Benefactors:

This high profile event serves as their primary fundraiser and has been extremely successful. In the first ten years of this event, they have raised over $200,000 that has gone directly to:

community service programs supporting -

• personal and neighborhood safety
• drug awareness and at-risk youth

The Mesquite Rotary Club Programs

Monetary Support for Local Community Needs

• Award six $1,500 College Scholarships for Mesquite students
• Send six Mesquite students to Camp RYLA for leadership skills training
• Donations to the Mesquite Adult Literacy program
• Donations to the Mesquite Public Health Clinic
• Donations to the Mesquite Police Department Bicycle Patrol program.
• Major support for local area dental and other health services at the Mission East Dallas County clinic
• Donations to Mesquite Social Services for their Food Bank, and other needs
• Donations to Mesquite Clothes Closet to assist in providing clothing for needy students
• Donation to support the Mesquite “Red Ribbon Week Youth Leadership Conference”
• Donations to Mesquite Youth Services programs for at-risk and other youth
• Donations to the Boy Scouts of America Circle 10 Council to support their programs
• We provide monthly and annual recognition programs for outstanding Mesquite youth
• Have made a major donation in recent years to Meadowview School in Mesquite, to assist in expanding their classroom facilities
• Have provided donations to the American Heart Association and American Cancer Society
• Working currently with the city on a major Rotary Centennial Playground Project to provide greatly-enhanced equipment for the enjoyment of local wheelchair-bound and other handicapped children

Monetary Support for International Needs

• Donating to the Rotary District 5810 Wheelchair Project with the Wheelchair Foundation to provide wheelchairs to those in need locally and internationally (individually, and with club matching funds)
• Have partnered with Rotary International to provide funds for medical clinics, schools, and school buses to serve communities in need in South Africa
• Have donated to Rotary’s Send-a-Book Project, providing textbooks for schools in the Philippines
• Have donated to the Medisend Project, for acquiring and sending surplus medical supplies to needy communities and hospitals abroad
• Donated to the HALO Project, which clears land mines in formerly war-torn areas abroad
• Supporting the Rotary International Polio Plus Campaign that will soon eradicate polio in the entire world, and is providing far greater vaccination levels against other common diseases all over the world