The Field Of Honor--a gift to our community by our Rotary during the four-day Memorial Day weekend--again served two key purposes: 1) to provide the community a place to salute our country's heroes and to educate the next generation; and 2) to raise funds for our Club.
This year's Field Of Honor raised close to $50,000. Of that amount, just under $40,000 came from Community Supporters and just under $10,000 from medallion sales and donations.
Proceeds from the Field Of Honor will be used by our Club to award grants to non-profits in our community--40% will be given specifically to non-profits that provide services to veterans and first responders--and to help underwrite community service projects.
Although the weather wasn't ideal during the four-day event, Club enthusiasm and community involvement and appreciation was evident.
“Presenting the Field Of Honor is a huge undertaking for our Club and a significant fundraiser,” states Dave Marvin, Club Field Of Honor chair. "Field Of Honor has also become an integral and important part of our community's Memorial Day weekend culture.
“What a beautiful place to honor the service men and women who gave their lives to protect our freedom as well as honor our first responders and personal heroes. The 500 American flags that comprise the Field of Honor are an amazing, humbling and inspiring sight. And every medallion attached to a flag tells a story.”
Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary appreciates the generosity of the businesses and individuals who donated to the Field Of Honor as Community Supporters and those individuals who purchased medallions. Their benevolence will be returned to our community and have a positive impact on many lives.
Got a hero? A veteran, active military, first responder, a friend who goes beyond again and again, a former teacher? Honor him or her at the Field Of Honor, May 23-26, at Spring Canyon Community Park, Fort Collins.
Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary members enjoyed an evening of fellowship, food and fun on Thursday, April 3, during its $10K Jackpot Jubilee's “Raffle for Good” celebration. At the end of the evening, one lucky person was $10,000 richer when raffle ticket 1073 was drawn.
Our Rotary members continue to support the parents of young children enrolled in Poudre School District's Early Childhood Education by providing them with personal hygiene products--everything from diapers, laundry detergent, paper towels and toilet paper to hand soap, shampoo and toothpaste. This past month our Club made not one, but two deliveries, of personal hygiene products. 
Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast recently completed its ninth International Service Committee Water Project in Ethiopia—and its second water project in Nekemte, Ethiopia. 
ng a project to fund is a major responsibility that committee members take seriously,” states Bob Waltemire, committee chair. “In addition to considering sustainability and the number of people impacted, we consider involvement of other Rotary clubs, district grants and the like. We strive to stretch our funds as far as we can while doing lasting good in the world.”
Our Club’s International Service Committee received a request from Feed The World for funds that would go toward the purchase of wood-burning stoves for families and shelters in the Ukraine. With the on-going war against Russia, gas supplies have been cut-off or severely dwindled and wood stoves can provide much needed heat and assist with meal preparation.
Our Club’s Community Service Committee has a big responsibility when it meets, as committee members review grant proposals submitted by non-profits across our community. Committee members strive to be good stewards of the Club’s money that is generated by our three key annual fundraisers. Since there is only so much money to award each fiscal year and so many non-profits in our community submitting grant proposals, decision-making can be challenging.
A line in a Christmas carol states “faithful friends who are dear to us gather near to us,” and this line came true as Fort Collins Breakfast Club members and their guests participated in the Club’s annual Christmas party on Thursday, Dec. 19. 
Christmas breakfast buffet and listened as a local school choir filled the air with Christmas melodies. Club members added to the merriment by singing the final song with the choir. 
Armed with the facts that 50% of low-income families worry about meeting their children’s hygiene needs and 73% of low-income households cut back on food expenses to afford hygiene products, Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary members recognized that they needed to step up to the plate. 
Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary is partnering with Rotary Club of Khadki, Pune, on a project to train government preschool teachers and supervisors in four rural blocks of Pune District, Maharashtra, India, so they can equip rural parents to support child learning at home, thus helping children to be ready for Grade 1. 
Rotarians delivered 190 boxes of winter coats and snow boots to 29 Fort Collins elementary schools on behalf of the Fort Collins-based non-profit Coats & Boots. The 190 boxes were filled with 1,500 new winter coats and 1,500 pairs of boots for Poudre School District children in need.
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