We have been donating for over five years and it is our Rotary Club’s favorite activity.

Glenwood Rotary Club provides dictionaries to all third graders in Mills County, Iowa, at three different schools. Some of the students previously given dictionaries are now using them in high school.

This is our first time to participate, and we are really excited to be able to do this in the first year of our becoming an organization.

This will be our 6th year donating the dictionaries. We are grateful that you offer this project to us!

This is an excellent program. This is our seventh year distributing dictionaries, and the third graders are very excited to receive them.

The Rotary Club Pasadena Texas delivers a student dictionary to every third grader in the Pasadena Independent School District. This cover over 34 schools and over 130 members and volunteers to deliver the dictionaries. It is the one project that our members look forward to every year. The kids’ gratefulness and thank-you notes are such a reward that it ranks our #1 volunteer project... Read More

The Rotary Club of Hillsboro has donated dictionaries to Hillsboro CUSD 3 third graders for several years. We are happy to continue this as part of our literacy effort. The response from teachers and students has always been outstanding and makes it easy for us to decide to continue with this project.

This will be our 6th year of handing out the dictionaries. This a very good project. It is nice to see the looks on the kids’ faces when they are told that they can keep the dictionaries forever.

We have been distributing dictionaries to area third graders for a number of years, and the students and teachers are very appreciative. We are glad for the opportunity to distribute dictionaries through the Dictionary Project. Thank you for making this possible.

This is the eighth year for our project. The project leaders agree that a small grant can make an impact but a small grant organized through a strong partnership can make a significant impact. The joy on students? faces, creative thank-you letters and positive feedback from parents and teachers have inspired project partners to make The Dictionary Project an annual event. Kathy Irvine, a... Read More