The Rotary Club of Schaumburg A.M. culminated a year of giving at its June 19th Community Grant Awards Breakfast.  Through annual fundraising events held during its 23 year history, this club has donated more than $425,000 to address a wide variety of humanitarian concerns found both in the Northwest Suburbs and worldwide.

 

 

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This year’s grant recipients include –

  • Alfred Campanelli YMCA
  • Child’s Voice
  • The Children’s Advocacy Center of North & Northwest Cook County
  • Clearbrook
  • Countryside Association for People with Disabilities
  • Enders-Salk School Gardening Program
  • Erin’s Law
  • Women in Need Growing Stronger (WINGS)
  • Winston Churchill School Gardening & Reading Programs
  • Boy Scout Troop 193
  • St. Hubert Job & Networking Ministry Program
  • Feed My Starving Children, who provides life giving nutrition to mal-nourished children all over the world

Additionally the club -

  • distributed new winter coats, obtained through Operation Warm, to children at the Marletta Darnall Schaumburg Child + Family Center
  • provided need-based vocational scholarship funds to local residents and
  • sponsored local high school student participation in RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Program), a program that emphasizes leadership, citizenship and personal growth amongst young people

Members collectively contributed their individual out-of-pocket donations to support the Schaumburg Twp Food Pantry and the Campanelli YMCA Super Santa Program.