Around Lansing

The Rotary Club of Lansing has a tradition of local community giving unparalleled by any organization in the area!  Each year we select local organizations to benefit from the Club’s Foundation fundraising activities.

2019-2020 Grant Recipients

Capital Area United Way - $30,000

Cristo Rey - $30,000

YMCA - $10,000

St. Vincents Catholic Charities - $5,000

Friends of Ingham County Veterans - $5,000

 

2018-2019 Grant Recipients

Capital Support
  • Tri County Office on Aging - $10,000
  • Child & Family Charities - $10,000
  • Ele's Place - $5,000
  • Davies Project - $5,000
  • Haven House - $5,000
Operational Support
  • Helping Hands Respite Care - $5,000
  • Highfields - $5,000
  • Michigan Institute for Contemporary Art - $5,000
  • Communities in Schools of Michigan - $5,000
Project Support
  • Lansing Symphony - $2,500
  • Michigan Dyslexia Institute - $2,500

Since our club was founded in 1916, we’ve donated millions of dollars to organizations in the Lansing community.  Here are many of the organization’s we’ve helped during the last 100+ years:

  • Advent House Ministries
  • All-of-Us Express Children’s Theater
  • American Lung Association
  • American Red Cross
  • Arts Council of Greater Lansing
  • Assoc of Students MSU
  • Association of Retarded Citizens
  • Beekman Center
  • Belgium Children’s Milk Relief Fund
  • Big Brothers and Big Sisters
  • Black Child & Family Institute
  • BoarsHead Theatre
  • Boy Scouts Summer Camps
  • Boys & Girls Club
  • Boys Club of America
  • Boys Industrial School
  • Boys Scouts
  • Boys Summer Camp
  • Brotherhood Against Drugs
  • Building Brighter Futures
  • C. C. Summer Camps
  • Camp Emery
  • Camp Highfields
  • Camp Ingham-Highfields
  • Camp Kiroliex
  • Capital Area Interfaith Respite
  • Capital Area Literacy Coalition
  • Capital Area United Way
  • Capital Region Community Fdn
  • Capitol News Educational Fund
  • Care Free Medical
  • Center for Handicapper Affairs
  • Center for the Arts
  • Chief Okemos Council, Boy Scouts of America (BSA)
  • Children’s Crippled Fund
  • Children’s Learning Care Center
  • City of Lansing
  • City Rescue Mission
  • Clare Lake Camp
  • Community/Youth Projects
  • Cooperative Extension Service
  • Crippled Children’s Fund
  • Cristo Rey Community Center
  • Cystic Fibrosis Camps
  • Dental Health Fund
  • Drug Abuse Assistance Education
  • East Side Drop In Center
  • Easter Seal Society of MI
  • Eastminister Presbyterian Church
  • Economic Crisis Center
  • EL Rotary
  • Ele’s Place
  • Episcopal Ministry at MSU
  • Everett High School
  • Expectant Parents Organization
  • Explorer Boy Scouts of America
  • Fenner Arboretum
  • Fenner Nature Center
  • Fest Eve
  • First Congregational Church
  • Food Service Program
  • Foster Grand Parents
  • Foster Special Ed Camp
  • Girl Scouts
  • GM/Woldumar Nature Center
  • Gr Lansing Symphony Orchestra
  • Greater Lansing Safety Patrol
  • H.O.P.E. Project
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Handicapped Association
  • Harry Hill High School
  • Harvest House
  • Haven House
  • High School Football Team
  • Highfields
  • Hockey Club
  • Hospice of Lansing
  • Impression 5 Science Center
  • Indian Trails Summer Camp
  • Industrial School for Boys & the Social Center Institution
  • Ing Co Citzens Comm on Spec Ed
  • Ing Co Soc for Crippled Children
  • Ingham Co Close-Up Program
  • Ingham Co Community Food Bank
  • Ingham County 4-H
  • Ingham County Health Department
  • Ingham Intermediate School District
  • Ingham Medical Center
  • Ingham Medical Center Auxiliary
  • Junior Achievement
  • Justice in Mental Health Program
  • Keep Michigan Beautiful
  • Lansing Area Safety Council
  • Lansing Art Gallery
  • Lansing Community College
  • Lansing General Hospital
  • Lansing Health Foundation
  • Lansing Neighborhood Council
  • Lansing School District
  • Lansing Sports for Cerebral Palsy
  • Lansing Symphony Orchestra
  • LCC Paramedic Program
  • Lelcotele Mid-MI
  • Lifeline Camp
  • Lifelong Camp
  • Lifetech Academy
  • Listen Community Crusade
  • Loaves & Fishes Ministry
  • Meridian Language Arts Center
  • MI Academy of Dentistry for Handicapped
  • MI Assoc for Children with Learning Disabilities (LD)
  • MI Capital Girl Scout Council
  • MI Dyslexia Association
  • MI Festival
  • MI School for the Blind
  • MI Society for Professional Engineers
  • MI State Council of the OIC’s of America
  • MI Women Studies Association
  • Michigan Capital Girl Scouts
  • Michigan Dance Association
  • Michigan Ski for Light
  • Michigan State College
  • Mothers Against Drunk Driving
  • Mother Theresa House
  • MSU College of Human Medicine
  • MSU PE & Exercise Science
  • MSU Veterinary Clinic
  • MSU Veterinary School
  • Muscular Dystrophy
  • Nature Way Association
  • North Elementary School
  • Northwestern Elementary School
  • Old Lansing Newsboys
  • Operation Crossroads
  • Operation Stork
  • Orthopedic Campers
  • Orthopedic Camps
  • PAM Assistance Center
  • Parents Together/El Public Schools
  • Pashami Dancers
  • Paul Schneider
  • Peckham Vocational Industries
  • Physically Impaired Assoc of MI
  • Piney Wood School at Barxton
  • Potter Park Zoo
  • Programs for Learning
  • Project H. O. P. E.
  • R. E. Olds Transportation Museum
  • R. J. Scheffel Fund
  • Reading is Fundamental
  • Red Cross
  • Red Cross of Mid-Michigan
  • Riverwalk Theatre
  • Rural Emergency Outreach
  • Safety Council for Greater Lansing
  • Self Help Garden
  • Services for Handicapped
  • Signature Project
  • Single Parent Family Institute
  • Sparrow Hospital
  • Sparrow Hospital Rehab Center
  • Special Needs
  • Special Olympics
  • St. Lawrence 60+ Health Center
  • St. Vincent Home
  • State Journal Relief Fund
  • State of MI Crippled Childrens Commission
  • State of MI Olympic Game Fund
  • State Vocational School
  • Stoneleigh Residence-Hospice/Lans
  • Straight, Inc.
  • Student Loan Fund
  • Student Projects
  • Student Projects – Intern
  • Summer Special Olympics
  • Sunset Club
  • T. B. Association
  • T. B. Camp
  • The Listening Ear
  • The Sanitarium
  • Tri-County Aging Consortium
  • Tri-County Office of Aging
  • Tuberculosis Hospital
  • United Cerebral Palsy Assoc of MI
  • United Nations Assembly
  • Upward Bound
  • Urban 4-H Program
  • Urban Options, Inc.
  • Voluntary Action Center
  • Volunteers of America
  • Walnut Street School
  • Water for People
  • Waverly High School
  • Wharton Center
  • WKAR
  • Woldumar Nature Center
  • Woodhaven
  • World Affairs Trip
  • Y.W.C.A.
  • YMCA
  • YMCA Mystic Lake Camp
  • Youth Development Corporation
  • Youth for Christ
  • Youth for Christ Lifeline Camp
  • Youth Services