Our mission
The Rotary Foundation helps Rotary members to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace by improving health, providing quality education, improving the environment, and alleviating poverty.
Questions?
Amy Lee, The Rotary Foundation Chair for District 6360
send a message to: Amy Lee or Call :(317) 626-5379
Grants| 2025-2026
Club |
Activity or Project Category |
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Primary Beneficiary |
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Battle Creek
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Education:
School supplies/equipment
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Early education boosts school readiness, reduces remedial education costs, increases high school graduation and employment rates.Rotary is having an event to raise public awareness about the critical importance of early childhood education.Educational materials and professional development will be provided to support education and educators.Rotarians will paint, clean or do facility upgrades.
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Children/youth
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Benton Harbor-Sunrise
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Education;
Sports/playgrounds
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A trail will be built at an early learning center to enhance outdoor learning including a fenced play area, native flower and fruit tree garden and chicken coop for children under age 4. The trail includes tables, benches, play stage, art easels, and story walk signs. Outdoor education is a critical component of Head Start programming. Trail will be stroller accessible and open to the public.
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Children/youth
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Coldwater Township Sunrise
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Health:
Disease prevention
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Rotarians will coordinate the distribution of food and donations collected from the community. Rotary will also assist by purchasing food at a reduced price, stretching the dollars. Rotarians will stock pantry shelves with food deliveries. In early November assist with prepackaging of holiday boxes and finally, assist in the distribution of boxes which occurs the Saturday prior to Thanksgiving.
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Economically disadvantaged
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Delton Area
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Environment:
Restoration/conservation
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This project will build a walking trail through school property to provide a path that can safely be used for exercise and enjoyment.This path will allow local residents, as well as, high school sports teams to exercise in a traffic free environment as opposed to using the heavily travelled streets.Along with clearing the forested area and resurfacing the path, the Rotary will install 2 Peace Pole
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General population
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Fennville Pullman Lakeshore
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Education:
General
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This project invests in the wellbeing of youth and educators through mental health sessions, group work, leadership development and therapeutic art.Safe spaces to explore needs to thrive and support future careers relevant to our agricultural and rural community.The goal is to increase high school graduation rates, college, and career readiness, to ensure the development of healthy social skills.
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Children/youth
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Grand Ledge
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Education:
Sports/playgrounds
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To help build an ADA accessible playground to promote good physical health for all children no matter their abilities.This grant is to help purchase one of the playground elements:an Inclusive Carousel.This ground-level spinner creates a space where inclusivity meets fun.The spacious platform is wheelchair accessible, ensuring that every child can participate in the engaging experience.
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Disabled
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Grand Ledge
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Education:
Literacy
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This project provides students their own personal dictionaries.A dictionary is an essential tool for quality education. A child cannot do their best work without one.This is especially important to the Grand Ledge community as there are a significant number of children across our school district that do not have internet access at home.Rotarians will attend school and distribute the dictionaries.
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Children/youth
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Greater Niles
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Health:
General
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This project is a boot distribution to provide new, insulated winter boots to students to ensure that students in need have proper winter footwear to attend school during harsh winters. It directly improves the health and well-being of economically disadvantaged students by protecting them from cold-related illnesses and injury, thereby supporting educational access and attendance.
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Children/youth
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Harbor Country (Southwest Berrien County)
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Education:
School supplies/equipment
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This project supports the growth of one and the chartering of a new Interact Club by supplying Rotary banners, meeting supplies to bring Rotary awareness. Youth programs are our future. Members have already completed and delivered blankets to a shelter, are preparing Hygiene Packets, collected canned goods for the hungry to distribute through a local food pantry.
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Student(s)
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Kalamazoo
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Environment:
Environmental education
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This project to improve a city park by installing a native pollinator garden includes Kalamazoo Rotary Club, Satellite Club, Rotaract Club and the Interact.This park is in an impoverished neighborhood in the City of Kalamazoo.Rotarians have completed several cleanup projects in the park, from picking up litter to spreading mulch on walking trails. Concrete sculptures are also being commissioned.
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Economically disadvantaged
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Oshtemo
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Education:
General
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The First Day Shoe Fund provides new shoes to students in our public schools at no cost. We will provide students at Prairie Ridge Elementary a new pair of shoes.Oshtemo Rotarians will be involved in unpacking, taking inventory and fitting day when shoes are delivered to students.By providing new shoes to all students who request them, there is no stigma attached to receiving them.
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Student(s)
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Otsego
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Education:
Literacy
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Some students return to school in September having lost many of the skills they learned the previous year.This has a greater impact on lower-income families. Access to high-quality books that kids want to read is key to building foundational reading skills and a generation of readers.This project ensures access for all students to books and reading programs throughout the summertime.
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Student(s)
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Paw Paw Area
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Health:
General
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This project is to provide a washer, dryer, operating supplies (linens, blankets, towels, etc), and personal care items for warming shelter serving the unhoused.The warming center offers temporary shelter during extreme conditions, weekly access to showering facilities, and responses to other urgent requests. Rotary will volunteer on a regular basis to serve meals and distribute supplies.
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Homeless
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Portage
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Education:
Scholarship undergraduate
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Rotary with Jericho Foundation will provide Bosnia/Herzegovina students scholarships to educate these youth in the US.Rotarians will serve as mentors and host families.Each degree is an opportunity for individuals to improve their lives, strengthen their families, and rebuild.It is the key to breaking the instability, ethnic tensions, and cycles of poverty and foster a new generation of leaders.
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Student(s)
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Saugatuck-Douglas
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Education:
School supplies/equipment
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This project will invest in an outdoor education training curriculum Rotarians and the staff of the Boys & Girls Club will “get kids outside/off their devices.”The curriculum includes fun/educational outdoor activities for elementary age children.Supervised activities involving hiking, kayaking, nature studies and simple play in the outdoors. It will also raise environmental awareness
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Children/youth
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South Haven
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Education:
Scholarship undergraduate
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The project will award a scholarship to students who have achieved academic excellence, while at the same time demonstrating strong volunteer work ethic and leadership. Students must demonstrate financial need, be able to show the live by and practice the 4 Way Test. Rotary is helping to meet the financial needs of those who otherwise would not have the funding to attend college.
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Student(s)
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St. Joseph & Benton Harbor
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Education:
General
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This project is to equip an Outdoor Classroom/Activity Center for an orphanage in Kihihi, Uganda.Rotary, works with The Welfare Org for Orphans and Vulnerable Children. WOOVC educates gifted, but extremely poor children with no hope of an education.This will provide equipment (tents, chairs and a PA system) to expand learning capacity for vulnerable children.All community groups will benefit too.
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Economically disadvantaged
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Sturgis
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Health:
General
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This project will fund the purchase of 200 new winter coats to distribute children in need.. This project keeps kids, who otherwise face hardship during winter, warm.Coat donations, relieve stress on parents who cannot afford adequate winter clothing.It also helps reduce the risk of illness, ensures the ability to walk to school in the winter and miss less school during harsh weather conditions.
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Children/youth
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Sturgis
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Health:
General
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This project will support Rotarians constructing two accessibility ramps for low-income individuals who are mobility challenged.Rotary is collaborating with Habitat for Humanity, who will screen and contract with the residents to receive the ramps and provide construction management.This grant will fund the purchase of materials and equipment as required. Our club volunteers will build the ramps.
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Disabled
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Three Rivers
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Education:
School supplies/equipment
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For years, Three Rivers Rotary has funded and volunteered to construct, operate and maintain the RC school in Libertad, Belize.During a recent visit to the vocational high school in Coroza they learned the school does not provide the required technology equipment, specifically computers. This project will equip students with the technology equipment necessary to participate in their classes.
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Student(s)
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Ionia
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Education:
Scholarship undergraduate
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This grant will provide a graduate with a scholarship for continued education. This scholarship honors deceased Rotarian, Glen Convers. Glen served as District Governor during in the 1970s. Additionally, this project aligns with our club's commitment to education in our community.
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Student(s)
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Williamston
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Education;
Scholarship undergraduate
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This project reinforces the importance of education and student leadership within our schools by providing students with scholarships for post-high school education.It recognizes students identified by staff for demonstrating excellence in the classroom, in the school and in the community.Our goal is to develop service driven leaders that will give back to their respective communities.
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Student(s)
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Grants| 2024-2025
Benton Harbor Sunrise Club
Patzajito, Guatemala To bring clean drinking water to the community of Caserio Patzajito.
Berrien Springs-Eau Claire, Delta Township, Kalamazoo and Lakeshore - Guatemala Western and Central Highlands
To improve education for under served students in Guatemala. These regions are the most illiterate part of the country,
Delta Township Club - Namutumba, Uganda
To improve the economic conditions of the women and improve their health conditions, specifically to support women and children.
Dowagiac Rotary Club - Uganda
To provide a sustainable water supply in Uganda to the Kyoga Farmers Community Organization.
Harbor County Rotary Club - Nepal
The project will give Nepali students access to handheld computers to gain mastery in math, science, and computer programming.
Jackson Breakfast Rotary Club - Gujarat, India
To improve water conservation and management to enhance the communities farming income.
Lansing Rotary Club - Peten, Guatamala
For an audiology center to meet the needs of the Petén population.
Portage Rotary Club - West Bengal, India
To establish a medical site for blood collection, testing, transfusion, and blood storage five regions in India.
St. Joseph & Benton Harbor Rotary Club - Uganda
Adequate food supply was ensured in the Mungula and Olua refugee camps in northern Uganda by augmenting efforts to grow local food including the purchase of a walking tractor.
Sturgis Rotary Club - Uganda
To empower over 400 young men and women in Uganda, aged 18-35 years, by equipping them with the necessary skills, resources, and opportunities necessary to create sustainable livelihoods.
Sturgis Rotary Club - Antalya
Turkey To install solar panels on the roof top of a school (with 1700 students) to ensure power, reduce carbon emissions and save energy.
Three Rivers Rotary Club - Libertad Belize
Underprivileged youth received scholarships to attend high school, an opportunity most never get to experience.
District 6360 - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
To establish a revolving microcredit fund, available for indigent parents of children with Type 1 Diabetes, to develop businesses to generate income to better support their children.
Battle Creek Rotary
Two projects were funded. A Bee Pollinator Project is launched. The Holiday Party was hosted for low-income elementary children complete with gifts of warm hats, gloves, books and puzzles.
Cereal City Sunrise Rotary
Three projects were funded. Childrens’ Food Packs, Mobility Access Ramps and an elementary level school book reading program are achieved!
Coldwater Township Sunrise Rotary
Created support systems to assist the homeless by providing temporary housing, essential needs and programming related to developing life skills.
Constantine Rotary
To support local, low-income students pursuing trade school or higher education.
Delton Area Rotary Club
The project enhanced a park to address the safety concerns for the walkers/runners and others in the Delton area.
Fennville-Pullman-Lakeshore Rotary Club
The project focuses on young people who are facing increasingly confusing challenges to find support, develop leadership and social skills, and nurture positive mental health.
Grand Ledge Rotary Club
Dictionary Project to distribute a new dictionary to all fourth-grade students.
Gull Lake Area Rotary Club
To build an outdoor classroom for elementary students to immerse students in environmental lessons to have a greater opportunity to study wildlife, birds, insects, and plant life.
Kalamazoo Rotary Club
The Reading Program reaches approximately 50 second-grade classes. Rotarians read and reinforce the educational opportunities to inspire them to succeed in school.
Oshtemo Rotary Club
Two projects were funded. One focused on literacy. The second grant ensures that all children residing in the foster care system celebrates the holidays and receive Christmas gifts.
Portage Rotary Club
Disaster Relief Grant To respond to the May, 2024 tornado by rehabbing two homes owned by folks of limited means.
South Haven Rotary Club
Two projects were funded. Senior students who have achieved academic excellence, and demonstrate strong volunteer work ethic and leadership receive a scholarship. Benches and picnic tables were added to a newly established intergenerational day care center.
Sturgis Rotary Club
Two projects were funded. All third-grade students received dictionaries. Houseware baskets filled with hygiene products, cleaning supplies, kitchen tools and bed linens to assist those establishing households following the completion of substance abuse programs, as well as, victims of domestic violence, fire and other life-changing events.
Union City Rotary Club
To support the adoption and training of a therapy dog to build student self-esteem, memory stimulation and reducing anxiety.
Williamston Sunrise Rotary Club
Club Seniors who demonstrated the pursuit of excellence in their academic careers and an aptitude for leadership and giving back to their respective communities received scholarships.
Questions?
Kathy Gallagher, The Rotary Foundation Chair for District 6360
send a message to: Kathy Gallagher or Call :269-209-5949
