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CHARACTER COUNTS! golf tourney raises $20,000

One hundred golfers enjoyed beautiful weather and challenging greens during the Seventh Annual “Tee It UP” for CHARACTER charity golf tournament April 30 at Monarch Country Club in Palm City.

This year’s event raised nearly raised nearly $20,000 as the sole fundraiser for CHARACTER COUNTS!, a program of United Way of Martin County, that provides character-building activities in schools, civic organizations and businesses.

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Click the image above to view a CHARACTER COUNTS! video produced in collaboration between the Adult Day Club of the Council on Aging, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Martin County East Stuart Youth Initiative and the City of Stuart.

(Or, click here to download.)

Joe Kordick Youth Character
Awards 2008-09

The Joe Kordick Youth Character Awards are presented each year to honor middle and high school students whose lives demonstrate an enduring commitment to good character. The annual awards are named after the late Joe Kordick, founding chairman of CHARACTER COUNTS! in Martin County, who left a legacy to sponsor the awards.

Nomination forms for schools

Nomination forms for community

Nominations guidelines

See the honorees for 2008-09 >>

  

CHARACTER COUNTS!
Family Fun Day

Laughter and music filled the air at Flagler Park in downtown Stuart Oct. 4.

CHARACTER COUNTS!, a United Way of Martin County program, sponsored Family Fun Day with the help of CHARACTER COUNTS! staff and 60 volunteers.

“It was great seeing so many families enjoying time with one another,” CHARACTER COUNTS! Director Holly Laiben said. “We wanted to offer an event where parents and their children could relax, interact and have fun together – I think we accomplished that and more.”

Click to read press release >>

 

Mini-grants boost
CC! in schools

CHARACTER COUNTS! awarded 16 mini-grants totaling $13,770, to faculty and staff in the Martin County School District to enhance and enrich their schools’ character education programs.

Click here to see reports and pictures from the minigrant projects during the 2007-08 school year.

CHARACTER COUNTS! reports

Here are links to forms for organizations implementing CHARACTER COUNTS!:

Mid-year implementation report form // Year-end implementation report form

Instructions for downloading these Microsoft Word files:

Right-click on the link, select "Save Target As..." and save the file to a location on your computer. After saving the file, you may open it on your computer and complete it using the appropriate software.

 

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