Rotary Club of Sonoma Valley opens new grant cycle
The Rotary Club of Sonoma Valley has opened its 2022 fall grant cycle for local nonprofit community organizations. Applications are due October 31.
“We’ve been serving Sonoma Valley continuously since 1946, doing what we can to make our community a little bit better for the people who live, work, or visit here,” said Scott Murray, club president.
Last spring, Murray said, Rotary Sonoma awarded grants totaling just over $40,000 for things such as a podcast studio for the Boys & Girls Club of Sonoma Valley, a new garden storage shed at Flowery Elementary School, new signs for the Mentoring Alliance rooms at Sonoma Valley area schools, and a mural at Dunbar Elementary School.
“Our grants also provided financial support for La Luz youth summer camps, Queer Art Club activities at the Sonoma Community Center, summer theater workshops for at risk youth at Transcendence Theater, and food deliveries by Comida Para Todos – Food For All.”
Interested nonprofit groups can download the grant application, submission instructions, and grant guidelines at www.SonomaValleyRotary.org, under the Community Grant Application link on the club’s home page. Applications are due by October 31, 2022.
The club’s grants committee will review all applications submitted and plans to announce the awards by the end of November.
Maureen Crumley and Susie Gallo of the Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance. The Rotary Club of Sonoma Valley provided a grant of $2,200 this past spring to help fund the new signs.
“Our grants program typically focuses on nonprofits and schools,” Murray added. “Additionally, our members donate their time to help Sonoma Valley, such as helping maintain Sonoma Garden Park, removing garbage and debris from Sonoma Creek, and helping restore the ancient groves at Jack London State Historic Park.”
The Rotary Club of Sonoma Valley meets at Noon on Wednesdays at the Sonoma Golf Club. Visitors are welcome. Contact John Coulston at [email protected] to attend.
