Your Club Foundation at Work in the Community
Posted by Ann Ralston
on Dec 11, 2011
Dublin AM Rotary Charitable Foundation Board: Chris Close, Susan Robenalt, Page Vornbrock, Sharon Kendall, Dave Connelly, Ann Ralston, Rick Gerber, Marilee Chinnici-Zuercher, Cap Clegg and Amy Barnhart.
The current economy is creating a greater need for support from service organizations such as ours. Your Dublin AM Rotary Charitable Foundation approved two grants that serve a common theme: Poverty.
A recent publication by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program shows that 26.2% of children in Franklin County live in poverty , and from 2005 – 2010, the percentage of needy students in Dublin jumped from 7% – 13%!
One grant helps fund a test for Hands on Central Ohio (formerly First Link) to take a mobile unit into the Dublin community to assist people where they live and work. Hands On Central Ohio matches an individual’s needs with community resources. If effective, this approach of going into communities will be expanded.
The second grant was awarded to the YWCA Family Center, originally created as the intake site for homeless families. Although the Center was designed to handle 50 families, for much of this year it has been operating at more than double its capacity. The grant will help provide food for the residents. A time is being identified for club members to serve a meal to the residents.
As you wrap up your year-end giving, please consider donations to our club’s own Dublin AM Rotary Foundation as well as to the Rotary International Foundation. You can drop off the checks to Rich Weber at any meeting.
Please join Claudia Trusty and Ann Ralston at the January 6th meeting to learn more about both our club’s foundation and the RI Foundation.
On January 13th, Elfie DiBella, CEO of the YWCA will be our speaker, exploring the state of poverty in central Ohio.
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