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We are a small nonprofit made up of community members actively engaged in supporting the greater Kingston community's needs. We work with other organizations and community members to identify the most pressing community issues and support projects that address them.
We support projects both large and small. You will find us fundraising and organizing large projects, such as supporting the creation of the Village Green Community Center, fundraising for lights for the Kingston High School field, restoring the local Scouts Hall, or fundraising for the creation of sports fields. You will also find our members actively volunteering in our community - putting up flower baskets downtown, cleaning up trails and highways, writing cards to deliver to local care homes over the holidays, supporting our local Scouts troops, etc.
Some other projects that our fundraising helps support are: scholarships for local students, grants for nonprofits and schools, sponsoring free Kingston Community meals, sponsoring a high school service club, funding our holiday project that includes donating poinsettias and chocolate to food bank customers and helping decorate the veterans' home, etc.
Thank you for your support and helping us to continue to address the needs of North Kitsap!
Our club promotes community well-being both locally and globally through volunteerism.
Our club has been actively involved in addressing community needs for 20 years. We raise funds through diverse means - auctions, golf tournaments, athletic events - and identify pressing needs to be addressed. At our weekly meetings, we are informed about community needs by means of presentations from individuals we meet by networking.
We then forge partnerships with local groups - for example, providing food for children and families in need, filling educational gaps, and funding lunches for senior adults. We are widely known, which helps us also raise funds to contribute to larger projects such as building facilities including the Village Green Community Center and its playground equipment.
Programs funded include college scholarships as well as trade scholarships. We have also sponsored exchange students at the high school level and support a high school-level branch of our club.
Because Kingston is an unincorporated community, much of what we do is hands-on, from park maintenance to hanging wreaths and flower baskets, and highway litter removal. Almost every project we help to complete involves our personal sweat equity as well as the funds we raise.
Every member of the Club is unpaid, including its officers, and the needs we join together to address are constantly changing. Therefore, we must also stay attuned to community needs and focus our neighbors' attention there also.
Our club has identified a critical need for youth sports facilities and is engaged with a large campaign to build a sports and aquatic facility in North Kitsap. The deficit of North Kitsap youth sports facilities was first identified as a possible area of focus for our Club 9 years ago. It has finally also been acknowledged throughout North Kitsap as a pressing need that has been aggravated by population growth in the area.
Besides launching this major-facility initiative, Club members have partnered with North Kitsap School District to rehabilitate existing sports fields that had fallen into disrepair.
As an extension of our efforts to bolster resources for youth and families, we fund scholarships for graduating high school students going on to college, and also trade scholarships for people changing careers or wanting to advance a career in nursing or other skilled profession.
In recent years, our awareness of global needs has come into focus because of several local contacts who promote education of girls in Afghanistan, delivery of emergency services to Belize and Ukraine, and availability of potable water in Uganda. These are examples of the global reach our Club helps to foster by pursuing local north Kitsap relationships.
We fund and advance our causes by holding fundraising events, by devoting our own time, labor and skills, and by building a network of community members, leaders, and organizations.
Organization name
Kingston North Kitsap Rotary Club
Tax id (EIN)
20-2960627
Categories
Basic Needs, Community Improvement, Education, Environment, Health, Human Services, Youth Development
Geography Served
Poulsbo/North Kitsap
Annual Revenue
$100,000 - $499,999
BIPOC Serving
African American/Black, Hispanic, Latino or Latinx, Native American or American Indian, Multiracial
Volunteer-Led Organizations
Volunteer-Led Organizations
Address
PO BOX 832