Quest Demo - (Page 4) ThE K T Comm UnIT Y FoUndaTIon SEndS FoRTh 50 RIPPLES InTo daVITa Comm U nITIES Ginny Clunan The KT Community Foundation a TRooP FoR oaK PaRK recently awarded its thirtieth grant, to a DaVita® teammate involved in a project David has learned firsthand how the KT to enrich his community. The grant Community Foundation can create new went to David Lyon, a social worker in citizens of the DaVita community. Lyon is Oak Park, Illinois, who is working to a dedicated Boy Scout who has served as found the first Boy Scout troop his town a Cub Master, sits on the Boy Scout Troop has had in 20 years. Twenty-nine other committee and serves as a chaplain. DaVita teammates have also helped their He has achieved the highest level of communities using funds awarded by the training for scout leaders and has been KT Community Foundation. They have appointed to the renovated buildings district level as a and improved the unit commissioner. lives of children. Three weekends After two years each year he serves and 30 grants, the as Campmaster KT Community for the council Foundation camp in Michigan continues to turn and is in charge of people touched camp operations by the program and safety. He was into new members recently nominated of the DaVita for the Order Back-to-School Hoopfest in Parkland, Washington community. of the Arrow in his council. The KT Community Foundation benefits charitable programs supported Oak Park, Illinois, where David lives, has by teammates and their families, never had a Boy Scout troop before, so by donating money to nonprofit when boys there graduated from Cub organizations and community-based Scouts they had to join troops in other projects. The goal is to encourage towns. They didn’t know the boys in members of the DaVita community to sow the other towns and attended different seeds of kindness in their communities. schools and played on different sports The foundation is sponsored by DaVita’s teams. They couldn’t bond as a troop in CEO, Kent Thiry, and his wife Denise the same way the other members could. O’Leary. Lyon and other scout leaders wanted to 4
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