ROYAL OAK CIVIC FOUNDATION (ROCF)

2022 Shop with a Hero

On December 15, 2022, Royal Oak Meijer, the Royal Oak Civic Foundation (ROCF), local police and fire officers, American Legion members, and the Royal Oak Schools teamed up again to help 54 local families through the 2022 'Shop with a Hero' event. 
Meijer, which has sponsored this event for the past 21 years, again combined donations with the ROCF and they were able to give each family a $200 gift card to shop for the holidays. The Heros helped the local children do their shopping. Santa, Mrs. Claus, and Buddy the Elf offered fun and laughter to the group. And a merry band of volunteers from the local schools, Royal Oak Youth Assistance, Royal Oak city staff, and the Royal Oak Civic Foundation wrapped the gifts for the children. 

A huge Thank You to Meijer and all of the volunteers! Royal Oak Rocks!!

To help support future programming like this, please make a donation to the ROCF.  Click here for the link.

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WHAT WE'RE DOING: 


  1. Setting up customer relationship management (CRM) software for more robust communications. This will support the combined efforts of the Royal oak Civic Foundation and the city entities that it supports.
  2. Hosting a year-end fundraising effort for local city entities

WHAT WE'VE DONE:

Grant award: New keyboard at the M/M Senior Community Center-April 2022 

Thank You, Royal Oak! Your generous unrestricted donations allowed the trustees' to approve a grant request for a new keyboard for the Mahany/Meininger Senior Center. The keyboard will be used for events and for music classes.

Fight Local Hunger Crowd-funding Campaign-Spring 2021

The Royal Oak Civic Foundation partnered with three local food pantry charities to raise money for food insecurity in our community.  The foundation committed match funding of up to $2,500 for each of the charities.  The campaign realized more than $20,000 to fight hunger in our community.!!


Shop with a Hero event - Dec. 7, 2021

The Royal Oak Civic Foundation (ROCF) and Meijer are teaming-up to provide more than 50 local families access to the Shop with a Hero event. Meijer, which has sponsored it for the past 20 years, will contribute $100 per family.  The ROCF will match Meijer's funds up to $6,000 doubling the money for each family.

2022 Grant Award: Senior Center

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2021 Fight Local Hunger Campaign

Thank You Royal Oak

2021 Shop with a Hero in Partnership with Meijer.

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How You Can Help!!

Over the next year, we hope to support community tree planting to increase the city's canopy for multiple sustainability benefits and to offer small grants to the ROCF-supported city groups so they can thrive, not just survive.

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Gratitude for our New, Large Donations:


The Royal Oak Civic Foundation was the recipient of $6,500 from the Arts, Beats, and Eats Foundation's 2021 donations pool.



The Royal Oak Civic Foundation was the recipient of $ 10,000 from the Royal Oak Police Department's 2021 Annual Golf Outing proceeds.

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