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California
Rainbow Girls
Making a Difference
LET EACH OF US
CONTRIBUTE
SO THAT ALL OF GOD'S CHILDREN MAY SURVIVE
SERVICE:
Rainbow Girls are dedicated to service. They run so that others may walk; they swim so
that someone else might hear; they wash cars so that others might have freedom from a
wheelchair; they have bake sales so that a child may have the breath of life; they wash
dishes so a child may go to camp. California Rainbow Girls have worked to serve others,
earning over $1,000,000 in the past 14 years. Their reward for service is that
indescribable feeling within one's heart when we've made someone else happy in attaining
our own goal. |
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2009 |
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|
2008 |
$89,136.73 |
 Dogs
4 Diabetics |
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2007 |
$85,385.44 |
Additionally, 859 pints of
blood were donated by Rainbow members and supporters to various blood
banks during the year. |
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|
2006 |
$74,089.08 |
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|
2006 |
$25,200.00 |
Additional value of items donated for care packs. |
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|
2005 |
88,818.62 |
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|
2005 |
$339,505.00 |
Value of hair
donated to:
 |
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| 2004 |
$90,907.16 |
a theatrical
and educational program for deaf and hard-of-hearing children |
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| 2003 |
$108,567.11 |
Children's Cancer Camp |
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|
2002 |
2597.60 |
Special
Donation to the New York Widow's and Children's Fund |
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| 2002 |
$106,306.77 |
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| 2001 |
$94566.82 |
Speech
and Language Development Center
Dedication of Rainbow Room on Valentines Day, February 14, 2004 |
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| 2000 |
$100,787.14 |
Jacob's
Heart Cancer Association |
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| 1999 |
$85,876.37 |
Blind
Babies Foundation |
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| 1998 |
$82,663.78 |
Canine
Companions for Independence |
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| 1997 |
$80,845.98 |
Shriners'
Hospitals for Children, Sacramento Unit |
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| 1996 |
$76,090.69 |
Multiple
Sclerosis Research UCLA School of Medicine |
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| 1995 |
$76,025.43
$1,039.39 |
American
Melanoma Foundation
(second amount was in name of Rainbow) |
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| 1994 |
$67,000.00 |
California
Scottish Rite Childhood Language Disorders Clinics |
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| 1993 |
$73,650.56 |
Duchenne
Muscular Dystrophy Research |
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| 1992 |
$81,190.22 |
Eastfield
Ming Quong Foundation |
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| 1991 |
$80,552.54 |
Ahead
With Horses |
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| 1990 |
$87,090.54 |
Camp
de Los Ninos
Rainbow Scholarship Fund |
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| 1989 |
$104,553.50 |
The
Blind Children's Learning Center |
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| 1988 |
$108,160.08 |
Canine
Companions for Independence |
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| 1987 |
$96,069.00 |
Mary
Martin Trauma Center, Janet P. Gaynor Memorial Library & Airlifeline |
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| 1986 |
$102,000.00 |
Alisa
Ann Ruch Burn Foundation |
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| 1985 |
$114,787.00 |
Make
A Wish Foundation and
California Rescue Dog Association |
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| 1984 |
$79,000.00 |
John
Carpenter's "Heaven on Earth Ranch for Handicapped Children" |
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| 1983 |
$65,000.00 |
Rainbow
Park |
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| 1982 |
$62,835.00 |
Hearing
Dogs, San Francisco SPCA |
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| 1981 |
$ |
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| 1980 |
$ |
Camp
Harmony - California Rainbow Camp
(fund currently helps girls attend camp)
Rainbow Scholarship Fund |
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| 1979 |
$51,187.95 |
Children's
Village, USA (for abused children)
now Childhelp USA |
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| 1978 |
$35,000
$18,600 |
California
Rainbow Scholarship Fund &
Special Service to someone in need - 27,000 hours
Muscular Dystrophy Association (special project) |
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| 1977 |
$30,000 |
Blind
Children's Center, Los Angeles |
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| 1976 |
$37,000
approx. |
Purchased
school bus for transportation for deaf children to the State School for the Deaf in
Berkeley.
A donation to the John Tracy clinic in Los Angeles.
Purchased a cell separating machine for a hospital in San Francisco in honor of Charla
Garden, Past Grand Honorary Drill Leader, who died from leukemia. |
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| 1975 |
$22,000 |
Jill
Kinmont Indian Education Fund |
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| 1973 |
service hours |
Service
hours cleaning up and beautifying the outdoors. "This is Our Father's World" |
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| 1972 |
$ |
guide
dogs |
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1971 |
$7000 (approx.) |
Aseltine School for
neurologically handicapped children - donated 2 specially equipped
15-passenger vans,
playground equipment, sewing machines, typewriters and various other
items. Also, assisted with swimming lessons.
from Marlys Martin Perovich, PGWA on 3/30/2006:
"I just saw the paper work for the van the other day. We actually bought
two 15 passenger vans and each was about $3,300. Boy those were the
days. So I think our grand total was about $7000, plus donations and
volunteer time. We didn’t add up service points back then, just on an
individual assembly (girl) count and we didn’t ask for them. Now
Aseltine is a big school and has regular buses. Hmmm…I wonder where our
little bus went." See you soon…Marlys |
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| 1967 |
$ |
Newcastle
School for Exceptional Children |
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|
1966 |
$5900 |
from Pat Chinn Schlichting,
PGWA on 3/30/2006:
"My year we raised $5,900 for a swimming pool lift at the Washington
School in Los Angeles. The lift made it possible for wheelchair bound
students to participate in water therapy. Today, that sounds like such a
small amount. But, it was the most ever raised and I was so proud of my
assemblies for giving so generously. To relate the amount raised - that
was the same amount that I received as a salary for my first year
teaching. I still remember going to the school and giving them the
check. The staff was so appreciative. I will never forget the feeling I
had nor the experience. I was one very proud Rainbow girl - that I
belonged to an organization that could in some way, change lives." |
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| 1964 |
$ |
Rainbow
Scholarship Fund |
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| 1963 |
$3,875 |
El
Dorado County mentally retarded children |
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| 1962 |
$4,120 |
Playground
equipment for the Sunshine School in San Diego |
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| 1961 |
$4,300
$1,000 |
Casa
Colina (a nine-passenger station wagon)
Casa Colina (for insurance and maintenance) |
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| 1960 |
$4,000 |
Rainbow
Scholarship Fund |
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| 1959 |
$4,400 |
Butte
County Schools handicapped and hearing impaired children |
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| 1958 |
$5,000 |
Janice
Allen Fund (eye operation) |
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| 1957 |
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| 1956 |
$3,500 |
Landscaping
for Hillside House, a cerebral palsy facility in Santa Barbara |
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| 1955 |
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| 1954 |
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Janice
Allen Fund |
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| 1953 |
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Community
service |
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| 1952 |
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A
Grand Piano for Supreme Headquarters in McAlester, Oklahoma |
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| 1951 |
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Layettes
for Navajo babies in conjunction with the Save the Children Foundation |
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| 1950 |
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| 1949 |
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Janice
Allen Fund began
(from a Mother Advisors report:
"The report given by Mrs. Smith for the blind baby shwos $3,600 in donations
received. A trust fund has been formed and all legal actions have been taken to care for
this child. She is in the hands of an aunt and no one of the family can use this money
only through the trust fund, and if the baby should pass away the money will be rturned to
those who donated it or out in trust for a similar case and all monies raised for a
specific case in Rainbow must be used for that and that alone." " A request was
made by Mrs. Cooper for each Assembly to donate $5.00 toward the OES home for an addition,
before the first of October. Also she asked taht we purchase five doll heads and make and
dress them for the Navajo Indian children." |
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| 1948 |
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Grand
Assembly charitable undertakings and
Veteran's Home at Yountville, CA |
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1947
1946 |
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Wheel
chairs (about 100) for disabled WW2 veterans. |
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| 1945 |
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| 1944 |
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These
were difficult times and Rainbow activities were limited due to the curtailed
transportation situation. Our projects were aimed at winning the war and helping the
service men. We didn't have one project, but each assembly did as much as possible. After
Official Visits, we would go to the USO and help entertain the service men. Why, the Grand
Officers even wore defense stamp corsages!
(POG, GA issue 1962) |
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| 1941 |
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"My
official visit messages were devoted to appeals to help by buying war bonds and stamps, or
by serving or entertaining at USO clubs." (GWA Lita Dal Porto, POG, GA issue, 1962 |
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| 1940 |
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The
girls and assemblies concentrated their efforts on making Rainbow better known to the
Masons and Eastern Stars who sponsored them. |
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