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Altrusa International, Inc.
332 S. Michigan Ave.
Suite 1123
Chicago, IL 60604
Voice: 1-312-427-4410
Fax: 1-312-427-8521
Email:
altrusa@altrusa.com
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Club Plans and Projects
Over the years, Altrusa clubs have been very involved in participating in Make A Difference Day. You can view the different types of projects that clubs have participated in by searching below.
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| Year | Club Name | Description of Club Plans |
| 2009 | Akron, OH |
Akron Altrusans opted to do TWO projects this year in honor of Make a Difference Day. Several members will be going to Pegasus Farm (a riding stable for medically & emotionally handicapped children) to help with Fall Cleanup around the farm. Also, members again purchased school supplies over the summer for the middle-school students at Akron Opportunity Center (a last-chance school for kids who've been unable to handle a standard school environment).
Contact person:
Paula Reese
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| 2009 | Anaheim, CA |
"Hope Reads" - Collect/Deliver gently used adult books to UCI Cancer Clinic book shelves. For adults reading pleasure who are receiving treatments/checkups at the clinic. We will provide books on an ongoing basis.
Contact person:
Judith Gunderson
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| 2009 | Anderson County-Palestine, TX |
Members collected books, pens, pencils, crayons, coloring books, sketch pads, and chalk and combined them in bags with sample sizes of shampoo, conditioner and soap in bags to donate to the Rainbow Room of Anderson County. The Rainbow Room supplies children with personal items when they have been removed from their homes by CPS. Many of these children are removed with only the clothing on their backs.
Contact person:
Laure Bruner
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| 2009 | Arecibo, PR |
Our club is aware to the fact that children are vulnerable to sexual abuse and will conduct the workshop, How to Protect my Body, at an elementary school.
We expect to give them the tools they need in order to protect themselves.
Also each student will receive an appropriate book to start their own library.
Two groups of 25 students will attend the workshop.
Contact person:
Maida Rios
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| 2009 | Bangor, ME |
Our club will be collecting magazines, and distributing them to area laundromats and other public places. We hope to make available to those who would not otherwise have them, magazines and other books to improve literacy. We have done this project in the past, with great success.
Contact person:
Martha Porter
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| 2009 | Bermuda, BERMUDA |
The Bermuda Club will be continuing to support "Reading Counts" by holding a fund raising bake sale and information booth at The Marketplace in aid of the Heron Bay School Library Project of re-stocking the entire library. Students will be doing a"reading rockathon" at the same time with the students taking turns in the rocking chair and reading a favorite book. Maenwhile special inserts have been given to book club members when they collect their books at the local bookstore to encourage them to consider donating a book to Heron Bay library and show their support for "Reading Counts" and assist the children to attain "Star Words"proficiency for their age group.
Contact person:
MargueriteLovell
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| 2009 | Bloomington, IN |
We will collect and donate school supplies to Teachers
Warehouse, a free store for public school teachers. Their
mission is to serve the educational and creative needs of
children in South Central Indiana.
Contact person:
Glenda Chestnut
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| 2009 | Branch County, MI |
“Make a Book on Make a Difference Day” – Our club will be at libraries in the area: Coldwater, Bronson, Quincy. Our project will involve working with younger children to make their own “book”. The children will be making the pages of the book using stamps, stickers, letters, crayons, etc. The pages are put in plastic baggies, paper punched and tied with a ribbon. The child will then have a book they have designed and can be read by them or by an older person to them. Objective is to promote literacy while encouraging the child’s creative side to be displayed.
Contact person:
Barbara Rosene
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| 2009 | Caldwell County, NC |
Our club members have planned to have a storytime for elementary aged youth at our local library and piggyback off Halloween. We will dress as friendly book characters, give away treats, and read books aloud to those in attendace.
Contact person:
Angie Ashley
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| 2009 | Canton, IL |
We are working with the Fulton/Mason Crisis Service for Women to establish a library of self-help &
inspirational materials for adults and books for children. We are purchasing a bookcase, and we
have received donations of books from various businesses as well as individual members.
Contact person:
Peggy Hilton
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| 2009 | Central Coast, CA |
Central Coast plans to remodel the witness protection/waiting area (2 rooms) at the local courthouse. Included in this project are plans to provide book cases with children and adult books and magazines which will be then maintained. We feel that this very vulnerable population needs all the support we can get.
Contact person:
Bea Goyette
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| 2009 | Central Connecticut, CT |
We are presenting our second annual Altrusa Women's Health Awareness Day in
memory of an Altrusa sister, Jane Tarca, who lost her battle with cancer too early.
Our hope is that if one person learns of early detection mechanisms, then our mission would be a success.
Many community health units are manning booths at the function, and we have a guest speaker, Jacqui Germain, D.O. to speak on health issues.
Contact person:
Kathleen Didato
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| 2009 | Central Texas, TX |
Our club will be conducting a book drive to gather books appropriate for children and adolescents. These books will be included in our reading/hygiene bags we are distributing to patients at the newly created Metroplex Hospital Pediatric Unit.
Contact person:
Margot Cox
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| 2009 | Chapel Hill, NC |
Around our country many groups are working to provide nutritious food for the weekend for children on subsidized breakfast and lunch plans at their schools. In our community this program is known as TABLE. In the past our club has purchased food items and assisted with packing the backpacks provided to the children for the weekend. Earlier this fall the director of the local TABLE program talked to our club. A number of UNC-Chapel Hill student volunteers are packing the backpacks on Thursday afternoons so that they are ready at the end of the school day on Friday. TABLE has received generous donations of the needed food items and does not need this kind of donation at the moment. However, they are desperate for cash to buy foods at the last minute to fill out packs where items were missing. Our club decided that, while this would not involve “hands on”, it would meet a definite need and will make a donation of $500 for Make a Difference Day which should cover most of the school year.
Contact person:
Fran Alguire
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| 2009 | Charlotte, NC |
Altrusa International Inc. of Charlotte is planning to participate in a YMCA community event called Howl’o’Ween on October 24. This event is geared towards families with approximately 1,000 attendees expected. Altrusans will be distributing children's story books that were donated to the club to help promote literacy.
Contact person:
Jeraldyn Rivest
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| 2009 | Chillicothe, IL |
Provide two (2) Cassette PLayers and twenty (20)
Books-on-Tape for Heritage Manor Nursing Home
residents.
Contact person:
Pat Parr, President
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| 2009 | Chula Vista, CA |
We plan to pack 45 backpacks with crayons, books, and other supplies and goodies and deliver
them to Mi Escuelita, a pre-school operated by a local community services agency, South Bay
Community Services (SBCS), for children of families affected by domestic violence. Most of the
children at the pre-school come from Casa Seguras, a battered women and children's shelter operated by SBCS.
Contact person:
Shauna Stokes
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| 2009 | Cincinnati, OH |
We are a very small club with only 4 members. We ALL volunteered this past Saturday morning, October 24th at an organization called Operation Give Back to wipe down and bleach clean all chairs, tables, keyboards, and other surfaces to help prevent children and staff from acquiring the swine flu. We also made copies and file folders for their programs to help with office organization. The Director of the organization, Wendetta Langston, couldn't thank us enough saying it would have taken her and her husband all weekend to do what we accomplished in a few hours. Our group had fun and got a chance to get to know each other better through service to others.
Operation Give Back is a non-profit organization that inspires and empowers children to improve their lives and communities by creating opportunities for learning life skills, and allowing them to use their time, talents and resources to help others. They provide After School Programs to children to receive monitoring in personal development and life skills while promoting literacy through academic tutoring and homework help. Operation Give Back also provides community outreach opportunities meeting the needs of individuals, assisting senior citizens and revitalizing neighborhoods. I am confident that OGB will continue to be a partner with Altrusa in the future.
Contact person:
Jill Castanien
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| 2009 | Collin County, TX |
We are presently holding a fundraiser. The money will go to purchasing books for the children's library at the Samaritan Inn, the only homeless shelter in Collin County. We will deliver these books and refurbish the library on Oct. 24.
Contact person:
Dana Hartman
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| 2009 | Columbus, OH |
7 Club members read stories and played games with approximately 60 children plus their parents in the YWCA Family Center (homeless families)and gave away yoyos, juice, and about 200 books on October 1. On October 27, 6 members coordinated a story teller who presented to about 20 incarcerated teenage girls who are felons. The Club provided 25 teen books to be used as behavior rewards.
Contact person:
Joan Arnold
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| 2009 | Denton, TX |
Denton's annual delivery of 500 "Pedi-paks" on Make A Difference Day is and will continue to be a great success. Our little packet of coloring book pages, crayons, paper, stickers and a special coloring book, "What is a HOSPITAL?" (written by one of our own members) just might make children visiting the hospital just a less afraid of being in a scary place. This is a project enjoyed by all members as we cut and punch wallpaper pages, lace up sides and finally get to stuff these packets of joy!
Contact person:
Belva Gibson
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| 2009 | Downtown Dallas, TX |
Downtown Dallas club’s Make A Difference Day project: the screening of “Two Angry Moms,” a documentary about nutritional literacy and the fight to improve school lunches.
Please consider this our “pre-MADD report.”
Contact person:
Dorothy Nowlin
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| 2009 | Eugene, OR |
In the interest of expanding our outreach to include more diversity, Altrusa International of Eugene, Oregon consulted with the fifth grade teacher at Warm Springs Elementary School, located on the Warm Springs Reservation and part of the Jefferson County School District. At his request, we purchased and contributed the following:
· 120 new or gently used books for grades 3, 4 and 5, including many books about Native American culture and historical role models
· One large circular reading table
· Two large beanbag “J” chairs
· Six backpacks
· 90 pocket folders
· 6 backpacks
· Writing paper
· 131 individual snack-packs appropriate for breakfast or weekends (e.g., raisins, trail mix, granola)
In the interest of expanding our outreach to include more diversity, Altrusa International of Eugene, Oregon consulted with the fifth grade teacher at Warm Springs Elementary School, located on the Warm Springs Reservation and part of the Jefferson County School District. At his request, we purchased and contributed the following:
· 120 new or gently used books for grades 3, 4 and 5, including many books about Native American culture and historical role models
· One large circular reading table
· Two large beanbag “J” chairs
· Six backpacks
· 90 pocket folders
· 6 backpacks
· Writing paper
· 131 individual snack-packs appropriate for breakfast or weekends (e.g., raisins, trail mix, granola)
Contact person:
Shelley Turner
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| 2009 | Evansville, IN |
We will be returning to the Hillcrest Home to do activities with the youth living there. These children are referred by the courts. Our club will do a variety of activities, provide lunch, give each youth a bag full of goodies, personal items and books, and each person will make a special "throw" for their personal use.
Contact person:
Nita Voorhees
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| 2009 | Fargo, ND |
Altrusa International of Fargo will be hosting a Baby Shower for the YWCA Cass Clay. We will be collecting items for the babies and children staying at the YWCA Emergency Shelter. The Baby Shower is held at K-Mart, therefore, customers can buy the items at the store and drop them off when they leave. Our club will also be donating personal hygiene items for individuals and families in need living in the community. These items will be given to the Toilet-Tree Drive which is coordinated by a local non-profit organization called FirstLink.
Contact person:
Sara Lepp
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