Project Description Country: USA Location: Meridian, ID Total Budget: $3,500 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: General Summary: This grant would be used to work with the Meridian Tomilson YMCA to implement a Everyday Leadership program at a Title 1 school in the Ada West School District. This will be a collaborative effort between the Rotary Club of Meridian and YMCA to coordinate with the Ada West School to identify and implement this program in a Title 1 school. The grant would be used provide schoolteachers and YMCA instructor to provide the classes, community service projects, transportation costs, and supplies (including volunteer events, snacks, celebrations material, etc.). Rotarians will work with YMCA leadership and Ada West to identify a title 1 school to champion the program. Rotarians will play a central role in organizing, facilitating, and funding the project. During the school year Rotarians will meet with the students to discuss what they are learning and talk to them about what they are learning and how they will use it in the future. Rotarians may also be involved/assist with transportation if needed. We had this program shown to us at one our lunch meetings this past year. We were impressed by the integration of the YMCA and school district and the impact the program has on the students. We look forward to seeing the results in our community. Budget: Instructor Costs (Wages, FICA, Overhead Costs): $3164.42 Milage and Transportation: $67.66 Supplies (volunteer events, celebration materials,snacks): $231.82 Project Contact Person District: 5400 Rotary Club of: Meridian Primary Contact: Bob Mahler Email: mahler.robert@gmail.com Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2024-25 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Meridian (5400) 22-May-24 $1,750 $1,750 $3,500 Total $1,750 $1,750 $3,500

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [17-Apr-25] Cashed check for proof of payment [22-May-24] Everyday Leadership Flyer [27-Mar-25] Fall Invoice [27-Mar-25] Final Report [28-Mar-25] Final Report revise 3-28-2025 [17-Apr-25] Proof of Payment [27-Mar-25] Spring Invoice

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History Log Entries 22-May-24 by David Bishop System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 22-May-24 by David Bishop System Entry: Project signed by David Bishop. 22-May-24 by Peter Willits System Entry: Project signed by Peter Willits. 12-Jul-24 by Marianne Barker The Rotary Foundation approved the District 5400 block grant on July 11, 2024. We’ll send your grant award as soon as the block grant is funded by TRF. You can safely incur costs now. If you have questions or need help with reporting, please contact Marianne Barker at (208) 308-5617. 12-Jul-24 by Marianne Barker System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 21-Jul-24 by Marianne Barker System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 26-Oct-24 by David Bishop 10-26-2024: David Bishop attended the Thrive Event at the Tomilson YMCA and was able to connect with Y leadership on Thrive Program as well as the Everyday Leadership Program 17-Feb-25 by David Bishop 2/17/2025 update: this is a continuing project with the YMCA and Ada West School district that will complete at the end of the end of the school year in June 2025. Club members are scheduled to visit the school on 2/26/2025. 26-Feb-25 by David Bishop 2/26- Visited the YMCA/Ustick School Everyday Leadership Program. Five Rotarians were present from the club. Students explained their project and took questions. They will be making a formal ask for additional support and participation. Met with the project coordinator to learn more about how Rotary can make this project sustainable. 27-Mar-25 by David Bishop 3/27/2025-Recieved the final invoicing for the Everyday Leadership Program with YMCA and Ustick School. Gerry Matteson was emailed to make the final payment so we can close out the project. 27-Mar-25 by David Bishop Note from YMCA to our Club: I am Andrew Fletcher, our Executive Director, and I hope we get the chance to meet each other. I know the principal (Heidi) and Kristin have loved having the Everyday Leadership program at Ustick Elementary. I hope we can continue this success and grow it. Right now we have 13 different schools and see such an amazing impact these young leaders are making. I am privileged with the opportunity to go to Twin Falls on May 3rd and share with other rotaries the success we have had and how we help to instill great leadership in our youth. We are also looking at embedding the 4-way test into more activities. Andrew Fletcher 27-Mar-25 by David Bishop 11/11/2024: Sam Bellis from the Everyday Leadership program at the YMCA and Ustick School attend our club meeting to give an update on the project we support for the 2024/2025 school year. 27-Mar-25 by Christine Huot Thank you for uploading documents for this project. The two invoices do not show any record of payment for these invoices. Also on the final report you show an expenditure of $3500 but one invoice is for $1875. Please make changes to the final report to reflect this. It sounds like you had a very successful project. Congratulations. I have reverted it to paid so you are able to make these changes. 27-Mar-25 by David Bishop System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 27-Mar-25 by Christine Huot System Entry: Project reverted to "Paid". 28-Mar-25 by David Bishop Spring invoice was raised to $1875 due to increased costs in the program. Janice was notified of the change. Club will cover the difference in the budget of $125. 28-Mar-25 by Christine Huot Good morning, Thank you for uploading the revised final report. That's great, however, I still need proof of payment, A copy of the check (with account numbers crossed out) would work perfectly. A letter from the recipients acknowledging payment would also work. I will then be able to close out this grant. 28-Mar-25 by David Bishop System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 4-Apr-25 by Christine Huot System Entry: Project reverted to "Paid". 17-Apr-25 by David Bishop Added proof of payment pdf after talking to Christing Hewit. 17-Apr-25 by Christine Huot Thank you for uploading the final documents. This grant is now complete and is considered closed. 17-Apr-25 by David Bishop System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 17-Apr-25 by Christine Huot System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.