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Programs:
Saving Amache: The Community Effort to Preserve a Bitter History
This Wednesday July 17, KUNC Reporter/Host Emma VandenEinde will highlight her reporting on the efforts to save the historical Amache Japanese-American Interment camp. According to the National Park Service, “The smallest incarceration site by population—the Granada Relocation Center” (known by incarcerees as Camp Amache), “was in Colorado, only 15 miles west of the Kansas border and less than 2 miles from the town of Granada. Built to accommodate up to 8,000 people, Amache housed 7,318 incarcerees at its peak in 1943, making it the 10th largest city in Colorado at that time. During its three years of operation, 10,331 incarcerees passed through Amache.” Amache was one of 10 Internment Camps across the west. Emma VandenEinde is a reporter and host for KUNC and was formerly a reporter for the Mountain West News Bureau, a regional reporting collaboration between 14 different NPR-affiliate stations across the West. Her work has been featured on popular NPR programs such as Here and Now, Science Friday, The World and more. READ MORE...
Last week our guest speaker was James Hamilton, Director of Development and Philanthropic Services at the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado. His talk was personalized for our club, Planned Giving and the Rotary Club of Fort Collins: The Why and the How. He was introduced by past president Randy. Randy referenced John Roberts and his sophisticated legacy gifts to the World Museum as examples of how to give. He also referenced RCFC legacy opportunities and the various donor levels. James started by listing the multiple ways the Community Foundation supports nonprofits – holding and investing agency funds, matching grants, loan programs, news flashes and providing a “full service“ planned giving office. Non-cash gifts are more important than cash and may include assets (e.g. stocks, real estate), split-income gifts (e.g. annuities, charitable remainder trusts), estate gifts, beneficiary designations, and bequests. Planned giving often doesn’t get done for a variety of reasons (talking about wealth is sensitive, death even more so, immediate cash gifts are usually given priority, and the impression that “it’s complex”). READ MORE...
Fall Cornhole League signups are officially open. Please call, text, or email Riley Spight if you would like to play on one of the Rotary cornhole teams and he will work to get you signed up and on the team. All skill levels are welcome, and we want to have multiple teams again this year. READ MORE...
Join us for fellowship from 5-7 PM on July 31st at Avogadro's Restaurant! The restaurant features a full bar, great food, and live music. There will be a surprise drawing! Click here to sign up now!
