Longboat Key Rotary Club receives grant for food pantry

Michael Saunders & Co.'s MSC Foundation awarded a $2,000 grant to the Rotary Club of Longboat Key July 15. Forty-nine charitable organizations received awards to use in projects that provide shelter, sustenance, education and a path to self-sufficiency in communities served by the firm's real estate offices.

Rotary Club members Bob and Teresa Simmons are the coordinators of the club’s Tuttle Elementary Nutrition program at Tuttle Elementary School in Sarasota.

The program is a biweekly food pantry run by the Rotary Club in partnership with All Faiths Food Bank. Seventy to 100 families pick up meat, fresh produce, nonperishable foods and diary products at the pantry.

From January through May, the Rotary Club supplied 13,556 pounds of food and 11,296 meals to needy Sarasota families.

Michael Saunders real estate agent Maureen Horn nominated the Rotary Club for this grant.

Contact Kurt Schultheis at [email protected].