Three Cups of Tea and a 1/2 Marathon

I am currently training for a 1/2 marathon in Pennisula State Park. The race is May 1st. Many of you know I did this last year as a fundraiser for the Thoreau School Playground. Thanks to many of you, I raised a little over $480.oo and that money is sitting in the Thoreau PTO playground fund. I'm hoping to raise $500.00 this year.
It appears the playground momentum has been put on hold, so I was considering organizing an All-School Literacy Event for our next school year. Three Cups of Tea is a book by and about Greg Mortenson and his ability to open schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The chapter book is available in an adult version and a student version. Another book called Listen to the Wind is a picture book on the same topic. I'd like to work with a small literacy committee to plan some reading events around this book and then use the money raised from my running to buy copies of the book for each of our students. The book has a fundraising element attached to it as well, called "Pennies for Peace." It might be that we'd incorporate that into our book events. Some math integration too? The pennies we raise could then be split between helping support school openings abroad and replenishing our "big books" in the book room. Remember how we ran out of money to do that?
I'd be curious to know your thoughts on these ideas. And is anyone interested in joining a Literacy Action Committee yet this spring?