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Taylorville Kiwanis Club Announce Grants for Non-Profits Benefiting Children, Youth

The Taylorville Kiwanis Club is helping 4 local non-profit organizations in projects benefiting children and youth.  It was announced at Tuesday’s Kiwanis meeting, that 250-dollars will be given to the Taylorville Police Benevelent and Protection Association to help fund their “Shop with a Cop” Christmas campaign which last year enabled 86 children to buy Christmas gifts; and 500-dollars is going to the Christian County Coal Miner’s Museum, to help them towards building the top of a simulated coal mine to educate school children on the cultural and economic importance of coal mining in the County.

 

Other Taylorville Kiwanis Club grants are going to Camp New Hope near Mattoon, with 525-dollars being donated to enable one Christian County developmentally disabled youngster to attend a week of summer camp.  The last of 4 grants from the Kiwanis Club is 600-dollars going to the Family Beekeepers of Illinois, to enable one student to participate in their youth beekeeper program.

 

The 4 grants came from applications submitted to the club’s Funding Committee.  Next year’s grant application cycle will begin in August of 2022.

The Taylorville Kiwanis Club is part of global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time.  Weekly meetings are held Tuesdays at noon at the Taylorville Moose Lodge.  For information on the club, go to taylorvillekiwanis.com.     

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