Rotary Club of Pasadena Donates to Thirteen Organizations

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Pasadena Rotary Club donates to thirteen local arts and culture organizations to help them recover from the impact of the pandemic.

By News Desk

The Rotary Club of Pasadena co-chairs Deborah Lewis and Scott Vandrick, on behalf of President Cory Brendel, announced the 2022 Pasadena Rotary Club’s Community Grants awardees. This year the committee reviewed applications from non-profit, (501)(c)(3) organizations that serve residents in the Pasadena area in arts or culture, with a focus on organizational recovery from the impact of the pandemic. The 13 recipients who received grant awards were announced at the 2022 Rotary Club of Pasadena’s luncheon on Wednesday, April 27, 2022.

• A Noise Within – $4,000
• Armory Center for the Arts – $5,500
• ArtCenter College of Design – $5,500
• Boston Court Pasadena – $3,000
• Light Bringer Project – $5,500
• Lineage Performing Arts Center – $5,000
• Los Angeles Children’s Chorus – $5,000
• Makoto Taiko – $1,000
• MUSE/IQUE – $3,000
• Parson’s Nose Theater – $6,000
• Pasadena Conservatory of Music – $3,000
• Pasadena Heritage – $4,500
• Pasadena Symphony and POPS – $6,000

Rotary Club of Pasadena is the oldest and largest community service group in the San Gabriel Valley.  Since 2004, through its Community Grants program, the Rotary Club of Pasadena has awarded more than $765,000 to 152 organizations in Pasadena.  In 2020, Pasadena Rotary celebrated its Centennial year and raised over $180,000 to support Union Station Homeless Services as well as a number of other local projects. The Club currently has over 200 members.

Current committees of the Rotary Club of Pasadena Include: Fight to Erase Polio, Adopt-A-Meal; Christmas Project; Community Grants; International Projects; Done In A Day; Shop with a Cop; Human Trafficking Awareness; Business Alliance; Rotary Readers; Program and Teachers of Excellence to name a few as well as resourceful social events.  Pasadena is the oldest and largest Rotary Club in the San Gabriel Valley and is part of District 5300 under the leadership of District Governor Betsy Barry.

Edited by Ann Hunnewell