LAKEVILLE ROTARY CLUB BENEFICIARIES
The Lakeville Rotary provides financial support to address the needs of our community. It is the belief of the Lakeville Rotary Club that we can best serve our community by focusing our efforts on scholarships and community projects.
The funds we award should meet one of the following criteria:
- To reach out in helping our family units stay strong
- To give back to seniors so that they can live a full life in their golden years
- To help take care of those in a critical time of need
- To enhance the educational experience
A portion of our proceeds from this years event will support 360 Communities. 360 Communities provides safety and stability to improve lives. Their dedicated staff and volunteers offer hope and support to over 16,000 individuals annually through nine programs across more than 40 locations. These include a network of five food shelves, two domestic violence shelters, two resource centers, and initiatives that promote school success from birth through high school graduation.
You can support 360 Communities at the Taste of Lakeville by a donation for their food selves (see list of needs), or contributing a monetary donation.
360 Communities: Help In The Moment. Hope For The Future.
CURRENT NEEDS:
Proceeds from the Taste of Lakeville benefit the Lakeville Rotary Foundation, which in turn awards funds to many deserving applicants, including but not limited to:
Community Projects & Non-Profit Support:
- Adopt-A-Highway Clean-Up
- Armful of Love
- Community Bookshelf
- Dakota County Library: One Book/One Lakeville
- Dakota County Vo-Tec Emergency Aid Plan
- Fairview Ridges Hospital Foundation
- Feed the National Guard
- Food Shelves: 360 Communities & Open Door
- Friends of the Heritage Library
- Friends of the Lakeville Arts Center
- Honor Flight Twin Cities
- Korean Vet Service Project
- Lakeville Area Arts Center
- Lakeville Arts Festival
- Lakeville Beyond the Yellow Ribbon
- Lakeville Friends of the Environment/Bicycle Alliance
- Lakeville Pan-O-Prog
- Lakeville Parks and Recreation
- Lakeville Pollinator Project
- Lakeville Resource Center
- Lakeville Senior Citizen Center
- Lakeville Veteran’s Memorial
- Land of Amazement Playground 2.0
- Life Re-Builders INC
- Miracle Field Mini Golf
- Minnesota Sled Hockey
- Robert B. Lewis House
- Salvation Army
- Shop with a Hero
- Sandwich Man Project
- New Prague – Four-Way Test Clock
- Barron County – Inclusive Playground
- Austin – Playground Lighting
Community Youth Initiatives:
- 360 Communities-Partners for Success
- Brittney’s Place – Sex Trafficking Center
- Camp Enterprise & Camp Ryla
- Hope for Tomorrow
- Kids ‘n Kinship
- Land of Amazement Playground 2.0
- Lakeville Area Boy Scouts Troops
- Lakeville Education Foundation
- Lakeville Girl Scout Day Camp
- Lakeville High School Scholarships
- LNHS – Support our Students Program
- LNHS – Team Programs
- Minnesota Valley YMCA
- Rotaract Sponsorship
- Rotary Student of the Month
- Sobriety High School
- Special Olympics RAVE Team
- STRIVE Mentoring
- STRIVE Scholarship
- The Link (Passageways)
- TreeHouse
- YEA! Program
Covid 19 Pandemic Support:
- 360 Communities
- Hosanna Church Drive-thru Food Pick Up
- Lakeville Cares – Shields for Emergency Responders
- Open Door Pantry
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE: Rotary fundraising initiatives fund efforts to eradicate polio from the world, bring shelter and assistance to victims of natural disasters, feed and educate third world children, bring clean water to those in need. Rotary matching grants make our dollars go far and since 2010, our local district 5960 has impacted hundreds of thousands of lives across the globe.