Urban Rangers Resource Center
Our Current Project: Urban Rangers Resource Center
By President Debra Anderson
The club has chosen the Urban Rangers Resource Center as our major service project this year. Urban Rangers would like to transform a room (pictured) in their building on Swope Parkway into a resource center with computers. It would become a place where Rangers and neighborhood kids could do homework, work with tutorials, do Internet research, and study in a safe, well-equipped environment. The Plaza Rotary Club would provide the labor and the funds for the center, aided by a District Simplified Grant from The Rotary Foundation. Rangers would help with some of the labor. The project meets a community assessed need, is sustainable and measurable, and meets the Rotary areas of focus of Basic Education & Literacy and Economic & Community Development.
This is a project where we can truly “Engage Rotary, Change Lives,” and there are many ways for you to help make this a successful Rotary project, including:
- Send your favorite quote or inspirational story to Frances Reddis (frances.reddis@usdoj.gov) and Debra Anderson (debanderson@me.com) for inclusion in the binder for the rangers.
- Donate a dictionary, thesaurus, or book appropriate for high school or middle school youths.
- Donate or help locate furniture. We need:
o 6 tables 60”x30” for computers, plus 12 chairs, such as 5 star pneumatic rolling office chairs or sledbase chairs
o 2 bookcases
o A seating arrangement – loveseat and chair or beanbags, side table
o Carpet – 40 sq. yards (carpet squares preferred)
o 1 – 14,000 btu/h window air conditioner
- Sign up to work. Tentative work dates:
o March 29 – wall repairs, prep work
o Apr 19 – paint walls and ceiling
o Apr 26 – install furniture
o May 3 – install computers
- Contact Debra Anderson, Kile Morrison, or Denise Holt if you have things to donate.