Please join us at the meeting on Tuesday, January 24th to learn more about each of these potential beneficiaries of our club's hard earned funds. Members are encouraged to advocate and vote for where they think our contributions would best be distributed. This will be our program on Tuesday.
If you will not be in attendance on Tuesday and would like to cast your votes, please communicate your five votes to Brandee Ambrosia before the end of the day on Tuesday. You can vote for 5 different organizations or multiple votes for any single organization. The votes are yours to give however you would like.
$30,000
The Rotary Giving Advisory Committee met on Tuesday and narrowed the field of potential beneficiaries to 12 options. These options are meant to represent a range of service areas to include the environment, education, the arts, seniors, the impoverished, families, mental health and even health care. This list does not reflect a complete list of what our club prioritizes nor what we have given to in the past, it is simply a list of beneficiaries up for consideration in this giving opportunity. The committee was mindfully made up of: Brandee Ambrosia, Bill Jansen, Betty Bennett, Bobbi Allen, Caitlyn Garrison and John Fink. This committee will do its best to analyze the final votes to determine the ultimate allocation of funds to reflect the will of the entire club. So, thank you in advance for your advocacy and votes as we move forward!
The following are the candidates for your consideration, of which are listed alphabetically. Each entry includes a live link to their websites, for those of you that would like to learn more about their scope of service or other organizational information. Previewing this list prior to Tuesday's meeting is encouraged and advised.
1. Auburn Education Foundation
The sole purpose of the AEF is to secure and distribute funds to provide education experiences and curriculum materials for the benefit and enrichments of students that would not otherwise be funded by the AUSD. Steve Brown pursued a dream to benefit school kids. The AEF keeps the dream alive.
AEF provides enrichment activities, educational experiences and curriculum materials for the benefit of students in the Auburn Union School District. AEF prioritizes experiences in music, the arts and Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM).
The Auburn Renewal Center. (A.R.C.) The ARC is a 501(c)(3) free clinic, providing medical, dental, vision, mental health, chiropractic, and women’s health services to the uninsured, under-insured, the homeless, and those with insufficient income. Staffed for more than eleven years by hundreds of local healthcare volunteers, the ARC has served more than 20,000 patients who might otherwise have no access to badly-needed healthcare. It is a ministry of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, but it is staffed by, and serves, people of all faiths. It is always in need of additional funding to purchase medical supplies, vaccines, and medical equipment.
The Auburn Senior Center opened its doors in October of 1980. The Mission of the Center is to honor the dignity of seniors by enriching their quality of life while supporting their independence and vitality. It is currently located off of Bell Road and Highway 49 in North Auburn.
Today the Center has over 300 members from Placer, El Dorado and Nevada counties. The Center allows seniors the opportunity to participate in all aspects of community life. It is a wonderful place for senior citizens to get out of their confines, to attend educational classes, to meet and socialize with their peers, to obtain information and get assistance to help solve issues they may be facing, to stay fit by attending wellness and exercise programs and to generally have some fun.
The State Theatre enhances the quality of life, economic prosperity and cultural awareness of our community and region by providing live music, performing arts, film and educational experiences.
This historical venue serves as a heartbeat of the Auburn community and offers a diverse array of entertainment options, reaching all ages and interests.
By design, Confluence has a learning platform that is different from the PUHSD Comprehensive sites. The primary focus for learning and earning credits is through real life and hands on experiences. A Rotary Grant would help to provide even greater opportunities for learning such as trips, the tools to learn basic life skills (cooking, automotive, finances, resumes, internships), and the opportunity to purchase materials for hands-on learning.
A future project we are working towards is to build a greenhouse on campus and sell the plants as a fundraiser for our school.
Our students are very creative with interests that range from art to the art of digital communications. We would love to be able to have art supplies on hand, digital equipment for videos and podcasts, and the equipment necessary to be able to finish our music studio that was created by a student a few years ago.
Dutch Brother's Coffee will match any funds contributed through this request.
FTH was founded in 1992 with the intent to create a true win/win/win in our community. This original and ongoing primary purpose is accomplished by their commitment to the Junior Livestock Auction during the Gold Country Fair in Auburn. FTH purchases between 30 and 35 animals a year through the auction from the 4-H and FFA kids. Obviously, this is a huge support to a lot of High School students in Auburn. Not so obvious is the support to our Fairgrounds who get a commission on each sale. What happens from there is awesome. FTH processes the animals and yields upwards of 5,000 one-pound packages of ground meat. Their distribution priority is the Auburn nonprofits who feeding and food distribution programs. Placer County Food Bank, Interfaith Food Closet, The Gathering Inn, Salvation Army and local fire evacuees.
Gold Country Wildlife Rescue is a non-profit organization, dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of injured and orphaned wildlife. We are permitted through the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, and the US Fish & Wildlife Service. We have been serving the local community since 1991 and do so at no charge.
MISSION: Rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing injured and orphaned wildlife while advancing public awareness and understanding of the critical role of wildlife within the ecosystems we share.
Gold Country Wildlife Rescue is committed to outreach and education. By our educating children and adults alike about wildlife ecology, biology and conservation, we help everyone learn how to live harmoniously with wildlife while protecting our environment.
Koinonia Family Services was founded on February 3, 1982 and is a state-licensed, non-profit public service organization that became nationally accredited by CARF in 2016. During its 40-year history, Koinonia’s caring and compassionate staff and families have helped thousands of children and teens begin a new life. Its headquarters is located in Loomis, California. Over the years, Koinonia has expanded across California and Nevada, now offering a wide variety of services, including family preservation, child advocacy, and outpatient services.
Our current programs include: Foster Care, adoption, and Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Programs. Our Homes for Teens program serves Kaiser Permanente through Crisis Residential and Behavioral Health sites, and our Placer County Crisis Resolution serves non-adjudicated youth and their families with early intervention and prevention services.
Lighthouse Counseling and Family Resource Center provides counseling, case management, and educational classes to individuals and families that need extra help during difficult times. Lighthouse also provides a wide range of educational classes such as parenting and co-parenting, depression and anxiety, budgeting, women’s empowerment, family wellness and employment readiness. Finally, our Resource Center provides clients with case management so that they receive the resources necessary to meet their ongoing needs. All of our services are offered at no-to-low cost to the client and are provided in both English and Spanish. We are partnered with other organizations throughout South Placer County serving individuals and families in need of our support services. Altogether, we help families heal!
The Placer Artists Tour is the longest running and furthest reaching art tour in the region. The Legacy Fund is a matching fund program to create an endowment to ensure that the Placer Artists Tour will be enjoyed and experienced for generations to come.
Your gift to this important fund will be matched through their Legacy Fund, up to $250,000.
Ride to Walk’s mission is to enhance the lives of individuals with neurological disabilities by providing innovative therapeutic horseback riding activities that are recreational in nature and adapted to the individual’s needs and abilities.
Ride to Walk serves individuals from the Sacramento and Placer County communities with neurological deficits stemming from birth trauma, head injury, spinal deformities and effects from drug, alcohol and stroke. We also benefit those struggling with mental health issues such as trauma, anxiety or depression and those with sensory processing disorders.
Founded in 1985 by Dr. Kristine Corn, a widely respected physical therapist, Ride to Walk has developed into a team of registered physical therapists who have special training to help build the bonds between those with special needs and horses as therapeutic teammates.
Sight Word Busters provides classroom volunteers who assist students to master the basic building blocks for learning how to read. SWB recruits and trains local community volunteers, coordinates with teachers to place them in the classroom and provides ongoing support to ensure their success. The program reinforces classroom teaching and provides one-on-one attention to each child. Since its beginning twelve years ago, SWB has grown from eleven trained volunteers helping four classrooms in one school to, in 2023, 336 volunteers serving 112 classrooms in 25 schools. The program is rich in volunteers (8000+ hours of volunteer service in 2022), but runs on a very modest budget. The largest focus of SWB is in Auburn and is now active in every traditional elementary school in our town.
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