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If you are interested in submitting a request for a 2010 grant for your children’s charity or program, your agency must be a 501(c)3 organization. Our grants are always based on our ability to fundraise the grant money at our annual Day of Champions Dinner.
Please direct your request to The Charities Committee, P.O. Box 18514, Rochester, New York 14618.
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60 Years of Giving and Caring
Rochester Press-Radio Club Children's Charities Fund Inc.
In 1949, The Press-Radio Club was formed by 12 local print and radio sports
reporters, and its first money-raising effort was a basketball game between
local press and radio personalities between halves of a Rochester Royals
National Basketball Association game.
The following year, a capacity crowd was at the first fund-raising dinner at the old Seneca Hotel on South Clinton Avenue near East Main Street. The club's first celebrity dinner honored the all-time greats of the Rochester Red Wings. "But you could only do that once," Wagner said. So the club tied in with the old Hickok Manufacturing Co. and staged a dinner where the national professional athlete of the year received the jewel-studded Hickok Belt.
The Rochester Press-Radio Club Charity Fund was incorporated in 1971 as a 501©3 corporation. Since the Club's inception in 1950, more than a million dollars has been paid out.
The membership of the Rochester Press-Radio Club is more than just sportswriters,
television sportscasters and radio personalities. Today's membership is
a wide cross-section of the Rochester community brought together by a
common interest in sports and fundraising for local charities associated
with children.
The Club is always looking to add new members, and to contribute to children's charities. To propose a worthy charity or for a membership application, write to: The Rochester Press-Radio Club, P.O. Box 18514, Rochester, NY 14618!
The list below includes our 60th annual distribution:
| Alternatives for Battered Women Andrews Center Boys & Girls Clubs of Rochester, Inc. Camp Abilities Cancer Action - Gilda's Club Kid's Cancer Camp/Memory of Jerry Flynn Catholic Charities Community Services/Wagner-Welch Kid's Fund Webster Challenger Baseball Challenger Baseball World Series CURE - Childhood Cancer Association Edgerton Child Care Services Equicenter Fairport Challenger Baseball First Tee Kid's Program Flynn, Jerry Scholarship Funke, Rich Jr. Scholarship Genesee Waterways Greece Challenger Baseball Heritage Christian Services Hope Hall Mary Cariola Children's Center Rochester Hearing & Speech Center Children's Reading Program Rochester Police Department's "Do the Right Thing" Program School of the Holy Childhood Stepping Stones Learning Center VJ Stanley Literacy Fund Reading Program |