Summary
Organization name
Italian Club of Dallas
Causes
Arts & Humanities
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas, Denton, Rockwall, Tarrant
Address
PO Box 801202Dallas, TX 75380
We are a group of people who share a love for Italian culture, cuisine, language, and heritage. We gather to reconnect with friends, meet new ones, celebrate our shared interests, and benefit our community in the DFW area. One of our primary goals is charitable works, by which we support other charitable organizations and provide a scholarship for students of Italian culture.
Giving Activity
Mission
The Mission Statement of the Italian Club of Dallas:
To explore, preserve, and promote Italian culture, language, history, and traditions; perform charitable works; and foster social interaction within the community.
La Missione del Circolo Italiano di Dallas:
Conoscere, conservare e diffondere la cultura Italiana, la lingua, la storia e le tradizioni; fare opere benefiche; promuovere i rapporti sociali all'interno della comunita
Needs
The primary focus of the North Texas Giving Day campaign is the Italian Club's scholarship program. This provides financial support for a student to explore Italian culture and traditions through study abroad programs through the Italian Language department at the University of Dallas. Our current funds allow a $1,000 scholarship/semester. Our goal is to provide more support to increase the amount or the number of scholarship recipients.
Our latest recipient, Clare Bojuski, will be attending the Rome campus in spring of 2025. Here is an update on an earlier recipient: Aluma Marlena Figge (B.A.'20 Italian, English), began her UD career as a Chemistry major, but when she found out upon arrival in Irving that an Italian B.A. was in the offing, she declared as an Italian major—even BEFORE the major had gained official status. During her time on campus, Marlena was an Italian tutor and mentor, studied in Rome, and was a camp counselor at both an Italian-language immersion summer camp in northern Minnesota and at an Italian-language day-camp in Chicago. Marlena spoke no Italian when she began her study at UD, but in just three-and-a-half years she went from a 50-word essay to writing, in Italian, an outstanding, 25-page senior thesis comparing the poetry of Keats and Dante. After graduation she earned two scholarships and completed an M.A. in Italian at Middlebury College before returning to Italy in 2022-2023 with a SITE Fellowship to work as an English-language teaching assistant at the Istituto d'Istruzione Superiore (IIS) Dandolo in Brescia. Marlena now writes a regular feature on literature—often Italian—for the international media organization The Epoch Times and has published pieces on Italian authors such as Michelangelo, San Francesco d'Assisi, Dante, and Giacomo Leopardi.
We at the Italian Club of Dallas are proud of our Scholarship Fund Program and the recipients we have been able to support. Please give generously to our fund.
Any extra funds will be distributed to our other charitable causes: Children's Craniofacial Association and N. Texas Special Olympics.
We are always in need of volunteers to help us support our other charitable causes: CCA, N Tx Special Olympics, and our scholarship program.
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Organization Data
Dallas, TX 75380