Project Description Country: USA Location: Imperial County Total Budget: $1,700 Area of Focus: None Activity Type: Health: General Summary: Health and Well-Being for Imperial County Youth El Centro Rotary Club will support Health and Well-Being Programs that help the hungry and foster children during the 2025-26 Rotary Year including: 1. Imperial Valley Food Bank: Annual Backpack Program, $500: Annual contribution supports weekend backpacks with nutritious shelf stable and kid-friendly snacks during the school year to K-12 schoolchildren experiencing food insecurity. 2. CHARLEE Homes, $500: Annual contribution to support programs for local children to receive foster family, therapeutic behavioral, and mental health services. 3. Imperial County Sheriff's Office, National Child Safety Council, $200: Annual contribution which support basic safety education, including drug prevention, stranger danger, and other community safety concerns, to 100 area schoolchildren. 4. Police Activities League, PAL, $500: Annual contribution to support sports and boxing programs for area at-risk youth. Addendum to Project Description (added after the project was signed) El Centro Rotary Club supported other initiatives at the Imperial Valley Food Bank outside of the grant ask and shifted to providing more funding to the National Child Safety Council ($600 instead of $200) and PAL ($1581.26 instead of $500) CHARLEE Homes, $500: Annual contribution to support programs for local children to receive foster family, therapeutic behavioral, and mental health services. Imperial County Sheriff's Office, National Child Safety Council, $600: Annual contribution which support basic safety education, including drug prevention, stranger danger, and other community safety concerns, to 100 area schoolchildren. Police Activities League, PAL, $1581.26: Annual contribution to support sports and boxing programs for area at-risk youth and donation of TV Project Contact Person District: 5340 Rotary Club of: El Centro Primary Contact: Mike Rood Email: mrood784@gmail.com Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2025-26 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total El Centro (5340) 30-Jul-25 $850 $850 $1,700 Total $850 $850 $1,700

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [27-Jul-26] Final Report [27-Jul-26] $1581.26 PAL [27-Jul-26] $500 CHARLEE [27-Jul-26] $600 National Safety Council [22-Sep-25] EC Rotary ACH Information

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History Log Entries 30-Jul-25 by Caitlin Chavez System Entry: Creation of project page. 6-Sep-25 by Caitlin Chavez System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 6-Sep-25 by Bob Barros System Entry: Project signed by Bob Barros. 19-Sep-25 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Mike Rood. 30-Sep-25 by Alan Turner System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 1-Dec-25 by Dave Brooks System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 28-Jul-26 System Entry System Entry: Final Report signed by Bob Barros. 29-Jul-26 by Alan Turner System Entry: Final Report signed by Mike Rood. 31-Jul-26 by Caitlin Chavez System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.