Service Projects

If you want to learn one of the ways the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor impacts our community, we invite you to read the incredible story of the VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) Clinic’s success.  Despite COVID and many changes to the tax code, 535 returns were filed with over $ 1.3 million of refunds […]

Your annual Community Service Assessment (CSA) donation in December allows our club to do great things in the community. Student Advocacy Center Executive Director Peri Stone-Palmquist sent this note of thanks for our Community Allocations Grant: This past year was particularly challenging for youth with disabilities — but can you imagine navigating all of this […]

Help unemployed and under employed Veterans. Zingerman’s is donating ALL sales proceeds to Hire MI Vet from their sales July 30, 2021, 9:00 am –10:00 pm. Shop in-person at the Zingerman’s Mail Order Warehouse Shop at 710 Phoenix Drive in Ann Arbor on July 30th!  All proceeds from that day’s sales in the Warehouse Shop will […]

To all Tutors and Potential Tutors: As Jim Egerdahl is taking a much needed break competitive sailing in Lake Superior- I have offered to help out- I believe all of us understand the need for tutors this coming school year has never been greater- this pandemic has knocked our kids further behind. Helping our kids […]

Past President Ashish Sarkar, along with our club and District 6380, were featured in the July issue of the Rotary Magazine for the incredible work on the Pandemic Relief for Detroit Global Grant that he spearheaded last year. Check it out on page 14 under “Friends in Need.”

“Infections, deaths and breakdowns that began in big cities a few weeks ago are rapidly advancing into rural areas, unleashing deep fear in places with little medical safety net.” NYT May 11, 2021 Today in India the coronavirus crisis is engulfing the healthcare system. The country has been disastrously overwhelmed and on Tuesday India was […]

Fourteen Rotary Club of Ann Arbor road waste warriors were once again smiled upon by the Highway Gods with a sun-kissed sky on Saturday, April 17, 2021 for the State of Michigan Adopt-A-Highway trash pickup on the 2.1 mile stretch of I-94 between State Street and Platt Road. Fueled with Washtenaw Dairy donuts provided by […]

Including Food Gatherers’ Peplau Match of $10,000, $46,600 has been raised as of April 1st, 2021 for the Rotary Fight’s Child Hunger Food Drive, which is the equivalent of 141,200 meals. We are still tallying some actual food that was donated. We are so close to our 150,000 meal stretch goal — you can help […]

Adopt-A-Highway Sign-up 2021 The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor is participating in the State of Michigan Adopt-A-Highway Program and has been identified with roadway signs as responsible for trash pick-up on a 2.1 mile stretch of I-94 between Platt Road and State Street. Dates for this years spring pick-up are Saturday, April 17 with Saturday, April 24 […]

(March 19, 2021) Kofi Gyan from our Club’s International Humanitarian Projects Committee is the lead for a Global Grant recently approved by Rotary International! The project addresses the critical need for clean and potable water for the Kporkuve United Community in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is made up of nine adjoining villages with […]