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Community Service
Click here to download a list of the community service projects supported by Sunrise Rotary. |
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Good Fellows/Good Samaritans Christmas Fund
Chair: Buck Gladden - buckgladden@msn.com
Purpose:
Good Fellows/Good Samaritans is an organization committed to bringing the joy of Christmas to children in economic distress by meeting some of their fundamental needs with Christmas gifts. Each year Good Fellows/Good Samaritans purchases and bags gifts for qualified children in the Baton Rouge school system. These gifts include such items as clothing, books, and toys which are then delivered to the children after Thanksgiving.
History: (History of Sunrise Rotary’s involvement)
Sunrise Rotary has made Good Fellows / Good Samaritans a primary project for a number of years. Sunrise Rotarians plan the project and provide the bulk of the manpower for all phases of the project including set up of the temporary warehouse/distribution center, purchasing of the gifts, bagging of the gifts, and tear down/cleanup of the distribution center site. . Additionally, Sunrise Rotary club provides an annual financial donation to support the Good Fellows/Good Samaritans project.
Calendar of Events: (2010/2011 Rotary year)
Monday November 21, Tues November 22, and Wednesday November 23 – Bagging of gifts
Setup and take-down/cleanup - tbd
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Uniforms for Kids - Beer, Bands and Barbecue
Chair: Michael Olinde - michael@olinde.com
Committee Members: Laura Davis, Jay Jolly, Michael Olinde, Bob Matthews, Ron Moreau, Harvey Honore, Todd Mulford, Molly Quirk and Hank Heroman.
Purpose:
Every child dreams! Some want to be astronauts, ballerinas or movie stars. But the children we served through Uniforms for Kids Program dream of a future where they will have a decent home and food when they are hungry. Without an education, their dreams may never come true. Poverty can affect a child in so many devastating ways. All the children we serve with this program are excited about starting school, but fear the embarrassment of showing up without the proper uniform. With the help of the Sunrise Rotary, St. Vincent de Paul helps children avoid this humiliating experience that can permanently damage what little self-esteem they have left. Together, we extend a hand of compassion to over 13,000 vulnerable children in our community every year.
History: History of Sunrise Rotary’s involvement)In 2010, the leaders of Sunrise Rotary recognized the downturn in the economy, and the impact that it would have on needy children. In order to respond to this need, Sunrise Rotary came together to establish the Uniforms for Kids – Beer, Bands and Barbecue event.
This event has raised thousands of dollars for the purchase of new school uniforms for needy children. The effort has touched the lives of thousands of children. No child should dread going to school because they are afraid of being ridiculed for lacking the proper school uniform. A child's self-esteem is a very fragile thing, and one hurtful comment during the early formative years of a child's life can have a huge impact on their self-confidence. Together, we are changing their futures and giving them a chance to break the cycle of poverty.
Calendar of Events: (2011/2012 Rotary Year)
This event is scheduled in June of 2012 – day to be announced at a later date. |
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LSU Hilltop Arboretum PlantFest
Chair: Laura Deavers - laura.deavers@gmail.com
Purpose:
The LSU Hilltop Arboretum contains fourteen extraordinarily beautiful acres in Baton Rouge that showcase an extensive collection of Louisiana native trees and shrubs. The property was donated to Louisiana State University in 1981 with the stipulation that it be managed and maintained by the LSU School of Landscape Architecture and remain an outdoor laboratory for the study, display and enjoyment of native plant communities displayed in their natural habitats.
History: (History of Sunrise Rotary’s involvement)
Sunrise Rotary supports the LSU Hilltop Arboretum by providing manpower assistance in various capacities to support the annual “PlantFest” sale. Proceeds from the sale go to support our efforts to develop the site and the educational programs of the Arboretum.
Calendar of Events: (2011/2012 Rotary year)
2011 PlantFest – Sat Oct ` and Sun Oct 2
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Junior Achievement
Chair: Sam Herpin - sam@rhharchitects.com
Purpose:
Junior Achievement (JA) is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs. JA programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of contributing to their communities.
History: (History of Sunrise Rotary’s involvement)
Sunrise Rotary supports the JA program by providing volunteers to deliver the JA programs at various Baton Rouge area schools. Avenues of programs for Junior Achievement include Job Shadowing, JA Finance Park, "JA in a Day", and the traditional K-12 Fall and Spring in-class sessions. Additionally, Sunrise Rotary club provides an annual financial donation to JA of Greater Baton Rouge.
Calendar of Events: (2011/2012 Rotary year)
Fall 2011 – on-going
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Habitat for Humanity
Chair: Lynn Bradley - lbradley@bradley-blewster.com
Purpose:
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge is a non-profit, Christian-based housing ministry that works in partnership with deserving, low-income families and the community to eliminate poverty housing through building simple, decent homes. They help build community by involving diverse religious, social and business groups in the construction of homes and neighborhoods.
In their 22 year history, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge has renovated and built over 250 homes. Homes are sold to partner families at no profit, and financed by Habitat with an affordable, no-interest twenty year mortgage.
History: (History of Sunrise Rotary’s involvement)
Each year, Sunrise Rotary supports Habitat for Humanity by participating in two “Build Days” in which club members work on the construction of a Habitat home. Additionally, Sunrise Rotary club provides an annual financial donation to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge.
Calendar of Events: (2010/2011 Rotary year)
Habitat Fall 2011 Build Day – November 19, 2011
Habitat Spring 2012 Build Day - TBD
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ARC of Baton Rouge Plane Pull Competition & Festival
Chair: Amy Sellers - amy@brfoodbank.org
Purpose:
The ARC of Baton Rouge provides programs to individuals with disabilities and their families in the Greater Baton Rouge area. The ARC prevents institutionalization, helps people achieve independence, allows caregivers to continue contributing to the community, provides a safe haven for people with disabilities, makes it possible for people to participate in their community, and builds a stronger community.
Sunrise Rotary assists The ARC of Baton Rouge in the Plane Pull Competition and Festival, helping with anything from event planning, to fundraising and sponsorship, to parking and Plane Pulling the day of the event.
History: (History of Sunrise Rotary’s involvement)
Sunrise Rotary has been involved with The ARC Plane Pull Competition and Festival since 2008. Sunrise Rotary started by coordinating parking the first year, and providing a volunteer Plane Pull team made up of volunteer donors from Sunrise Rotary. In 2009, Sunrise Rotary added to its original duties by soliciting for additional teams and donations. In 2010, Sunrise Rotary further expanded its role to include membership in the planning and implementation team. Additionally, Sunrise Rotary club provides an annual financial donation to support the ARC of Baton Rouge.
Calendar of Events: (2011/2012 Rotary Year)
Saturday, October 15, 2011 |
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Blue Star Mothers
Sunrise Rotary supported the efforts of Blue Star Mothers this year by collecting donations to purchase "Honor and Remember Flags" to honor the Louisiana families that have lost a loved one that was serving in the United States Military since September 11, 2001.
For more information visit www.bluestarmoms.net. |
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Sunrise Rotary House Project
Chair: Bob Mathews - bob@neighborsmag.com
Sunrise Rotary House Foundation/Trust
Subcommittee Bill Shockey, Chairman
Daryl Ellis
Hank Heroman
Dr. Lynn Tucker
Communications Subcommittee
Chris Town, Chairman
Bob Ramsey
Dr. Heck Olinde
Joe Nicholosi
Laura Davis
Bill Golden
Strategic Planning Subcommittee
Mike Olinde, Chairman
Barry Rester
Bill Freshwater
Carol Kinchen
Fundraising Subcommittee
Buddy Weber, Chairman
Joe Donchess
Dr. Lynn Tucker
Cecil Phillips
Laura McClain
Cherine Patin
Hotel/Motel Subcommittee
Stacy Jarrard, Chairman
Bart Zimmerman
Ursula Carmena
Sheila Joyner
Purpose:
Every day more and more people from throughout our state and region come to Baton Rouge for medical care. Expansion of our community’s medical complex has been rapid and constant over the past three decades. It has been projected, however, that this rate of growth will more than double over the next 20 years as thousands of people from over 50 miles away fill our community’s hospitals.
Patients from throughout Louisiana and several surrounding states and their support network of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins and loyal friends are desperately in need of an affordable out-of-hospital place to stay. Caring for a loved one who must remain near a hospital but not in the hospital can be very expensive. Such out-of-hospital stays often stretch over several weeks or months and cost several hundreds of dollars per day. Typically medical insurance does not cover out-of-hospital expense for food and lodging and the essentials of daily life in a strange city.
Sunrise Rotary of Baton Rouge feels it is essential for our community to reach out to these hospital patients and their families as the Baton Rouge Mediplex grows. Our goal is to provide assistance in the form of discounted and/or subsidized hotel rooms or fully furnished apartments for patients and their support network that are forced by illness to live in Baton Rouge temporarily.
We want patients and their families to feel welcome by providing them with a homelike, supportive atmosphere whenever and wherever possible. We will support their need for living essentials, so that the patients and their families can focus on what is the most important to them - improving the health of their loved one. Patients and their families as well as our hospitals and our entire Baton Rouge community suffer when people leave our area un-necessarily for medical care when equal or better care is available right here in Baton Rouge.
The Sunrise Rotary House Committee is working with our hospitals, our hotels and motels, and several large-scale apartment developers to provide affordable alternatives and a hearty welcome to long-distance patients and their families. There have even been conversations about a very long-range plan for possible construction of a multi-story, highly specialized and medically equipped hotel for patients and their family members similar in purpose and design to the Rotary House at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center which is part of the Texas Medical Center in Houston.
Calendar of Events: (2011/2012 Rotary year)
Ongoing |
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