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SPEAKER
We raise money in order to
support our foundation and
our community whether at
home or in other countries.

2. One Small Club, One Huge Impact
www.Cherrycreekrotary.org

3. The Denver Cherry Creek Rotary
Foundation
2003 Sponsored a Temple Buell Rotary Scholar in
Australia
2004 Sponsored a Rotary Scholar in England
Have sent at least two students to RYLA each year and
two to Junior RYLA. In 2012 seven students went to
RYLA or Young RYLA. In total we have sent over 60
children to this leadership camp. A wonder-full
accomplishment. $18,000

4. The Denver Cherry Creek Rotary
Foundation
The Cherry Creek Rotary Foundation has been able to
give grants to worthy organizations and those
important groups that our members have wanted to
help. We have given more than $400,000 away in
grants.

5. The Denver Cherry Creek Rotary
Foundation :
One of the first grants by
CCRC was donating a
triple sink to the Women’s
Bean Project so they could
open their doors and help
scores of women return
from poverty to begin a
better life.

6. The Denver Cherry Creek Rotary
Foundation
Village Banking began in 1991 with a donation of
$9000. That first year the money tripled to $27,000
and each year it multiplied again and again. During
the last 21 years growing to over $1,000,000.
Managed by FINCA all these years.
This also began the Dental Missions that followed
several of the Micro banking communities we served.

7. The Denver Cherry Creek Rotary
Foundation
Urban Peak Shelter for
teenage runaways. For
several years we gave some
of our early grants to this
organization that has been
in Denver for over 15 years.
We also cooked and served
several meals to the
teenagers.
.

8. Open Heart Surgery on 3 Children
The Gift of Life, open heart surgery for children
from the Dominican Republic and Chile. Spear headed
by Jim Mayhew and Gary Williams

9. The Denver Cherry Creek Rotary
Foundation
The building of a lookout for handicapped people in the
mountains at Wilderness on Wheels on Guanella Pass
1994-95 In honor of Ruby Mayhew

10. The Denver Cherry Creek Rotary
Foundation
We provided a grant for the building of a
prenatal clinic in Ecuador.
This was followed by another Dental Mission.

11. Dental Missions
September 1991 was our 1st Dental Mission to Guatemala: 19 total
missions to 10 different Latin American countries.
Dental Missions: Continuing for 19 years
Guatemala (3 trips) the Cherry Creek Dental
Costa Rica (2 trips)
Dominican Republic (2 trips) Mission has travelled to
Peru (1 trip) third world countries
Honduras (2 trips)
Ecuador (3 trips)
providing over
Mexico (1 trip) $2,500,000 in free
Argentina (2 trips) dental services to
Chile (2 trips)
Panama (1 trip) children.

12. Dental Mission
Argentina

13. Climbing Wall at Greenlee Elementary School.
Here they learn while they climb.
The Denver Cherry Creek Rotary
Foundation

14. Rotarians at work painting a house for the
elderly. Fellowship!!!

15. Bicycles Thailand
The Denver Cherry Creek Rotary Foundation

16. Over 1 billion dollars given by Rotarians and the Gates
Foundation to end Polio. Since 1985 there has been a 97%
reduction in polio throughout the world.

17. Sailors on USS Roosevelt
USS Mesa Verde
Book sent to Sailors
Sailors are videotaped
reading the book
Book and videotape are
then sent to their
children stateside

18. Computer Labs Zaruma
Ecuador
The Denver Cherry Creek Rotary Foundation

19. Shelter Box
Emergency Shelters
sent all over the world
$5000

20.  The Club is now in its
17th year of the Cherry
Creek Rotary Open Golf
Tournament for the
benefit of the Cherry
Creek Rotary Foundation.
Last year $26,000 was
raised for the Clubs
foundation, which is the
source of the Clubs
grants. Totals raised
over $234,000
Our number one Jeff Maen has run the
fundraiser open for 14 years.

21. It’s a fun
day and
we raise
money
too.

22. Cherry Creek Rotary Open 16 Years
 Arrowhead Golf Club w
Dick Hayes, Jim Hoops
and Bob James

23. Bear Dance Golf Club Cherry Creek
Rotary Open
 A beautiful place to play
golf in the hills of
Larkspur, Co. It always
fun and the food is great

24. Grants Given 2002-06 $$$$
 Gift of Life
 Glendale Resource Center
 Paint a thons
 Airline tickets for travel of children with health issues
 Gilliam School for GED’s and publication of poetry books
 Polio eradication RI
 Corona Street Residence for handicapped
 RYLA
 Urban Peak Shelter
 Young RYLA
 Dental Missions
 The Cheley Burn Camp
 Education Media Center

25. Grants given 2002-06 continued
 Rotavision (supplies for eye surgery).
 Patterson Dental (purchase of dental equipment for dental missions.
 Mizel Museum.
 Pencils for peace.
 Africa today (scholarship).
 Denver Kids
 Donations to the Ronald McDonald House.
 Denver Architectural forum for high school students.
 Lend a Hand and Pencils for peace.
 Sarah Werner DDS started a project with the Aircraft Carrier USS Theodore
Roosevelt to video service men reading books to be sent home to their children
 International Rotary Foundation
 Amigos Ministries, Inc.
 Greenlee School (climbing wall)
 Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center
 Weinberg Food Pantry

26. 2002
thru
2006
Airplane Tickets Polio Eradication
Cheley Burn
Camp $10,000
International Dental Missions
w/Dr. Scott Johnson DDS
Corona St. Residence
serving lunches and
garden furniture

27. Climbing Wall at Greenlee
Elementary School
Weinberg Food Bank USS Roosevelt sending
w/ Jewish Family Services Grants given books recorded by
2002 thru 2006 sailors then sent home
to there kids on a DVD

28.  Rebuilding Together grant $3000  Peace Jam $400
 Greenlee School K1-8 donating  Matamoros Club in Mexico –
library books and grant for the equipment for visually
building of a climbing wall for the impaired $1500
student to use in the gymnasium  Shelter Box $900
$5000  Adelante Foundation – micro
loans in Honduras (village
Rotary International Matching

banking) $5000
Grants $7000
 Gates Camp Boys and Girls
 Cheley Burn Camp $2000 club $2000
 Corona Street Residence serving  Steel Street Elementary School
meals $500 $1500
 Rotary Youth Leadership Award  Joshua Station (family
camp for four students $1500 temporary shelter) - $1500
Patty Kelly (surgical
Dental Mission $8000

instruments to Africa) - $2000
 HIV Zimbabwe – Matching grant
with Denver Mile High Rotary $500
 Jewish Family Services $3000

29. Grants
in
2007
Shelter Box
Boys
and
Girls
Club

30.  Jim Mayhew Memorial - $5000  Greenlee Elementary K-8 - $5000
 Regis University (international  District 4 Way Test Committee -
literacy) - $5000 $500
 Denver Architectural Foundation  Cheley Children's Hospital Burn
- $900 Camp - $2000
 Computer Lab in Ecuador -  Jewish Family Services - $2500
$5000  U.S.S. Mesa Verde (literacy) -
 Camp Colorado (youth diabetes $500
camp) - $1100  Friendship Bridge in Guatemala -
 Alta Vista Autism Center - $1000 $1000
 RYLA - $825
 Rotary Youth Study Exchange -
$1500

31. Grants in 2008
International Literacy
In Guatemala
Computer Lab In Ecuador
U.S.S. Mesa Verde (literacy)
Cheley
Bought, delivered and Burn
installed storage shed Camp
to Alta Vista Autism
School in Denver

32.  Al Imtiaz Academy  Interact Club GW $116
$1000  Joshua Station $1193
 The Adoption Exchange  Literacy Program – US
$6799 Navy $828
 Cheley Burn Camp $2000  RI Foundation Matching
 Denver Cherry Creek Funds $1940
Dental Mission $4214  Rotary Youth Leadership
 East High School Angel Awards $1500
Foundation $2000  East High School
 Gates Boys & Girls Camp Basketball “With Love
$2000 Inc.” $2000
 Glendale YMCA $500  Rotary Youth Exchange
 Greenlee K1-8 Books Program $2245
$123

33. Al Imtiaz Academy Literacy Program – US
Navy
The Glendale YMCA
Literacy after school
Program at Greenlee
Elementary School

34.  The Denver Cherry
Cheley Burn Camp $2000 Creek Rotary Club
Denver Cherry Creek Dental sponsored the Rotary
Club of Five Points
Mission $7276
Five Points Rotary Club $823
Haiti-Shelter Boxes $4515 with the help of Jeff
Polio Eradication $3100 Maen, Joel
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards
$1500
Russman, James
Washington Park Cares $1500 Hoops and Peter
Kenya Water Project $1000 McMillan. Receiving
Bonfils Blood Center Lowry- Honorary
Landscaping Project $1000
Memberships

35. DCCRC chartered the Rotary
Club of Five points in 2010
Shelter boxes for
Haiti
Burn Camp Washington Park Cares
A nonprofit membership
organization that empowers adults
in South Central Denver to live in
their homes as they age and
promotes an intergenerational
community of neighbors helping
neighbors
Landscaping
project
For Bonfils Blood
Center

36.  9 Health Fair $1,000  Outbound Scholars
 A Dinner of Unconditional $ 502.90
Love $500 Paint-a-thon $ 386.80
 Autism Society of CO  RYLA $2,000
$1,000  Smiley Elementary Grant
 Cheley Burn Camp $2,000 $3,000
 East High Angel  Street Kidz $5,000
Foundation $2,000  Cherry Creek Rotary
 Fort Lewis – EWB $3,000 Dental Mission $8,000
 Greenlee Book Program
 $781.89
 Open Door Youth Gang
 $ 500

37. Engineers Without Borders

38. Rotarians at
work
$3000
literacy
grant for
reading
Denver Cherry Creek Rotary Dental
Mission

39.  9 Health Fair $1500
 BrainWise $500
 Bush Italy $600
 Dental Mission $4000
 Nook Program $7000
 Greenlee Book Program $600
 RYLA $3600
 Street Kidz $3000

40. Member
visiting
Rotary Greenlee Elementary
Clubs in School building the
Italy library for the school
with books donated
Denver Cherry Creek by the CCRC weekly
Rotary Dental Mission go
to South America
Project Greer Street Formally
Globeville
Recreation
Center for
Youth

41. We have donated over 100
Nooks to six schools and have
helped students on average
raise reading levels two years.
The Ereader grant from the
CCRC is $6800. The Literacy
committee of CCRC is going
into its third year. It is in
partnership with Barnes &
Noble. Three other Rotary
Clubs Boulder, Conifer and
Aurora Gateway have also
raised money for this project.

42.  Several years after Scott received his award, Robert Mintz
received the same award for his role as co-founder of the
dental mission and for his commitment to continue the
mission as an annual hands on club funded service project.
It should be noted that very few clubs have been able to
consistently maintain projects of this magnitude for such a
long period of time. Team member Dr. Edward Blender was
also awarded the Service above Self award in recognition of
his contribution to numerous missions. With three service
above self awardees as team members, this program started
by DCCR has achieved the highest level of global recognition
while delivering millions of dollars of free dental care to
more than 4500 of the poorest of the poor.

43. Scott Johnson DDS received
this award from Rotary
International for starting
the Dental Mission as part
of the Cherry Creek
Rotary Club. Scott
started this project with
Robert Mintz and Tom
Marshall DDS
Scott Johnson DDS

44.  Robert Mintz
received this award
for starting the
Dental Mission and
later began working
for RI where he also
started the rebate
miles for Rotary’s
credit cards.
Robert Mintz

45. District 5450 Rotarian
of the Year
Jim Hoops was named Rotary District 5450 Rotarian of the Year for
2009-10. He was recognized for his service and devotion to thousands of
kids, improving and building their lives as a middle and high school
teacher for 38 years. He has served as President of Rocky Mountain
RYLA and was an original founder and counselor for YRYLA. He
spearheaded the sponsoring of Five Points Cultural District in 2009.
Other areas of involvement include: Greenlee K-8 School in Denver;
Family Quest to coach single parent families and organize a leadership
and character development program at Cherry Creek High School; A two
year commitment as a writing coach with College Summit; Helped to
develop mentoring programs at East High and Smiley Middle Schools;
Tutors students at Denver School of Science and Technology; Obtains
guest speakers for the AVID classes at EHS. We are very proud to have
Jim Hoops as a member and past president of our club.

46. District 5450 Rotarian of the Year
1997
 Jim Mayhew : Prior to Rotary Jim started wheel
chair curbs in Colorado. Helped build the lookout on
Wilderness on Wheels 1994-95 in honor of his
wife Ruby. Jim also started the Gift of Life to do
open heart surgery on young children from other
countries. We supported one surgery at Children’s
Hospital and 2 at Presbyterian/St. Luke's
Medical Center

47. Rotary International
1.2 Million Members
32,0000 Clubs World
Wide
Oldest U.S. Service
Organization—est. 1905
Over US$ 1 Billion for
Polio Eradication
www.rotary.org

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Cherry Creek Rotary Foundation
c/o Dr. Jeffrey Maen DC
1325 S. Colorado Blvd. #022
Denver, Co 80222
303-759-8333
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