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Each year the Overland Park Rotary Club
selects charities to receive money raised by the Star Spanged Spectacular
event. Charities selected for the year 2010 are Girls on the Run of Johnson County, Heartstrings Community Foundation, Smiles Change Lives, the Rotary Foundation and its Youth Leadership Institute.
Girls on the Run of Johnson County
Girls on the Run educates and prepares girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living. Girls on the Run is a nationwide, curriculum-based running program that came to the Kansas City area in late 2006.
Click here to visit
the Girls on the Run of Johnson County Website
Heartstrings Community Foundation
Heartstrings Community Foundation assists adults with developmental disabilities in living meaningful, productive and independent lives through employment in the community.
This is accomplished by building successful and enriched business relationships using the expertise and practices of the HCF® model.
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to visit the Heartstrings Community Foundation Website
Smiles Change Lives
Smiles Change Lives (SCL) promotes and provides access to life-changing, essential orthodontic treatment for children from low-income families. We are the link between qualified children with severely crooked teeth and misaligned jaws and the caring and talented community orthodontists who want to help.
For the underprivileged kids served by SCL, getting braces during their adolescence creates tangible and immediate benefits, as well as improves their prospects of building a better future for themselves—the ultimate return on investment.
Click here
to visit the Smiles Change Lives Website
Overland Park Rotary Club Youth Leadership Institute (YLI)
Each summer the Overland Park Rotary Foundation conducts a week long program
for approximately 50 high school students. The program's objectives are
to promote civic engagement and citizenship. Participants in the program
study discuss and apply leadership concepts, skills, models, styles and
methods.
Students work as part of a team to prepare and present small group
projects. In addition, the program includes teambuilding exercises at
Adventure Woods, participation in a diversity awareness program and work
sessions with Johnson County leaders.
Click here
to visit the Youth Leadership Institute Website
Overland Park Rotary Club Foundation
Rotarians are dedicated to humanitarian service, high ethical standards in
their business and personal life, and the promotion of understanding and
harmony in the communities in which they live. The Overland Park Rotary
Club Foundation fosters and supports charitable and educational programs in
fulfillment of the object of Rotary. The Foundation funds are distributed
either as specified by a particular donor, or at the discretion of its Board
of Trustees. Foundation funds recipients have included Polio Plus,
Southeast Asia Tsunami Relief, The Deanna Rose Farmstead Children's
Playground and students seeking college scholarships.
Click here to view the 2009 Overland Park Rotary Club Recipients
Click here to view the 2008 Overland Park Rotary Club Recipients
Click here to view the 2007 Overland Park Rotary Club Recipients
Click here to view the 2006 Overland Park Rotary Club Recipients
Click here to view the 2005 Overland Park Rotary Club Recipients
Click here to view the 2004 Overland Park Rotary Club Recipients
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