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11 July 2022

MEDIA ADVISORY/PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: WoodGreen Community Services is hosting a reading of What Can You Do with Just One Dollar? — a new children’s book about the empowerment of giving

Toronto, Ont. – On Tuesday, July 19, WoodGreen will be hosting a special book reading of What Can You Do with Just One Dollar? — a new children’s book written by the Executive Director of The WoodGreen Foundation Teresa Vasilopoulos, which illustrates to children the power of giving.

What Can You Do with Just One Dollar? focuses on diversity and inclusion, showing that all kids, regardless of their background can make a big difference. The book’s illustrator, Vic Guiza, is an award-winning illustrator with experience with top brands such as Disney and Marvel Comics. Vasilopoulos and Guiza collaborated to create a visually inclusive and representative story so readers of different cultures, situations, or experiences can see themselves in the characters and dream about how they can give or help others as it relates to their own life. What Can You Do with Just One Dollar? is self-published by Vasilopoulos with all the proceeds going to WoodGreen Community Services.

Members of the media are invited to attend the event.

WHAT: A reading of the new children’s book What Can You Do with Just One Dollar?

WHEN: Tuesday, July 19, 2022

TIME: 10:00 a.m.

WHERE: Bruce Early Learning Centre, Bruce Public School, 51 Larchmont Ave. Toronto, Ont.

WHO: Teresa Vasilopoulos, Executive Director of The WoodGreen Foundation and author of What Can You Do with Just One Dollar?

PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: Teresa Vasilopoulos, Executive Director of The WoodGreen Foundation, reading her first-ever children’s book at story time for the children of the Bruce Early Learning Centre. Each child will be gifted a copy of the book.

ABOUT TERESA VASILOPOULOUS: Teresa Vasilopoulos is a fundraising executive with a 25-year track record of leading highly successful multi-million-dollar campaigns. Her career in philanthropy spans leadership roles in the health, education, youth, poverty, social services, and international development sectors. Teresa has a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) designation, an EMBA from Queen’s University School of Business, and is a director on The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Foundation for Philanthropy of Canada, and AFP GTA Chapter Boards. She recently received the AFP Global Outstanding Fundraising Professional Award for 2022. Teresa hopes to inspire young readers to see beyond their own needs and find happiness through doing good.

ABOUT WOODGREEN COMMUNITY SERVICES (woodgreen.org): WoodGreen is one of Toronto's largest social service agencies, serving 40,000 people each year. We offer over 75 programs and services tackling the social determinants that affect the health and well-being of individuals in our community.

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For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact: Jen Mayville, Marketing & Communications Manager; [email protected]; (437) 226-8091 (cell)