The RIF of NOVA "Book It For Books" 5K/One-Mile Run/Walk

is Back in 2021!

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Save the date and join us for our biannual 5K/One-Mile Run and Walk to raise funds for books for NOVA children! The date: October 16, 2021. The place: Bluemont Park in Arlington, Virginia. The race is up on the PR Race website for runners and walkers to participate in person or virtually...check it out by clicking right here!

Note: We are obviously keeping an eye on the Covid situation and will make adjustments as necessary. We will provide updates via this website, the RIF RAP newsletter, the PR race site, and our social media. Please stay tuned!

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Several sponsors have joined in to support Book It For Books, and we hope additional sponsors will join in! Sponsors make the difference to the success of our fund/fun-raiser and in our ability to provide books for vulnerable children in our community! Please let us know if you, a group of friends, or your company would like to be a Book It sponsor. Sponsorship sign up info can be found here. We look forward to working with you and featuring your name/company on our website and all our media!

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In super news, we have a Pulitzer Prize sponsor -- Lucky Dog Films! The company produces entertaining television shows for the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, National

Geographic Wild, HGTV, the Travel Channel, and the DIY Network. Programs include Dr. Oakley/Yukon Vet, Invention Hunters, Building Off the Grid/Desert Domes, and Pop Up Hotel. Conceived in 2008, LDF is a leader in non-fiction programming with works filmed and produced around the world -- from the harsh extremes of the Yukon to the gorgeous hilltop towns of the Italian countryside. Thank you, Lucky Dog Films!

Meet our other sponsors by clicking here. We hope you will become one of them!

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Why a 5K? So we can fund books for NOVA children! 

Click on the video above to watch some of our favorite RIF of NOVA book activities -- putting books into the hands of deserving children (both before and during the pandemic) and raising funds to do so through our Book It For Books 5K/One-Mile Run/Walk!
-- Video produced by Emily Head

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Look at the faces of children who have chosen a NOVA RIF book during the pandemic, both below and on our photo gallery page. Please click here!

And what does one book mean? It turns out that involvement in a RIF book program can change a life. Please listen to Ingrid Bynum, principal of Patrick Henry K-8 School in Alexandria, during an interview at her school's NOVA RIF book distribution in October. Plus, as Principal Bynum points out, because NOVA RIF provided books, parents at her school were not "forced to choose between essential reading material and food."

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$3 = one book = one child!

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If you'd like to help, please send a check to the post office box listed below or click here or on the Donate box on any page to donate online. Your generous donations to the cause of literacy for children in our region will be most gratefully appreciated.

Because of you, RIF of NOVA kids will be able to choose books of their own, even in a pandemic!

With sincerest thanks,
Members of the Board, Reading is Fundamental of Northern Virginia

Reading is Fundamental of Northern Virginia, Inc. 
P.O. Box 7012
Arlington, VA 22207-0012                                
Phone: 703.528.3763
Fax: 703.528.1993
rifnova@gmail.com

Please connect to our Resources pages to see lists of children's book ideas for:

Graphic Novel Resources for Children
Covid-19 Resources
Black History Month & Diverse Book Resources
Hispanic American Heritage Book Resources
Strong Girls/Women Book Resources
Environmental Book Resources

Check out our latest newsletter, the RIF RAP, to learn more about RIF of NOVA and the children we serve! To subscribe to the RIF RAP, please sign up here. 

"Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams
and more reading helped me make my dreams come true." -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."
-- Beverly Cleary