CONTACT: Judy Bellew, (318) 294-8385, shreveportrotary@gmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Shreveport, LA -February 19, 2021
CIVIC GRANT CYCLE NOW CLOSED
2021-2022 grant cycle will re-open in December 2021
Our Club's Civic Grant Committee has announced the recipients of the 2020-2021 grant cycle:
Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana - $3,100 for metal wire containers to sort food for distribution
Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission - $5,000 Life Recovery Program
NORWELA Council, Boy Scouts of America - $5,000 to replace convention oven at Kinsey Scout reservation
The Bridge Alzheimer's & Dementia Resource Center - $4,000 to support patients and families with services at 851 Olive St.
Renzi Center - $3,900 in support of their after-school program
$300 Speaker Honorariums awarded to these organizations
Fuller Center For Housing Highland Restoration NWLA Makerspace
O.L.L.I.E. Initiative S.C.O.R.E. Strand Theater
DOWNLOAD GRANT APPLICATION HERE
DOWNLOAD GRANT INFORMATION HERE
Some past recipients of civic grants funded by Rotary Club of Shreveport include:
Alliance for Education
Alzheimer's Agency
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
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
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
Operation Homefront
Providence House
Rotary Park
Rutherford House
Sci-Port Discovery Center
Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission
Shreveport Green
Shreveport Opera
Shreve Island Elementary School
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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