Twice a year, the Rotary Club of Aiken rewards Community Service Grants to local non-posits.
The grants are determined using the criteria of maximum good to be accomplished with the award, the broad reach of support, and the significance of improvements in the human condition the funds could provide.
Hankinson Boxing Gym will use its $7,400 grant to cover the travel expenses for eight students who are scheduled to compete in the USA Boxing National Junior Olympics later this month in Wichita, Kansas.
Free Medical Clinic of Aiken County received $3,000 to purchase stock medications, flu vaccines, diabetic and hypertension management supplies, dental education tools and more.
The Children’s Place
will use its grant of $2,095.46 to buy an automated external defibrillator.
Great Oak Equine Assisted Programs received $2,000 to purchase art materials for approximately 60 summer camp participants.
Cumbee Center to Assist Abused Persons received $1,500 to purchase items related to resident’s’ employment and education (clothing, shoes, uniforms) and bed bug prevention equipment.
Rural Health Services, Inc. received $1,800 to purchase supplies needed for care packages (personal and dental).
Thank you to our CSG Committee Chair, Liz Stewart, and
its members for their hard work.
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Our club presented Community Service Grants totaling $11,200. The nonprofits that received the grants were:
• Aiken County Habitat for Humanity $2000
• To support the Women Build house construction project
planned for 2025.
• Aiken Barnwell Recovery Foundation, Inc. $1000
• To create a vegetable garden to be maintained by young adults
served by the Roads of Independence program. Vegetables would be used in cooking classes.
• Aiken Senior Life Services* $2100
• To provide hot meals once a day for two people for one full year.
• Our Community Salutes* $3000
• 100% of the grant will bru d to offset the cost of the Midlands
Enlistee Gala for new military enlistees and their parents/ guardians.
• Public Education Partners* $3100
To improve literacy among Aiken County children by encouraging
the love of reading through book ownership. This grant will fund providing a book for each third-grader in three County schools through book fairs.
Thank you to our CSG Committee Chair, Liz Stewart, and its members (Tim Simmons, Karl Steene, Bill Molnar, John Dangler, and Nancy Marks)for their hard work.
#ServiceAboveSelf
#ServeToChangeLives
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