Rotary Club of Pasadena Awards Over $58,000 in Community Grants to Arts or Culture Organizations

The Rotary Club of Pasadena co-chairs Deborah Lewis and Scott Vandrick, on behalf of President Cory Brendel, are pleased to announce the 2022 Pasadena Rotary Club’s Community Grants awardees. Since 2004, through its Community Grants program, the Rotary Club of Pasadena has awarded more totaling $765,000 to 152 organizations in Pasadena.

This year the committee reviewed applications from non-profit, (501)(c)(3) organizations that serve residents in the Pasadena area in arts or culture with a focus on organizational recovery from the impact of the pandemic. We are proud to announce the 13 recipients who received grant awards at the 2022 Rotary Club of Pasadena’s Community Grants luncheon on Wednesday, April 27, 2022, including:

A Noise Within                                   $4,000

Armory Center for the Arts                $5,500

ArtCenter College of Design               $5,500

Boston Court Pasadena                      $3,000

Light Bringer Project                           $5,500

Lineage Performing Arts Center         $5,000

Los Angeles Children’s Chorus           $5,000

Makoto Taiko                                     $1,000

MUSE/IQUE                                        $3,000

Parson’s Nose Theater                       $6,000

Pasadena Conservatory of Music       $3,000

Pasadena Heritage                             $4,500

Pasadena Symphony and POPS          $6,000

ROTARY CLUB OF PASADENA is the oldest and largest community service group in the San Gabriel Valley. In 2020, Pasadena Rotary celebrated its Centennial year and raised over $180,000 to support Union Station Homeless Services as well as a number of other local projects. The Club currently has over 200 members who meet at the University Club of Pasadena with dozens of committees contributing to the well-being and growth of the community, region, and world. During the current pandemic restrictions, the Club meets weekly each Wednesday in a hybrid format (limited capacity in person seating and on Zoom) and continues its dedicated service in a new creative manner to the Pasadena community.

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL, which the Rotary Club of Pasadena is a member, is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide to provide humanitarian service and help to build goodwill and peace in the world. It is comprised of 1.2 million members working in more than 35,000 clubs in 200 countries and geographic regions providing over 16 million volunteer hours each year.

Current committees of the Rotary Club of Pasadena Include:  Fight to Erase Polio, Adopt-A-Meal; Christmas Project; Community Grants; International Projects; Done In A Day; Shop with a Cop; Human Trafficking Awareness; Business Alliance; Rotary Readers; Program and Teachers of Excellence to name a few as well as resourceful social events.  Pasadena is the oldest and largest Rotary Club in the San Gabriel Valley and is part of District 5300 under the leadership of District Governor Betsy Barry.  www.pasadenarotary.com.