The Rotary Club of Glendale (Noon) held a luncheon at the Glendale Police Dept. community room where it distributed $50,000 to 12 different organizations with programs for at-risk youth. The funds were raised through the Rotary’s Cars for Cops & Kids car show.

Cars for Cops and Kids has seen significant growth year-over-year, largely due to the support of donors and the Glendale community as a whole.

In 2017 the project generated approximately $9,700; in 2022, the project generated just over $60,000. Since its inception, the Cars for Cops & Kids project has raised approximately $210,000, with all proceeds going to at risk youth causes.

Donors to this year’s project include:

• Pacific BMW, David Ho, Sevak Adamyan and Alicia Cruz
• Glendale Adventist Health, Glendale Adventist
• Sam and Grace Carvajal, a gold level sponsor since the inception of the project
• Larry Tyson

Additional people and organizations that gave to the annual Cars for Cops & Kids event include Dad’s Club of Verdugo Woodlands Elementary School, Karlo Nazarian (overseeing the food, drinks and beer garden at the event), 3B Auto Brokers and Narbeh Zohrabi.

Recipients of gifts included the GUSD Healthy Families, Glendale Parks & Recreation,

Glendale Police Officers Association, Glendale Police Foundation, Glendale Youth Alliance,

Glendale Fire Department, YMCA-Youth and Government Program, CV High School Prom Plus, Character and Ethics Projects Youth Conference, Boys Scouts of America, Campbell Center,

Guiding our Youth STRTP and For the Future STRTP.

To see more photos and to learn more, visit https://www.glendalerotary.org/cars-for-cops-2022-police-luncheon.