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Rotary Club: Juneau-Glacier Valley Project Title: Feeding Juneau's Future 1. Describe the project. What was done, when and where did project activities take place? The four Juneau Rotary Clubs in total contributed $16,000 to Feeding Juneau's Future. $12,000 in matching District grants was received, and therefore $28,000 in total funding was provided to Feeding Juneau's Future in August 2022. Feeding Juneau's Future provides weekend meals during the school year for students throughout the Juneau school district. 2. How many people benefited from this project? approximately 550 students each week during the school year 3. Who were the beneficiaries, how were they impacted by this project, and what humanitarian need was met? The beneficiaries are students throughout the Juneau School District. Each Friday, participating students received a bag containing shelf-stable food for two breakfasts, two lunches, and two snacks to provide meals over the weekend. The humanitarian need that was met was feeding students in Juneau who otherwise might not have had food security. 4. How many Rotarians participated in the project? approximately 55, including interact members 5. What did they do? Please give at least two examples, not including financial support provided to the project. Members of all four Juneau Rotary clubs (plus some interact students) volunteered through the school year to shop, stock the shelves at the storage unit, pack lunches, and deliver the food bags to the various Juneau schools. 6. If a cooperating organization was involved, what was its role? The Douglas Community United Methodist Church was integrally involved, as they founded this project. In their own words: For over 70 years, Douglas Community United Methodist Church has provided support to the City of Douglas and the City and Borough of Juneau. Our most active ministry is feeding the community. For sixteen years, we provided a Breakfast Program to Gastineau Elementary School. For 8 years, we’ve provided a summer lunch program each week-day during the summer break for 25-plus kids in the Cedar Park Public Housing Development. We provide the only Food Pantry in downtown Douglas and have managed to keep the Pantry opened throughout the pandemic; in 2021 and 2021 we distributed 1,163 bags of food! But, our biggest program is Feeding Juneau’s Future – BackPack Program, providing food for the week-end for students throughout the Juneau School District. We are currently in our eighth year of providing week-end food to Gastineau Elementary School and our seventh year of serving the entire Juneau School District. We are currently serving 450 to 550 students each week. Students who are food insecure are identified by staff at each school and students are then provided a bag of food for the week-end. Food is delivered to and distributed each week by the School’s Counselor Office; two days of easily prepared, shelf-stable food is provided. School Staff has said that children who are not hungry are more attentive and less disruptive in the classroom. They do not have to worry about when they will next eat. Douglas Community United Methodist Church is committed to Feeding Juneau’s Future through the BackPack Program! We have individuals, paid and volunteer, who are committed to this program meeting the needs of food-insecure students in the Juneau School District. The pandemic has greatly impacted our fundraising, but we are a community of faith and we believe this program makes a positive difference in our community and to its future. 7. Income
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District must retain receipts of all expenditures for at least five years. Please scan and upload to the project's "Documents" tab all invoices (be sure they are marked "paid"), receipts and/or copies of checks for the full amount of the project budget. By signing this report, I confirm that to the best of my knowledge these District Grant funds were spent only for eligible items in accordance with Trustee-approved guidelines, and that all of the information contained herein is true and accurate. I also understand that all photographs submitted in connection with this report will become the property of RI and will not be returned. I warrant that I own all rights in the photographs, including copyright, and herby grant RI and TRF a royalty free irrevocable license to use the photographs now or at any time in the future, throughout the world in any manner it so chooses and in any medium now known or later developed. This includes the right to modify the photograph(s) as necessary in RI's sole discretion. This also includes, without limitation, use on or in the web site, magazines, brochures, pamphlets, exhibitions and any other promotional materials of RI and TRF.
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