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Community Service Avenue
	2005-06 Chair: David Zimmerman 05-06 Funding: $2,000
		$750 was provided to Community Link to help three homeless families fund their security deposit on an apartment. This request was presented by club member Alan Adler $500 was provided to sponsor a table at the Veterans Day breakfast sponsored by the Carolina Citizens Freedom Foundation. At this breakfast, a preview of the club’s WWII documentary was presented and our attending members were recognized. This request was presented by club member Edwin Peacock. $250 was provided to the Childhood Leukemia Foundation to provide gift baskets at pediatric oncology units across the US. This request was presented by the Brick AM Rotary Club in Brick, NJ. $1,000 was provided to the Charlotte Rescue Mission to help provide medications for their clients. This request was presented by club member and Charlotte Rescue Mission Executive Director Anthony Marciano.
Crisis Assistance Ministry
	2005-06 Chair: Jim Adams 05-06 Funding: $0
		This was the best year ever in terms of both quantity and quality of clothes. Jim and his committee collected a packed car full of clothes every Tuesday for five weeks. And the week prior to Thanksgiving, they packed two cars full. The committee also made three large home pickups from members. Another member, who requests to remain unknown, organized a collection on his street, and accumulated one and a half carloads of clothes.
Environment
	2005-6 Chair: Chase Saunders 05-06 Funding: $10,000
		$1000.00 budget was spent on the Hands On Charlotte cleanup of Little Sugar Creek. At least $2000.00 was transferred to make up shortfalls in other Rotary projects as per a request from Sandy. The balance is available for carry over or allocation to other projects.
Habitat
	2005-6 Chair: Ken Samuelson 05-06 Funding: $15,000
		58 members of Charlotte Rotary volunteered and worked at the Habitat House, along with 28 Interact students. The Club's contribution was $16,500, including some individual club member donations. Mike Wilkinson and the crew at The Ray Company, Inc., handled the in-kind donation of the shingles and the manpower for installation. Sonny’s BBQ donated a lunch through the efforts of member Steve Meckler. The house this year was built for Christina Jordan and her family and is located at 3147 Ross Avenue, which is off West Blvd. House dedication was celebrated on April 19, 2006.
Public Safety Scholarships
	2005-6 Chair: John Lassiter 05-06 Funding: $0
		$1,000 scholarships (renewable for 4 years) were awarded to 14 new recipients; 9 scholarships were renewed.
Salvation Army Bells
	2005-6 Chair: Biff Virkler 05-06 Funding: $0
		Over a 15-day period, 60 club members rang the bell at the square this year.
Scholarships (Foundation for the Carolinas)
	2005-6 Chair: Rich Campbell 05-06 Funding: $6,000
		Four scholarship renewal requests and 12 new applications were received and the Committee awarded a total of $16,500 for the 2005-06 academic year. Because of the excellence of the finalists, the Committee voted to award more scholarship funds then were available for 2006-07. The committee pledged to raise the additional $3,700 needed to cover the 2006-07 scholarships.
Senior High Recognition
	2005-6 Chair: Gene Bratek 05-06 Funding: $12,000
		On May 23, $500 scholarships were rewarded to high school seniors from 18 public and 7 private schools.
WWII Project (Centennial Project)
	2005-6 Chair: Richard Bailey 05-06 Funding: $12,500
		Documentary, How I Survived WW II was completed and premiered on Nov 11, 2005 with 400 attending. The documentary won a Silver Telley Award, the highest award for a public television documentary. We are raising corporate sponsors for the second documentary Liberation. Some re-interviews will begin the end of August. Premier expected in early spring (March 2007).
Youth Programs
	2005-6 Chair: John Snyder 05-06 Funding: $3,000
		$1,000 provided to Brick by Brick (high school student lead effort for a Habitat House) $750 provided to Myers Park High School for participation in the High School Global Studies Essay Program organized by the American Freedom Association. $500 to CMS for a teacher to participate in the Natural Sciences Educators of Excellence Institute summer instruction program. Interact Club – Myers Park High School - Projects: Rotary Habitat house, Crisis Assistance clothing drive. Programs: Hands on presentation by Betty and Meghan Coltrane (sophomore at MPHS) on work in Sri Lanka building Habitat houses (Interact students raised $500); Rotary Youth Exchange (presented by Don Millen).
2005 Rotary Scholarship Golf Classic
	2005 Chair: Chip Scholz and Alan Adler 05-06 Funding: $5,000
		The September, 05 tournament was a great success, raising $32,906 for the Public Safety Scholarships. $46,634.50 was collectively raised from the tournament. 30 club members played in the tournament. The scholarship committee has announced that fourteen four-year scholarships will be awarded.
International Service Avenue Ambassadorial Scholarship
	2005-6 Chair: Ed Kizer 05-06 Funding: $0
		Members of the Ambassadorial Scholarship Committee interviewed several candidates and recommended Deborah Hirsh, who was ultimately selected, as recipient of the District 7680 Scholarship.
Rotary Foundation
	2005-6 Chair: Pender McElroy 05-06 Funding: $0
		Twenty-one members of Charlotte Rotary achieved Paul Harris Fellow; eleven moved to Level One or above. The Rotary Foundation reports total giving through May 31 at $61,996.07. A Donor Advised Fund was also established during 2005-2006.
Student and Group Exchange Program
	2005-6 Chair: Lamar Thomas 05-06 Funding: $4,000
		Maria De La Carrero Tovar (Paz) arrived from Colombia, South America, as the club’s Exchange Student. While completing her Junior year at Charlotte Country Day School, Paz had the opportunity to attend several club and District functions. Her annual report to the club in May will go down as one of the more memorable meetings of the year. There were also two inbound/outbound student exchanges.
Twin Club Project
	2005-6 Chair: Katie Tyler 05-06 Funding: 0
		$400 was provided from the Discretionary fund to provide meals to 8 Arequipa firefighters and 2 interpreters while finalizing plans to begin training with Charlotte firefighters.
World Community Service
	2005-6 Chair: Pete Larson 05-06 Funding: $5,000
		$1,000 was contributed to Shelterbox USA, earmarked for Africa humanitarian focus. $500 was provided to Cross Cultural Solutions in support of Rotarian Hope Lanier, who spent three weeks in the East African nation of Tanzania, working with children, many of whom have been orphaned by HIV and AIDS. $500 was sent to support work done in Tanzania by Justine Treadwell, Echo Foundation 2006 Hero Award winner and daughter of Charlotte Rotarian, Biff Virkler. $2,000 was used to set up a school library at St. Xavier’s Godavari School in Kathmandu, Nepal. $1,000 supported the District’s Showcase Project: Rotarians Sowing Seed to Fight World Hunger.
Vocational Service Avenue Classroom Central
	2005-6 Chair: Bob Alexy 05-06 Funding: $3,000
		Twelve Rotarians volunteered one afternoon a month throughout the school year to assist teachers shopping for school supplies that are provided free of charge to students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s most economically challenged schools.
Junior Achievement Exchange City
	2005-6 Chair: Claude Lilly 05-06 Funding: $3,000
		Volunteers and funding supported the initiatives Junior Achievement’s Exchange City.