Rotary Club of Lloydminster president, Mike Sidoryk, is looking forward to receiving applications for the club’s next Legacy Community Project with up to $75,000 of funding available. Geoff Lee Meridian Source
The Rotary Club of Lloydminster is now taking funding applications for a new Legacy Community Project.
A special one-time grant of $75,000 is available to a local organization for a transformational project that will have a great impact on our community.
The application deadline is March 31.
“It’s something that we can do to support and enhance our needs within our own community. I’m excited to see what comes up for projects,” said Rotary president Mike Sidoryk.
Applications are accepted from individual community members, organizations or businesses, but the project must be administered by a not-for-profit or public sector entity.
“We definitely support many projects throughout the year from needy organizations. Our last significant support was when the helipad was built at the Lloydminster Hospital,” said Sidoryk.
“We contributed a nice sum of money for that project at the time. That was our last large legacy project.”
The $350,000 helipad officially opened in June 2019 with $200,000 in fundraising from local donors including a hefty donation from Rotary.
“We try to save up funds to do all kinds of funding and projects throughout each of the years,” said Sidoryk.
“We’ve got an accumulation of funds we can now dedicate to a new legacy project for our Rotary club which will benefit our whole community.”
Sidoryk is hoping some good projects come forward that they can build on.
“We anticipate that the applicant will have additional funding to contribute through their own efforts and means and our club reserves the right to leverage our funding through Rotary matching grant opportunities,” he said.
Applicants will be advised of the funding decision by May 15. The approved project is expected to start this year and wrap up within 24 months.
In the meantime, Sidoryk directs applicants to the Legacy Project funding link on their website.
“It’s a fillable document, so it’s simple to operate,” he said.
“That way they can present their proposed project to the Rotary club, so we can decide which project we want to support.”
Sidoryk says once they have all the applications, they will make their selections from that and determine what they can do to support it further.
“One of the things we can do is take and leverage that support and maybe there’s other organizations in town that want to partner and enhance the project more effectively,” he said.
“Or we can apply through our district Rotary grants and our district global grant to maybe enhance the funds as well.”
One of the 12 criteria points for funding requires the successful applicant to present their project at a weekly Rotary meeting.
