The membership of the Endowment (Rotary members) will vote after our recommendations are approved by the Club and Endowment Boards.
The recommendations will be presented to the Endowment Board on July 20 and the Club Board on July 28
The following is a summary of each grant request. Traditional projects that have been funded for a number of years are not described in this document. They are shown on the overall spread sheet.
There are two grants that were approved and funded in prior years that are included first so we remember our hands-on commitments that are still open.
There are three projects for this year that have been committed to by various committees, boards and presidents. They are included next for your review, discussion and confirmation.
of which approximately $30,000 is to be allocated to traditional and on-going projects. Therefore there is approximately $30,000 for these grants. The total requested is $65,240. The Endowment will provide a final total available later this week.
# 1 This 20092010 year project (Judith’s year) will be built in the fall of 2011 and is already funded.
Organization: Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency (BOSS)
Hands-on with Rotaract participation
Project Title: Ursula Sherman Village Playground
Rotary Contact: Jonathan DeYoe (Rotary), Daniel Barth (BOSS)
Estimated Cost: $6,000 AND district grant $3,000
Project Description:
BOSS is a nonprofit organization that provides housing and services to families and individuals out of homelessness and helps them in new lives. The organization operates county wide and its administrative offices are located in Berkeley. The project is primarily to help development a playground at Ursula Sherman Village. The project needs playground equipment for toddlers and preteens including an outdoor fitness area and bicycle parking. They requested a grant of
$15,000 for work to be done in the summer of 2009. The proposal st ates that “the project will directly benefit Berkeley’s homeless children and families who live in the village.” They are very interested in having us working with them hands-on on the playground improvements. They received a Chancellor’s Grant for part of this project.
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# 2 This 20102011 year project (Fred’s year) will be built in the fall of 2011 and is already funded.
Organization: Through the Looking Glass
Hands-on with Rotaract participation
Project:
Contact:
Estimated cost:
Ed Roberts Campus playground
$4,000
Ed Church (Rotary), Megan Kirshbaum (Looking Glass)
Project Description:
The project is to build play area storage cabinets (exterior) at the Through the Looking Glass facility at the Ed Roberts Campus near Ashby BART.
This is a first of its kind facility where many agencies, all supporting the disabled community, will come together in one facility. BORP has offices in the center but continues to have program space in the “Rod & Gun Club” facility on University.
The Trio Foundation has been asked to be the major supporter of this play structure for autistic children. Rotary is being asked to help both finically and with “hands-on” labor.
There is Federal Head Start money involved as well.
# 3 This 20112012 project (Reg’s year) received Club Board approval previously because of timing. It is included in the budget as funded.
Organization: Rotaract Agent Orange Conference
Hands-on with Rotaract participation
Project:
Contact:
Estimated cost:
Conference on campus re Agent Orange
Alex Glass (Rotary)
$500 - $1,000
This is being organized by San Francisco Rotary and the Cal Rotaract. We signed on as a cosponsor in April for $500 - $1,000. The project is scheduled for a two day symposium October 28
-29, 2011 at the David Brower Center and the Clark Kerr Conference Center.
With the support of the Ford Foundation, Rotary will be staging at Cal the first national symposium on the Agent Orange problems left behind from the Vietnam War in Vietnam and the
U.S. The symposium will be held under the auspices of the same UC Berkeley center than has housed the Rotary Peace Center, and has the sponsorship of Cal Rotaract and the Rotary Clubs of Berkeley and San Francisco among other clubs.
On Friday evening, there will be films and a reception, and all day Saturday there will be major speakers and symposia on the campus, in this effort to foster national attention on a serious continuing problem.
The Club Board (Fred’s year) approved being a sponsor. It is expected to be $500 but we do not have the final number.
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# 4 This 20112012 project (Reg’s year) received Project Committee approval in the spring to develop the project. Much work has been done. It is scheduled for October 13, 2011. It is included in the budget as funded.
Organization: Rotary & Rotaract
Hands-on with Rotaract
Project Title: Empty Bowls
Rotary Contact: George Luna (Rotary)
Estimated Cost: $2,000
Hands-on with Rotaract, event October 13, 2011
Project Description:
Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger. The basic premise is simple:
- Potters and others work with community to create handcrafted bowls.
- Guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread
- In exchange for a cash donation, guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all empty bowls
- Money raised is donated to an organization working to end hunger
Events have now taken place across the USA and in at least a dozen other countries. Many millions have been raised.
George reports – he has been notified by the ASUC art studio that their potters have made over
200 soup bowls for the project. Cal Rotaract will be our partner.
The "Empty Bowls" dinner is a soup dinner for the community, to raise funds for the local food banks serving the homeless and poor of Berkeley. Cal Dining will prepare the soup.
The event is scheduled for October 13, 2011, Thursday, at Pauley Ball Room. The venue is free of charge because of Rotaract.
The money goes to a specific project that helps to end hunger; Alameda County Food Bank is a possibility. A more Berkeley focused organization is preferred.
You get to come home with a bowl made by George Luna's pottery group. Time and price TBA
# 5 This 2011-2012 International project (Reg’s year) received a commitment form Reg and Grier because of timing to participate a second year in a Global Grant Project in
Africa. It is included in the budget as funded for $1,000 subject to your approval.
Organization: Chico & District 5160
Project: Tanzania Water Harvesting project led by Chico
Contact:
Estimated cost:
Reg Garcia & District 5160
$1,000
Project Description:
Contribute to the global matching grant proposal led by the Chico club in District 5160 in conjunction with Rotary Clubs in Tanzania, Africa, for building water harvesting systems. This was a successful project last year. In 2010-11 we committed $2,000. The request for funds this year came before our meeting and Reg and I agreed we would fund this at $1,000 subject to your approval.
The project would build additional water harvesting systems as the Chico club has done in the past with the Tanzanian clubs.
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This project responds to highly important needs. The ability of the Tanzanian clubs to help build and later maintain the systems has been well documented in this region, as is their close work with the community. Our African Studies club member, Prof. Benj. Lawrence, who has lead past
Rotary wells projects there, conceded he was “impressed”. Our participation would increase our linkages with clubs across the District, and benefit our future project applications when we seek partners.
# 6 This 20112012 year project (Reg’s year) is proposed for a District Matching Grant in the amount of $6,600 District, El Cerrito $500, Berkley $4,000 and in-kind contributions. It is included in the budget as funded for $2,000 subject to your approval and the receipt of the
District Grant. The committee may decide to fund this with or without the District Grant.
Organization: BORP (bay Area Outreach & Recreation
Hands-on with Rotaract and others
Project:
Contact:
Estimated cost:
Adaptive Recreation Center Rehab Project
Steve Holland (Rotary), Kia Burkett (BORP)
$2,000 plus $2,000 from last year, $11,100 total
Project Description:
When in New Orleans for the International Convention, Alex Glass suggested to Reg and Grier that we apply for a District Grant and that BORP would be a good project. This project was begun last year with a $2,000 seed money grant. BO RP is now a finalist for a Chancellor’s Grant in the amount of
$25,000.
Participating groups: BORP families, Berkeley Rotary, El Cerrito Rotary, Cal Rotaract, East Bay
Rotaract.
Funding: Chancellor’s Grant $25,000, District 5160 $6,600, Berkley Rotary 2010-2011 $2,000, Berkeley
Rotary $2,000 (this request), El Cerrito Rotary $500. There will be several work days for hands-on work.
The facility is the old Berkeley Rod and Gun Club located at Aquatic Park at the foot of Addison
Street in Berkeley. The building is in poor condition and has not been used productively for some time. BORP is proposing to rehab the building to make it accessible with an accessible entry and entry ramp, repair interior and exterior walls, and install a handicapped bathroom.
BORP has applied for a Chancellor’s Community Fund Grant from UC Berkeley. This is a partnership grant between Berkeley and the community and needs UC students’ participation (UC
Rotaract) and community support (Rotary clubs and East Bay Rotaract and the BORP community). The Chancellor’s grant was approved for second round review by the Chancellor’s office and a final decision as to the Chancellor’s Grant will be made in early August 2011.
The District may tie their grant to receiving the Chancellor’s grant. If BORP does not receive a
Chancellor’s Grant and receives the district grant the project will have to be scaled back significantly.
BORP provides sports and recreation opportunities to youth and adults with disabilities. The
Adaptive Recreation Center project will bring together university and community partners to transform a building at Aquatic Park currently in disrepair into an adaptive recreation center.
BORP youth and adult participants will work with university students, staff, and professors, as well as community volunteers to make accessibility modifications to the building. The project will bring together these diverse groups to both
disability issues, disability culture, and the very important issue of access to sports and recreation for people with disabilities.
At BORP, sports and recreation are not just as a way to attain fitness, but also a path to greater achievement. Over the past 10 years, 100% of BORP’s youth have graduated from high school.
Over 90% have gone to college and over 70% are employed. These statistics are in sharp contrast with national data and are particularly impressive given that 70% of BORP’s youth come from low-income families.
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# 7 This 20102011 year project (Fred’s year) has a balance in the fund and it is recommended that it remain open. NO NEW FUNDS NEEDED
Organization: Cal Rotaract
Project:
Contact:
Estimated cost:
Summer Service Projects for Rotaractors, summer 2012
Fred Collignon (Rotary)
$2,750 remaining ($3,000 original Grant)
Project Description
Summer Service Scholarships for Rotaractors with Third World Rotary Club Service Projects
These scholarships are being proposed by a coalition of university Rotaract clubs at the Western
Regional conference at Cal in October to the California District Governors as a major new initiative in Rotary. The idea comes out of Cal Rotaract and is modeled on the Cal Blum Center scholarships for summer service abroad which currently funds 30 students for such service experiences in the Third World.
The Blum Center has agreed that placements with Third World Rotary clubs in already planned service projects are almost “ideal” in their definition of a good summer placement. The details for the program are still being worked out.
We contributed $250 from this fund and another $250 to Maria Cordero one of our scholars who is at Davis for a summer study project. The remainder of the funds is unspent.
Because students will be applying during the fall 2011 and spring of 2012, we need to keep this fund open.
A set of criteria, who will administer the program and how will be determined by the District. As the sponsor of the Rotaract Club our club needs to be on the forefront of support and we need to be able to support this at the conference.
# 8 This on-going support for Cal Rotaract will move to traditional funding subject to your approval. It is budgeted at the same amount as prior years.
Organization: Cal Rotaract
Project:
Contact:
Annual support
Fred Collignon (Rotary)
Estimated cost: $2000
Project Description:
This is the annual support for Cal Rotaract which started as support for their bone marrow drive.
The funds in subsequent years marked as undesignated.
# 9 This on-going project has been budgeted at $8,000. Due to increased costs of books and printing the Youth Committee has requested an increase to $9,000. It is included in the budget as funded subject to your approval. TRADITIONAL PROJECT
Organization:
Project:
Berkeley Rotary
Dictionary Project – 3 rd graders
Contact:
Estimated cost:
Irene Hagarty Rotary
$9000
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# 10 Consider increasing this on-going support scholarship support due to the summer scholarships and other scholar needs.
Organization:
Project:
Contact:
Berkeley Rotary
Scholar support – college and post graduate
Don Alter, Grier Graff Rotary
(increase over prior years $200) Estimated Cost: $700
Project Description:
These funds have been used to support Ambassadorial Scholars who are outbound and have been sponsored by our club. They are not a part of the scholarship but provide for incidentals such as travel to the orientation meeting, gifts for Rotarians in the host country, etc.
This past year we spent $335. We also spent $250 of unbudgeted monies for Maria Cordero’s summer scholarship (total $500 for Maria) which could have come from this fund if we broaden the allowable expenses a bit. Therefore a name change is proposed and an increase in the amount of funds available.
We have an outbound scholar for 2012, Jimmy Le and may have additional summer scholars.
# 11 Consider increasing the amount of this on-going scholarship to cover a greater percentage of the costs. CONTINUING SCHOLARSHIP
Organization: Cambiando Vidas, Chacala MX
Project Title: Sofia Gonzales Rivas memorial Scholarship
Rotary Contact: Pate Thomson, or Endowment Treasurer
Estimated Cost: $800 (possible increase)
Project Description:
This scholarship is an on-going commitment to Cambiando Vidas, Chacala MX. This will be the fourth year of funding this scholarship. Last year the committee voted NOT to increase the amount. There has been no request for a larger scholarship, although this does not pay the entire scholarship amount. Discuss increasing the amount of the scholarship.
The scholarship is in memory of the daughter of the owner of Coco Bongo who was killed in a car accident in 2009. The scholarship is currently funding a portion of the costs of college for the first recipient, her mother Chela (Piedad Griselda Rivas Salazar) who finished her high school at
Zacualpan. She is currently in law school.
A number of Berkeley Rotarians volunteered for three years to build educational infrastructure in
Chacala. That structure has facilitated the exciting work of Cambiando Vidas which now has several graduates from college, one graduate from medical school and an ongoing waiting list.
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# 12 Organization: Niroga Institute
Funding only
Project: Partial funding, TLS stress reduction program for 2011-2012 school year.
Contact:
Estimated cost:
Project Description:
Berkley Unified is a cooperating organization.
Jonathan DeYoe & Joe Maloney Rotary, Bidyut Bose, Niroga Ex. Dir.
$5,000 (matching funds available)
There are ~325 youth in 3 small schools in Berkeley High School (BHS) - Life Academy, Green
Academy and Community Partnership Academy; most of them are of color, and are dealing with the trauma of abuse, neglect, chronic stress, substance abuse and juvenile justice involvement.
They are at high risk of dropping out, with the associated lifetime challenges of homelessness, substance abuse and crime and violence. Niroga Institute would like to expand its current
Transformative Life Skills (TLS) program at BHS, which has been shown to lower stress and increase self-control in hundreds of high-risk adolescents.
Niroga has been conducting a small TLS program in Life Academy and Green Academy this year
(Spring Semester, 2011), funded by individual donors and BHS. The program has received an overwhelmingly positive response by students, staff and administration.
Closing the achievement gap and achieving education equity are key objectives of Berkeley’s
Vision 2020. TLS addresses root causes of school failure, with its concomitant challenges in community health and well-being.
The project will primarily serve minority youth, age 14-18 years in Berkeley High School, who are at high risk of school failure, substance abuse and juvenile delinquency. Benefits include healthy behaviors and healthy lifestyle choices at the individual level, and reduced dropout rate, less substance abuse, and decreased crime and violence at the community level.
Jonathan DeYoe has raised and will continue to raise money for a $1 to $1 match.
# 13 Organization: CEID(Center for Early Intervention on Deafness )
Funds only, NO “hands-on” participation
Project:
Contact:
Partial scholarship for one child to Sunshine Preschool
Jon Shindo Rotary, Jill Ellis CEID
Estimated cost:
Project Description:
$1,000
CEID serves children (age birth to 5) and families many who are at the lowest end of the socioeconomic scale. This is a specific request to provide a partial scholarship for one particular child for CEID Sunshine Preschool and related services. The child wears two cochlear implants and demonstrates every opportunity for academic success, provided she receives one more year of intensive special education and mainstreaming opportunities at CEID.
While the majority of services are at NO cost to families, there is a cost for attending Sunshine
Preschool. This is an all inclusive preschool for children who are deaf as ell as those developing typically. Currently they offer programs for toddlers and preschool children at their West Berkeley
Center. They provide resource support for families related to listening and communication skills.
There is a waiting list for the Preschool.
CEID began in 1980 as a federally funded 3 year demonstration program. IN 1983 CEID moved to Berkeley. They serve nearly 700 individual each year.
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# 14 Organization: BOCA (Berkeley Congregations for Action)
Project:
Contact:
Estimated cost:
Project Description:
Lifelines Jackets for street hosts/workers
Maxim Schrogin (Rotary)
$1,500
$7,000 to contract with Dr. Joseph Marshall for Alive and Free Training with Berkeley collaboration in August 2011
Affirm Safe Community Partnership’s role in collecting data from police department to present crime/gun violence analysis and report back in August 2011
$10,000 ($30,000 total/3) to initiate data and technical assistance with the Safe Community
Partnership to identify and analyze problem during summer 2011
Lifelines, the program that is being introduced to Berkeley by BOCA (the "faith-based" community-organizing entity that Maxim is involved with) is requesting funding for jackets for the street patrol. Part of the program is to have people on the streets making contact with potentially troubling kids; those people will be wearing Lifeline jackets. The request is that Rotary sponsor those jackets and have Rotary symbols on them. This would publicize Rotary and support the work of BOCA.
I believe that Rotary had experience sponsoring street workers on Shattuck. That program was apparently not stellar. Pastor McBride of BOCA understands that those outreach "hosts" went out untrained and unsupported. The lifelines people will be part of larger, experienced, wellsupported program. Lifelines in Berkeley has already gotten endorsements from the Berkeley
Police Department and the Berkeley School District, and will meet with City officials later this month to solicit their endorsement as well.
A power point presentation was part of the submittal. It is attached.
# 15 Organization: Rebuilding Together
Project: Paint interior of Oregon Street Recreation Center interior painting
Contact: John Stevens (Rotary),
Estimated cost:
Project Description:
$3,500
Rebuilding Together is requesting hands-on participation and financial support for interior painting at the recreation center on Oregon where we painted the gymnasium last year. The work will be in their pool room/pingpong room, computer room, general activities room and the director’s office painted. This work is not as high as the gym and would only require work from the floor level or 6 foot ladders, making the work less strenuous. The project is currently scheduled to be on Saturday October 15. This is the weekend following the Empty Bowls Project and the weekend following the District Conference.
# 16 Organization: Berkeley Art Center
Project:
Contact:
Estimated cost:
Project Description: update facility
Maxim Schrogin (Rotary), unknown
They were grateful for our support of the exhibit and would like to continue a relationship with
Berkeley Rotary. The scope of work is fairly undefined and open to further development.
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# 17 Organization: Berkeley Rotary
Hands-on
Project:
Contact:
Estimated cost:
Shorebird Park Maintenance
Reg Garcia (Rotary), Ed Church (Rotary) limited
Project Description:
After the tour of Shorebird Park (after the club lunch) it was found that grills are in need of repair, one of the monuments had new graffiti, and the site needs gardening. A good workday project for the fall
# 18 Organization: Hospital de la Familia, Nuevo Progreso, Guatemala
Funds only
Project: Stove for remodeled kitchen
Rotary Contact: George Luna, Bob Sorenson Rotary
Estimated Cost: $1,000 approximate
Project Description:
The kitchen stove that serves the entire facility at the Hospital is still an open fire. This kitchen serves the hospital staff, doctors, patients, and visiting Rotarians. They plan on remodeling the kitchen and would like our assistance in providing a gas stove. The Hospital de la Familia
Foundation president William Stewart assures us that the foundation will match funds we donate.
The Hospital de la Familia has been serving the poor and needy of this area of Guatemala since the mid seventies. Bob Sorenson and his family have been doing free eye operations and procedures here for over twenty years. For the last two trips Bob has made Berkeley Rotary has supported a translator position – George Luna.
# 19 Organization: Berkeley Rotary & Rotary Club of Rohtak
Project: Tube water well,
Contact: Manjul Batra Rotary, Rotary
Estimated Cost: $5,000
Project Description:
The proposal being presented is to request funding for a water sanitation project in the village of
Bahuakbarpur (near the town of Rohtak), Haryana State, India.
Currently, approximately 100 thousand people live in the village of Bahuakbarpur which is located approximately 45 miles outside of Delhi. The proposal to install a tube-well (dig 70 feet down) and to install a filtration system which would purify the water, for a small portion of the population, approximate cost $5000. Space for this well has been designated.
A small token fee would be charged for the water supply, which would be applied to any maintenance and repairs and would avoid wastage of water, and provide ownership to the village.
The Project is expected to have a high likelihood of success due to existing relationship and support with the village leaders. The Rotary club of Rohtak, India will be involved in establishing and supervising this project.
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# 20 Organization: Rotary Club of Jaltemba Bay, Le Penita, Mexico
Project: to be developed
Contact: Berkeley International Project Team
Estimated cost: $5,000 ($20,000 including carry forward)
Request that $5,000 be allocated for an International Project to be added to the existing carry forward of $10,500. We can expect better participation form BARSHEEP clubs with more lead time on the project. Expect approximately $5,000 from participant fees in addition to the Rotary contribution.
Project Description:
We had an exceptional experience in Zacualpan this spring. The project took over a year of planning. Phil is interested in developing a project for 2012-2013 with the La Penita Rotary Club.
If it is well organized this year we could apply for a District Grant for additional money. The
Zacualpan project total was $65K. (included $5,000 in participant fees). We had partners from 15
Rotary Clubs in the USA and Mexico.
# 21 Organization: District Governor, District 5160
Project: District Governor’s Project
Contact:
Estimated cost:
Reg Garcia
$1,000
Project Description:
There will likely be a Governor’s project this year. Last year we funded the project at $7/member or approximately$800.
Project Description 2010-2011:
District Governor Karl Diekman 2010-2011 project – dictionary distribution in rural Africa. The funding request was $7 per member. Every Rotarian in the District has a dictionary with their name in it.
# 22 Organization: District 5160
Project:
Contact:
Rotary Disaster Preparedness Conference
Reg Garcia
Estimated cost:
Project Description: unknown
District 5160 expects that the RI Disaster Preparedness Conference will be held in March 2012 in
Berkeley. Participants come from clubs all over the world. The Conference will be held in
Berkeley. Our club will likely be asked to help on logistics and possible funding as the local host club.
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