Since 2007, the Madera Elks Lodge No. 1918 has proudly partnered with The Dictionary Project to promote literacy and learning among local students. To date, the Lodge has donated an impressive 37,752 dictionaries to third-grade students in the Madera and Chowchilla communities. Each year, Lodge members raise funds to purchase dictionaries for students in 27 local schools, ensuring that every third grader receives their very... Read More

For many people, The Dictionary Project is about promoting literacy, learning, and a love of words. But for one couple in Fargo, North Dakota, it also became the beginning of a love story. Ryan McManus and Heather Ranck of the Fargo-Moorhead Rotary Club first met years ago while volunteering with their local Rotary Club to distribute dictionaries to third graders — part of Fargo’s... Read More

Members of the Rotary Club of the Plainfields recently joined forces with students from the Interact Club at North Plainfield High School to prepare nearly 1,100 dictionaries for distribution. Together, they applied special labels identifying the books as gifts from the Rotary Club and the Plainfield Foundation, which provided a grant to support the project. These dictionaries were then delivered to every third-grade student... Read More