Who We Support

The Vail Rotary Club has supported numerous local and international charities in our 51 years. Some of our biggest projects have included:

  • Support of the Vail Hospital when it was first founded. The Club raised $100,000 through selling flag sponsorships on the International Bridge. 

  • The Vail Rotary Club put the first emergency phone on the top of Vail Pass.

  • We also partnered with the Forest Service to build Julia's Deck on Vail Pass. Julia's Deck includes a wheelchair accessible path and deck that overlooks Mount of the Holy Cross.

  • When COVID-19 hit our Valley hard in the Spring of 2020 and many of our local workers were out of work, the Club donated a total of $50,000

    • $20,000 to the Community Market (local food pantry)

    • $20,000 to the Vail Valley Salvation Army with the designation that the money be used locally

    • $10,000 to Speak Up Reach Out to increase suicide prevention.

    • The Club also provided $1000 in gift cards to local restaurants and businesses to local childcare workers who were taking care of the children of first responders.

The POWER OF ROTARY comes through matching grants. Many of our local grants are matched dollar-for-dollar by our District. International grants can be matched many times over. 

 

Local Projects

  • Rotary International Youth Exchange sends local High School Juniors for a year overseas

  • College scholarships for graduating high school seniors

  • Raising a Reader, The Literacy Project of Eagle County

  • The Cycle Effect

  • SOS Outreach

  • High School Career Fair

  • I Can Read Songs CDs for Kindergarten students

  • Rotary/Zeke Pierce Memorial EMT Scholarship at CMC

  • Food Rescue Express

  • I-70 Highway Cleanup

  • Canine Companions for Independence

  • Annual 911 First Responder Award Dinner

  • Build and Maintain Julia’s Deck at Shrine Pass

  • Eagle Valley Senior Life

  • Alzheimer Association's Alzheimer Walk

  • Bravo Little Listeners

  • Community Market (local food bank)

  • Cycle Effect

  • Dictionaries for all local 3rd graders

  • Foresight Ski Guides

  • The Literacy Project

  • Small Champions

  • Speak Up Reach Out

  • Vail International Hockey

  • Vail Valley Salvation Army

  • Vail Mountain Rescue

International
Projects

 

  • Water Sanitation in Honduras

  • Costa Rica/Rotary Peace Corps “Give a Book” Project

  • Polio Plus/Eradication of Polio 

  • Installing a clean water well in a rural community in Tibet

  • Water purification in Guatemala

  • Teledermatology in Guatemala

  • One Child One Backpack in Guatemala

  • Rotary Youth Exchange which sends local high school Juniors overseas for 1 year and brings international students to the Vail Valley for 1 year.

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