Please vote!

Exciting news! The Pepsi Refresh Project is back with a whole new batch of fantastic projects to vote for!

Not sure if anyone has heard of the Pepsi Refresh Project, but it’s a really cool program. Individuals and organizations can apply for funding from Pepsi, but it’s the Canadian public that decides who is worthy of this funding by voting for their favourite proposed projects. People just have to create an account and they can vote 10 times per day for different projects.

I am particularly attached to a certain project because The Word On The Street is participating! It’s Toronto’s Book and Magazine festival, who I am partial to because I may or may not work there. But I’m really excited about this project we pitched for the Pepsi Refresh Project. See our applications here.

We want to bring our festival children’s authors to Toronto schools! These authors would give mini presentations, similar to what happens at our Children’s Activity Tent, to the students by reading from their books and engaging the students with fun, interactive activities. This is a literacy initiative of  The Word On The Street Toronto. We want to provide an opportunity for Toronto kids to engage with Canadian children’s authors. We hope that this will foster a love of reading in Toronto children at a young age and therefore they will grow into readers.

So please vote for us, because I really want to do this!

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