Cobleskill Elks have been donating dictionaries to third graders in the Cobleskill-Richmondville School District for the past five or six years. This is the easiest project in Elks to raise money for as the benefit is intuitively obvious.

7 years of making the 3rd graders in the Rehoboth Beach area very happy! For some of these kids, this is the very first book they ever owned and could put their own name in!

This is our third year distributing dictionaries. The teachers are very happy to have the Rotary continue the program.

Our club has just started their 6th year and has been doing this project from the beginning. Everyone loves to talk to the kids and share the dictionaries with them.

This is the second year our club has sponsored this program for our county school system. The genuine thankfulness of the 3rd graders last year when they received their dictionary was priceless!

This is our 3rd year. We give the dictionaries to all the 3rd graders every year. We also check on the 4th and 5th graders to be sure they are using them (they are). Very successful, lots of good press. Great project.

The AT&T Pioneer Volunteers are a non-profit organization. We have been participating in the Dictionary Project for a number of years now. In an effort to get books into the 3rd Graders hands, we renamed the project “Sparking Knowledge to Brighten Your Future” and are including a special bookmark with each book. The bookmarks include our logo, website, project title and a quote by... Read More

Its been really fun! We put the stickers in the front cover for their names and we tell them about Rotary, do a word game, and they are thrilled to receive the books! I’m not sure who gets more out of it, us or them. It’s in third grade that the kids really use the dictionary so it’s perfect. We give the teachers and... Read More

AT&T Pioneers are pleased to help students in communities where our members live and work.

This is the second year we have donated dictionaries to local schools, and the teachers and principals are thrilled. They like it even better that we are coming in early September. Thank you for what you are doing to promote literacy.