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This non-profit organization offers a proven – and enjoyable – way to practice communication and leadership skills. Members evaluate one another's presentations. This feedback process is a key part of the program's success.

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Meeting participants also give impromptu talks on assigned topics, conduct meetings, serve as officers in various leadership roles and learn rules related to timing, grammar and parliamentary procedure. Thousands of corporations sponsor in-house Toastmasters clubs.   Businesses and government  organizations have discovered that

Toastmasters is an effective, cost-efficient means of meeting their communication training needs. Toastmasters groups can also be found in governmental agencies, a variety of community organizations, prisons, universities, hospitals, military bases and churches.

 
 

Charlotte and Kevin at District 24
 

 

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New England Home for Little Wanderers (NEHLW)

NEHLW was founded in 1865 by 10

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Boston area businessmen with an original goal of caring for children who had been orphaned and left homeless by the Civil War. NEHLW was not meant to become a permanent residence for these children, but rather to serve as a way station where they could prepare for

a new life.  Sometimes that new life was found in families outside of the Boston area - even as far removed as the Midwest. Using trains to transport the children to their new homes, the NEHLW thus became a part of the famous Orphan Train movement.

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