With 100 years of community service under its belt, the Hopkinsville Rotary Club has launched a charitable endowment.
The Hopkinsville Rotary Foundation will be overseen by Hilliard Lyons Trust and serve as a
complement to the club’s Rotary Scholars Program. The program gives high school students who graduated from a high school in Christian County the opportunity to attend Hopkinsville Community College tuition-free for two years. That program will soon be entirely endowed, which will allow it to remain and thrive while self-financing. Over 700 students have taken advantage of the program since 2012.
The newly-formed Hopkinsville Rotary Foundation will focus on youth and education, empowering local vision with meaningful grants that will address the community’s diverse, evolving needs.
The Hopkinsville Rotary Auction, which is the largest fundraising event in all of Rotary International, is one of the primary annual funding sources of the Rotary Scholars Program. Support of the auction will now shift to building the groundwork for the Hopkinsville Rotary Foundation.
Also, Cody Noffsinger, the 71st Auction Chair, announced earlier this week that the Hopkinsville Rotary Club will match the first $250,000 pledged to the Auction’s Hour Club. The hour club asks donors to give gifts in increments of $179, the current cost of one credit hour at Hopkinsville Community College.
In September 2019, the Hopkinsville Rotary Club gave a $200,000 donation to the Hopkinsville-Christian County Boys and Girls Club to provide half the cost of building a new kitchen and cafeteria on their campus. That addition, which anticipates a July 2021 opening, will provide more space and enhance the programming for over 140 local kids.
The Hopkinsville Rotary Club will announce more details during their Tuesday afternoon, January 12 meeting on the 71st annual auction’s theme.
