Service Projects

(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 […]

Bob Mull informed us that all VITA tax services at the United Way have been suspended as the building is closed until April 6th. Rotary volunteers will continue to complete all the tax returns that are in our system.   They hope to resume services, but they have no definitive plans for how to do this […]

Rotary: we need your help! Due to the closing of schools, the suspension of our Rotary lunch meetings, and general social distancing recommendations, we will not have the opportunity to make in-person contributions to the Rotary Fighting Hunger Drive nor to drop off food donations at local schools. But this drive is critical to feeding […]

Our annual Rotary Fights Summer Hunger Food Drive kicks off on Monday, March 9th, and it made the news! Check out the article here: https://www.clickondetroit.com/all-about-ann-arbor/2020/03/06/local-rotary-clubs-food-gatherers-to-kick-off-annual-food-drive-monday/

The VITA Tax Clinic, operated by the United Way of Washtenaw County, just completed it first month of tax preparation.  January was a month dedicated to training our 90 plus volunteers, and we had our first live clinic on February 1.  For the month of February we had 2 shifts on Saturdays, and a single […]