Charitable giving.

Food for thought denver is a project started by two rotarians from arvada sunrise rotary club. It provides 12,000 "power sacks" per month to students at 18 denver public schools to nourish the students and their families. They contain food to feed a family of four over the weekend. Each friday during the school year 130 volunteers, starting at 6:30 a. M. , pack the individual power sacks. the arvada sunrise rotary club foundation supports projects of school communities offering projects that empower (scope). The foundation has collected and repaired books and paid for the shipment of those books and others collected by scope to kenya for libraries there. It has also funded clean water projects in the same area. An arvada sunrise rotary club rotarian travels there several times a year to oversee the projects. the arvada sunrise rotary club foundation sponsors speakup annually. This is a speech competition for high school seniors who need to apply and go through an interview process. Those who are selected give six to eight minute speeches on the rotary theme of the year and the rotarian four way test. Participants receive scholarships for college.