Each year our Visalia County Center Rotary President Elect selects another 501(c)(3) non profit charitable organization to focus fundraising for: This year President Elect Jim Sigler's
2025 Fund-A-Need recipient is:
The Kaweah Health Foundation
Tiny Feet, Big Steps
Our Pediatric Unit
Advances in pediatric medical treatments mean that children and their parents no longer need to travel far to access the latest therapies. Treatment is available right here at Kaweah Health. Our partnership with Valley Children’s Medical Group, ensures that children can receive treatment close to their families and siblings, reducing the added stress of travel for parents and relatives. When children see their family every day, they tend to feel more secure and less anxious, which significantly aids their health journey.
Surgical Recovery Unit
In addition, advances in medical care are resulting in longer and healthier lives. Conditions that perplexed doctors 30 years ago are now routine and treatable, particularly among the Baby Boomer generation. Orthopedic procedures have advanced significantly, reducing recovery times and increasing the number of planned surgeries. Procedures that once required multi-day stays can now be performed with a simple overnight stay or even on an outpatient basis.
We Need Your Help!
Please consider a donation
Kaweah Health is committed to meeting the needs of our growing community by renovating our Pediatric Unit and expanding our 3E Surgical Recovery Unit for short-term stays within the medical center. The Pediatric Department project will renovate eight rooms located on the third floor of the East Medical Center Wing. The renovated rooms are designed to accommodate advanced technology and include family seating/sleepers to enhance comfort for both children and their families.
To accommodate larger volumes of short stay surgeries, we will expand and remodel our SRU unit. This expansion will allow us to treat less complex surgeries more efficiently, without the restriction of bed space, ensuring we can provide timely care to more patients. When you’re in pain, you want treatment fast, and this addition will help achieve that.
Donation Levels:
$ 25 – Little Toes (Every small step makes a big difference!)
$ 50 – Stepping Stones (Helping pave the way to better care!)
$ 100 – Helping Hands & Happy Feet (Giving little ones a stronger future!)
$ 250 – Growing Strong (Nurturing health and healing!)
$ 500 – Big Steps, Bright Futures (Making a lasting impact on children's health!)
$1,000 – Trailblazer of Hope (Leading the way in life-changing care!)
Happiness Helps Healing
Kaweah Health Medical Center partners with Valley Children's Medical Group to ensure children can receive treatment close to home, reducing the added stress of travel for parents and relatives.
Past Recipients:
Organizations supported through Fund-A-Need
2024
Icehouse Theater
The Visalia Community Players is a California non-profit corporation dedicated to the development of community theatre in the greater Visalia area. The organization is entirely supported by ticket sales and tax-deductible contributions. Each year, The Players members put in thousands of hours of their own time to bring community theatre to Visalia. Every job needed to run the theatre — from acting to ticket sales, from building sets to maintaining the building — is performed by volunteers dedicated to community theatre. Membership in the organization is open to anyone who shares an interest in community theatre.
The basis of community theatre is that it is open to all. It is a place for community members to come together and perform for the entertainment of the community. To this end, we have actively encouraged new members in the organization, and have struggled to keep ticket prices low enough to be affordable for anyone, while meeting the substantial costs of operating the theatre.
Levels:
1: $25- Stage
2: $100- Costumes
3: $500- New Stage Lights
4: $2000- Improvements to Greenroom
2023
Success in Recovery
Success in Recovery, Inc is committed to excellence in providing an environment that creates safety, nurtures, educates and heals the lives of the youth we serve. This is achieved by embracing differences to more closely meet the needs of individual residents; demonstrating a positive, healthy culture; and providing the balance required for both.
Levels:
1: $25 New Backpack
2: $50 Bike Helmet
3: $100 Set of Linens
4: $500 Laptop
5: $2000 Set of Bedroom Furniture
2022
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity of Tulare/ Kings County brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. They have a vision of a world where everyone has a decent and affordable place to live. In addition to building homes from the ground up, Habitat volunteers work with homeowners to fix safety and accessibility issues in homes when owners cannot afford repairs. Please help us with a generous donation!
Levels
1. $25 provides a bucket of nails
2. $75 provides a new front door
3. $100 provides an energy efficient window
4. $500 fresh coat of exterior paint for a house
5. $1500 wheelchair accessible ramp
2021
Salt & Light
Salt + Light is currently providing relief to folks experiencing homelessness in Tulare County and those in temporary housing by providing food and selective essentials through our food truck outreach program in Tulare County. We are working to develop and build California’s first ever master-planned community that will provide dignified homes, jobs, services, and community for those experiencing chronic homelessness in Tulare County.
Your donation can help in so many ways!
Levels:
1. $30 provides 10 meals
2. $250 provides restrooms for 1 day
3. $500 provides 40 first aid kits or 50 fan water bottles
4. $1,000 provides masks and sanitizer for 650 people experiencing homelessness
5. $1250 feeds 200 people for one day (two meals- one hot and one grab and go) for a total of 400 meals
6. $2500 will feed 400 people for one day (two meals- one hot and one grab and go) for a total of 800 meals
2020
Visalia Rescue Mission
Help us fund multiple needs at Visalia Rescue Mission.
For $1500 you can provide one person a month of Life Change Academy; counseling, shelter, and food included.
For $500 you can provide one month of shelter.
For $130 you can feed one person for a month.
For $30 you can feed one person for a week at the Mission Kitchen.
During this time it is our most vulnerable who will be hit the hardest. Let's help keep our community sheltered, fed, and cared for. Help us surpass our goal of $7500 raised!
2019
Visalia Fire Department : Fire Safety House
Visalia Fire Department wants to buy a Fire Safety House to teach Visalia’s kids how to be safe around fire. The Inflatable Fire Safety House is a fire prevention, safety, and escape education prop.
It inflates to allow children in Kindergarten through 5th grade to walk through the house where firefighters and banners teach them fire safety lessons and how to escape from a burning house.
The three room, 14 x 29 x 17 foot house includes a kitchen, living room and bedroom. At the back of the house there is a crawl through tunnel that simulates smoke rising so kids can be instructed on how to escape from a house that is on fire.
Kids will learn:
How to be safe around stoves, fireplaces, and candles
How to test for hot doors
How to crawl through smoke filled rooms
How to exit a burning house through doors and windows
The Fire Safety House is very portable and will allow the Visalia Fire Department to conduct trainings year round in cafeterias, gyms, and on play grounds.
You can help raise the funds necessary by making a donation during the Fund-a-Need portion of tonight’s live auction. Please help keep Visalia’s kids safe.
Levels:
$5000
$2500
$1000
$500
$250
$100
$50
2018
Friends of Visalia Police K9
Raising Funds to Purchase three new K-9 officers for our Visalia Police Department. "What a great night last night turned out to be. Thank you to Visalia County Center Rotary for inviting us to be apart of your great event and partnering with us to purchase another Visalia PD K9. We raised enough for one dog and got us to half way to another! Thank you to everyone who was there and met our amazing K9 partners" one of their dogs Roto was named in our honor.
