Halloween Candy Packing
Halloween Candy Packing
Red Hook Grocery Giveaway
Red Hook Grocery Giveaway
Baby Shower
Baby Shower
Fill-A-Fridge
Fill-A-Fridge
Juneteenth Grocery Giveaway
Juneteenth Grocery Giveaway
Shoe Drive
Shoe Drive
Annual Blood Drive
Annual Blood Drive
In lieu of our annual blood drive, we are asking members of our community to schedule an appointment with the New York Blood Center. There is an urgent need and we know we can count on you! Send us your pics of giving blood and we will give you a shout on social media. Email ADMIN@BrooklynBridgeRotaryClub.org
BLOOD DRIVE SIGN UP FOR FEB 20 at CHRIST CHURCH IN COBBLE HILL
Tablet Drive
Tablet Drive
We are sponsoring a project with Read718, a local non-profit organization whose mission is to close the literacy gap in Brooklyn and to help ensure educational access and equity for all Brooklyn children.
How can you help?
Donate a new or used tablet in good condition
Donate $80 via Paypal
Purchase through our Amazon Smile wish list
Encourage friends and family to donate!
Tablets accepted: (please include charger)
IPAD
Android
Amazon Fire Tablet
Pop Up Food Pantry - Red Hook
Pop Up Food Pantry - Red Hook
About this Event
WHO: Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club is hosting a pop-up food pantry in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
WHAT: We are giving away 100 bags of groceries.
WHERE: Coffey Park, 85 Richards St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
WHEN: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 from 6pm to 7pm
WHY: Because we won’t just sit back and let people go hungry.
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
Donate:
Your donation of $50 will help us feed 1 family.
Your donation of $100 will help us package 2 families.
Your donation of $150 will help us feed 3 families.
Your donation of $200 will help us feed 4 families.
Sponsor:
Angel Sponsor $1,000 Feeds 20 families
Includes your company’s sign or banner hung at the event, your company’s logo on all printed promotional materials, on our website and social media posts, and in a thank-you ad in the local newspaper, the Red Hook Star.
Guardian Sponsor $500 Feeds 10 families
Includes your company’s logo our website and social media posts, and in a thank-you ad in the local newspaper, the Red Hook Star.
Supporter Sponsor $250 Feeds 5 families
Includes your company’s logo on our website and social media posts.
To donate directly:
• PAYPAL https://paypal.me/BrooklynBridgeRotary
• CHECK: made payable to, Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club, 41 Schermerhorn Street, Box 311, Brooklyn, NY 11201.
Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pop-up-food-pantry-red-hook-tickets-120472732185
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS for their support!
Feeding Kings County Hospital ER Workers
Feeding Kings County Hospital ER Workers
Feeding Kings County Hospital ER Workers
Feeding Kings County Hospital ER Workers
Please help support the overwhelmed front-line staff of an under-funded hospital during this COVID-19 pandemic, as it reaches it’s peak during the next 3 weeks.
We will be providing daily meals to the doctors, nurses, technicians and other emergency room staff. Each meal costs ~ $13. The Rotary Club is kicking in $1,600 to cover the first week, to start things off.
We hope our fellow Brooklynites will join us and contribute $10, $25, $50 (or whatever you can afford), to sustain and thank our medical first responders.
The meals will be purchased from PLG Coffee House and Tavern, a restaurant in East Flatbush near the hospital. This effort will also help keep a local eatery open during this economic downtown. $1,600 per week, or a total of $4,800 to cover 3 weeks, is what will be needed.
A similar fundraiser for a private hospital in Brooklyn has raised $90,000 in 12 days, through contributions of $50 and less, from regular people. Kings County hospital’s need is much greater, as the local population there is financially hurting.
If we raise more money than is needed, we will start providing meals for other city-owned hospitals in Brooklyn.
To stay in touch about this project and learn more about our efforts, follow us on Facebook (http://www.brooklynbridgerotaryclub.org).
Please help support the overwhelmed front-line staff of an under-funded hospital during this COVID-19 pandemic, as it reaches it’s peak during the next 3 weeks.
Thank you!
Vivian Jackson, Reyana McKenzie, Kimberly Price, Jeannie Jackson, Janine Rodriguez and Celia Weintrob (The Board of the Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club)
Youth Leadership Honorees 2019
Youth Leadership Honorees 2019
We salute our 2019 Youth Leadership Honorees!
Our first annual Rotary Youth Awards reception on Thursday, May 2 recognized local teenagers who have put heart & soul into Service Above Self, by making rock climbing accessible to all, collecting and delivering school supplies to Puerto Rican schools, and many other projects.
Congratulations to Arabella Walley, founder of Reach For The Sky rock climbing, and Girl Scout Cadette Troop 2672.
In Arabella own words...why this impressive young woman was one of the Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club’s inaugural recipients of a Youth Leadership Award.
One of our Scout Cadette honoree’s thoughts about the success and impact her troop’s service project had on a school on Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria hit.
We capped off this evening’s event by inducting and pinning the three newest members of the Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club.
Gift of Life
Gift of Life
Gift of Life Inc.
About Gift of Life Inc.
Gift of Life is a dynamic program of Rotarians of Brooklyn, Queens and Nassau in partnership with the Rotary members and physicians worldwide who evaluate children for treatment in our country. Foreign doctors may also receive technical training on these shores and return to help children in their own lands.
We have since opened pathways to Korea, Poland, the Russian Republics, China, Caribbean Nations and to places as distant as Mongolia, medically screening many thousands of children for lifesaving surgery.
The spirit of the Gift of Life ignores borders. Medically advanced countries are being encouraged to do as we do – to open their own hospital doors to imperiled youngsters from developing nations. With the Gift of Life as an international model, cardiac medicine will extend its power to save many who were unreachable before. The Gift of Life has also become more of a public presence through our fund raising program Save-A-Child. In addition we hold four annual fundraisers: the Crusade of the Heart Kick-Off Dinner and black tie Gala, the Agnes T. Funk Kids for Kids Memorial 5K Walk, and our new skydiving event Jump for Life.
Rotary & Gift of Life Inc.
Our first GOL child was Kevens from Haiti
Anastasia from Russia was the 2nd. She had her life-saving heart surgery on 3/2/16.
Effe from Uganda was our 3rd. Dr. Sean Levchuck, the surgeon who performed the procedure (twice) described him as nothing short of a miracle. It was the largest hole in a child's heart that he had ever seen, and there were literally a series of miracles involved. For details, click here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD_XfBI-cLU&t=2s
Dr. Levchuck in his own words:
Coat Drive - NY Cares
Coat Drive - NY Cares
NY Cares Coat Drive
About NYCares Coat Drive
Since the Coat Drive began 27 years ago, we have collected and distributed 1.7 million winter coats to New Yorkers in need. The drive has also become a holiday philanthropic tradition for many residents, with coworkers bringing coats to their annual office Christmas party or neighbors placing collection boxes in the lobby of their building.
Winter Wishes - NY Cares
Winter Wishes - NY Cares
NY Cares Winter Wishes
About NY Cares Winter Wishes
Our Winter Wishes program provides holiday toys and gifts to over 42,000 children, teens and senior citizens each year. During December, one of the most difficult months for those in need, our generous volunteers show people throughout the city that they're loved and cared for by shopping for their specific holiday wish and delivering it to their representative agency just in time for the holidays.
The Outreach Program
The Outreach Program
Feed Brooklyn
ON 3/11/17, WE TEAMED UP WITH THE VERRAZZANO ROTARY CLUB AND THE BROOKLYN CYCLONES TO PACKAGE MEALS. IN LESS THAN 3 HOURS, WE PACKED UP ENOUGH HIGHLY FORTIFIED NUTRITIONALLY ENRICHED PACKS OF FOOD FOR LOCAL FOOD PANTRIES AND HOMELESS SHELTERS TO PRODUCE 10,388 MEALS!WE DID IT AGAIN ON 3/3/19!! 10,000 MORE MEALS WERE SENT TO LOCAL FOOD PANTRIES.
Feed Bahamas
On 4/27/19 we changed it up and donated 10,000 to the Bahamas.
BY CREATING AN ASSEMBLY LINE OF PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO HELP US PACKAGE 10,000 MEALS, THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE ROTARY CLUB AND BROOKLYN COLLEGE ROTORACT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE OUTREACH PROGRAM HELPED FEED THE PEOPLE OF BAHAMAS. EACH MEAL PACKAGE WAS FORTIFIED WITH ESSENTIAL VITAMINS AND MINERALS, AND CONTAINS 6 SERVINGS. THESE MEALS WERE SHIPPED AND DISTRIBUTED TO FOOD PANTRIES TO THOSE IN NEED IN THE BAHAMAS.
HERE IS A LINK TO MEDIA COVERAGE:
Special Thanks To Our Sponsors:
AVANZINO & MORENO P.C., ATTORNEYS AT LAW
TUCCIARONE & DIMILIA
HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=XCING1UYEA0
THANK YOU FOR HELPING US PACK MEALS FOR PEOPLE IN NEED IN THE BAHAMAS
New Page
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Dinner Meeting AND Service Project
When: Wednesday, October 11, 6:00-7:30 pm.
Where: Food Bazaar Supermarket – seating plaza at the back
500 Van Brunt Street in Red Hook
Transit: B61 bus stops in front
Get the bus at Atlantic Ave & Court St, Atlantic & Clinton St or Henry St
Parking is available
Reply to this email about getting a ride there or home
DINNER:
• Each attendee can buy prepared food and a drink in the supermarket or deli counter at the rear of the store and take it to the covered indoor/outdoor plaza in the back of the store, facing the water, where the meeting will take place.
SERVICE PROJECT:
• We have purchased the supplies to make 300 sandwiches for CHIPS' food pantry, which will be delivered and served for lunch on Thursday. How many Rotarians and volunteers does it take to make 300 sandwiches? We will find out! Depends on how many come to help, so all hands on deck, please.