minutes read, most money raised,etc.). Just a thought. Thank you!

It went well. Thanks for your help!

This was so easy! I think we would have done much better in a "normal" year where our kids were all on the same schedule and the teachers could be more involved with encouraging it. We will definitely have to try this again in the future!

So easy to use and no volunteers needed!! This has really been helpful since volunteers are hard to come by at our school!

What an amazing program!! It was just as easy as it is advertised! Our school raised over $3000 and it took very litter effort. The best part is we got to see home much our students love to read and they got credit for doing so. Our personal Team Member, Tiffany was excellent!! We will definitely use this program as a fundraiser again.

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 and very easy to do! We can't wait to do it again!

I love doing the Read - a - Thon! This is the second one we did. It is so user friendly and Tiffany was so helpful! She was always quick to get back with me and answer any questions we had. The students were excited and motivated to participate. We will definitely be participating in another Read-a-Thon next school year!

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

Another great Read a Thon Thanks! One comment from a teacher is they would like the ability to enter individual student minutes, in addition to adding to the class as a whole. Also, I wasn't able to tell where to check for any outside donations came from Facebook. Perhaps add a sections in the Donations report for Facebook. Thanks again! Malissa Knight

We greatly enjoyed participating in the Read-A-Thon fundraiser. It was extremely easy to manage and did not require much time. It was also "hands off" as far as items passing hands, so no worry about germs. We will definitely participate in another Read-A-Thon.

Some parents did not like the online fair idea. But not many. We are going to include a question about this on our end of the year survey. The younger teachers took to this really well! Overall, it was very easy and saved me, the Reading Coordinator, a lot of work.Thanks to the person who thought of this!!

We had a much more successful Read-a-thon than expected, which is wonderful! However, in the pages that are pre-printed for each student, it would be helpful for there to be a Spanish translation on that same page, or at least a line written in Spanish explaining that more information could be found online in Spanish. I would have also liked to see the dates of the Read-a-thon on those pages, as well as our PTA email address. We have a problem with flier blindness, so having more info on one page, rather than more pages, would be helpful. Thank you!

Read-A-Thon went so well for our first year doing anything like this. It was so much simpler than any of those catalog fundraisers. Friends and family of our students really responded and seemed excited to support this fundraiser.

Things went very well and we are looking forward do doing another one next year!

The Read-a-thon went well. Families seemed to love it and scholars were excited.

I thought it went very well. We were very happy. I can see how I will do things differently next time but for our school being half virtual, I think it went very well.

This was an easy program to use and to share with the families! Kari has been INCREDIBLY helpful and patient answering my questions and helping us! I am hopeful that when we do our next event the students will be back on campus so we can really get the excitement level high and read more minutes and earn more donations!

Westwood Elementary found the Read-a-thon to be an incredible way to encourage our students to read in and outside the classroom. They were so excited to hear the top minutes read throughout the school.

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!

It was a great experience. The neat thing was the entire school read the same book. It was just great to discuss and talk about the book with everyone. Teachers and students really enjoyed the process.

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

It was great fundraiser for our school! There was some feedback that the initial amount listed for donation was a bit high and discouraged some contributors. Also we had at least student get "locked out" of their account which never did get resolved.

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!

We had to abbreviate our big push due to Covid 19. Out of sensitivity to families and their financial situations, we only had one week of solicitation. We raised about half of what we earned last year, however, we chose the 75% model this time, so we won't see as much profit. Overall it has been a good experience working with your company and we hope to work with you again next year.

Tiffany has been great through the entire process!

It went really well! Thank you for all of your help!

The Read-A-Thon has been such a success for our school. We have done it for 2 years now and it couldn't be simpler. It is a great way to raise money for the school. My favorite part is that it gives reading at home a kick-start. Thank you for making this so easy and fun!

Read-a-thon was a big hit! Student

Everything was so easy as the administrator and the team was always willing to help! We will definitely do this again!

This has been such a wonderful fundraiser!! We will do it again next year for sure. I love that we promoted reading to children as we raised money for our school.

Thank You!

This was a great first experience. There was a little hiccup with several donations duplicating one night. Those seemed to get cleared up, however, I did not receive and email in response to my concern. It seemed pretty easy for the teachers and parents. Thank you!

Despite doing everything online this your with no in-school PTO suppose we raised more than I expected and it was pretty easy to manage.

Another great Read-a-thon in the books!

It went great for the beginning two weeks. I personally made it too long of a time period. But your suggested 2 weeks would have been perfect. This is have the best fundraiser so far this year for our trip. I will be doing this again in the future!

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.

RAT is truly a great fundraiser. So simple and it encourages kids to read. A great and positive activity. It doesn't get any better!

Then Read-A-Thon went better than we expected and are planning to do it again next school year. The only complaint I had was it not really being explained well on the take home papers what the students had to do to get donations/sponsors and read. Other than that it went great.

We love doing the READ A THON!!

Everything went smooth this year.

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 had such a wonderful time participating in the Read-A-Thon! Our students loved reading everyday and enjoyed having guest readers come in to read to their class. . Families, friends and our community were beyond generous and we couldn't be more grateful for their contributions!

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

The readathon was a great way to get kids involved in reading and boost self-esteem!