Who We Support

The Vail Edwards Rotary Club has supported numerous local and international charities in our 56 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.

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)

  • Foresight Ski Guides

  • The Literacy Project

  • Small Champions

  • Speak Up Reach Out

  • 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.

  • Edutek Global online education in Uganda

  • International Rotary Grant to stop Malaria in Kenya.

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