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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.
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 |