For more than 100 years the Rotary Club of Redlands has opened opportunities for service in the Redlands community. In addition to great fellowship and networking possibilities, Rotary provides service where it is truly needed.
Rotarians read to young elementary students, feed them breakfast and send them home with a new book.
Each year the Rotary Club of Redlands presents a dictionary to all third-grade students in the Redlands Unified School District.
PRYDE is a program which encourages 7th graders in our area to develop and utilize leadership skills. Selected students participate at no charge to them.
RYLA is a program which provides leadership training to nearly 200 high school juniors each year. Each participant is selected because they have demonstrated potential leadership skills and a willingness to strengthen those skills. Their participation is fully funded by the Rotary Club of Redlands.
RYLA is a program which provides leadership training to nearly 200 high school juniors each year. Each participant is selected because they have demonstrated potential leadership skills and a willingness to strengthen those skills. Their participation is fully funded by the Rotary Club of Redlands.
Each year the Rotary Club of Redlands provides approximately $40,000 in scholarship assistance to outstanding graduating seniors from Redlands High Schools.
And, just as important, members of the Rotary Club of Redlands are part of the 1.2 million Rotarians in 35,000 clubs throughout the World. Together, through the Rotary International Foundation, they give more than $90,000,000 a year to provide clean water to communities who need it, support education at the college undergraduate and graduate level, provide assistance to poor local communities, provide lifesaving medical assistance to needy mothers and children throughout the world, and promote peace. A another very important part of this annual program is Rotary’s commitment to eliminate Polio from the face of the earth. Recently it was disclosed that this has been accomplished in all but two countries.
Why not visit our meeting sometime. You might find that Rotary can enlighten and add new meaning to your life. Join us as we start our next 100 years of SERVICE ABOVE SELF!
John Tincher, President
Sometimes, the availability of financial support makes the difference between a student attending college or not. The Rotary Club of Redlands gifts tens of thousands of dollars of college scholarships each year to Seniors in the Redlands Unified School District. These funds are derived entirely from the Rotary Club of Redlands Foundation.
Every third grade student in the Redlands Unified School District receives a dictionary of their own, compliments of the Rotary Club of Redlands.
Our Youth Services Committee provides monetary support for numerous local youth service groups in need of a hand.
Our Compact Club creates opportunities for local high school students to network with business leaders and learn what it takes to succeed in adult vocations.
Through our “Breakfast and a Book” program, Redlands Rotarians meet before classes with students from every grade selected by their teachers at Franklin and Lugonia Elementary Schools to offer breakfast and read to them from books which the Club provides and the students may then take home and keep.
Each year, our Club throws a party for a group of developmentally challenged adults known as the “Purple Turtles.” The Club hosts, serves a meal, and busses tables at a dinner dance that includes music, entertainment, and a gift for each attendee.
Area high school students from all backgrounds participate in the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards weekend, where they meet and bond with other teens in the RYLA program that many students and Rotarians have described as “life-changing.”
Our Club gives the opportunity to Redlands student speakers to win cash awards through the “4-Way Test” Speech Contest, where competitors are asked to contemplate the significance of the core values of Rotary Clubs around the world.
For the Redlands students who express themselves through a musical muse, our music competition gives monetary rewards for instrumental and vocal performances to selected participants in our annual Music Competition.