Project Description Country: USA Location: Gold Canyon Arizona Total Budget: $10,000 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: Scholarship Summary: Gold Canyon Awarding scholarships to graduating seniors of Apache Junction High School. These funds will assist the students for further their education beyond High School. Our SMRC members will be invovled in 2 Fundraising events. SMRC Golf Tournament on 12/16/2023 will involve 15-20 members to achieve our goal of $12,000. The 2nd Fundraising event will be sellling beer at the Lost Dutchman Days the last weekend in February 2024. The Lost Dutchman Days beer sales takes place over 3 days with over 35 SMRC members involved. The goal is to raise $16000 for Scholarships. The interview process for the SMRC Scholarships happens in March/April with 6 SMRC members involved. Project Contact Person District: 5495 Rotary Club of: Superstition Mountain-Apache Junction/Gold Canyon Primary Contact: William Pepple Email: bill.pepple@gmail.com Project Status 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". Project listed for the 2023-24 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Superstition Mountain-Apache Junction/Gold Canyon (5495) 18-May-23 $8,000 $2,000 $10,000 Total $8,000 $2,000 $10,000

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [24-Apr-24] Cancelled Checks for Scholarship Disbursements [17-Apr-24] Final Report P-4721 [30-Apr-24] Julia Mills Arellano [30-Apr-24] Julia Mills Arellano [30-Apr-24] Kendall Bryant [23-May-23] MOU 2023-2024

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History Log Entries 18-May-23 by Rebecca Wilks Thank you for your application. In order to complete it, please upload your club's signed MOU and edit the description to specify how Rotarians will be actively involved in this project. 18-May-23 System Entry System Entry: Creation of project page. 24-May-23 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 24-May-23 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Project signed by Rebecca Wilks. 25-May-23 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by William Pepple. 26-May-23 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Jeffrey Mitchell. 16-Jun-23 by Rebecca Wilks Congratulations! This project has been approved for full funding. We need to do some administrative things, so we don’t know exactly when the money will hit your account, but our best guess is a month or so. We’ll send you an update when we have one. Please also remember that you may not spend money prior to TRF approval and reimburse yourself from grant funds. If there have been changes in your bank account (information for electronic transfer), please get that to Lucinda General (District Treasurer) as soon as possible. treasurer@rotary5495.org. Your report is due April 30, 2024, and receipts are required to complete the report (not invoices, cancelled checks, UPS shipping labels, or any other documents). Thank you for making the world a better place. 16-Jun-23 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 7-Aug-23 by Caleb Lowe Your District Grant has been approved by The Rotary Foundation We expect electronic payments will be initiated before Friday August 11. You may begin making project expenditures now. If there have been changes in your bank account (information for electronic transfer), please get those to Lucinda General (District Treasurer) as soon as possible. treasurer@rotary5495.org. Your report is due April 30, 2024, and receipts are required to complete the report (not invoices, cancelled checks, UPS shipping labels, or any other documents). Thank you again for your good work. 8-Aug-23 by Caleb Lowe System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 10-Mar-24 by Rebecca Wilks A friendly reminder: Your completed, signed report form, along with receipts for all project expenditures must be uploaded to this page by April 30. The report form can be found here: https://portal.clubrunner.ca/50335/Documents/en-ca/da933040-cc9e-4230-b2e6-2a5900705ea4/1/ 14-Apr-24 by Rebecca Wilks Just one last reminder you have about two weeks to complete the report for this grant and submit it with all project receipts. Thanks. https://portal.clubrunner.ca/50335/Documents/en-ca/da933040-cc9e-4230-b2e6-2a5900705ea4/1/ 20-Apr-24 by William Pepple System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 21-Apr-24 by Rebecca Wilks Thanks for your report. We'll need reciepts for all spending to close the grant. 21-Apr-24 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Project reverted to "Paid". 24-Apr-24 by William Pepple Cancelled Checks for Scholarship Disbursements uploaded as of 4/24/2024. 25-Apr-24 by Rebecca Wilks Thank you for your project report. Unfortunately TRF requires receipts for documentation. One other option is a signed letter from the cooperating organization on their letterhead specifying the amount and date received. Cancelled checks, invoices, and club-generated documents are not acceptable. 30-Apr-24 by William Pepple From: Megan Gossmann Date: Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 10:05 AM Subject: Re: ROTARY SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION REQUESTED To: Sharon Stinard Hello Sharon! My student ID number is 36981655. The address for my schools financial/business office is 1833 W Southern Ave, Mesa AZ 85202. Below I have attached my class schedule! Thank you! 6-May-24 by Rebecca Wilks Your reporting remains incomplete. Please upload project receipts in order to close this grant. Invoices, cancelled checks, club-generated documents, and other documentation are not accepted by TRF for grant reporting. Please note that the deadline for reporting was April 30. Delays may jeopardize eligibility for future grants.