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The Community Assistance Program (CAP) provides an opportunity for Rotary Clubs to use Rotary Foundation District Designated Funds (DDF) to undertake projects in their own communities as a way of furthering Rotary's objectives. District Designated Funds are equal to 50% of the donations made by our Rotarians three years ago. Our district can request up to 20% of those DDF to be used for Community Assistance Program grants.

In the 2008-2009 Rotary Year, District 6060 will receive $25,000 to offer to our clubs for CAP grant projects, which meet the program criteria. We plan to offer this in the form of $1,000 matching grants, to be matched with a minimum of $1,000 of your own club funds, to help your club fund a project of $2,000 or more.

These funds can be used locally. They can also be used to ship humanitarian goods overseas or to fund small humanitarian projects overseas. These projects should be one-time only community service projects that involve the active, personal participation of Rotarians. The program is designed to encourage Rotarians to become more involved in their local communities and to strengthen their relationships with those communities. CAP projects must be Rotary Club sponsored, publicly identified as Rotary projects and of short duration. Special consideration will be given for projects that support R.I. President D.K. Lee's Special Emphasis for 2008-2009 - Reducing Child Mortality.

When will clubs and districts be able to apply for grants?

	The application can be downloaded below.
	It must be filled out completely and submitted to District Foundation Chair Todd Lindley after July 1, 2008, but before October 15, 2008.
	Every club that applies must have attended a Grant-writing seminar, which is offered by our district at District Conference in May 2008 and at the District Workshops in August and September. (The October District Workshop is after the CAP application deadline.)
	Because our Foundation Seminars are going to be on October 18 and 25, we have deleted the above requirement. However, all applications must be filled out correctly and completely and it is recommended to submit them 2-3 weeks prior to the deadline, since 80% of them needed to be re-written to be approvable last year.
	Applications must adhere to all Foundation Grant requirements and be approved by our District Foundation Grants Committee.
	Criteria are available here.
	After October 15, 2008, all applications will be evaluated using these criteria and projects will be approved and checks issued by mid-November.
	Work must begin immediately and must be complete by the end of January 2009.
	The final report, along with copies of receipts for goods purchased, must be submitted by Feb. 28, 2009.

Our district has had several CAP grants approved during the last five years. Here are brief descriptions.

Foundation Rules & Evaluation Criteria

CAP Grant Application forms:
PDF
MS WORD

District 6060 Foundation Grants Committee:

Todd Lindley, Chair - Overland
PDG Rick Tinucci - St. Louis
Kate Schwadron - Lambert Airport
PDG Stacey Self
PDG Scott Harness
DG David Robinette
DGE Jerry Weems
DGN ______________

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