Signature Project 2025
The Rotaract Club of Evansville dedicates its fundraising efforts to one nonprofit organization each year that is working for the public benefit to enrich community spirit and alleviate social disadvantage in the Evansville area.
Requests can not exceed $5,000
Grant recipient will be notified by January 1, 2025.
Submit application to: Rotaract Club of Evansville c/o Grant Application PO Box 24 Evansville, IN 47701 or
[email protected]
Deadline: October 31st, 2024
Past Projects
2024 Feed Evansville
Our 2024 grant recipient was Feed Evansville. Thank you so much to Rotaract members who showed up to support this project and brought their friends and coworkers to help out. Each and every person made such a difference!
Thank you to our generous sponsors who supported our annual fundraiser! Your funds help our group execute impactful projects like these impacting our local community.
If you see a little free pantry, we hope you stop to have a look and stock it with some food!
Thank you to our generous sponsors who supported our annual fundraiser! Your funds help our group execute impactful projects like these impacting our local community.
If you see a little free pantry, we hope you stop to have a look and stock it with some food!
2023 Children's Museum of Evansville
Our 2023 grant recipient was Children's Museum of Evansville. The $5000 dollar grant sponsors three family free nights at cMoe! This allows all families to have a chance to experience the museum regards of their circumstance!
2022 Project Hangers
Hangers is a clothing resource committed to serving EVSC students in need by providing them every-day living essentials that would otherwise be unaffordable. By providing clothing, school supplies, and hygiene products, we strive to improve the self-esteem and confidence of each student served, and in turn, ensure greater student success and fulfillment.
2021 Project Sleep in Heavenly Peace, Inc.
This charity seeks to fulfill a specific mission - to see that no kid sleeps on the floor in our town!
This years project name is No Kid Sleeps on the Floor in Our Town and we could not be more happy to be apart of this! S.H.P.’s goal is to build bunk beds for local children, ages 3-17, who are sleeping on floors, couches and other uncomfortable sleeping conditions without a bed. The $5,000 grant will allow the purchase of materials to build 28 beds including frames, mattresses, sheets, pillows and blankets.
This years project name is No Kid Sleeps on the Floor in Our Town and we could not be more happy to be apart of this! S.H.P.’s goal is to build bunk beds for local children, ages 3-17, who are sleeping on floors, couches and other uncomfortable sleeping conditions without a bed. The $5,000 grant will allow the purchase of materials to build 28 beds including frames, mattresses, sheets, pillows and blankets.
2020 Project Tri-State Foodbank
2019 Project YWCA Bosse House
2018 Project United Methodist Youth Home – Planting Day: A little dirt won’t hurt!
UMYH is a non-profit organization that helps at-risk youth become responsible and productive members of the community. After completion of the new resident home, The Holder Home, Rotaract members and volunteers planted over 22 bushes/shrubs, 20 trees, mulched and financed the deck. We enjoyed making the boys home an even more beautiful place to live
2017 Project Habitat for Humanity of Evansville Millennial Build
The Rotaract Club of Evansville is proud and excited to partner with Habitat for Humanity of Evansville to support the Millennial Build as our 2017
Signature Project. The Millennial Build is a partnership between many local Millennial companies, organizations, and individuals collaborating together to make a positive impact in our community.
2016: Rotaract Reading & Healing Wagon
With a $5,000 grant Rotaract Club of Evansville started the Rotaract Reading & Healing Wagon at St. Mary's Hospital for Women and Children. The Reading & Healing Wagon is designed to foster the healing power of imagination through literature to children experiencing medical treatment. The second Wednesday of every month members of Rotaract visit the pediatric department at St. Mary's and read books to the patients. Each child is gifted one book during each visit.
With a $5,000 grant Rotaract Club of Evansville started the Rotaract Reading & Healing Wagon at St. Mary's Hospital for Women and Children. The Reading & Healing Wagon is designed to foster the healing power of imagination through literature to children experiencing medical treatment. The second Wednesday of every month members of Rotaract visit the pediatric department at St. Mary's and read books to the patients. Each child is gifted one book during each visit.
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2015: Ark Crisis Child Care Center Playground
Over the course of 3 years Rotaract Club of Evansville raised over $70,000 through individual, corporate and in-kind gifts to transform an empty parking lot into a natural playground for the children served at Ark Crisis Child Care Center. Ark serves at-risk children and families in the Evansville area through affordable childcare.
Over the course of 3 years Rotaract Club of Evansville raised over $70,000 through individual, corporate and in-kind gifts to transform an empty parking lot into a natural playground for the children served at Ark Crisis Child Care Center. Ark serves at-risk children and families in the Evansville area through affordable childcare.
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