The Waterville Rotary Club raised funds over the past year to support local schools, churches and other organizations providing food and basic necessities to its neighbors in need. Grants went to 13 local organizations who work hard to ensure that no one goes hungry or lacks basic living supplies in the community, according to a […]
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Waterville Rotary awards 8 food insecurity grants
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Waterville Rotary Club recently took $15,000 from reserves to offer grants addressing area food insecurity.
The Community Services Committee, chaired by KVCAP’s Michele Prince, was charged with developing grant criteria, an application and scoring process for the committee members to fairly evaluate the applications. The maximum possible allotment was $3,000 per application, and the request needed to be submitted by a 501c3.
Because of the demonstrated need in the area, the committee contributed the total of its cups and fines donations for two months to this effort as well, allowing for a total contribution in grants of $15,534.00.