Counting Down to Our 10th Anniversary: Get Ready for Exciting Updates!

The Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Club will host the 10th annual Taste of Evanston on September 15, 2024 from 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. at the Charles Gates Dawes House, 225 Greenwood Street, Evanston, IL.

Taste of Evanston has been hosted by the Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Club for the past eight years. The event offers delicious appetizers, entrees, and desserts from Evanston's most popular restaurants, local breweries and wine shops while raising funds to support two respected organizations: Connections for the Homeless and Reba Place Development Corporation. Funds also support ongoing philanthropic projects of the Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Club.

Of the total purchase price per admission ticket, we estimate a value of 50% being applied towards goods and services, so 50% per ticket is tax-deductible. The Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Club Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Raffle tickets do not apply.

2024 Principal Beneficiaries

Event proceeds will benefit two local nonprofits whose mission aligns with affordable housing. Funds raised will help Connections for the Homeless, a non profit organization that helps individuals and families that are homeless or threatened with homelessness to achieve stable housing AND Reba Place Development Corporation - developing safe, decent, and affordable housing that demonstrates how the diverse racial and cultural groups in Evanston can thrive together. Reba Place also sponsors and supports a range of affordable housing options-including modestly priced rental units, housing coops, and affordable condominiums.

2023 Restaurants, Wine Shops and Breweries

2023 SPONSORS

Bon Vivant

Epicure

 Taster

Townes Bierman Casas

Sara Furlan

Charlotta Koppanyi

Yves Lassere

Lesley Peters

Susan Prout

Vai Ravikumar

The Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Club meets Tuesdays from 7:15 to 8:30 am at the Rotary International building, 1560 Sherman Avenue, Evanston, Illinois 60201, for breakfast and a speaker. Membership is open to service oriented residents and workers of the area.  Guests are welcome to attend the meetings.  To learn more about the club, its schedule of breakfast programs, and its charitable and service programs, visit www.evlrc.org.

The Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Club serves the needs of our local community and our brothers and sisters around the world.  Here’s what we are currently doing:

Community Service Projects

•   Repairing homes of low income elderly, disabled and families with children

•   Providing professional dental care for those in need

•   Supporting healthy breakfast programs for elementary school students

•   Funding job training programs

•   Supporting mental health care for our neighbors in need

•    Funding addiction treatment for young adults

•   Helping to provide legal services and advocacy for disconnected youth

•   Delivering meals for the homebound in Evanston

International Service Projects

•   Supporting ongoing work to eradicate Polio worldwide

•  Partnering on a long-term project to build sustainable access to clean water and sanitation for every household in Haiti

•   Supporting victims of war in Ukraine with medical supplies, generators and emergency shelter

•   Funding safe sex education in rural communities in Kenya

•   Sponsoring in-country surgeon training and advanced cleft repair surgery at no cost to families in need in Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines

•  Funding the rescue and rehabilitation of trafficked children in Ghana

•  Collaborating with a women’s collective in Uganda to purchase farm equipment and provide hospital equipment to improve economic and health outcomes for the women and children.

•   Providing emergency assistance and support for Ukrainian refugees in Lithuania, Syrian refugees in Türkiye, as well as refugees and asylum-seekers at the Mexican border from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala

•   Supporting construction at a school for indigenous students in Guatemala

Please join us!