Project Helping Hand, Monterey Peninsula Sunrise Rotary Club

09/12/2023

New & Improved Project Helping Hand webpage.

Project Helping Hand seeks to provide dedicated teachers the assistance required to provide the type of learning experience every child deserves.

09/20/2020

Thank you to all our incredibly generous donors! Thank you Monterey Superintendent PK Diffenbaugh! And most of all, thank you to all the extraordinary teachers & staff at Bay View Academy, La Mesa Elementary, Monte Vista Elementary, Foothill Elementary, Walter Colton Middle, and Monterey High School!!!

We proudly serve these public schools, and are happy to report that during the 2019-2020 school year, Project Helping Hand distributed 39 micro-grants totaling $14,867.18.

To date, 292 grants totaling $134,605.78 have been awarded. We look forward to supporting our wonderful teachers by lending them a helping hand in the heavy lifting they do every day for our community.

Go Team!
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05/30/2019

This year, Project Helping Hand distributed 51 micro-grants totaling $19,721.45 to the 6 schools we proudly serve. Since the program’s inception in 2008, Project Helping Hand through the Monterey Peninsula Sunrise Rotary Club has awarded a total of 253 grants totaling $119,738.60.

Thank you to all our incredible donors, Superintendent Diffenbaug, and the extraordinary teachers & staff at Bay View Academy, La Mesa Elementary, Monte Vista Elementary, Foothill Elementary, Walter Colton Middle, and Monterey High School.

Together we’re making an unimagined difference in the lives of so many children!

10/16/2018

Project Helping Hand of the Monterey Peninsula Sunrise Rotary Club was honored to receive a Congressional Recognition from United Stated Representative Jimmy Panetta. Since its inception in 2008, this charitable program has provided over $100,000 to Monterey Public Schools in the form of 202 micro-grants.

12/16/2017

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This year the Project Helping Hand program received 52 requests totaling $27,245.78 from the 6 schools our little program happily serves. 🤗 Due to the ongoing efforts of the Monterey Peninsula Sunrise Rotary Club, and the overwhelming generosity of our community sponsors; this year PHH has $18,489.09 to distribute.

After careful review & deliberation, the PHH committee recently approved 47 micro grants totaling $18,481.46. Once these funds have been distributed, the Grand Total of the 202 grants distributed since the program’s 2008 inception will be $100,266.81❗️

The PHH program has No Operating Costs & mandates a Zero Waste Policy. To this end, we account for every penny distributed, and require the return of any unused potions of the awarded funds.

Thank you to all our wonderful supporters! 🙏 Together we’re helping our teachers make a world of difference in lives of countless children🚸☺️👋

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05/21/2017

05/21/2017

05/21/2017

The Project Helping Hand committee is so very proud and honored to have completed another fabulous year assisting our local schools. We wish to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all the participating teachers and principals, as well as to our many incredibly generous community sponsors. Together we have distributed $81,723.62 in the form of 155 micro grants!

04/28/2013

This year’s fundraiser was a huge success. We enjoyed excellent food and wonderful wine while raising money for the Project Helping Hand program. Thank you to all that helped make it possible.

12/24/2012

12/10/2012

Students at Monte Vista received 70 new recorders from a recent music grant.