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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 2008 are are Community Center of Shawnee, Gift of Life Foundation, KVC Behavioral Healthcare, the Rotary Foundation and its Youth Leadership Institute.
Community Center of Shawnee
Community Center of Shawnee offers a hand up to help those in the community who have nowhere else to turn. They provide assistance to over 30,000 individuals and families in Johnson County.
The organization was founded in 1990 as Shawnee Community Services, who is now a thriving thrift store. Proceeds from the store are only part of the financial services they provide to the community
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the Community Center of Shawnee Website
Gift of Life
Gift of Life supports the 93,000 Americans waiting for life-saving transplants, 5,000 of them in Kansas and Missouri. They offer local education and awareness of the critical need for organ and tissue donations.
Their flagship program, Life Savers, is an educational presentation offered to high school students across the area. The objective is to encourage students, their peers, and especially their family about the concept of donation. 80% of families who decline to donate organs of a loved one make that choice because they did not know their loved one’s wishes. Gift of Life is dedicated to improving this statistic through the youth in Johnson County.
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to visit the Gift of Life Website
KVC Behavioral HealthCare, Inc.
KVC Behavioral HealthCare provides healthcare, social services and education to more than 3,000 children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse, neglect or abandonment. They commit to finding families for every child in their care.
KVC also provides emergency shelter, outpatient medical and behavioral care, case management, parent training, and in-home family therapy, among other services. Their mission is to enrich and enhance the lives of both children and families.
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to visit the KVC Behavioral HealthCare, Inc. 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 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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