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Building Fund
Permanent Warehouse/Office
Space For Jean Dean RIF !!!

Jean Dean RIF (Reading Is Fundamental) is now located at 1105 Fitzpatrick Avenue in Opelika. The phone number is 334-749-5631,
fax number is 334-741-0510, email address is [email protected].

Who would have guessed in December of 1990, that the Reading Is Fundamental project started that year in Alabama as a part of the Kiwanis International Young Child (0-5) Priority One Program to serve "about 2000" at-risk young children would have served 275,000 at-risk young children by 2005? Who knew the Jean Dean RIF/Alabama Kiwanis project would be the largest RIF program in the United States serving pre-schoolers from its very first year? In early 1991, when the RIF project became a part of the fledgling Alabama Kiwanis Foundation in order for donations to be tax exempt, who, in their wildest dreams, could have imagined that in order to secure permanent warehouse and office space for the program in 2004, the Alabama Kiwanis Foundation/Jean Dean RIF would BUY a building?

For 14 years, Jean Dean RIF was able to "grow and go" because of the extreme generosity of many people ... several of them in the Opelika Kiwanis Club. These people and many others are true heroes of Jean Dean RIF. Past Club President, and one of the owners of Lambert Transfer & Storage, Carlton Hunley prov