CONTACT: Judy Bellew, (318) 550-4895, shreveportrotary@gmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CIVIC GRANT FUNDS AVAILABLE TO LOCAL
NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Applications closed - Results to be announced soon
Download grant application here
Shreveport, LA — June 13, 2017
| Shown above, from left: Rotarian David Cook (grant chair), Jessica Miller with Gingerbread House, Bill Rose with CADA, Verni Howard with Providence House and Martha Marak with the Food Bank of NW Louisiana. Not shown is K.C. Kilpatrick-Stone with Geaux 4 Kids |
Grants for the 2016-2017 Rotary were presented to the recipients at our club meeting. This year's grants were presented to:
Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana - $5,000
Providence House - $4,000
Geaux 4 Kids - $4,000
Gingerbread House - $4,000
Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse - $4,000
Some past recipients of civic grants funded by Rotary Club of Shreveport include:
Alliance for Education
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
Heart of Hope
Hillman House
Geaux 4 Kids
Gingerbread House
Girl Scouts
Great Results Equine Assist Therapies
Holy Angels Residential Facility
K-9 Search & Rescue Support (SFD)
Literacy Volunteers/Centenary College
LA Association for the Blind
Martin Luther King Health Center
Providence House
Rotary Park
Rutherford House
Sci-Port: Louisiana’s Science Center
Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission
Shreveport Green
Shreve Island Elementary School
Starbase Louisiana
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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