P-344

Food and Education for Poor

Description

Financing

Documents

Photos

History Logs

Project Description

Country: USA

Location: Huntington Beach CA

Total Budget: $7,700

Areas of Focus: Maternal and child health, Basic education and literacy, Economic and community development

Activity Type: Community Development: General

Summary: Provide children's backpack food on weekends; Education of adult immigrants; Education of Children, Provide monetary assistance to lessen poverty


Description

We request a District Grant for $3,850 supporting a budget of $7,700 for the following purposes:

1. Food for low-income children's backpacks during the school year. The children are on meal programs during the school day, and the food would go to provide nutrition over the school weekends. Candidates for support would be vetted by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley through interviews and tax returns. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley is a 501(c)3 charitable corporation. Parents of the children are immigrants and would be required to attend no-charge classes in English and how to succeed in America (taught by the Boys and Girls Clubs) as a requirement for eligibility. Total Expenditures of $3500.

2. A shoe the children event for about 150 children picked by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley in concert with Payless Shoes, who provide a discount for one pair of shoes. Total Expenditures of $2700.

3. Rotary Personnel teach a science class at Boys and Girls Clubs of Fountain Valley. Money in this category would be for purchase of Lego robots to teach electricity, primitive robotics and building skills. Total Expenditure of $500 for robotic Lego toys.

4. Holiday celebration for select Boys and Girls Club children, including gifts of home necessities and a picture of the child with Santa Claus. Total Expenditure for necessity items and photographs is $1,000.

All rotary personnel will be involved in purchasing, packing and handing out food, as will the Westminster Interact Club. Members will buy food and then be reimbursed out of club funds. Rotary members will be at each shoe store for item 2 above and will be handing out gifts and playing Santa at the holiday celebration. Our Rotary club is fortunate to have PHD's in physics and engineering who have volunteered to teach the science and robotics classes.

Addendum:

a. This project will start when the grant is funded. There will be no funding

before then. The project will be completed, with a completion form sent,

prior to the Rotary 2013-2014 fiscal end.

b. Our Rotary club has funds on hand more than equal to the requested District

Grant.

c. We are not requiring a participation letter from the Boys and Girls Clubs,

although one could be provided if needed. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Fountain Valley have always accomplished tasks to which they have verbally committed.

d. We have committed to upgrade our website, and this project will be a key addition to it. In addition, we get coverage from the Orange County Register on many of our projects.

e. No Rotarian or officer or employee of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Fountain Valley will receive any pay or personal expense reimbursement .There will be no operating expense reimbursement.

This project will help with assimilating children and parents to the United States, will further their education and help alleviate hunger and poverty.

Addendum 2:

This is in response to questions asked on the above description:

a. In the various parts of this project Rotarians are involved as follows:

1. In the backpack food program, all Rotarians in the club will be involved in

packing the bulk food into separate bags for each backpack. When the Interact Club assigned to us is helping with the packing, there will be several Rotarians from the club supervising and helping out. These will rotate from week to week. At least two Rotarians will be used to pass out the food once per week. Four Rotarians will arrange and purchase food for the program and will be reimbursed by club or grant funds.

2. In the science education part of the product, 3 specific Rotarians, Messrs. Griffin, Xericos and McCann (two rocket scientists and a University physics professor) will teach classes. Other Rotarians will help with the classes and monitor the kids as needed.

3. In the "Shoe the Children" part of the project, at least 2 club members will be at each if the 3 shoe stores helping kids try on the shoes and making sure order is maintained. Additionally, 4-6 Rotarians will be in charge of cooking (BBQ) and passing out food for the kids and their families after the shoes have been purchased.

4. At the holiday gift portion of the project, one club member will be dressed as Santa Claus and hand out gifts to each child. Additionally, about 10 Rotarians (members of our club) will hand out additional gifts, help with taking pictures of each child with Santa Claus, and provide general "crowd control."

b. Start date for the programs:

1. The backpack food part will start in 10/2013 and end by 6/30/2014.

2. The science education part will cover the same time frame as above, but

the money should be spent in the first month.

3. Shoe the Children will be a one-day event in December 2013.

4. The Holiday Gift portion will be a one-day event in December 2013.

c. A letter of participation from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Fountain Valley has been uplifted to the documents section of the district grant website, project P344.

d. Public Image Plan: We have recently updated our website, which will feature pictures from this project as a part of our recruitment plan for new members. In addition we have developed a relationship with the Orange County Register, as have the Boys and Girls Clubs of Fountain Valley. We will attempt to get them to do a piece on two competent local charities cooperating to further education and lessening of hunger.

Project Contact Person

District: 5320

Rotary Club of: Surf City-Huntington Beach

Primary Contact: Burt Shurly

Email: burtshurly3@hotmail.com

Project Status

Completed
This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners.

Project listed for the 2013-14 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Surf City-Huntington Beach (5320)

22-Jul-13

$3,850

$3,850

$7,700

Total

$3,850

$3,850

$7,700

Project Supporting Documents


[25-Feb-14]
adams HB shoe


[24-Apr-14]
Copy of Invoice Monitoring


[19-Dec-13]
Dec 17 2013


[11-Dec-13]
December 4 2013


[24-Apr-14]
Final District Grant Report


[5-May-14]
Final Payless Invoice


[22-Jul-13]
Financial Information


[24-Apr-14]
Invoice April 24 2014


[15-Feb-14]
Invoice Feb 15


[12-Mar-14]
Invoice March 14


[8-Mar-14]
Invoice March 8


[15-Nov-13]
Invoices


[21-Nov-13]
Invoices 2


[6-Feb-14]
Invoices Feb 7


[20-Jan-14]
Invoices Jan 13


[27-Jan-14]
Jan 27 2014 Invoices


[15-Feb-14]
Kids Party food receipts


[31-Mar-14]
March 31 Invoices


[27-Aug-13]
Participation Letter


[25-Feb-14]
Pavillion Westminster store


[14-Feb-14]
Westminster Shoe

 

Project Photos

Sloan Gallipeo and Interact packing Food

Santa Claus giving gifts at holiday party

Giving Children Shoes at Payless

Children Building and Using Robots

History Log Entries

22-Jul-13

System Entry

Creation of project page.

22-Jul-13

System Entry

Project sent for club signatures.

22-Jul-13

System Entry

Project signed by Burt Shurly.

22-Jul-13

System Entry

Project signed by Helen Maxwell.

22-Jul-13

System Entry

Project signed by Michael Gallipeo.

22-Jul-13

System Entry

Project signed by Pete Maxwell.

28-Jul-13

System Entry

Signature Process cancelled by user.

7-Aug-13

System Entry

Project sent for club signatures.

7-Aug-13

System Entry

Project signed by Burt Shurly.

8-Aug-13

System Entry

Project signed by Michael Gallipeo.

27-Aug-13

System Entry

Signature Process cancelled by user.

27-Aug-13

System Entry

Project sent for club signatures.

27-Aug-13

System Entry

Project signed by Burt Shurly.

27-Aug-13

System Entry

Project signed by Michael Gallipeo.

13-Sep-13

System Entry

Project approved by the District Approval Committee.

20-Sep-13

System Entry

Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer.

24-Apr-14

System Entry

Project has been implemented and final report uploaded.

2-May-14

System Entry

Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.

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