ORGANIZATION

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle TN

Financial support to expand and support One-to-One Mentoring in Watkins Park (WP).   BBBS will host 3-4 recreational or service events for waiting list children and youth who are in mentoring matches.  NO VOLUNTEER COMPONENT

Book'EM (Books from Birth Foundation)

Books to Watkins Park partnership - volunteers to read in each classroom once a month & distribute books for each child to take home.

Girl Scouts of Middle TN

Financial support for Girl University - a one-day event that prepares girls and parents for the financial, academic, social and emotional stress that surrounds the college process.  Campus Tours (held at MTSU in 2011) allow girls to explore college campuses across the state and opportunities to meet with admissions, financial aid and student representatives.  NO VOLUNTEER COMPONENT

Grace M. Eaton Childcare Center

Junior Achievement of Middle TN

JA Financial Literacy Programs makes learning relevant by demonstrating how classroom concepts are utilized in the real world.  These messages are experienced first-hand by students participating in the JA BizTown program.  One day staffing of BizTown on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 and monthly in-classroom Volunteers for  5-12th grades in seven, 45-min. lessons.

LEAD Academy

Rotary Lunch Buddy Program - Rotarians host three, one-hour Lunch Buddy events for the LEAD 10^th graders and can participate in 2 events at Glen Leven Farm where the students, under the direction of Chef Tyler Brown, have planted and harvest fresh produce.  Lunch catered.  Work on conversation and interview skills.

MDHA Housing Trust Corp.

Middle TN Boy Scouts of America

Financial support for a Boy Scout troop in Watkins Park - fund uniforms, troop leaders if needed, camping equipment, membership fees, & program specialist to coordinate troop activities.  NO VOLUNTEER COMPONENT

Prevent Blindness Tennessee

Operation I Care Vision Screening - Rotarians provide vision screenings to school aged children during the academic year, scheduled quarterly. 

Second Harvest Food Bank - Feed the Need

Feed the Need - the Club's signature project provides holiday food boxes for 1,000 elderly, disabled, or nearly disabled residents in the Watkins Park Community.  Rotarians and family assemble food boxes; pack perishables; and deliver food boxes in December 2011.

Second Harvest Food Bank - Kids Nutrition

Nutrition for Kids (Backpacks) Project - fills the nutrition gap by providing one hot, nutritious meal each weekend to children from low-income families at Buena Vista Elementary School children each Friday. Volunteers participate monthly during the academic year assembling & boxing backpack meals. 

YWCA of Nashville & Middle Tennessee

Financial support for the Domestic Violence Outreach Services program to educate residents in the WP community about domestic violence and available resources and to advertise the YWCA'S Domestic Violence Crisis and Information Line on MTA bus benches in the area.   NO VOLUNTEER COMPONENT

Rotary Friendship Exchange

Rotary Group Study Exchange

Professional Exchange for Non-Rotarians - Rotary Clubs from different countries partner to provide a professional and cultural exchange for up to 4 NON-Rotarians.  Each "team" spends one month in the host country with various clubs hosting the guests for approximately one week. 

Rotary Youth Exchange

Year-Long Youth Exchange - The Club currently sponsors one exchange student for a year study abroad to Belgium during the Rotary and academic year 2011-2012 and is hosting a French exchange student from France.   Financial stipends provided to each student for the academic year. 

Short Term exchange - Club supported three-month, short-term, exchange student from Nashville to Belgium.

WPC Living Waters for the World (Westminster Presbyterian Church)

Financial support for Living Waters for the World project (in cooperation with a Rotary Club in Peru -Iquitos Loreto, District 4460) to provide clean and safe water to Bora Indian village, San Andrews, and a Cooperative Medical Clinic on the Momon River.  Sustainability will be provided by the local Rotary Club and the team from Nashville.  NO VOLUNTEER COMPONENT, but Rotarians will be encouraged to participate in this project with a goal of recruiting 4-6 members over the next few years.  Especially, (engineers, health care personnel, IT, etc) and/or youth could participate in either 7-10 day or longer visits to further develop relationships with this Rotary partner.