Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Meeting Dec 1 at Templeton Landing Community Grants




The Fall Cycle has two grant requests:

1 The Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center, Inc.’s mission is to improve the quality of life for adults, children and infants with communication disorders by delivering cutting edge diagnosis and treatment of hearing and speech impairments and related special education services.
Description of Buffalo Rotary's project: BHSC is raising funds to install an “Inclusive Play” or “Universally Accessible” playground at its main facility in the City of Buffalo that will be incorporated into therapeutic and educational programming for developmentally disabled children.

2. The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, (BOPC), is a 501c3 not-for-profit, independent, community organization that promotes, preserves, restores, enhances and ensures maintenance of Olmsted Parks and Parkways in the greater Buffalo
area to guarantee Olmsted Park experiences for current and future generations.
Description of Buffalo Rotary's project:When the citizens of Western New York and Buffalo exercise, visit, and play in the 1200-acres of pristine, landscaped parkland maintained by the BOPC, people interact with each other, smile and benefit socially and physically. This grant request involves a Buffalo Rotary “Welcome Location” at Delaware Park, which includes:

A three tiered drinking water fountain (child, adult and animal level)

Two plaqued park benchesplanting

Ten strong, healthy trees.

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