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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 2009 are are Children's Center for the Visually Impaired, Kansas Children's Service League, Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care, the Rotary Foundation and its Youth Leadership Institute.
Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired (CCVI)
Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired (CCVI) prepares children with visual impairments, including those with multiple disabilities, to function at their highest potential in the sighted world. CCVI currently serves 212 children from more than 55 communities on both sides of the state line.
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the Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired Website
Kansas Children’s Service League
Kansas Children’s Service League’s program Healthy Families Johnson County promotes positive parenting, enhances child health and development and strives to prevent child abuse and neglect—all factors contributing to decreased child mortality.
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to visit the Kansas Children’s Service League’s Website
Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care
Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care has been caring for families in our area since 1980 to ease the physical, emotional and spiritual toll that patients and their families experience when faced with a terminal illness.
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to visit the Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care Website
Overland Park Rotary Club Youth Leadership Institute (YLI)
Each summer the Overland Park Rotary Foundation conducts a week long program
for approximately thirty 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.
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 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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