Here is a sample of an email written by two of our students, Kim and Erik Appel. Feel free to use this as a template for your own personal email to send to friends and family.

Thanks Kim & Erik!

Dear ______________,

We are doing a fundraiser for our school by reading. We were hoping that you could sponsor us by either a pledge or an amount per minute (for example, you could pledge $10 or you could pledge $0.01 per minute). The fundraiser started 10-2-09 and ends 10-25-09. Kim so far has read 510 minutes and Erik has read 330 minutes. We hope that you can pledge some money for each of us soon and if you do we will tell you what amount you owe us if you do per minute and when to send the money to us. Also, 100% of the money goes to our school, no companies are doing this with us so hopefully we get some nice new stuff for our school!

Thanks a lot!
Kim and Erik