Grants

The Boulder Valley Rotary Club working through its community service committee (everyone is welcome to join this committee) awards grants every year to nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations in the Boulder community.  Our club has focused our funds and volunteer efforts on hunger needs in our community, criminal justice, mental health, environment and youth. Each year we grant over $15,000 to numerous organizations including:

• Sister Carmen

• Family Learning Center

• PlayBoulder Foundation (Play Pass program and Tree Trust)

• UpRoot Colorado

• The Reentry Initiative

• Focus Reentry

• Remerg

• Rise Against Suicide

• OUTBoulder summer camp

• Planned Parenthood of Rocky Mountains

• Community Food Share

Volunteer Programs

Most of our members lend a hand with our active volunteer program. We combine our capable hands with club funds resulting in a significant impact on needs in the community. Our volunteer efforts have included the following projects:

Playground refurbishing at Family Learning Center

Gleaning fields through UpRoot Colorado

Backpack filling for people leaving jail through Focus Reentry

Food drives

Water station at the BolderBoulder and Skyline Traverse races

Distribute dictionaries to elementary school children in the Boulder Valley School District

For over 30 years our members have made a huge beneficial event possible each year: the Share-a-Coat drive that distributes about 3,000 warm coats to needy people. We collect coats in collaboration with the Boulder Valley School District and distribute them to people in need in the Boulder Community. Art Cleaners graciously donates coat cleaning services each year.

Please join us in working together to improve our community and our world!

Rotarians serve humanity around the corner and around the globe. The Rotary Club of Boulder Valley has a proud tradition of significant contributions to Rotary World Community Service programs, including development projects and international youth and professional exchanges.

Vision

We leverage our sister city relationships including:

• Dushanbe, Tajikistan

• Jalapa, Nicaragua

• Kisumu, Kenya

• Lhasa, Tibet

• Mante, Mexico

• Yamagata, Japan

• Yateras, Cuba

We work with other clubs to maximize grant opportunities for full circle and sustainable projects.

We participate in hands-on International Service project(s) annually.

Development Project Leadership

Recently completed projects include:

• Rotary International grant support and partial funding of a water project in Panama sponsored by the Coal Creek Rotary Club

• Rotary International grant support and partial funding of bridge building projects in Nicaragua and El Salvador implemented by Bridges to Prosperity – http://www.bridgestoprosperity.org/

• Partial funding of water and sanitation improvements at the Oasis of Hope school in Kisumu, Kenya sponsored by the Boulder Rotary Club and in cooperation with the Boulder-Kisumu Sister City Committee – http://www.boulderkisumu.org/

• Sponsorship and partial funding of a shipment of medical supplies to a hospital in Kiev, Ukraine in cooperation with Project C.U.R.E. – http://www.projectcure.org/

• Monetary donation for the disaster relief effort in Japan through our sister club Yamagata North Rotary Club

Projects in Process:

• Sponsorship of a Rotary International matching grant for water and sanitation improvements in the village of Barrio Nuevo, Nicaragua

• Rotary International grant support and partial funding of a water aqueduct project in the village of Soacha, Colombia sponsored by the Boulder Rotary Club.

• Planning and support for a water project in a village near Jalapa, Nicaragua in cooperation with the Jalapa Friendship City Project – http://www.boulderjalapa.org/

International Exchange Programs

• Hosted a yearlong international exchange student from France in 2009-1010.

• Sponsored a yearlong exchange student from Boulder to Omachi, Japan in 2009-2010

• We sent two high school students on a 10-day exchange to Yamagata, Japan. The Yamagata Rotary Club is our sister club.

• Hosted the GSE team from Mexico in 2007 and South Africa in 2008.

Please contact us if you are interested in participating in or supporting the following World Community Service international exchange programs:

• Youth Exchange – funds yearlong or summer international exchanges for Boulder-area high school students. More Information go to: http://www.rye5450.org/

• Group Study Exchange – funds international exchanges of young Boulder-area professionals and businesspeople.
  In 2011 they will go to Kerala, India. More Information go to http://www.rotary5450.org/gse/index.htm

• Ambassadorial Scholars – helps fund the college-based education of students here and abroad. More Information go to: https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/take-action/apply-grants

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