4th of July Parade

Collecting CRV Cans & Bottles to raise funds for future Youth Exchange Students

Sorting Food at the Contra Costa Bank – August 3 and November 30, 2024

Volunteering for Parks Beautification with the City of San Ramon – September 14, 2024

Volunteering for DVHS Music Boosters’ Pancake Breakfast – September 14, 2024

Quarterly Community Service Meeting:  Hygiene Kits – September 25, 2024

Rotary 3rd Grade Dictionary Project – in partnership with other local Rotary Clubs

Volunteering for the Run for Education – October 11, 12, 13, 2024

Pick-up with a Purpose (Winter)

One Warm Coat

Thanksgiving Baskets

Quarterly Community Service Meeting:  Kids Against Hunger – February 19, 2025 SIGN UP

Pick-up with a Purpose (end of school) – June 9, 2025 SIGN UP

 

Recurring Service Projects

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.

Richard, Becca, Rene and Rachel transported 60 huge bags of groceries from where they were filled at Los Cerros Middle School to Dia Mundle’s home early Friday morning.  Then on Monday, about a third of the bags had to be moved to Charlotte Wood Middle School for pickup. The delivery volunteers from Cornerstone Church met Rene, Dia, Rachel, Alec, Richard, and Kim at Charlotte Wood, and we all waited in the rain for the turkeys and pies from Costco to arrive.  Once they arrived, we were able to get on with the deliveries.  The Cornerstone folks took care of all the planned deliveries and our Rotary volunteers delivered the meals for the families that didn’t come for their pick-ups or weren’t able to wait for their turkeys and pies.

Unfortunately, the usual photo ops of loaded cars didn’t materialize with the weather 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

Community Fair: 

For many years our club organized and hosted the SRV Community Fair which provided an opportunity the providers of all kinds of programming for children and youth to come together in a single venue for families to check out as they make plans.  The March 2020 fair was cancelled because of the pandemic and hasn’t been revived yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.