CONTACT: Judy Bellew, (318) 294-8385, shreveportrotary@gmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Shreveport, LA -May 21, 2022
CIVIC GRANT CYCLE NOW CLOSED
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For many years our club has been awarding civic grants to local non-profit organizations to assist with a particular project that they have. This year's recipients have now been announced. We received a total of 29 applications totaling $124,500. The total amount that we had available this year was $21,800. The top-ranked applicants and their awards are these:
Holy Angels Residential Facility - $4,500
Volunteers for Youth Justice - $3,500
Gingerbread House - $4,500
Highland Center - $4,500
Songbook South - $3,000
Receiving $300 speaker honorariums are these organizations: Basic Necessities, Northwest Louisiana Community Development, Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club, The Center for Literacy & Learning, United Way of Northwest Louisiana and Volunteers of America.
Since 1999, our club has invested $376,643 in civic grants supporting our local non-profit partners.
Below is a complete list of past recipients.
Some past recipients of civic grants funded by Rotary Club of Shreveport include:
Alliance for Education
Alzheimer's Agency
Bridge Alzheimer's & Dementia Resource Center
Caddo Career & Technical Center
Caddo Council on Aging
Children and Arthritis
Chimp Haven
CoHabitat Foundation
Community Renewal, International
Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Prevention
David Raines Community Health Center
Deaf Action Center
Evergreen Presbyterian Ministries
Food Bank of Northwest LA
Fuller Center for Housing
Geaux 4 Kids
Gingerbread House
Girl Scouts
Goodwill Industries
Great Results Equine Assist Therapies (The ARC of Caddo Bossier)
Heart of Hope
Herndon Magnet School
Highland Center
Hillman House
Holy Angels Residential Facility
Inter City Entrepreneur Institute
K-9 Search & Rescue Support (SFD)
Literacy Volunteers/Centenary College
LA Association for the Blind
LSU Intergenerational Literacy
Martin Luther King Health Center
Northwest LA Interfaith Pharmacy
NORWELA Council, Boy Scouts of America
Operation Homefront
Providence House
Renzi Center
Rotary Park
Rutherford House
Sci-Port Discovery Center
Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission
Shreveport Green
Shreveport Opera
Shreve Island Elementary School
Songbook South
Starbase Louisiana
Step Forward
Strand Theater
St. Luke’s Episcopal Mobile Medical Ministry
Volunteers of America
Volunteers for Youth Justice
Westwood Elementary
YWCA
Rotary Club of Shreveport is a member of Rotary International, an association of Rotary clubs throughout the world. Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, work to eradicate polio worldwide and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
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