FAQs

Are my donations tax deductible?
 
Yes, we are a non-profit 501(c)3.
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Are there annual dues?
 
Yes. Currently the annual dues per person is $200.
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Where and when does the club meet?
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The club meets the first and third Wednesday of each month at the Kenwood Depot at 314 Warm Springs Rd., Kenwood CA




Fantasy Golf Raffle Fundraiser

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Fantasy Golf Raffle Fundraiser
Two ways to play!

18-hole Fairway scratch-off card
Cards are $40 apiece
Three prize packages / three winners

Prize Packages:
Golf Classics
Round of golf for 4 at Mayacama Golf Club, including caddies. A “bucket list” course for any serious golfer. This is walking only course, caddies required • Round of golf for 4 at the beautiful Fountaingrove Golf Club • 4 Rotary logo golf towels – priceless!
Total package value: $2,124

Wine Country Delights
Mountaintop tasting for 4 at Kunde Family Winery • magnum of 2014 Kunde Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon • Wine tasting for 2 at Scribe Winery plus 2 bottles of Chardonnay • Dinner for 2 at Valley Bar & Bottle in Sonoma • magnum of T.R. Eliott 2016 Pinot Noir •
St. Francis Winery estate food & wine pairing for 4 • bottle of St. Francis Cabernet 2014 Lagomarsino Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon • Mumm Napa tasting and tour for 4 • Laurel Glen Vineyards 3-vintage vertical of Cabernet Sauvignon, plus library tasting for 4
Total package value $2,448

Family & Friends Fun Package
A day of sailing on San Francisco Bay for four people aboard the 38’ sailboat “Kalimera,” skippered by Catherine and Dave Jefferson • Sonoma County Regional Parks Pass • California State Parks Pass • Round of golf for 4 at Valley of the Moon Club or The Club at Sugarloaf, carts included • box of family games, puzzles and toys • 4 Rialto Cinema gift cards • 4 passes to Morton’s Warm Springs • Children’s Museum of Sonoma County visit for 4 • Schulz Museum visit for 4 • gift card for TIPS Roadside • gift card for Café Citti • gift card for Mary’s Pizza Shack • Family membership to Chabot Space & Science Center
Total package value $2,143
Plus
Longest Drive / Closest to the Pin scratch-off card
Cards are $5 apiece
The winner in each category will receive $500 cash!
Only 1,000 cards will be sold
Special Thanks to our sponsors!
Longest Drive – Palooza Brewery & Gastropub
Closest to the Pin – Tina Shone and The Shone Group Real Estate

How to buy cards:
Because this is a raffle, cards cannot be sold over the Internet. You can purchase cards at the Kenwood Press newspaper office, 13700 Arnold Drive in Glen Ellen, by mailing a check to P.O. Box 91, Kenwood, CA 95452, or by contacting Ann Peters at 707-292-7983 or annqpeters@gmail.com. Make checks out to GEK Rotary Foundation.

How to return cards:
You can return your cards, by Aug. 18, 2021, to any Glen Ellen-Kenwood Rotarian, by mailing them to P.O. Box 91, Kenwood, CA 95452, by dropping them off at the Kenwood Press newspaper office, 13700 Arnold Drive in Glen Ellen, or by contacting Ann Peters at 707-292-7983 or annqpeters@gmail.com to arrange for pick up.

All proceeds go to Rotary projects in Sonoma County
Thank you for supporting the Rotary Club of Glen Ellen-Kenwood!

Thank you to all our sponsors for this fundraiser!
Tina Shone and the Shone Group Real Estate
Palooza Brewery & Gastropub in Kenwood
B. Slatkin Bookkeeping
TIPS Roadside in Kenwood
Valley Restaurant in Sonoma

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Rotary Club of Glen Ellen Kenwood Annual Vocational Award

Goes to Cliff Casolla of Marshall's Body Shop in Glen Ellen

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Rotary Club of Glen Ellen Kenwood Projects

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SOS Haven Grange Neighborhood Lunch and Dinners

At the moment, we are most in need of volunteers to help with food prep and keep the kitchen organized at Sonoma Springs Community Hall at The Grange. The address is 18627 CA-12, Sonoma, CA 95476.  This is the site where where food is served and organized.  If interested email us at Barn

barneywatkins@yahoo.com for access to GEK Rotary volunteer polls.

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GEK/Food Bank Valley Food Assistance

This is a program post Valley wildfires to nourish the underserved in our community,and continue what we have been doing for four years with the backpack program at Dunbar.  Our current project with the Food Bank is at the Jack London Village parking lot the first and third Friday of each month email barneywatkins@yahoo.com for access to GEK Rotary volunteer polls.

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Mayan Families

Financial assistance to Mayan Families, a non-profit providing health and educaiton services to the indigenous people living in rural areas of Guatemala. 

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Operation Bicycle-Teen Center

Funding and hands-on assistance for a vocational program to train teens in repairing bicyles. The club assists in providing needed tools and hardware

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Sonoma Overnight Support

SOS provides shelter and food to the homeless in Sonoma Valley. The ciub has provided funds for warm clothes and sleeping bags for clients during the winter months.  Community Feeds for Breakfast and Lunch for 100s of Valley underserved.

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The Sonoma Ecology Center

We have partnered extensively on SEC's various projects for creek evaluations and remediation as wheel as providing substantial assistance post October wildfires to prevent toxic runoff into the creeks and general forest and trail restoration to help prevent future wildfire vulnerabilities.

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Bell Ringing for FISH

Each holiday season, members volunteer to collect money for Friends in Sonoma Helping by ringing bells outside the Glen Ellen Village Market, encouraging patrons to donate money into a collection box.

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Agua del Pueblo

We provided our assistance as part of a larger Rotary Global Grant to create widespread potable water and sanitation programs to all residents of the Lake Atitlan watershed in and around the towns of Nuevo Progreso and Chocol, Guatemala.

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Jack London Park

We are providing assistance for vegetation management to reduce fuel loads in the historic Eucalyptus grove. This donation will be used for a pilot project to illustrate the larger needs for fuel reduction in the park.

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Bouverie Audubon Canyon Ranch

The club assisted in upplying tools and equipment post October Wildfires and we have applied for a $50,000 Fire Relief Grant from District 5130 to help restore fire damaged land.

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Dunbar Elementary School

The Dunbar elementary school experienced major losses to the playground, their outdoor theatre/stage and the children's garden all of which we have been actively working to restore through raising funds and volunteering.

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July 4 Event at Kenwood Plaza Park

Each year, the club holds a communty-wide event on July 4, featuring food, music, games, and spreading the word of Rotary!

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Kenwood School lunch program 

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Eagle Scout project 

We are providing financial and hands-on assistance to a young man who is leading an Eagle Scout Project, the Dunbar Pathway Project, which is constructing a path to the school’s garden, this is an extension of our Fire Relief program with Dunbar School.

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CONTACT US

PO Box 91 Kenwood, CA 95452
Rotary.glenellenkenwood@gmail.com

 

FACEBOOK

https://www.facebook.com/gekrotary/

 

INSTAGRAM

https://www.instagram.com/gekrotary/

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