Collaboration with other Service Clubs

I've been making announcements of this for the last few weeks and now I want to describe it in writing. Our Club is part of the Suburban Ramsey Emergency Coalition, new partnership of Service Clubs and Community Foundations in the Mounds View and Roseville School Districts. The Coalition will respond to the COVID-19 pandemic locally by raising funds, sponsoring virtual events, donating goods and providing volunteers. Member of the Coalition include representatives of all four major international Service Clubs (Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis and Optimists), Roseville Area Community Foundation and Shoreview Community Foundation.

 

Our Coalition is working with the Suburban Ramsey Family Collaborative whose Director, Mary Sue Hansen will be our speaker on next Tuesday. Utilizing their resources as well as our members’ own knowledge of our communities makes us ideally suited to target emergency funds most effectively.   

The emergency food shelf demand has increased by 30 to 50%. We also know that when the eviction moratorium expires, housing will become a crisis for many. For those reasons, we have selected food insecurity and crisis housing instability as our initial priorities. Grants will be made to local nonprofit organizations that are most in need of funds at the time grant awards are made.

When you donate, the receipt for tax-deductible purposes will describe the donation to the “Suburban Ramsey COVID-19 Response Fund”, an emergency fund of Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation. You may donate through your IRA or other charitable account. There are no fees for administration by the Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation because this is under the affiliation agreement with the Shoreview Community Foundation.

 

Contributions to the Fund by credit card may be made on-line at https://www.givemn.org/story/Suburbanramseycovid19responsefund. Checks may be made payable to “Suburban Ramsey COVID-19 Response Fund” and mailed to Suburban Ramsey COVID-19 Response Fund, c/o Carol Mills, 5845 St. Albans Court, Shoreview, MN   55126. Questions and additional information may be directed to ShoreviewCommunityFoundation@gmail.com.

 

Immediate donations are encouraged so that we can donate to the urgent needs can be met now. We already have donations of nearly $20,000 as seed money and our goal is $150,000 to be raised during the coming months of emergency needs.

 

A donation of any amount will help. If you can invest $100, $250 or whatever you can afford in our community, the funds will used locally to do so much. If you give at GiveMN.org this week, your donation has the possibility of increasing by $250 to $2500 thanks to Bush Foundation and US Bank making hourly and daily awards.