Service Projects

Each year the L.I.N.D.A. Convention planners pick a local charity in the convention’s city to donate the money raised at the convention.

Pictured above is Linda Barron presenting a check to Marg of Trinity Heights and to Bonnie of Her Health Women’s Center. Total donations were $2,440.

Here is a list of the past years’ charities:

2021: Mother’s Refuge, Independence, Missouri

2018: Pleasant Acres Day School, Natchez, Mississippi

2015: Linda Fire Department, Linda, California

2014: Memphis Family Shelter, Memphis, Tennessee

2013: The Shade Tree, Las Vegas, Nevada

2010: Joshua’s Friends, Elizabethtown, Kentucky

2009: Up with Downs of Pinellas, Indian Rocks Beach, Florida

2008: Open Door Pantry, 2008 Cedar Rapids Flood Victim, Omaha, Nebraska

2007: Prisoners for Christ Ministries, Moline, Illinois

2006: Youth Hope Ministries, Columbus, Indiana

2005: Woodford County Humane Society (a no-kill animal shelter), Lexington, Kentucky

2004: W.A.V.E. (Women Against Violent Environment) and Noah’s Ark (a no-kill animal shelter), Rockford, Illinois

2003: Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

2002: Donated tree in park, YWCA Abuse Center, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

2001: Galena Volunteer Fire Department and EMT Unit, Galena, Illinois

2000: Joliet, Illinois

1999: Women’s Safe House, St. Louis, Missiouri

1998: PADS (Twin Cities Homeless Shelter), Sterling, Illinois. Convention held in Rock Falls, IL.

1997: Davenport, Iowa

1996: Good Samaritan Urban Ministries (women’s shelter), Des Moines, Iowa

1995: Park bench at the Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio

1994: Planted tree in Pioneer Village by church where Sunday morning send off was held, Des Moines, Iowa

1993: Fulton, Illinois/Clinton, Iowa

1992: No convention

1991: Davenport, Iowa

1990: Planted tree in Sinnissippi Gardens, Rockford, Illinois

1989: Cedar Rapids, Iowa

1988: Des Moines, Iowa

1987: Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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