Service Projects

The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor invites you to join the FUN at the 18th Annual Golf and Tennis Outing!  A shout out and thank you in advance to current volunteers of our GTO Crew!  Join Lauren Heinonen, Ginny Geren, Judith Vindici, Rick Taylor, Elizabeth Trinh, JoAnn Barrett, Dan Romanchik, Victor Stoeffler, Pat Pooley, Ronald Slagell, Lowell Brumby, […]

Dear Fellow Rotarians, The 2021 Rotary Club of Ann Arbor Golf and Tennis Outing (“GTO”) will be held at Fox Hills golf course in Plymouth, Michigan on Monday, September 13th.  The GTO is the largest and most important Rotary fundraising event of the year. It is a major source of funding for the Rotary charitable activities. […]

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 […]