community service projects
rotary year 2002-03

Click here for a  2003-2004 Community Service Overiew.

Bellevue Community Service Committees:

1. Project Development ­ creative work to increase the Club’s role in active hands-on community service projects in the Bellevue Eastside Community.

• September 3, 2002 ­ 9/11 Remembrance Project. Barbara Jirsa from the Bellevue Art Museum provided tags for Club members to write names of people that perished in NY, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. The tags embellished a sculpture of the World Trade Center in the Bellevue Downtown Park and were a part of Bellevue’s commemoration of the one year anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy. Club donation of $500.
   
• Cell phone collection by Club members for Eastside Domestic Violence. 100+ phones.
   
• Re-instituted the Club’s participation in the Salvation Army’s Christmas bell ringing at Bellevue Square.
   
• Sponsored and participated in an Eastgate area house refurbishing for “Christmas in April” on April 26, 2003. A major hands-on project and Club donation of $3000.
   
• One additional hands-on opportunity under consideration by the Committee.

2. Rotary Operation First Harvest organized four Club work parties at the Seattle warehouse. Club donation of $4000.

3. Service to the Disabled worked with At Work! for the purchase of a banding machine to provide employment for 4-5 disabled workers. Club donation of $1,400. Summit Assistance Dogs gave a demonstration to the Club. Throughout the year, the Committee brought representatives from the disabled community to the Club’s weekly meetings for an educational “Community Minute.”

4. Rotary Homeless Youth created a new partnership with Friends of Youth. The Committee organized a Club wide collection drive resulting in a donation of 107 clothing items and 166 units of toiletries. These items were used at The Landing, a joint venture of Friends of Youth and the Bellevue YMCA serving homeless youth 18-23 years of age. The Landing serves approximately 14 homeless Eastside youth per night, four nights a week, by providing overnight sleeping accommodations, food, showers and laundry services. In addition, a variety of counseling assistance is available. The Committee procured a District Matching Grant of $1111 for use by Friends of Youth in constructing storage facilities for bedding supplies and other needed support items.

5. RotaCare received a Club donation of $11,000 and members volunteer to provide free health care to the Eastside needy at the RotaCare clinic in Crossroads.

6. Environmental Protection is planning a trail building work party on June 21 in conjunction with the Bellevue Park Department.

7. Eastside Literacy is the beneficiary of the Club’s weekly speaker gift in the form of book purchases and name plates in the speaker’s honor. Club donation $2500.

8. Project Review awarded the following grants:

• Arc of King County, $2,000
• Assistance League/Eastside $5,000
• Bellevue Philharmonic, $2,500
• Eastside Legal Assistance $4,000
• WA Women in Need, $3,000
• YWCA/Sammamish, $2,500
• Boyer Children’s Clinic, $1,000

Total grants to date: $20,000;
spring grant review on May 31: $10,000

Camp Goodtimes, a summer camp for children with cancer, was given a booster shot of fun, when Bellevue Rotary came to camp in 1997. Bringing with them a carnival with games, booths, food and makeovers by hair stylists and face painting artists, the event was described as a "blast". Everyone had fun. The Bellevue Rotary Carnival is now an annual event. Each year, one hundred and thirty campers and fifty Rotarians have lunch together at camp. Then the kids run out to the field to ride the Gyrotron, drive monster trucks, wrestle in Sumo suits, eat cotton candy, and stand in line to have hair (or bald heads) sprayed in day-glo colors.

Recognizing the value of this camp for young cancer patients, in 2000 Bellevue Rotary established an $80,000 cabin endowment. The interest on this account will each year underwrite the cost of camping for 10 children.

2003 Carnival date is June 26. Club donation of $2500.

“R” Adventure Camp is the Rotary Adventure Camp that started in 2001 with a grant of $10,000 from Bellevue Rotary. "R" Adventure Camp offers a week long kayaking trip in the San Juan Islands for teens and young adults 17-25 who have cancer.

2002 Camp was July 21-26. Club donation of $10, 158.
2003 Camp is August 3-8. Club donation of $10,000.

Holiday Fund donations provided $10,153 to the Overlake Service League to provide holiday food and gifts to 25 Eastside families.

The Bellevue Club’s Annual Auction is the source of funds for the Bellevue Rotary Foundation. The net proceeds from last year’s auction were $146,000.

The Primary Beneficiary of the 2002 Auction, held on April 27th, was Eastside Housing Association ­ a collaboration of Catholic Community Services, Friends of Youth, and Hopelink for the provision of low-income housing. The Bellevue Rotary Foundation contributed $48,361 to the project. Additional named beneficiaries were the Specialty School Program at Overlake Hospital Medical Center for $20,100 and “R” Adventure Camp for cancer survivors, club donation $10,000.

The Primary Beneficiary of the 2003 Auction, to be held on May 3rd, is Senior Services for the provision of 2 “Meals on Wheels” vans to service Eastside seniors. Additional named beneficiaries are iQuest Children’s Museum and Kids First.

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