Service Projects

Anyone needing masks, free of charge for members OR OTHERS, contact Eric Lipson at ericlipson@gmail.com or (734) 417-3604. Several types are available. Contributions to the Pandemic Response Fund are appreciated but not required.

The Disaster Response Committee is supplying free masks to any Rotarian or Rotary family member who requests one.* Contact Eric Lipson: ericlipson@gmail.com to order masks or have your masks delivered free of charge. The committee is obtaining both hand-made and commercial masks. Handmade masks are priceless. Please advise Eric if you can contribute hand-made masks to […]

Fellow Rotarians, Now is the time to support our community during these most challenging times. The Disaster Response Committee will solicit donations for the RCAA Pandemic Response Fund from May 1- May 31. These funds will be awarded through a grant process focused on TWO areas of need: Healthcare and Frontline worker support (PPE for […]

Though our Rotary Fights Child Hunger campaign was originally to end on April 6th, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, need in our community remains high. We have now EXTENDED this campaign so that you can continue to make contributions to this drive that we have in partnership with Food Gatherers. Both you and our club […]

(From Rotary International) World Immunization Week, 24-30 April, is here. Join with Rotary as we raise awareness of the importance of vaccinations and our work to #EndPolio. Each year, Rotary and our partners vaccinate more than 400 million children against polio. When children receive the polio vaccine, their pinkie fingers are marked with purple ink […]

The MASKerAID seamstresses, comprised of many of our own club’s members and adjunct members and run by Past President Greg Stejskal’s wife Pat, have been sewing up a storm creating face masks for the community. They provided 50 homemade masks to the Corner Health Center (CHC) in Ypsilanti. Staff have been using these daily, and taking […]

We have heard from Hilda Alcindor, member of the Rotary Club de Port-au-Prince, about their club’s efforts during the COVID-19 outbreak. Hilda is from Leogane Haiti and is the dean of FSIL, the Haiti Nursing Foundation school which has received funds from our club.  They made and distributed 4,000 masks with the Rotary Logo. What […]

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 […]

Our Rotary Fighting Hunger Food Drive, in partnership with Food Gatherers, is chaired by Todd Kephart. Last year, Rotary raised $13,000 and food for 84,000 meals. This year’s goals were: $15,000 in cash and enough food for 90,000 meals. However, due to the closing of schools, the suspension of our Rotary lunch meetings, and general […]