Peacebuilding projects may be focused on any of Rotary International’s seven areas of service: fighting disease; providing clean water, sanitation, and hygiene; saving mothers and children; supporting education; growing local economies; protecting the environment, and promoting peace.
Selected projects will receive $2,000 - $5,000 in grants from the club. The deadline to submit an application is September 30, 2024. Please open the 2024-25 International Service Project Application or call 607-288-2808 (a Google voice #) for more information.
Rotary Clubs and other organizations in their countries partner to address a locally identified need for the international service project grants. Rotary Club of Ithaca’s international service projects are made possible by local fundraising efforts that receive generous support from our community.
Together we have supported a number of international initiatives:
- senior housing in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria (2017)
- expanded capacity in India for building locally-sourced water filtration systems (2018)
- restored a fishing business destroyed in Hurricane Mitch in the Grand Bahamas (2019)
- helped build a remote Costa Rican community’s water system (2019)
- supported Ithaca micro-businesses and human services during COVID-19 (2020)
- installed solar power for a Ugandan school’s digital learning center (2020)
- initiated entrepreneurships of feminine hygiene products in Guatemala and Uganda (2021)
- renovated bomb shelters in Ukraine (2022)
- developed climate change efforts in Kenya and Costa Rica (2023).
For more information about Ithaca Rotary’s international service projects and grants, please contact Nancy Potter: potternancy20@gmail.com or 607-591-5811.