Fruit Picking with Contra Costa Fruit Rescue
Rotary Home Team – Helping seniors in the community with odd jobs and home maintenance
Collecting CRV Cans & Bottles to raise funds for future Youth Exchange Students
Quarterly Community Service Meetings
Sorting Food at the Contra Costa Bank – Multiple times per year
Rotary 3rd Grade Dictionary Project – in partnership with other local Rotary Clubs
Volunteering for the Run for Education
Volunteering for Parks Beautification with the City of San Ramon
Volunteering for DVHS Music Boosters’ Pancake Breakfast
Thanksgiving Baskets Delivery
Pick-up with a Purpose (Winter)
One Warm Coat
Volunteering for DVHS Music Boosters’ Graduation Leis and Bouquets Booth
Pick-up with a Purpose (end of school)
Recurring Service Projects
Quarterly Community Service Projects
Preparing Feminine Hygiene Kits for the Lady Bug Project
Thanksgiving Baskets:
Partnering with the Los Cerros Middle School PTA, Cornerstone Church, and the SRVUSD social workers, our club was able to help deliver Thanksgiving holiday meals to 60 local families. Thank you to Rene Matsumoto for handling the coordination of all the parts, which inevitably kept changing, with the flexibility and calm that you are so good at.
Unfortunately, the usual photo ops of loaded cars didn’t materialize with the rain and delays, but we all felt great knowing that these families got to enjoy a delicious meal and felt cared for by their community. This one photo of Rachel with Carl (one of the district social workers) was snapped in Dia’s garage filled with grocery bags Friday morning.
Volunteering at the Food Bank Warehouse: We volunteer quarterly at the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano County.
Pickup with a Purpose: Each year, schools within the San Ramon Valley Unified School District find themselves with hundreds of clothing items in their “lost and found.” The DVSR Rotary collects the Lost & Found items from all interested schools. With the help of Interact youth and scouts, we sort the clothing, toss ruined or broken items, and redistribute what’s left to charitable organizations that serve kids and families.
Dictionary Project: We join with the other Rotary Clubs in the San Ramon Valley to provide dictionaries for every SRVUSD 3rd grader.
Past (Historical) Projects
House Building: We supported Hearts Empowering the Poor to build a house in San Luis Río Colorado México
Art & Wind Festival: Our club participated in the Art & Wind Festival, San Ramon. Our food booth consisted of Baked Potatoes and Corn on the Cobb.
Youth to Youth: Youth to Youth was founded in 1982 in Columbus, Ohio, as a community-based drug prevention and youth leadership program focusing primarily on middle school and high school students. The goal of its many projects is harnessing the powerful influence of peer pressure—making it a positive force that encourages young people to live free of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. Our club hosted lunch for the attendees which involved setting up, serving, and cleaning up from their lunch break at Castro Valley High School.
Iron Horse Trail Improvements: We joined with other Rotary Clubs in the Valley to plant trees and shrubs at designated rest nodes along the Iron Horse Trail.
PACE School for Girls: The Club sponsors two young girl’s education through high school at the Piyali Learning Center in India.
Supporting local families in need during the holidays: through Toys for Tots and by providing holiday meal gift baskets.
