October 4, 2014, 5:30-9:00 p.m.
2001 Bridgeport Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46231
GRAND Prizes Include:
4 one-day “Hopper” tickets good at all 4 theme parks –
Walt Disney World, FL;
Condo for 1 week at an RCI Resort;
Weekend getaway – Blue Chip Casino &;
so many silent auction gifts its mind-blowing!
Tickets are $50 and include:
1 bag of playing chips – gaming by Broad Ripple Sertoma Club
Gourmet appetizers & desserts by Elite Catering
Adult beverages by Taxman Brewing
Musical entertainment by T-Bone DJ
Door Prizes!
Rick and Beverly Markoff with Charlotte Westerhaus Renfrow
The Rotary Education Weekend Equity Awards, were held the evening of Friday, May 16, at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis (the Ruby Bridges Exhibit in The Power of Children Gallery). The purpose of these awards was to honor an “unsung hero” in education, an outstanding school administrator, a top teacher and a group of standout student-athletes during Central Indiana’s first ‘Education Weekend.’ The awards were presented by the Indianapolis Rotary Foundation, the Rotary Club of Indianapolis, the Indiana Civil Rights Commission and the Indianapolis Recorder. Honorees were:
The Cardinal E. Joseph Award, “unsung community hero”
Diana Daniels (pictured top right), National Council on Educating Black Children
The Father Boniface Hardin Award, administrator
Dr. Khaula Murtadha, IUPUI
The Jacqueline S. Greenwood Award, teacher
Mary Rowley, VC Rowley and Associates
The Bart Peterson Award, student
Boys Basketball Team, Arsenal Technical High School
ROTARY EDUCATION WEEK EQUITY AWARDS SELECTION COMMITTEE, 2014
Five Rotarians and two Rotaract members were part of the 18 member Rotary Education Weekend Equity Awards Selection Committee chaired by Denny Sponsel and Ralph Taylor. Rotary Education Weekend Equity Awards Selection Committee members included: Dennis Sponsel, Chair, RJE Business Interiors, Rotary; Ralph Taylor, Chair, Consultant/Broadcaster, Rotary; Miriam Acevedo Davis, La Plaza; Troy Arthur, NCAA; Jeff Butts, M.S.D. of Wayne Township; J.T. Coopman, Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents; Karen Dace, IUPUI; Judge David Dreyer, Superior Court Judge, Rotary; Pastor David Hampton, Light of the World Church; Jo Hoy, Cardinal Ritter High School; John Lyter, American Red Cross, Rotary; Juan Paz, Simon Property Group; Yvonne Perkins, Citizens Energy Group; Rotaract Student Member, Rotary Lincoln Wallis; Rotaract Student Member, Rotary, Morgan Whitcomb; Cassie Stockamp, Athenaeum Foundation, Rotary; Mary Ann Sullivan, CELL; and Ahmed Young, Bose McKinney & Evans.
In May, the Timmy Global Health first official water team traveled to the community of Los Rios to do more WASH Training and install the first community chlorinator! 350 people in that community now have access to safe drinking water!
(Image Left: Water Team with Chlorinator) In April Timmy Global Health hosted a Water & Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) Training for the health promoters and members of five Community Water Councils.
The Rotary Club of Indianapolis World Community Service Committee (WCSC) is responsible for identifying and supporting international service projects for the Club. Projects generally have a club member & champion who ideally works in partnership with an overseas Rotary Club and personally travels to the location of the project to help create relationships and oversee the project. The committee currently supports clean water initiatives in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Haiti and Ecuador; multiple projects in Kenya including support for a legal aid clinic, mother-child hospital, and school classrooms; an aquaculture project in Moshi, Tanzania; a microfinance project in Calnali, Mexico; and peace learning projects in Jamaica.
Thanks in part to an Indianapolis Rotary FoundationCivic Entrepreneurship grant and as part of the Central Indiana Education Alliance’s First Annual Education Weekend, the Rotary Education Equity Awards will take place on May 16-18, 2014. The awards, which will honor individuals who have had their impact on education, felt either inside, or beyond, the traditional educational setting, will be announced during a special awards presentation on Friday, May 16, 2014.
Led by Jamal L. Smith, Executive Director of the Indiana Civil Rights Commission, representatives from Talent Alliance, the Rotary Club of Indianapolis, the community, and students will comprise the selection team.
Nominations are due by Monday, April 21, 2014 at 5:00 pm.
Right to Left: Sue Tempero from the Rotary Club of Indianapolis, Tiffony Jacobs, Walt Nordstrom and Julie Handschy from Lutherwood Academy
Because of a grant from the Indianapolis Rotary Foundation, Lutheran Child and Family Services were able to have Tiffany Jacobs, an original Freedom Writer from Long Beach, CA visit Lutherwood Residential Treatment Facility and Academy on March 4, 2013. Mr. Walt Nordstrom (Lutherwood Academy teacher) started teaching “Freedom Writers” after seeing the movie and later discovering the book. He had been working for a few years to make this dream a reality. Ms. Julie Handschy is the Education Coordinator at Lutherwood Academy.
The Indianapolis Rotary Foundation awarded a $25,000 grant to cover a portion of the delivery vehicle operating costs for CICOA’s Meals & More program. Pictured: CICOA CEO Orion Bell (left) with Dr. Matt Will, director of external relations at the University of Indianapolis and Vice President of the Indianapolis Rotary Foundation.
The Indianapolis Rotary Foundation is a private, stand-alone corporation that serves as the primary community charitable arm of the Rotary Club of Indianapolis. Annual contributions to the Foundation are added to an eternal endowment fund and allocated income from that fund is utilized to support grants for charitable and educational purposes, primarily in the Indianapolis and Central Indiana areas. Read more about the Indianapolis Rotary Foundation.
The purpose of the Indianapolis Rotary Foundation, Inc. is to promote charitable and educational purposes within the State of Indiana and such other charitable and educational purposes deemed appropriate by its Board of Directors. To satisfy this goal, the Foundation requests Letters of Intent be submitted from community organizations that wish to be considered a community grant. Learn more about the Indianapolis Rotary Foundation and the grants offered.
In 2013, the Foundation received over 100 “Letters of Intent.” 54 became second phase finalists in July, 2013. They were required to submit additional information by October, 2013 and the five recipients were chosen and notified in November.
Rotary Club of Indianapolis recognized on Jameson Camp vehicles
CONGRATULATIONS! On December 3, 2013 the Indianapolis Rotary Foundation publicly awarded grants to the following organizations:
One of about 60 Rotary Club Foundations, the Indianapolis Rotary Foundation was established in 1947 with a $25,000 contribution by Mrs. Isaac R. Holycross in honor of her late long time Rotarian husband. Our Foundation assets are now worth over $6.2 million and the income from the endowment is used to assist Rotarians to give witness to the Rotary philosophy of “Service Above Self”. The Foundation’s Board of Directors made grants totaling $142,867 during the FY 2013 assisting community organizations, club committees and our members to respond to charitable needs in our community.
After many years of giving numerous small grants each year, the Foundation Board has changed our process to give larger amounts to four community organizations three club committees and our unique $1000 member-focused civic entrepreneurship grants. These recipients are listed elsewhere in this report. Our Foundation Funds supported such needs as providing a safer environment for children and homeless adults, clothing for children, assistance for mentally challenged adults and other charitable and educational programs in which club committees and Rotarians were involved.
From the World Community Service Committee. PROJECT: Moshi, Tanzania – Integrated aquaculture project, including fish pond construction and vertical vegetable garden for the benefit of Msamaria Center for Street Children. Project includes providing additional nutrition and agricultural skills to the roughly 100 children who visit the Center each year. Center providing $700 in kind. Moshi Rotary Club active local Rotary sponsor.
Report from Folkward Mapunda, Director, Msamaria Center for Street Children, Moshi, Tanzania (EA)
“Am very happy to inform you that the fish farming project has taken off now as we are constructing the hole and facing.” Said Mapunda, “We have also purchased the materials for fish and hopefully, before the end of this week will start testing to see there is no water leakage.”
