Members of the Batavia Mothers’ Club work together to raise funds for local charities. We host several fundraisers throughout the year then, in the spring, we distribute all the funds to local charity and school projects that have applied for funds. The deadline for philanthropic applications is March 15th each year.
The 2024 deadline for disbursement application submissions has passed. Thank you to all the teachers and organizations that sent in applications! We are reviewing them and will make announcements after our May General Meeting.
Educational Disbursement Request or Organizational Disbursement Request
This year Batavia Mothers’ Club was able to donate $30,544.97 to local nonprofits and Batavia schools! Attached is a list of each grant from our 2024-2025 BMC year. There are so many amazing projects we are happy to support and meet our mission to improve the lives of local kids and families. Rotolo LRC requested funding for accessible literary materials (audiobooks and books in Spanish) for their school-wide reading program so all students can participate. The Batavia Interfaith Food Pantry and Clothes Closet requested $1,000 for diapers and wipes for their clients. Chip In Batavia will receive $1,000 towards daycare scholarships. $500 will go to Fox Valley Christian Church’s Healing Hunger program which provides meals to the families of students in need. And there are so many more organizations we were able to support financially! We are fortunate to live in a community with so many organizations that support our neighbors and all the children in our area.
A complete list of disbursements can be found here :
Making personal donations is a BMCF tradition. Several times throughout the BMCF year, supplies and/or funds are collected for a specific local charity. Examples of past donations include personal care items and clothing for local shelters, school supplies for children in need, Halloween costumes and toys for the holidays for children in need, and non-perishable food for for the food pantry or our local micropantry.
Every year, we are pleased to help Batavia Public Schools with a percentage of our funds. In the past, we partially funded the replacement of broken playground structures, as well as many classroom needs and improvements. Our disbursement applications designate whether the application is for education.
BMCF members pay special attention to those in need during the cold winter months and the holiday season. We operate drives for winter coats, Thanksgiving meals, and holiday gift sponsorship for families. These efforts are generally in cooperation with local charities such as the Batavia Interfaith Clothes Closet and Food Pantry, and the Batavia United Way. Donations of our time are also provided to keep successful programs going such as the Access Toy Drive.
Our Annual Coat & Winter Outerwear Drive collects hundreds of winter necessities each fall that are donated to the Batavia Clothes Closet and Chip In Batavia! Check out our upcoming events page for dates and locations of future coat drives.
Last year, gifts for 15 Batavia children and their families, were purchased, sorted and delivered to United Way as a part of BMCF’s mission. A huge thank you to ALL of you who support our events so that we, in turn, can support those in need in our community.
