Areas of Focus: Basic education and literacy, Community economic development
Activity Type:
Education: General
Summary: Rotarians will deliver monthly educational sessions at various locations throughout the community to at-risk students from Breaking Chains Academy.
Rotarians will deliver 8 monthly life skill sessions to students at Breaking Chains Academy at Risk youth in hopes that they understand and make a full commitment to citizenship and community engagement. Sessions will include: Personal finance & budgeting; Resume and job skill; higher education and how to pay for it; Vehicle maintenance; Grocery shopping & cooking; Leadership development, problem solving, and critical thinking; public speaking, communication skills and networking; understanding city government, engaging with community and safety officials, and community building and collaboration. We will use 8 (1/2 day) sessions at various locations in the community to educate, engage, and encourage 15 youth in the program. We will be transporting them via a Rental van to the various locations and providing breakfast and lunch. The students will each have an opportunity to take a Strength finders profile to understand their strengths. Each student who participates will receive $50 to start a checking/saving account, a tool kit for car maintenance, $25.00 to shop for groceries and an electronic tablet. The cohort will be expected to complete a service project at the end of the training with a budget of $500.00. The project will run September 2022-April 2023. The project is designed to allow students to learn more about interacting with community leaders and learning life skills at the same time assisting the community leaders and Rotarians to understand and interact with this often misunderstood community of youth.
Paid
This project is "Paid". This means that the funds from the district have been issued. This project is now being ready for implementation. When this is done, a report needs to be uploaded on the project page and the "Reported" button needs to be clicked, then the status of the project will be changed to "Reported".
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History Log Entries
27-May-22
by Marianne Barker
You need to say in your narrative how many students you intend to serve in order to justify your budget. Consider changing the title of the project is something more identifiable, eg Teaching at-risk Youth Personal Responsibility. When we look at our list of projects from all the clubs, we like to be able to tell from the title what the project is about. Thanks!
27-May-22
by Marie Baker
System Entry: Creation of project page.
29-May-22
by Marianne Barker
You need to say in your narrative how many students you intend to serve in order to justify your budget. Consider changing the title of the project is something more identifiable, eg Teaching Life Skills. When we look at our list of projects from all the clubs, we like to be able to tell from the title what the project is about. Thanks!
29-May-22
by Marie Baker
System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.
29-May-22
by Marie Baker
System Entry: Project signed by Marie Baker.
29-May-22
by Marianne Barker
System Entry: Signature Process cancelled by user.
29-May-22
by Marie Baker
System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.
29-May-22
by Marie Baker
System Entry: Project signed by Marie Baker.
31-May-22
by Jennifer Deroin
System Entry: Project signed by Jennifer Deroin.
4-Jul-22
by Marianne Barker
Your district grant project has been included in D5400's block grant application to The Rotary Foundation. It is not yet approved. Do not place orders or spend money on the project until you hear from the district that TRF has approved our block grant (likely sometime this month), as you cannot be reimbursed for expenses incurred prior to TRF approval. Call Marianne Barker at 208 308-5617 if you have any questions. Thank you!
8-Jul-22
by Marianne Barker
The Rotary Foundation approved the District 5400 block grant on July 7, 2022. We’ll send your grant award as soon as the block grant is funded by TRF. You can safely incur costs now. If you have questions or need help, please contact Marianne Barker at (208) 308-5617
1-Aug-22
by Marianne Barker
System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee.
16-Aug-22
by Marianne Barker
System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer.
3-Apr-23
by Marianne Barker
A grant report is due no later than May 15th, 2023. Failure to report by the deadline may impact your club's ability to receive a grant in 2023-24 Rotary year. For final report, download the report form from the administration side of the description tab. Fill it out, being sure that the expenses listed in the report match your receipts and any other documentation of expenses you provide. Upload pdf copies of your report and the receipts to the documents tab of your grant. Then click "reported", a button on the administration side of the description tab. If the project is not done, file a progress report - a history log telling us when you started the project, what % complete you are & when you plan to finish it out. Call Marianne 208 308-5617 if you have questions about reporting.
13-Apr-23
by Marie Baker
The project has been ongoing throughout the year. The following is what has happened to date:
Sep 14 - Community Building with Liz - 3 students 1 teacher
October 5 - Vehicle Maintenance at Les Schwab - 8 students 2 teachers
November 9 - City Hall - 10 students 3 teachers
December 7 - Fire House - 7 students 3 staff
January 11 - Cooking with Mari 13 students - 3 staff
February 8 - Public Speaking with Jennifer 5 students 2 staff
March 8 - College and Job Prep with CWI 11 students 3 staff
April 12-Financial Literacy & Banking
The group project will be at an Elementary School called Endeavor and the Breaking Chains students will be building Bird Houses with students in May. We anticipate the project will be complete in June 2023.
6-May-23
by Marianne Barker
Modification of your expenses to include podcast equipment has been approved by the district grants committee. Please write a brief addendum to your grant by clicking on the "edit project page" button on the admin side of the description tab. You have met our requirement for reporting with your progress report in April. Thank you for participating in Rotary Foundation district grants!
15-May-23
by Marie Baker
We anticipate that this grant will be completed by June 30th, 2023. We will have a complete report in after the final items are completed.
