{"id":22928,"date":"2016-08-04T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=22928"},"modified":"2016-08-04T15:26:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T20:26:30","slug":"clarksvilles-downtown-kiwanis-club-receives-ups-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2016\/08\/04\/clarksvilles-downtown-kiwanis-club-receives-ups-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarksville&#8217;s Downtown Kiwanis Club receives UPS Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-178722\" title=\"Kiwanis Club of Clarksville\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Kiwanis-Club-of-Clarksville.jpg\" alt=\"Kiwanis Club of Clarksville\" width=\"240\" height=\"40\" \/><strong>Montgomery County, TN<\/strong> \u2013 The Kiwanis Club of Clarksville (Downtown) was recently awarded a $10,000 grant from the UPS Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second year that Kiwanis has been awarded this grant and it will be used to continue to support children\u2019s literacy in our community.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_353108\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Clarksvilles-Downtown-Kiwanis-Club-receives-UPS-Grant.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353108\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-353108\" title=\"(L to R) UPS Business Manager Jeremy Gossett, Kiwanis Club Board Member and UPS employee Bo Kitchen and Kiwanis Club President Phillip Tucker.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Clarksvilles-Downtown-Kiwanis-Club-receives-UPS-Grant-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"(L to R) UPS Business Manager Jeremy Gossett, Kiwanis Club Board Member and UPS employee Bo Kitchen and Kiwanis Club President Phillip Tucker.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-353108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) UPS Business Manager Jeremy Gossett, Kiwanis Club Board Member and UPS employee Bo Kitchen and Kiwanis Club President Phillip Tucker.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Kiwanis President Phillip Tucker states, \u201cEach year Kiwanis provides books to third graders in twelve elementary schools of the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System. This book distribution program began in the 1980\u2019s and last year alone, 2,000 books were given out! This initiative is made possible, in part, through UPS Foundation grant. We appreciate UPS believing in our mission and are grateful for their continued support. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Kiwanis Club of Clarksville (Downtown) was formed in 1920 and is now comprised of over 100 active members. Founded on the principal \u201cYoung Children: Priority One\u201d, Kiwanis works to improve the lives of youth throughout our community through events such as local Key Clubs, the annual Interview a Veteran essay contest, hosting a Children\u2019s Christmas Party, and the Reading is Fundamental program to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvillekiwanis.org\" >www.clarksvillekiwanis.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montgomery County, TN \u2013 The Kiwanis Club of Clarksville (Downtown) was recently awarded a $10,000 grant from the UPS Foundation. This is the second year that Kiwanis has been awarded this grant and it will be used to continue to support children\u2019s literacy in our community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[26600,103,5617,8950,160,28753,395,28823],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-5XO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22929,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928\/revisions\/22929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}