Examples of Dodonna Chapter #24 Local Service Projects:
AHEPA-Daughters Fall Scholarship Luncheon
Apokreatiko Scholarship Fundraiser Luncheon
Community Christmas Celebration
Christmas Tree Decorating
Hosting District #10 & 11 Joint Convention June 10-12, 2011 in Toledo, Ohio
District Lodge Fundraisers (e.g., Festival of Tables Fundraiser — see below) for Lerner Center (Cleveland Clinic) Breast Cancer Vaccine Research and Sjogren’s Syndrome Foundation
Founders’ Day and Past President observance
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral Mortgage Retirement
Graduate Sunday/AHEPA Day Luncheon
Maids of Athena sponsorship
Mother’s Day Dinner with Philoptochos
National Lodge Fundraisers (see below)
New Year’s Eve Silver Ball
Palm Sunday Bake Sale
Scholarship Award (annual) to deserving high school senior
Examples of current & past National and District Projects:
(Details of the 2014-15 national service projects can be found at https://www.daughtersofpenelope.org/pdfs/National_Projects_Information.pdf):
Domestic Family Violence Center: Penelope House, Mobile, AL
Domestic Family Violence Center: Penelope’s Place, Brockton, MAThe Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA)The Sjogren’s Syndrome Foundation
University of Miami Sylvester Cancer Center (Papanicolaou Comprehensive Cancer Center )
The Breast Cancer Vaccine Research Project (Cleveland Clinic)
Daughters of Penelope Foundation, Inc.
Melissa’s Orphanage for Girls — Thessaloniki, Greece
Penelopean Day Care Center — Athens, Greece
The University of Mississippi Museum
W.I.N. Hellas (Women in Need Domestic Violence Center – Greece)
Maids of Athena
Daughters of Penelope National Scholarship
Orthodox Christian Network
Cystic Fibrosis
Juvenile Diabetes
St. Basil’s Academy (Garrison, NY)
Kalamata Earthquake Victims
Cooley’s Anemia
Greek Immigrant Oral History Study
Penelope’s Books and Literacy
Statute of Penelope (San Francisco, CA)
Breast Cancer Awareness
Ovarian Cancer Awareness
LAM Awareness (a rare lung disease)
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero (New York, NY)