When you buy raffle tickets, where does your money go?
Who benefits from Eagle-Garden City Rotary’s fundraising?
In 2024, Eagle-Garden City Rotary awarded six grants to these worthy causes:
Artisans for Hope
A grant to buy a computer, desk and locking file cabinet to house confidential information for this nonprofit that helps refugees “connect, learn, create and earn.”
Boise Love Inc.
A grant to replace outdated computers to support education programs on budgeting, parenting, cooking, anger management, fitness and other skills for those in need.
Community Cakes
A grant to offset volunteer bakers’ costs by distributing ingredients and supplies so that bakers can provide birthday cakes to those who otherwise wouldn’t have one.
Hand in Hand Family Mentorship
A grant to hire a social media marketer to tell the nonprofit’s
story of bringing hope through friendship and mentorship and to recruit mentors.
Learning Lab
A grant to purchase, create and print lesson plan materials so the nonprofit can provide literacy instruction to adults currently on a waiting list.
River Discovery
A grant to fully fund the Paddle Out Cancer summer series of stand-up paddle board (SUP) and kayak events for cancer survivors and their families.
Club Projects
We have raised and contributed funds to the following projects. Some of these are projects we support each year, and we will continue to fund while others are one time projects.
Rotary Dictionary Project:
We provide dictionaries to third-grade students at most Eagle and northwest Boise elementary schools, and we added two new schools in August 2024.
Shark-Pond Micro Loans
Idaho Rotarians set up an international micro-loan process to help entrepreneurs in Africa start or expand their businesses with small loans that are repaid and invested with new entrepreneurs. Loand recipients are taught the skills they need to run a successful small business and make proposals for their plans and ideas to be funded.
Everyday Leadership for 4th and 5th Graders
Working with local Elementary Schools, Rotary provides a curriculum for students who want to become future leaders in their communities. Students meet before school starts and learn leadership skills and plan out service projects they can do to serve their own communities.
RYLA Youth Leadership Camp
We send local high school students to the annual, multiday RYLA camp to develop their leadership skills while having fun and making connections.
Eagle Country Christmas with City of Eagle
For the past two years, we have provided supplies at this yearly holiday event and helped children create Christmas crafts to take home.
Emergency Relief
In 2023, to support fellow Rotary communities in need, Rotarians donated their own funds to help those affected by the devastating fires on Maui.
In 2025, Rotarians stepped up to donate their own funds to help those affected by the devastating fires on Maui.
Eagle Country Christmas with City of Eagle
Rotary provides volunteers and supplies to help children create Christmas Crafts to take home at this annual family focused event in the city of Eagle.
Eagle Fun Days with City of Eagle
Rotarians have a pop-up tent at Fun Days and run the annual ROTARY BALL DROP, that provides funding for Rotary Grants and Projects serving our community.
