District 6380

Dear Rotary Members and Friends, In response to these extraordinary times, we must join together in extraordinary ways. The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor Board is mobilizing resources to focus on immediate and longer-term responses to the Covid 19 epidemic in our community. The International Humanitarian Projects Committee has been re-tasked as the newly-formed Disaster […]

HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Join Rotary, District 6380, in our goal of supplying 100,000 masks to first responders! You are doing what needs to be done by sheltering in place and observing social distancing.  You can do more with a donation to Rotary District 6380’s COVID-19 response.  Out initial goal is 100,000 masks, with the […]

At 9:00am on Saturday, April 4, John White Zoomed into the regular weekly meeting of the District 6400 Passport Club. He learned of it earlier in the week on the Bruce Goldsen’s FaceBook page and was attracted by the announcement that the guest speaker was to be Valarie Wafer. Valarie is a Rotarian in Collingwood, […]

This seminar outlines the criteria to apply for District Matching Grants and Global Grants. Any club wishing to apply for these grants must be represented by two or more members. There will be two identical sessions back to back from 10:00 to 2:00 on Saturday, February 29 at Concordia University. The seminars are being presented […]

Homelessness significantly impacts the learning ability of public school children. Surprisingly, we had 361 such students in Washtenaw County during the 2019-2020 school year, 129 of which were identified in Ann Arbor Public Schools. To help combat this problem, the Ypsilanti Rotary Club invites you and the “People of Action” in the Ann Arbor Rotary Club […]

I suspect all of us club members received the latest issue of the District 6380 Newsletter via email. In it, Peter Tanner, District Website Ambassador, notes that Facebook is the way to go nowadays and gave us instructions on how to “Like” our District’s Facebook page with official postings and “Join” the District’s Facebook group […]

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Rotary – Many of us are aware of, and maybe even involved in, the U-M’s major initiative in DEI but  did you know the Rotary International is also on board with this critical aspect of today’s most successful organizations? Here’s RI’s statement: “As a global network that strives to build […]

The Rotary Clubs of Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Windsor, Ontario, in collaboration with Wayne State University’s Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, held a two-day conference highlighting the root causes and potential solutions to violence in our communities. Entitled “Peace in the Streets,” the event took place October 25th at Wayne State University and October […]

President Rosemarie Rowney toured Ann Lee Hussey, polio survivor and advocate, around Ann Arbor on Tuesday, October 22nd. She was very interested in our Universal Access Playground in Gallup Park because she wants her club to build one in Maine. They also visited Rackham Auditorium at the University of Michigan, where the initial announcement was […]

Can you guess where Paulie the End Polio Now bear is?   Paulie’s here from England to remind you to help End Polio Now by coming to our World Polio Day event from 12-1:30 on Wednesday, October 23rd. Polio survivor Ann Lee Hussey and District Governor Sparky Leonard will be here to speak with us. […]