Rotary Club of Menlo Park Announces Community Grant Recipients

The Rotary Club of Menlo Park is delighted to announce the recipients of their annual Community Grants, which focused this year on non-profits that provide food, shelter, or educational support to youth and families affected by Covid-19 in our community:

Ecumenical Hunger Program | Ravenswood Education Foundation | Menlo College Student Pantry | Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto | Onyxx Village Connection via Streetcode Academy | Together We Rise | StarVista | Live in Peace, Inc. | Envision Your Pathway | Menlo-Atherton High School Learning Center | Ravenswood Family Health Network.

Roughly half of these non-profits are past recipients of Rotary Club of Menlo Park Community Grants, and half are new recipients. The grants range from $2,000 to $5,000. Overall, the club is donating $41,000 in grants to aid the community in weathering the pandemic, in addition to their annual $10,000 contribution to the Almanac Holiday Fund. Recipients were honored at a ceremony on April 13, 2022, at the Allied Arts Guild.

About Rotary

Rotary is an international humanitarian service organization. Rotary members are business and professional leaders who volunteer their expertise, compassion, and power to improve communities at home and abroad in more than 200 countries and geographical areas, with a worldwide network of 34,000 clubs. The Rotary Club of Menlo Park consists of volunteers who are active or retired academics and business professionals who live or work in the City of Menlo Park and neighboring cities. Among other community service projects, the Rotary Club of Menlo Park has a scholarship program for high school graduates going on to college, and the club founded and maintains a community garden project with its Belle Haven partners. New members are welcome. For more information, please visit www.menloparkrotary.org or email info@menloparkrotary.org.