Outgoing Address by President Bill Burton and Distribution of Grants to Local Organizations

In a pandemic year when the needs of the community are high, the Elkhart Rotary club will more than double its annual donations to nonprofits to help meet those needs. Club members will provide $25,475 in grants to 23 local nonprofits at our weekly meeting Monday, June 28, at noon at the Matterhorn Conference Center.

Club members have the opportunity to donate money toward the nonprofit grants at each club meeting throughout the year. This year, Elkhart Rotarians made additional donations and the club chose to use cash reserves to donate more than double historical annual grants. “We knew this year brought unique challenges and the needs of our community were great,” says Candy Yoder, grant committee chair. “The grant requests were more than double the amount of budgeted donations. So, club members stepped up to help in a bigger way.”

On June 28, we've invited representatives from each of the recipient organizations that we may distribute checks and thank all of the Rotarians for their contributions and thank the nonprofit organizations for all of the great service projects they're undertaking to make our community a better place in which to live, work, and play. 

This will be a HYBRID MEETING - - you can attend IN-PERSON OR VIRTUALLY on Zoom at noon: