Together with SHARE, Rotarians, and village volunteers work together to build a retaining wall that keep the wells from going dry. so they yeild all year. The Rotary club of Bombay Metro and Rotary Club of Palo Alto, California, USA, used an RI Matching Grant to help facilitate the project. Rotary Images/Alyce Henson

After receiving close to a half  million dollars from family friends and Oregon-based Angel Investors for her start-up Web site, Caroline Cummings has learned the importance of extra help and being an entrepreneur. Cummings has plenty of experience in the realm of entrepreneurship. She is the co-founder of Smart-ups, an entrepreneurial support group in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, which is a local chapter of the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN) based in Portland, OR. Now Cummings is giving back even more by assisting with the Willamette Angel Conference, an investors conference connecting...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $255 million challenge grant to Rotary International in the global effort to eradicate polio, bringing the total committed by Rotary and the Gates Foundation to $555 million. The donation will go toward the four countries where the polio-virus is endemic: India, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. “Rotarians, government leaders, and health professionals have made a phenomenal commitment to get us to a point at which polio afflicts only a small number of the world’s children,” Gates said. “However, complete elimination of the poliovirus...

LEAD—Leadership Education Adventure Direction—was established in 1998 as a component of the City of Eugene Outdoor Program. In July 2001, LEAD became an independent nonprofit agency offering a comprehensive leadership development program serving low-income teens ages 12 – 17 in Lane County. A lot of work goes into organizing this program with Heather Brule as the LEADership group program director, the program is like butter. Heather has facilitated groups of teens and adults in rock climbing, rafting and other outdoor adventure activities for various organizations during the last five years. She...

Today marks the 104th birthday of the Rotary, and clubs across America are celebrating. What started as one man’s wish to capture the same friendly spirit he had felt in the small towns of his youth in Chicago in 1905 turned into an  international philanthropic effort. Clubs around the world are doing an extra special something to celebrate this momentous day. District 7720 (North Carolina, USA) has big plans for celebrating Rotary’s anniversary, 23 February, this year. All 45 clubs in the district have committed to carrying out a service project, ranging from reading in schools to...

We have a full slate of programs this winter. We hope you’ll join us. Jan. 22 – Mike Eyster, Board President of Lane Transit District Jan. 29 – Tim Doll, Eugene Airport manager Feb. 5 – Kim Bryson-Chamley, Coordinator for UNICEF’s The Tap Project (clean water program) Feb. 12 – Derek Brandow, Director of YottaByte Feb. 19 – Kate Wilson-Hamaker, Director of Green Lane Feb. 26 – Heather Brule, LEAD Teen Program March 5 – Caroline Cummings, Willamette Angel Conference March 12 – Chris Orsinger, Friends of Buford Park and Mt. Pisgah

This year local animal organizations are shooting for a goal of finding homes for 250 homeless animals through the month of December! They will be at Johnson Brothers Greenhousesin Coburg throughout the month with lots of adoptable animals every Saturday and Sunday from 11-3. Animal groups that are participating this year include: Save the Pets West Coast Dog and Cat Rescue Luv-A-Bull (pit bull rescue) Roxie’s Chihuahuas Goldenbond (golden retriever rescue) Greyhound Pets of America Willamette Animal Guild Stop Pet Overpopulation Today F.E.T.C.H (friends eager to come help- therapy dog...

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Saturday the 25th, Distict 5110 gathers at my alma mater, Cottage Grove High School*, for The Rotary Foundation and World Community Service meetings. Get more info here. *This building was built after I graduated. I attended in the old building, which apparently has been wiped off the face of the earth. I can’t find a single photo of it online!