14th Annual Crawfish Festival

The Rotary Club of FishHawk-Riverview is pleased to announce that we are now offering Corporate Sponsorships for our Annual Signature event. The 14th Annual Crawfish Festival will be held at Winthrop Town Center on Saturday, April 13, 2024 from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.

We are looking forward to making this the largest Crawfish Festival yet to be put on by the Rotary Club of Fishhawk-Riverview. 100% of the proceeds from this event will help our Rotary Club Foundation [a 501(c)(3) charity] to fund and support local, national, and international charities and activities. These charities and activities have included, but are not limited to, College Scholarships for local students, ECHO, YMCA-Campo, Camp Christina-YMCA, Sylvia Thomas Center, Brandon Outreach Clinic, Rotary Camp Florida, Head Start, Polio Plus, and many, many more.

We will have a live band. There will be lots of fun free games and various activities for the children. As usual, we will be offering a variety of Cajun style dishes, such as, Crawfish Dinners, Etouffee’, Gumbo, Jambalaya and hamburgers and hot dogs. Additionally, we are anticipating having over 50 vendors in attendance.

The attached pages outline multiple levels of sponsorship opportunities available for your business. We will work with your business to ensure you get the maximum recognition and exposure for your sponsorship dollars. The Title, Benefactor and Friend of Rotary partnership levels are requested to be paid in full by March 1, 2024. As for the Crawdaddy, Jambalaya, and Étouffée partnership levels, we are requesting those be paid in full prior to March 15, 2024. We request that all payments be made by a business check, bank cashier check or money order. Upon payment The Rotary Club of FishHawk-Riverview will issue a receipt for each payment received.

Since its inception, the Rotary Club of FishHawk-Riverview has been involved in numerous service projects and, most recently, a global project in Honduras providing water filtration and latrine systems for local communities in that country. We have also provided funds for College Scholarship Programs for local high-school students, Student Dictionary Distribution (over 8,500 dictionaries to elementary students since the program began), Rotary’s Camp Florida (camp for special needs children and adults in Brandon), Group Study Exchange, Reading Is Fundamental (more than 800 books donated to Head Start students and members volunteer to read to the students monthly), Project C.U.R.E (collection and distribution of medical supplies to developing nations), Polio Plus and The Rotary Foundation.

Rotary International is an organization of business and professional leaders, united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 165 countries worldwide, approximately 1.4 million Rotarians belong to over 33,000 Rotary Clubs.

Thank you for your consideration and support of The Rotary Club of FishHawk-Riverview and the good works of Rotary International throughout the world!