Huge shout out to the Simi Valley Acorn for including an article about our clubs’ allocations meeting.
Huge shout out to the Simi Valley Acorn for including an article about our clubs’ allocations meeting. The article came out in the July 15th edition of the paper and detailed how our club donated money to 15 local area nonprofits. With all the god works, events, and fundraisers that our club was able to pull of this Rotary year we were able to donate $33,800. The article details out how this was the largest amount of money that our has ever raised in a single year. The amount reported on was in addition to the other great projects that our club was able to provide. These included events like 'Reading by 9' where our club donated books to title one schools in Simi and 'Shoes for Little Souls' where our club provides funding for under privileged youth in the area so that they will have clothing for the coming year.
Honored this evening were:
- Southeast County YMCA
- 99.1 The Ranch
- The Simi Valley Police Foundation
- Scout Troop 698
- For The Need Foundation
- Moorpark College Foundation
- Cancer Support Community Valley/Ventura/ Santa Barbara
- Free Clinic of Simi Valley
- Girl Scout Troop 65436
- Marcelle Erian Cancer Foundation
- Body brain train
- Veterans of foreign Wars Post 10049
- Samaritan Center
- Community Action of Ventura County
- The Rotary Foundation
Also honored at the evening was a special presentation to Kathi VanEtten, The president and CEO of the Simi Valley Chamber of Commerce. Kathi was presented with a Paul Harris Fellow award that is the highest honor to be given in Rotary.