Any ideas for donating to some sort of reading program?

[Anonymous]

My niece is turning ten and doesn't want anything for her birthday. She has very wealthy parents (but a poor aunt) and has everything she could possibly want. She doesn't answer my texts so my idea of sponsoring her favorite animal won't work because she won't tell me what it is, her dad says she doesn't want a karaoke machine, or a name necklace or art projects or any one of my other thousand ideas.

I know she likes reading and goes to the library every other week with her dad so I was thinking is there some sort of reading /library/book program for poor kids that I could donate to in her name? (She told me not to buy her books since she just reads them once and gives them back to the library.) Like a book program that sends books to kids monthly or something?

Does anything like this exist? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My niece is turning ten and doesn't want anything for her birthday. She has very wealthy parents (but a poor aunt) and has everything she could possibly want. She doesn't answer my texts so my idea of sponsoring her favorite animal won't work because she won't tell me what it is, her dad says she doesn't want a karaoke machine, or a name necklace or art projects or any one of my other thousand ideas.

I know she likes reading and goes to the library every other week with her dad so I was thinking is there some sort of reading /library/book program for poor kids that I could donate to in her name? (She told me not to buy her books since she just reads them once and gives them back to the library.) Like a book program that sends books to kids monthly or something?

Does anything like this exist? Thanks!

I think Dolly Parton has a charity that operates like that. I think it is called The Imagination Library, but I don’t know any details.

[Anonymous]

Plant a tree for their birthday

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plant a tree for their birthday

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I already did that for her when she was born.

[Anonymous]

I think they want you to back up a little and stop with the gift giving.

[Anonymous]

Everybody Wins DC

[Anonymous]

Donate to the library? and then take her out for ice cream.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My niece is turning ten and doesn't want anything for her birthday. She has very wealthy parents (but a poor aunt) and has everything she could possibly want. She doesn't answer my texts so my idea of sponsoring her favorite animal won't work because she won't tell me what it is, her dad says she doesn't want a karaoke machine, or a name necklace or art projects or any one of my other thousand ideas.

I know she likes reading and goes to the library every other week with her dad so I was thinking is there some sort of reading /library/book program for poor kids that I could donate to in her name? (She told me not to buy her books since she just reads them once and gives them back to the library.) Like a book program that sends books to kids monthly or something?

Does anything like this exist? Thanks!

What a beautiful sentiment.

Depending upon your budget, you might want to consider donating new shoes to local public school kids located in a low-income/ high need area. In our area, it is the first time for many students to ever own a new pair of shoes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they want you to back up a little and stop with the gift giving.

This. Give it a rest OP. She doesn't return your texts so why bother?

[Anonymous]

Just do $20 in a card if it's important to you to give her something.

[Anonymous]

Donors Choose usually has many literacy projects where you can purchase books for classrooms. This is a good time of year to do it. Look for a project that yiu can finish off with your donation.

https://www.donorschoose.org/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Donors Choose usually has many literacy projects where you can purchase books for classrooms. This is a good time of year to do it. Look for a project that yiu can finish off with your donation.

https://www.donorschoose.org/

I was coming to post this myself
You can give her a gift card and let her choose who to donate it to

Also my kids school library has a donation program. The book gets a sticker 'donated in honor of Larlas 10th bday' and Larla gets to check it out first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Donors Choose usually has many literacy projects where you can purchase books for classrooms. This is a good time of year to do it. Look for a project that yiu can finish off with your donation.

https://www.donorschoose.org/

I was coming to post this myself
You can give her a gift card and let her choose who to donate it to

Also my kids school library has a donation program. The book gets a sticker 'donated in honor of Larlas 10th bday' and Larla gets to check it out first.

As long as op is ok with the money sitting used. I don’t think a 10 year who doesn’t return her aunts texts (and whose family has discouraged giving without a positive idea in return) is going to follow through

[Anonymous]

Sitting unused

[Anonymous]

Donate civics textbooks somewhere. That's what people really need.