The Club Board and the related Sanibel-Captiva Rotary Trust regularly review and evaluate requests for donations. During the year, money raised by the Club is donated to a number of worthy Charities.
Over the last five years (2006-2011), the Club has donated almost $200,000 to various charities. The recipients have included:
- Haiti Clean water project
- Tanzania clean water project
- The Sanibel School
- College Scholarships to UF and FGCU
- Blessings in a Backpack
- El Hogar Orphanage Honduras
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation
- Shelterbox Disaster Relief Org.
- Sanibel Fire & Rescue District
- The Heights Foundation
- Pine Manor Improvement Assoc.
- PolioPlus. Rotary’s international effort to eradicate Polio
- F.I.S.H. of Sanibel
- Rotary Dictionary Project-3rd Grade
- Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge
- Barbara’s Friends – Kids with Cancer
- Hope Hospice
- Sanibel Library Foundation
- The Rotary Foundation