District Grant DG1518435 – 2014-15 Rotary Year - $36,241 Awarded
Club / Activity Type / Activity Description / AmountAlliance / Food/agriculture / To purchase an Animal Ark that will provide training in husbandry and a breeding pair of animals to a family/community in 15 different countries to combat hunger and nutrition / $2,157
Boardman / Health / To identify needy families with children and partner with the local Salvation Army to purchase new winter coats for several hundred children / $2,270
Canfield / Education / To support the local high school’s growing robotic program, whose students have won regional competition, by providing basic machine shop equipment such as a lathe, metal cutting band saw, aluminum welder and a milling machine / $4,294
Canton / Community Development / To provide an assistive listening system in the historic district’s 1920s theatre to provide audio amplification in all assembly areas, including listening receivers that are “hearing-aid compatible” to comply with current ADA requirements / $1,233
Dover / Community Development / To provide ADA accessible components for the local community playground, including a Play & Park store panel and a Play & Park arch tire swing / $2,104
East Canton / Community Development / To provide 150 cases of copy and colored papers to meet the needs of K-12 students in the locally distressed public school system for the 20115 school year / $1,613
East Liverpool / Water: sanitation / To help support a community-wide effort to revitalize the city’s public swimming pool. The club wishes to provide ADA compliant toilets and updated shower heads in the locker rooms, and add ventilation to the locker rooms / $4,995
Hubbard / Education: scholarship / To provide scholarships to students studying a foreign language, American sign language, or a vocation at the local career center / $240
Jackson Township / Education / To support the local Safety Village program of the police and fire departments and the local schools, by purchasing a new Life Size Traffic Light, printed materials for students, and scholarships for kindergarten and first graders / $3,000
Louisville / Health / To provide winter coats to needy children identified by the local school system and the local YMCA / $55
Newcomerstown / Community Development / To renovate the exterior of the local museum with shutters, sidewalks, retaining wall and landscaping / $5,200
Niles / Community Development / To provide to the city an historical marker from the Ohio Historical Society to commemorate not only the birth place of US President William McKinley, but also industrialists James Ward and John Thomas, which will be placed in front of the Ward Thomas House Museum near the center of town / $3,000
North Canton / Education: literacy / To provide books and mentors to the Camp Rad-A-Lot program that strives to imp[rove literacy for children entering K-3 throughout the community / $1,500
Plain Township / Health: disease / To enhance hearing capabilities and to promote hearing and ear wellness in one of the hemisphere’s most impoverished regions (Dominica) / $2,500
Poland / Community Development / To provide seating along the walkways in the local community park top make the park more enjoyable by all / $600
Sugarcreek / Food/agriculture / To identify twelve families in the local school district who are food insecure, and provide them with fresh and non-perishable food at Christmas / $600
Youngstown / Water: sanitation / To partner with the RC of Brownsville, TX and Matamoros, MX to provide 50 water filter systems while providing training to the recipients about sanitation so they can share knowledge and clean water with neighbors / $1,060