Grants & Giving
Pints for Polio
October 24, 2024
Eden Prairie Noon Rotary club teamed up with Boom Island Brewing on World Polio Day (Oct. 24) to support Rotary International’s decades long commitment to eradicate polio.
Boom Island Brewery donated $1 for each beer purchased to the Rotary Foundation’s polio eradication campaign.
The event raised $290 which was then matched by our club!
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Onward House
October 2024
There are young adults in our community who don’t have a safe place to sleep at night. They are couch-surfing, living in cars and staying in unsafe places. They are trying to hide their homelessness. But Onward sees them. And Onward is responding by creating safe, affordable, transitional, supportive housing in the southwest suburbs. No one else is doing this for this segment of the market — single adults age18 - 24 who do not have children.
In October 2024 our club donated $5,000 to Onward.
Photo: Club members helped an Onward resident move into her own apartment!
Learn more about the Onward House.
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Kindness Bags
October 2024
Our Club collected items for Kindness Bags containing essential items for people in need. On October 20, 2024, Club members gathered at Fat Pants Brewery in Eden Prairie and packed 100 bags while watching the Vikings game.
Club members and friends each took a couple bags to keep in their vehicles so the bags can be distributed to people in need.
PolioPlus
October 2024
PolioPlus is the most ambitious program in Rotary’s history. In the Global Polio Eradication Initiative it is the volunteer arm. Rotary has led the private sector to rid the world of this crippling disease for over 30 years. PolioPlus is recognized worldwide as a model of public-private cooperation in pursuit of a humanitarian goal.
The Eden Prairie Noon Rotary Club has made annual grants to the PolioPlus for many years. This year a gift of $2,000 was given.
Learn more about PolioPlus.
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Bravo Zulu House
September, 2024, Update
Did you know that 22 Veterans commit suicide in this country every day . . . mostly due to PTSD and addiction? That is why Eden Prairie Noon Rotary Club (EPNR) has joined the “War Against PTSD” by supporting Bravo Zulu House – the FIRST and ONLY all-Veteran sober living facility in the U.S. focusing on PTSD therapy being built in Winnebago, MN. In addition to PTSD therapy, Bravo Zulu House will offer private rooms, individualized spiritual counseling, hydroponic farming and dog therapy.
Eden Prairie Noon Rotary has taken the lead to purchase a wheelchair lift so that no Veteran is turned away because of a handicap that was very likely caused by their service. In addition to a $10,000 donation from EPNR, the funding includes donations from 5 other Rotary Clubs, 4 individuals and a Rotary Foundation District Grant.
For more information, go to bravozuluhouse.org or contact Holly Callen at 612-419-2158 or holly.callen@gmail.com.