Our Giving Tradition
Neepawa Rotary has been dedicated to philanthropy in our community and our world. As a group of business and professional leaders, our members provide service to those in need through charitable giving. Our charitable giving is directed to address humanitarian needs, provide educational opportunities, and alleviate health concerns. Our charitable giving over the years has supported the following groups and institutions in pursuit of global goodwill, peace, education, and understanding.
Community Service
- Playground equipment at Rotary Park - 2015
- 10 picnic tables at Rotary Park - 2015
- Tables for the Yellowhead Center
- Automatic Doors on Neepawa Medical Clinic
- Meals on Wheels - Twice a month Rotary delivers meals on wheels to seniors in Neepawa.
- Library Reading Program - Rotarians reading to pre-schoolers every Friday at 11:00 @ the Neepawa library
- Agriculture Society Washrooms - $6500 - June, 2016
- RCMP Musical Ride - Hosted in Neepawa, 2016
- Picnic Table at Neepawa Winter Park
- Literacy Award - for participating in excess of 10 literacy activities in a year.
- 4H to Nova Scotia - $4000 - March, 2017
- Holiday Festival of Arts - Annually until 2016
- Children's Summer Program - ArtsForward 2017
- Model United Nations Assembly - send 2 students and a teacher annually
- HMK Elementary School Playground equipment $6000 - March, 2017
- Used Book Sale - April 2018
- Tree planting project at Veterans Walk partnered with NACI Peer Helpers, NACI Horticulture, Whitemud Watershed, and the Town of Neepawa, Manitoba Hydro - May 2018.
- Food drive for local Salvation Army partnered with NACI HOPE - May 2018.
- Tree planting at the Flats with NACI Peer Helpers, NACI Horticulture, Whitemud Watershed and the Town of Neepawa - June 2018
- Roxy Theatre brick and stonework repointing and repairing - $6500 - July, 2018
- Victoria Quilts Neepawa - $200 - October, 2018
- Donation to Budz & Bloom Daycare - $36,500 - February, 2019
- Guatemala Water Project
- ShelterBox
- Ripple Effect Scholarship
- Used Book Sale - April, 2019
- Handbags of Hope - April, 2019
- Highway 16 ditch cleaning - May, 2019
- Neepawa Bird Sanctuary - $500 - May, 2019
- Food drive for local Salvation Army partnered with NACI HOPE - May, 2019
- Beautiful Plains Horticultural Society - $50 - May, 2019
- Adventures in Citizenship 2019
- Adventures in Technology2019
- NACI Scholarship 2019
- Victoria Quilts Neepawa - $300
- Peer Helpers - $750
- NACTV - $1200
- Inner Wheel - $400
- Neepawa Natives - $400
- Neepawa Middle School - $7150
- Salvation Army - $3000
- ArtsForward - $1600
- Donation to Budz & Bloom Daycare - $3,500
- Used Book Sale - April, 2019
- Highway 16 ditch cleaning - June & October
- Adventures in Agriculture - $300
- NACI Scholarship 2020 - $2000
- Victoria Quilts Neepawa - $500
- NACTV - $200
- Inner Wheel - $400
- Beautiful Plains School Division - $6000
- ArtsForward - $340
- Highway 16 ditch cleaning - June & October
- NACI Scholarship 2021 - $2000
- YDSI (Curling Club) - $480
- Rotary Club of Kenora $300
- Touchwood - $6400
- Neepawa Nursery School - $1000
- Beautiful Plains Clinic - $2000
- Food Drive for Salvation Army - May
International Service
- HOPE Student Group at NACI - 2013-2021
- Annual Youth Exchange
- Vocational Training Team to Guatemala - $500 - 2016
- Ripple Effect Scholarship in Guatemala- Annual contribution
- Shelterbox - Annual Contribution - to assist with national disaster relief around the world.
- Polio Plus - Annual Contribution - for the eradication of polio around the world.
Scholarships
- Rotary Scholarship at NACI - $2000 annually
- Neepawa Area Fine Arts Festival - $100 and medallion annually