If you can’t make the Rite Care golf tournament this October or be a sponsor but would still like to give – YOU CAN!

All you need is a paypal account, (the same one you use if you are a regular on EBAY) and click the link below.  We have just started a DONATE $10.00 and tag 10 of your Facebook friends – forward an email fundraising campaign.  I have set a goal of $5,000, which is a Platinum Sponsorship.  For those of you who can’t play golf, take the day off or live out of town/state, leverage the power of your facebook friends by copying and pasting the following message and then “tag” 10 of your friends by posting on their facebook wall or sending an email.

Copy and paste below to their wall:

“I just gave $10.00 to the Rite Care Children Language Disorder Clinics of NC and I am asking you to do they same!  Click here to watch a video about the great work of these clinics sponsored by the Scottish Rite Freemasons, here to read why Gilbert Bailey is personally connected to Language Learning and started this challenge and here to make a $10.00 donation via paypal!  Then forward this to 10 of your friends.  Thank you for changing the future of a child forever!”

Then add this as a link to the wall post: http://childrenlangctrsnc.chipin.com/rite-care-children-language-learning-centers-of-nc

NOTE: If you would like to pay by check and use a corporate match call: 704) 365-3579
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You can start by clicking the orange “chip in” button and make a donation. 

On October 3^rd and 4^th The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for North Carolina will be holding the “Rite Voice Charity Golf Tournament” at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club in Durham, North Carolina.  This tournament will raise money for the North Carolina Rite Care Language Learning Centers.

Click here to watch a video and learn more about the Rite Care Children’s Language Learning Centers.

There will be a Silent Auction and Banquet the evening before golf is played.  All of the proceeds will go to fund the 3 Rite Care Children Language Learning Centers located in North Carolina:

• The Charles & Geneva Scott Scottish Rite Communication Disorders Clinic / Appalachian State University Clinic – Boone, NC
• North Carolina Scottish Rite Center for Childhood Language Disorders / Scottish Rite Temple – Charlotte, NC
• North Carolina Scottish Rite Clinic for Childhood Language Disorders / East Carolina University – Greenville, NC

Scottish Rite Masons began their commitment to the cause of helping children with language disorders more than twenty-five years ago. Since that time nearly 100 Scottish Rite Centers have been located throughout the United States, including 3 in North Carolina.  These centers are staffed by speech-language pathologists and other trained personnel.

Children that might have remained educationally handicapped for a lifetime can now talk, read and lead useful lives. Miracles can happen and with skillful evaluations and treatment, miracles are happening in the Scottish Rite Treatment Centers all over America.

Since the 3 Rite Care Children Language Learning Centers located throughout our state are a charitable project of the North Carolina Scottish Rite Masonic Foundation, there are no fees for these services. All services are available to families regardless of race, creed, color, or handicapping conditions.

To register to play golf, attend the banquet-auction or become a sponsor download the registration from below:

For more details contact Gilbert Bailey, 704-650-3682,  gilbert@beanstalkdata.com or visit our tournament’s office website.

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This is what our wonderful Ladies do at our Learning Center! Thanks Anne, Debbie & Wendy!

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Food Lion Supermarket has a great program that makes it easy for you to help support our Charlotte Scottish Rite Children’s Language Learning Center. Please sign up! The code for our center is 23360. A portion of your proceeds will go directly t…o help our kids learn to overcome their reading challenges! Thanks Food Lion

http://www.lionshopandshare.com/

Food Lion is currently working to enhance our Lion Shop and Share program. On this site you will be able to learn about frequently asked questions, view current participating organizations, enroll your MVP card to support a participating organization and review contact information. We will not be enrolling additional organizations for participation until we announce our new enhancements. Look for our announcements that will detail our program enhancements and the exciting new features available with our new program offerings.

Food Lion is involved in the local communities in which it serves, and Lion Shop & Share is our way of helping your community grow and prosper. It is the easiest, most convenient way to raise money for your local not-for-profit organziation. Each time you shop at Food Lion and use your MVP card, a portion of your total grocery purchase will be donated to your organization.

We’re excited to welcome Charlotte Scottish Rite Childrens Learning Center to GoodSearch and GoodShop! More than 69,000 nonprofits and schools are now participating in our program and 100 new organizations are joining daily! Your organization is up and running on our two sites:

• GoodSearch.com – The search engine with a unique social mission. It’s powered by Yahoo!, so you get great search results, and each time you search, GoodSearch makes a donation to your cause! 
• GoodShop.com – The new online marketplace that donates a percentage of your purchase to the nonprofit or school of your choice. You can choose from hundreds of popular merchants and the experience of shopping through GoodShop is exactly the same as going to the retailer’s websites directly.

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1. Represented at five (5) Spring, Summer and Fall Festivals

2. Even though we were not out to recruit members we talked to several men with interest in membership and their names and phone numbers were passed to the lodges in their area.
3. The reputation of Masonry is excellent, out of the hundreds we spoke with, only one man talked negatively about the fraternity and thankfully he approached me.
4. Shrine Hospitals are well know, however, the Learning Center and the Masonic Home at Oxford do not have such a reputation yet.
5. We met men and women with smiles on their faces as they recalled The Children’s home at Oxford home.
6. Parents are proud of the improvement in students, who have been helped by the Learning Center Teachers. You can’t comprehend what goes on in this building until you talk to students, parents, and grandparents and hear how lives have been turned around because of the Learning Center and these talented Teachers.
7. The success this year is due to 6 Masons. Our plan is to be back next year taking advantage of what we learned this year, and the need for other’s to get involved with us is great. We have ask to come to fish fries and bar-B-que’s with our displays and talk about our charities. We have even received 2 calls from Lodge’s across the state that would be impossible to get to at this time.
8. I have said before we are not on anyone’s budget or committee, we, through the generosity of several Brothers have paid our expenses.
9. We own our own tent, two 8 foot displays, tables, chairs, pictures, and signs.
10. Our plan was never to attempt to raise money for the charities, our plan was to disseminate information on our charities. People came by and insisted we take their donations, it was never much, but we have an account of every penny and it will be divided with the three charities in December.
11. Is there a way we could become a fund raiser for the Charities? We will be talking about this and other idea’s over the winter.
12. May I say again, we plan to do this next year. Come help us, it feels good. 
Fraternally, Don Wilson