Schaumburg-Hoffman Rotary awards $25,000 for local projects

As part of its annual Project Selection project, the Rotary Club of Schaumburg-Hoffman Estates awarded more than $25,000 in grants to area organizations for projects that impact the community.

The organizations and the focus of their projects are as follows:

Ÿ American Legion: Funding to send two boys and two girls to the Oratorical Scholarship Competition.

Ÿ Chicago Educational Project: Fund improvements at the local center, plus a field trip aimed at families with special needs children.

Ÿ Children’s Home and Aid: Educational programs for below poverty level families, particularly nonnative English speaking families.

Ÿ Community Resource Center: Fund transportation and a chaperon for a children’s field trip to one of four multicultural events at the Schaumburg Township Public Library, and to provide a book to the children. Funding would also go toward an after school homework assistance program for at-risk children, K-6th grade.

Ÿ Fellowship Housing: Funding to assist one local family with housing, budgeting and life skills, with the goal of making the family self sufficient.

Ÿ Gigi’s Playhouse: Funding for training and materials for teaching children with Down syndrome to read.

Ÿ Mead Elementary School: Funding for an after school leadership club.

Ÿ Prairie Center Arts Foundation: Funding for the Theatre Buddies program, which provides free tickets to performances at the Prairie Center for the Arts to underserved and at-risk populations in Schaumburg and surrounding communities, including economically disadvantaged families, persons with disabilities and senior citizens.

Ÿ Schaumburg High School Speech Team: Funding for speech team members to attend the national competition for speech and extemporaneous speaking.

Ÿ Schaumburg Barn: Funding for meals for senior citizens.

Ÿ Shelter, Inc.: Funding for special assistance project, which pays for the medical and hygienic needs of children in the shelters.

Ÿ Special Leisure Services: Scholarships developmentally challenged children to participate in activity programs.

Ÿ Super Sibs: Funding for programs to assist with the emotional challenges of children who have lost siblings to cancer.

Ÿ WINGS: Funding for the construction of a break room and a food preparation room at the Schaumburg resale shop and to purchase a refrigerator and microwave.

Ÿ YMCA-Campanelli: Funding for the Obesity Reduction Advocacy Program.