OUR CURRENT FUNDRAISING PROJECT

Completed Projects

1. Ferndale Schools

• The Oakland Press: Bloggers work to get more words into the hands of eager young people
• Woodward Talk: Roosevelt students honor MLK with Peace Walk
• Essential Elements: Dictionaries Bring Happiness to Third Graders in Ferndale School District
• Looking Glass Lane: One Book; Endless Meaning
• Detroit Moxie: The Power of Words & the Potential of a Child

About the Collaboration

Female bloggers from the local Detroit area are coming together with PositiveDetroit.Net and Operation: Kid Equip, to provide for at least 25% of Oakland County Schools with dictionaries for third graders.

Erin Rose of Positive Detroit, Becks Davis of Detroit Moxie, Nikki Stephan of  Essential Elements, Jennifer Wright of Looking Glass Lane, and Lauren Weber of Staircase to Earth’s Loveliness all spend much of their time writing for their respective blogs and want to help give the same opportunities to local students as they were given in their writing classes as children.  They want to help our local students become better writers.

Through this collaboration, along with The Dictionary Project, we will be distributing dictionaries specifically written for third graders who are at the dividing line between learning to read and reading to learn.

Now, through March 15, 2010, we are raising money to provide roughly 2,700 third graders in Oakland County with brand new dictionaries. To give you an idea of the impact you can make, for a $20 donation, you can supply at least 8 third graders with dictionaries.

An anonymous donor has graciously offered to match donations, dictionary-for-dictionary, up to the first 100 dictionaries. Can you just see the excitement on their faces and hear the kids when they receive these gifts?  Just think, your donation today, can double the amount of children that are being served tomorrow.

Here’s how you can help:

1. Click Here to make a PayPal donation for $100, $50, $20 or $10

2. Mail a check payable to:

Operation: Kid Equip
PO Box 364
Royal Oak, MI  48068-0364

Be sure to write Dictionary Project in the memo line.

3. Contact menachem@operationkidequip.org to make a credit card or other form of payment outside of PayPal.

4. If you would like to join the female bloggers collaboration with your blog, contact Erin Rose at positivedetroit@gmail.com.