Volunteerism Has No Geographic Boundary: Wally Brown
Situated between the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Mountains, Salt Lake City is a beautiful reminder of how geography plays a huge part in implementing a project β especially…
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Sponsor Spotlight: Parke Pepper, Rotary Club of Senatobia, MS
A common theme here at The Dictionary Project is the power education can have on a personβs life. Basic education, like reading and writing, gives a person independence and the…
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Sponsor Spotlight: Walter Boomsma, Valley Grange #144
Enthusiasm is important to the success of any project, but it is not the only ingredient. Although enthusiasm is frequently the catalyst, the jump-start that gets the engine going, it…
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Sponsor Spotlight: Jody Melcher, Kiwanis Club of Nevada, IA
It takes a special person to devote their life to education. Teaching requires creativity, ingenuity and most of all patience, especially in schools with little resources or with students who…
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Fundraising Idea: Poetry Auction
Writing β putting pen to paper β gives people the amazing ability to express their feelings, thoughts and emotions. It is a way to organize or deconstruct ideas, make thoughts…
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Rotary Club of the Smithfields: Nearly 500 Dictionaries Given to ESASD Students
Article from the Pocono Record Posted May 19, 2015 The Rotary Club of the Smithfields completed its 10th annual delivery of 475 dictionaries to the East Stroudsburg Area School District…
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Mercer Third Grade Students Get Free Dictionary
Article from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 PRINCETON β During a ceremony Thursday, Mercer School third grade students received personal copies of Websterβs Student Dictionary. Although…
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Lakota Students Receive Dictionaries from Rotary Club
Article written by Eric Schwartzberg, Staff Writer for the Journal-News A local non-profit organization is dedicating time, energy and funds raised toward encouraging education while promoting community involvement. Rotary Club…
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Fundraising Ideas: Host a Golf Tournament
The Beacon Elks Lodge #1493 has been a pillar in the community for 90 years. Their goals are to include the principles of CHERITY, JUSTICE, BROTHERLY LOVE and FIDELITY. The…
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Heights Couple Distributes Dictionaries to Third-Graders
Article written by Todd Martin, Harker Heights Herald A Harker Heights couple is laboring to help educators inspire students to love learning. Anthony and Sarah Triola made their eighth stop…
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Kiwanis Club of Portage Changing the Community One Child at a Time
Article written by Andrew Rowe, PortageLife.org Since its founding in 1915, Kiwanis, a coeducational service club, has been dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a…
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Pompton Lakes Rotary Gives Out Dictionaries to Local Schools
Article written by Dorothy OβConnor, NorthJersey.com With literacy as a key to better reading, speech and writing, Rotarians once again made their annual visit to Lenox, Lincoln, St. Mary’s and…
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