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Dictionary project

The Annual "Dictionary Project" - Each year, CVC members contribute towards and volunteer to distribute dictionaries to Syracuse City School District 3rd graders. Many companies and individuals participate to create a better learning environment for the city school students.

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Syracuse Firefighters helping with the distribution of dictionaries to the third graders!

Syracuse Elementary Schools Visited:
Bellevue
Delaware
Ed Smith
Franklin
Syracuse Latin (Formerly Hughes)
Huntington
HW Smith
Salem Hyde
Dr. King
LeMoyne
McCarthy at Beard
McKinley-Brighton
Meachem
Porter
Roberts
Seymour Dual Language Academy
Van Duyn
Webster
Dr. Weeks

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CVC CELEBRATES THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF DICTIONARY DAY

For the past 10 years the Corporate Volunteer Council and members have purchased and presented to every third grader in the Syracuse City Schools.
 
This year we supplied dictionaries with thesauruses combined at a cost of $2.50 per book as well as Spanish dictionaries where needed. Our members managed to supply over 1,400 books for happy students across the district.  

This year our CVC sponsors were:  Armory Capital Management, LLC, Bousquet Holstein, PLLC and Grossman St. Amour, CPAs PLLC; Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC; Carrier Corporation; FIXit Zone/Syracuse University; Fust Charles Chambers, LLP; GE Sensing and Inspection Technologies; Gilberti Stinziano Heintz & Smith, PC; Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and 100 Black Men of Syracuse; Lockheed Martin; SUNY Upstate Medical University; Syracuse Fire Fighters Association, Local 280 IAFF; and University College of Syracuse University.  

 
Syracuse Inner City Rotary Club remained a partner with CVC in this project and once again, sponsored Bellevue Elementary School. 
 
Special thanks goes to the following people who generously gave of their time to install the bookplates in the dictionaries: Cristina Jardine (AccessCNY/Young Leaders United); Katelyn Allen, Matthew Berrigan, Mary Katharine Buckley and Sheila Graudons (Fust Charles Chambers, LLP); John Percival (GE Inspection Technologies); and Shavel Edwards (United Way of Central New York).
 
Thanks to one and all for your continued commitment to CVS's  annual Dictionary 
Project! 

CVC PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: DICTIONARY DAY 2012

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Thursday, November 15, 2012 was designated CVC Dictionary Distribution Day by the Syracuse City School District.  This was the seventh year that members of the Corporate Volunteer Council of Central New York distributed English and Spanish dictionaries to 
more than 1,600 very happy third graders.

This year our CVC sponsors were:  Armory Capital Management LLC, Bousquet Holstein PLLC, Grossman St. Amour, CPAs PLLC and Rescue Mission; Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC; Carrier Corporation; CXtec/TERACAI; Excellus BlueCross BlueShield; FIXit Zone/Syracuse University; Fust Charles Chambers LLP; GE Sensing and Inspection Technologies; Gilberti Stinziano Heintz & Smith PC; Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, 100 Black Men of Syracuse and Dunbar American Legion Post 1642; Lockheed Martin; SUNY Upstate Medical University; Syracuse Fire Fighters Association, Local 280 IAFF; United Healthcare Community Plan and University College of Syracuse University.  Thanks to all of you for your generous support!

Once again, the CVC members were joined by Syracuse Inner City Rotary Club which 
sponsored Bellevue Elementary and Southside Academy Charter School.  Also, we need to acknowledge the support of the following people who so graciously volunteered to help behind the scenes:

Kevin Magdon and the Doubletree Hotel Syracuse for providing the venue for dictionary storage, applying bookplates to the dictionaries and distributing the books to 
the CVC sponsors.

Those who volunteered to apply bookplates in all the dictionaries were:  Kelly 
Redmond, Debbie O’Neill, Liz Lawler, and Liana Prosonic from Fust Charles Chambers 
LLP; John Percival and Anne Milne from GE Sensing and Inspection Technologies; and 
Linda Goldsworthy, Andrea Nagle, Laura Fairbanks, Liliya Bezhenar, Rebeca Caceres, 
Kim Marsh and Michael Hart from United Healthcare Community Plan.

Thanks to one and all for your continued commitment to the CVC and support of 
community service programs including the annual Dictionary Project.

Look at those happy faces thank to Carrier Corp! 
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Upstate Medical is a great partner in our dictionary day project.
The team at Bond, Schoeneck and King distribute dictionaries 

Location

Corporate Volunteer Council
518 James Street
Syracuse, NY 13203
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315-428-2211

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