Sugar House Rotary Club
The Sugar House Rotary Club in Utah was featured in local media for their Dictionary Project. Wally Brown and Chuck Baker (pictured) guided students through their new dictionaries, showing them…
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Rotary Club of Paradise Valley
The Rotary Club of Paradise Valley in Arizona has just completed their 16th annual Dictionary Project! They have donated over 40,000 dictionaries to students in their community. Rotarian Charles Berry…
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Rotarians in Indio, California, visited 12 elementary schools in their community. They were able to provide over 1,200 third grade students with dictionaries. While at the schools, members helped the…
Read Article βGroups Collaborate to Bring Dictionaries to their Entire County
Bluefield and Princeton Rotary Clubs have teamed up with Concord University and Bluefield State College to donate dictionaries to students in Mercer County, WV. Dr. Guy Sims, Dean of Students…
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Happy Valley Grange #322
In October, Happy Valley Grange in Washington provided nearly 300 students in Riverview School District with dictionaries. The students were glad to receive dictionaries of their own, and were also…
Read Article βThe Dictionary Project Honored at National Grange Convention
The Dictionary Project was recognized at the 2019 National Grange Convention. Our director Mary French was presented with this document, which reads: “WHEREAS, the founding document of the Grange –…
Read Article βSt. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church, Cantonment, FL
St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church in Cantonment, FL donated dictionaries to students in Escambia County. Their project was featured in local media. One comment from a parent at Jim Allen…
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The Rotary Club of Picayune donates books to students at Heritage Christian Academy in Picayune, MS. We are delighted that this image is the first thing you see when you…
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United Way of Colquitt County, GA
United Way of Colquitt County, GA, was featured in local media for their annual Dictionary Project. Backed by donors in their community, the group aims to provide a dictionary to…
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Rocky Roland, President of the Kiwanis Club of Alpena, Michigan, sent us a note expressing his gratitude for the Dictionary Project. He shared with us that the club had provided…
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St. Jude Ladies Society
The St. Jude Ladies Society in Escambia County, Florida, has finished their 2018-2019 Dictionary Project! They visited 4 schools where they provided a dictionary for each third-grade student.
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Izabela Garcia
9 year old Izabela Garcia was so excited when she received her dictionary this year that she was inspired to start a project of her own! So far, she has…
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