Leadership

Blacksburg Rotary announces their upcoming 2012-2013 club officers:

Program

Our goal is to provide interesting, enlightening, and entertaining speakers each week. Ideally, speakers will enrich our members’ knowledge of the community around us.

Fund Raising Events & Projects

In 1982 we began our weekly raffle during lunchtime to raise money for our local community efforts. The pot is split with the weekly winner. 

Kroger Gift Cards - Raise money (5% of your purchase) for our club by grocery shopping. To learn more about the Kroger Cares Fundraising Program, see this page or contact Marilyn Bowman to receive a club numbered shopping card.

Blacksburg Rotary Golf Tournament: Generally occurring in May, the Local Foundation of the Rotary hosts a Captain’s Choice Benefit Tournament that helps to fund our local community programs.

Local Foundation Auction: The annual auction fundraiser for Rotary Foundation occurs in November and our February/March event (Mardi Gras - last few years) is to raise money for the local foundation. Monies from the local foundation go to support local charities and provide scholarships for high school students to pursue college and vocational training. Our local foundation is further supported by our rotarians who become "contributors" when they nonate $100 or more every year to the club.

Yard Sale: The Blacksburg Rotary Club hosts an annual yard sale to raise money for local community efforts while helping the incoming students at Virginia Tech to find furniture, appliances and more to outfit their new homes away from home. The event started in the early nineties and over the last five years has raised over $8000.

Mardi Gras: Each year our Club holds an auction to raise money for the Rotary International Foundation, a not‐for‐profit corporation which enables Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty. In February, the Club will host a Mardi Gras Masquerade and Auction for members and guests.

Put soon-to-expire, unused United Airlines miles toward a good cause: Donate them to Rotary’s Humanitarian Miles program. You can give your United Airlines miles in 1,000-mile increments by filling out the donation form (PDF).

Become a “Sustainer”: Rotarians who contribute $100 or more per year to the Annual Programs Fund  are automatically recognized as a Rotary Foundation Sustaining Member. Sustainers are critical to the Foundation. If every club member contributed $100 every year, Rotary could nearly double its efforts to help needy people worldwide and support the continued growth of its programs.  All gifts cumulatively count toward other Foundation recognition programs .

Donors of $1,000 or more to the Annual Programs Fund, PolioPlus, or the Humanitarian Grants Program, or people who have that amount contributed in their name, can be recognized as Paul Harris Fellows . Each new Paul Harris Fellow receives a commemorative certificate, a pin, and a medallion. Paul Harris formed the world’s first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, on 23 February 1905. The first Paul Harris Fellow was recognized in 1957.  Link here, to learn more about the Paul Harris Fellows Society.  

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(c) Blacksburg Rotary Club, 2011

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