P-1639

Dictionary Project

Description

Financing

Documents

Photos

History Logs

Project Description

Country: USA

Location: Kearney County, Nebraska

Total Budget: $1,175

Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy

Activity Type: Education: Literacy

Summary: Very nice age appropriate dictionarys to be distributed to third graders in three public schools in Kearney County, Nebraska.


We have been doing this project for a number of years. This project puts a personal dictionary in the hands of every third grader in our county, both public and home schooled students. This is a dictionary that is the student's property. We put a nice sticker inside the front cover of the book with the student's name on it. It can be taken home, or used at school. We have had positive feedback from the teachers of these children. Some of the teachers use them in the classroom also. We see this as a way to aid our schools in that they may not have to spend budget dollars on dictionaries for the students. It also puts a very nice textbook quality book into the hands of students. We believe this in important at this time as many dictionary exercises can be done on the computer. We believe that in some homes this may be one of the few books a child will actually have that is theirs, perhaps even the only one. It also is a project that gets our Rotary club involved in the schools. We commonly will have two to four Rotarians distribute the dictionaries to the students in the classroom. We use this as an opportunity to get some exposure for the project and our club in our local newspaper.

We typically order the dictionaries in the late summer after getting a count of the students, and take them to the schools in November. We have one of our members lead the project and have volunteers help pass them out.

The costs for the project are for the dictionaries themselves, which last year was $1,012.00.

Project Contact Person

District: 5630

Rotary Club of: Minden

Primary Contact: Kevin Raun

Email: kevin.raun@me.com

Project Status

Completed
This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners.

Project listed for the 2017-18 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Minden (5630)

13-May-17

$225

$950

$1,175

Total

$225

$950

$1,175

Project Supporting Documents


[25-Sep-17]
990 form verification


[10-May-18]
dictionary invoice and grant deposit


[14-May-18]
final report


[25-Sep-17]
MOU form


[10-May-18]
project invoice


[10-May-18]
project invoice

 

Project Photos

History Log Entries

13-May-17

System Entry

System Entry: Creation of project page.

17-Jun-17

by Scott McLaughlin

System Entry: Project reverted to "Published".

17-Jun-17

by Scott McLaughlin

System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged".

26-Sep-17

by Vickie Klein

System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.

26-Sep-17

System Entry

System Entry: Project signed by Kevin Raun.

26-Sep-17

by Vickie Klein

System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee.

26-Sep-17

by Randy Kratochvil

System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer.

14-May-18

by Kevin Raun

System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded.

14-May-18

by Don Peterson

System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.

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