Mental Health Grant Opportunity
District Governor Mary Bak and our clubs continue to support Rotary International President Gordon R. McInally’s mental health initiative. As such, you are invited to apply for a special matching grant that responds to a mental health need in your community.
Mental Health Issues
Mental Health issues cover a variety of traumatic conditions including Early Childhood, Adolescents, Parenting, Mental Illness, Addiction, Depression and Suicide, Veterans Issues (PTSD or other), Aging, Human Trafficking. Prevention and treatment programs promote awareness, decreases the stigman and provides resources to take action. Grants responding to any mental health issue are eligible.
How to Start
- Gather ideas from club members that work or have experience in mental health
- Contact organizations in your community that work with clients of any age, residential,non residential, group homes with mental health needs, and ask them for projects (other than pure cash) that would not infringe on client confidentiality.
Identify the Project
- Examples of projects might include:
- Purchase and writing cards for in-patient residents to be distributed by the agency (No client contact)
- Assembling and distributing arts/craft supplies or books for an agency
- Sollecting and assembling 'comfort' or 'personal care' packages for clients: without endorsing this agency, you might find some ideas of what a project might look like by reviewing this link from the Maryville Wish List.
Requirements
- The project must focus on Mental Health.
- The grants will be funded by club cash and the district DDF. The club(s) must put in a minumum of $500 cash. There is no maximum cash contribution for the club. However, the district will match up to $3,000 of club contribution. Grants will be awarded on a rolling basis until the funds are used up.
- There is no application deadline.
- Grants will be awarded on a rolling basis until the funds are used up.
- The club will be responsible for filing the project final report due 30 days after project completion or June 15, 2024, whichever comes first.
- Applications may be submitted by a single club or multiple clubs.
- There must be a community partner for each grant that is geographically in our district.
- A hands-on component is required.
- Each participating club must have a 2023-2024 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on file with the district.
- Applications are available on the District website. Upon submission of the application it will go to the District Grants Committee for review. The club will then be notified immediately thereafter.
- Questions: Please contact Mary Jablonsky, Grant Committee Chair.
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