Program: The Beneficiaries of Rotary Grants
Mountain Resource Center, Nurturing Parenting Education: $700 The Parenting Program provides education and support for family and child needs from birth to graduation. MRC provides services that empower people, over 15,000 were served last year
PeaceWorks: $1200. Started in 1981 to provide emergency shelter services to children and adults in domestic violence situations. Peaceworks is one of the rare facilities that includes pets; there are only 60 in the entire country. The grant will cover donor data management in order to track donations and volunteer information.
West Jefferson Elementary School: $900, matched with an additional $900 grant of $900. The Rotary grant funds will provide more new books that the children can check out to take home. Each book will have a book plate that identifies that Rotary provided the books purchased from the grant. There will be Rotary designated shelves to house the books.
Guests: Dee Profitt, Curt Harris
Announcements/Business
- December 7, 12pm – State Of the State, Governor Hickenlooper and District 5450 at the Denver Tech Center Marriott. Tickets: $60, available through Denver Southeast Club. Click HERE for tickets.
- Rotary International President Dinner and polio fundraiser, January 6, 5:30 at Denver Marriott South, Lone Tree. Tickets $75. click HERE to buy.
- 285 Coupon Book Sales update: Coupon Books are available. We will be selling at the King Soopers Friday December 1, 3-8 pm. The $5 sale of the books goes to the Back Pack Project. For folks who want to support Back Pack but don’t want the books, their $5 donation would purchase a book to go into the back packs for Christmas.
- Summer event Planning Meeting – Wednesday Nov. 29, 6pm – Wes’s house. The event will be a Country Western theme. Come on down!!!!
- January 12, 2018, A Warren Miller movie night at Wild Game in Evergreen will be sponsored by the Conifer Interact Club and VW USA. The funds raised will go to help the Interact kids go to Kenya. Buy tickets at the Interact website by clicking HERE.
- Christmas party Friday Dec. 15, 6pm. at Dean’s house. Main course will be provided. Sign-Up Genius will be available for food sign up. More details coming.
- Visioning updates – Members input and leadership. The Visioning follow-up will be organized by Mark and Hugh and will be presented soon to the Club for planning for the next 3 years.
- Banners stitched with the Clubs’ flags – A big thank you to Leslie.
- The MRC Christmas party will be Saturday December 16; they need set up help on Friday December 15, 3-5pm.
- The Three Interact Clubs now have their own t-shirts, donated by Mark Rehm’s businesses. Thank you, Mark!
- Please fill out the Conifer Community Survey on-line; Ed emailed the link to all Conifer Rotarians.