A Message from the Club President

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Thank your for visiting our website!

Connections

Rotary International and the Rotary Club of Hopewell are committed to serving the needs of communities around the world and our local Hopewell community.  We are proud that the combined efforts of Hopewell Rotary and the other 30,000+ Rotary Clubs around the world have improved and still are improving the lives of millions people.

The Hopewell Rotary Club is composed of key business and community leaders from the Hopewell area.  As we work together with you, we get things done.

Service

Locally, Hopewell Rotarians have provided: 1) annual scholarships to promising High School Seniors; 2) dictionaries to all Hopewell Third Graders; 3) Christmas clothes and toys to needy families; and, 4) business leaders as instructors in the Jobs Program which prepares at risk students for successful employment.

Together with Richmond Elder Homes we have built handicap ramps and corrected home code violations for elderly residents.

Though our past contributions we have funded Little League teams, care of abandoned animals in the animal shelter, and TVs in an elderly care facility.  In past years we raised monies for the the Families of the Wound Fund which gives financial aid to distressed families visiting their severely wounded military members at McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond.

The Hopewell Rotary Club paid for 10,000 meals for the Stop Hunger Now Program which provides food to starving familes in South America, Haiti, and Africa.  These meal packets were packaged here in Hopewell by Rotary Club members joined by volunteers from American Legion Post 146, the Hopewell Federated Womens Club, and The Riverside Regional Jail.

Combining their efforts through Rotary International, Rotary Clubs initiated a world-wide effort to totally eliminate all three strains of Polio.  Starting in 1980, Rotary will raise nearly $1 billion in this highly successful, world-changing program.  Rotary’s vision of a Polio free world quickly gained the support of the United Nations, the United States Government, and in the last two years, a $250 million matching grant from the Bill Gates Foundation.

Fellowship

Our club meets during lunch every Tuesday.  We enjoy having visitors and we would love to see you.  The atmosphere is light and we enjoy being together.  There is a different program every week, and so we are always learning something new and interesting.  There are community events during the year, such as the Rotary Roast in the late spring, and the Seafood Bash in the fall.

So, we hope you will visit with us, learn more about Rotary, and perhaps, join in our efforts to place ‘Service Above Self’.

Mike Browder, President 2011-2012