Our Firm Foundation News from the Capital District Kiwanis Foundation My fellow Kiwanians of the Capital District, we joined Kiwanis for various reasons, because of our children and grandchildren, a desire to support our local community or other personal reasons. In the end, we come together to lend a helping hand to “Serve the Children of the World.” I would like to personally thank you for all that you have done supporting the Capital District Kiwanis Foundation during this extremely difficult 2019-20 year. The COVID-19 pandemic forced our Kiwanis members/clubs into difficult financial times. Throughout all this hardship, you still found the ability to donate to the Capital District Kiwanis Foundation through your clubs, including this year’s Ducky Derby. Through your generosity, the Capital District Kiwanis Foundation is able to continue to assist people in need, particularly young people; to assist worthy youth in attaining vocational excellence; and to aid people with disabilities in carrying out happy, useful lives. From April 2015 through July 2020 your generous donations of $87,431.95 supported numerous clubs through the Foundation’s grant program, stretching across the Capital District – Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and DC, and projects to support the following: weekend meals for young minds, playgrounds, education materials (Books for Scholars, Children’s Literacy Expansion Program (CLEP)), Head Start, support to a HS program for students with challenges-health issues, family problems, food assistance, and numerous more. During the 2019-20 Kiwanis year, CDKF provided $25,000.00 in grants to clubs. Your club donations provided $9,321.00 from 79 Capital District clubs and once again, I say “Thank You” for reaching down deep into your pockets in supporting the Foundation’s “Ducky Derby” with ticket sales netting well over $10,000.00, which will assist our continued support of the nine Pediatric Hospitals and Centers. I am truly humbled by your generosity and promise that as Capital District Kiwanis Foundation President, along with my phenomenal Board of Directors, we will push the limits of the Foundation to do all that we can to support the children of the Capital District given the uncertainty the future holds for all of us. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Sincerely, Mike Dasovich, CDKF President The Capital Kiwanian
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