Service Projects

Category	Service	Information
Community	Park Benches.	We have placed special benches with the Rotary Logo and Sunrise Rotary name in the parks in the City of Shasta Lake.
Community	City of Shasta Lake Parade	We run the 'Damboree Parade" to kick off the city's Damboree Days Special Celebration - it entails a few months work getting the entries and then the fun begins as we line-up the parade participants and perform the smooth release for the parade.
Community	Christmas Gifts Program	We purchase gifts for underprivileged children in the City of Shasta Lake. This is a fun way to involve high school youth in charitable giving.
Community	Redding Swim Meet	We provide lunches for Redding Swim Meet volunteers.
International	Rotoplast	We collected from each member a quarterly amount and sponsored our own team to repair cleft pallets in a third-world country in 2006.
International	Polo Plus Campaign	We continually contribute towards the eradication of the Polio Disease around the world.
International	LN - 4	Reaching out and touching those in need of hands in third-world countries.
Youth	Bill Cosby - Sunrise Rotary Scholarship	We are currently building an endowment that will eventually fund our scholarship through interest generated. Our 2004 Bill Cosby performances gave us the largest boost in funding followed by special event partnerships with Win River contributed substancially to our fund.  We are currently set up to award two (four-year, $5,000 scholarships) per year and we have extended that to also be flexible enough to award two-year scholarships for vocational training, such as nursing.
Youth	Interact	We sponsor an Interact Club at Central Valley High School and will sponsor another at Mt. Lakes High School in September 2008.
Youth	Student Recognition	Quarterly student recognition for the outstanding accomplishments as awarded by their teachers and principal. They are brought to a meeting with their parents and praised and awarded a jacket and a gift certificate.
Youth	Special Olympics	We furnish lunches for over 300 participants for their special games and last year we furnished uniforms so they could also feel special.
Youth	School Dictionaries	We provide dictionaries for third-graders in the Gateway School District.
Youth	Book Project	We provide books for the Gateway Unified School District Libraries.
Youth	Christmas Shopping	Students do the shopping for the gifts for Christmas Gift Giving Program.
Youth	School Supplies	We donate school supplies annually in September for underprivileged at Central Valley and Mt. Lakes High Schools.
Youth	Club Venture	We sponsor a number of students for the annual Camp Venture and Camp Royal Programs.