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Tony Richardson, founder of the Rich in Spirit Foundation, has always believed that doing
is more important than talking. And nothing shows that more than his support for education in the communities he calls home. With his financial support to the Dictionary Project Kansas City for the 2010-2011
school year, his donations surpass the $100,000 mark. Add his contributions to dictionary support in the Minneapolis area and the New York New Jersey areas, and it is obvious that Tony supports kids and
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More than schools!
Yes, we offer dictionaries to every third grader in every school in
the six-county Kansas City area* But are happy to go a step beyond that. Dictionary Project provides dictionaries to several homework clubs, and other after-school facilities. And this year we have
been pleased to work with kids served by the Missouri Department of Youth Services, Northwest Region. |
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Dictionary Project Director Chris Hope, working with kids at Missouri Department of Youth Services, Waverly facility
These are kids trying to put "success" and "magnanimous" into their every day life. We are happy to help. |
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* We target ALL third graders (public, private, home-schooled) in Missouri counties Jackson, Clay, Platte, Cass, Lafayette, Ray, Clinton, and Kansas counties Johnson,
Wyandotte, Miami, Leavenworth and Atchison |
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How do those stickers get inside of 25,000 dictionaries? And why? |
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First the "why" part -
We think that it is important that the student knows that some
individual person, group, or company thought enough about them to purchase and present this dictionary. So we want them to know "who did it.And the "how" -
Organizations that sponsor schools and make
the presentations to those school generally make up their own sticker and insert them themselves. However, our major sponsors do not have the manpower to do this so we take care of this. |
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Enter, the United Way Day of Caring. In June each year, the United Way of Greater Kansas City matches organizations with one-day needs
(such as us) with companies, labor groups, and community orgainzations who want to help. And for the last four years, we have been blessed with enthusiastic volunteers.We have been joined in past
years with employees from Sprint, from Alliant Tech Systems at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant and from . And on June 13th this year, employees from the IRS, from Social Security, and from Hallmark Cards joined us.They are smiling, and so will the the thrid graders in the fall. |
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We can add a new shirt to our group! |
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THANKS TO YOU ALL ! |
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