During the current fiscal year Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation Granted $35,796. This is all made possible by the Art Show and donations to SRCF. Thank you for helping to make a positive impact on our community! Following are some of the worthy projects for which the Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation Board of Directors granted :
Art in Action:: Our grant will be used to purchase art materials to create 1,200 art kits for children challenged by medical treatment or socio-economic conditions and for seniors.
Assistance League of Los Gatos-Saratoga::: This grant will support the Assistance League’s Operation School Bell, which will send 80 underprivileged fifth-graders to Science Camp.
Freedom Insight.:: We will join the City of San Jose in funding Freedom Insight’s creation of a platform that will train 6,000 San Jose International Airport workers how to identify human trafficking victims and how to respond.
Saratoga Mechanical Science and Engineering Team:: We will fund robot parts, materials, tools and software to allow Saratoga High students to build robots and compete in robotics science competitions
The Thompson Scholarship Fund has been the primary source of scholarship funds for Saratoga Rotary for the last 13 years. Fund oversight is provided by the Saratoga RotaryCharitable Foundation (SRCF). We are very fortunate to have this Fund to provide scholarships to local deserving students! Thank you all for your support!
A young student at Prospect High School is now dreaming bigger, thanks to the first-ever Sesh Ramaswami Memorial Scholarship awarded this year. Tylen Brown, the inaugural recipient, will attend West Valley College for his first two years before transferring to a University. He was awarded $4,000, which will be given over four years to support his educational journey.Acquisition of ELECTROMYOGRAPHY (EMG )-NCV Machine for PHILIPPINE GENERAL HOSPITAL ( PGH )
Project cost $70, 539 RC Saratoga contributed $3000 DDF
Preventing Trafficking in Vietnam - Changing Their Stories
Project cost: $ 90,600 This grant has been transferred to our club from RC of Madison, Wisconsin along with $32500 in cash. The funds have not yet been transferred yet. The project is in collaboration with a non-profit organization called Pacific links and RC Saigon International. Club contribution: ~6000 DDF
Romania Hospital Project: This project is led by RC Reno, Nevada. The Community Needs Assessment showed that the greatest need of the community was to improve the quality of medical care in the area. To address this need we will provide 6 GE Carescape (All in One) Monitors and 1 GE R860 ventilators to the Stei Municipal Hospital. These are brand new state of the art pieces of equipment. This project will be in collaboration with Assist International based in Scotts Valley, CA.
RC Reno contributed $10,000 towards our Global Grant project to support procurement of an MEC for Ukraine.
Club contributed 3000DDF.
- Mobile Pantry/ Park-It Market at Saratoga Fellowship Plaza
- On the 1st, 3rd & 5th Wednesday of the Month from 10:15 to 11:45 AM
- Packing supplies for troops in October for the holiday season
- Mentoring Interact Club of local high schools
- Enterprise Leadership Conference (ELC) for high school students
- Scholarships for elementary, middle, high school and Community college students
- Speech Contest for the high school students
- Rotary Youth Exchange Programs
- Super Bowl Chili and Corn Bread Cook Off
- Fun at Bocce Ball Court
- Halloween Spirit
- Christmas Party
- Annual Dessert Bake Off
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