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If you are interested in submitting a request for a 2009 grant for your children’s charity or program, your agency must be a 501(c)3 organization, and you must submit a one-page executive summary of your mission and financials by March 31, 2009 for 2009 grant.  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 Debra Bonsignore, Charities Committee, P.O. Box 18514, Rochester, New York 14618.

View our application guidelines

58 Years of Giving and Caring

Rochester Press-Radio Club Children's Charities Fund Inc.

Checks for Charities 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 58th annual distribution:

A Meal & More, Inc.
Alternatives for Battered Women
Andrews Center
Baden Street Settlement
Bethany House
Boys & Girls Clubs of Rochester, Inc.
Cancer Action - Gilda's Club
CARES
Catholic Charities Community Services
Catholic Family Center
Center for Youth
Compeer
Crestwood Children's Center - Hillside
Cure - Childhood Cancer Association
Cystic Fibrosis Family Conection
Dream Factory of Rochester
East Rochester Community Resource Center
Edgerton Cild Care Services
Epilepsy Foundation
Equicenter
Fairport Challenger Baseball League
Foodlink Kids Café
Greater Rochester Spina Bifida
Greece Little League, Inc.
Heritage Christian Services
Hope Hall
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Lupus Foundation of America
Mary Cariola Children's Center
Mommies for Miracles
Multiple Sclerosis Youth & Family Bike Program - Rochester
Partners in Community Development
Pirate Toy Fund
Quad A for Kids
Rochester Childfirst Network
Rochester Hearing & Speech Center Books for Kids
Rochester Police Department's "Do the Right Thing" Program
Rochester Rehabilitation Center, Inc.
Rochester Rookies - The Center for Disability Rights
Safe Journey
School of the Holy Childhood
St. Joseph's Villa of Rochester
Stepping Stones Learning Center
VJ Stanley Literacy Fund
Webster Challenger Baseball
Wilson Commencement's Literacy for Life program
YMCA Camp Gorham