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The Taste of Shawnee was created with one goal in mind,

coming together as a community to share

great food for a great cause.

 

 

Funds raised will benefit:

End Polio Now

Shawnee Rotary Club Foundation

Cops & Kids Event - Shawnee Fraternal Order of Police 

 

Please read about these great causes below:

www.EndPolioNow.org

 

Although polio cases are down 99% worldwide from 350,000 cases in 1988 to 223 cases — an all-time low — in 2012, our work is still not finished.

 

THE RISK

Lack of funding will decrease immunization rates in polio-affected countries. Until polio is eradicated everywhere, no unvaccinated child is safe anywhere. If polio rebounds, more than 200,000 children worldwide could be paralyzed each year within a decade.

 

THE CHALLENGE

2013-18 Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan (polioeradication.org)

• Estimated cost: US$5.5 billion
• Funding commitments: US$4 billion
• Funding gap (if commitments are met): US$1.5 billion

 

THE SOLUTION

Secure support from governments, nongovernmental organizations, corporations, and the public to fully fund the polio endgame plan. 

Rotary Club of

Shawnee Foundation

Lending a hand to the world

 

 

Rotary Club of Shawnee

The Mission

The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.

 

Grants

The Rotary Club of Shawnee’s Foundation supports grants in the following categories:

  • families in need, including child health and education;

  • natural disasters; and

  • international projects in conjunction with Rotary International. 

 

The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.

 

Past Grant Recipients (ranging from $250-$12,000)

  • Circle of Hope

  • Newhouse, Inc.

  • Money Talk Financial Foundation

  • KVC Kansas

  • K-9 Shawnee Police Department

  • SMNW Interact Club

  • Rebuilding Together Shawnee

  • Campfire Heartland

  • Rotary International (Polio Plus, Oncology Center, Chacala, Mexico grant)

  • Project CURE

  • Variety KC

  • Kansas KC Metro Animal Response Team

 

 

Additional Giving

Each year, the Rotary Club of Shawnee Foundation awards three to four $1,000 scholarships to high school seniors in Shawnee. They also support the Mayor's Christmas Tree Fund and the Johnson County Christmas Bureau.

 

In 2018, the Rotary Club of Shawnee Foundation raised over $13,000 toward the eradication of polio, which was matched 2:1 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

 

 

 

https://www.fop.net/CmsPage.aspx?id=40

 

What we do:

The FOP Cops and Kids program is designed to build relationships between local law enforcement and the community. Officers taking underprivileged kids shopping for Christmas presents or school supplies shows those children that the police in their area are friends and are always there to help. Giving a child a present, when they wouldn't have received one, or the supplies they need to excel in school, can make a lasting impression.

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Our own community outreach unit is going to undertake a Cops and Kids initiative in 2020 specifically geared towards Shawnee youth. 

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