Our Community Service Projects 
We take on projects throughout the year to support the Akron Urban League. Watch our Club Events calendar for projects as they come to fruition..jpg)
We schedule bell ringers for a day (or two) in December to collect funds for the Salvation Army. You will be able to sign up for a specified shift. We welcome family members to join us!!
Taking place during the month of July, volunteers will vote on resident’s homes in Akron who have a well-kept yard with original landscaping. More details will come closer to the date.Captain: Rob McGregor - EMAIL ROB
The Drago
ns on the Lake Dragon Boat Festival is an annual event to raise proceeds for Breast Cancer survivors. We participate as competitors with a 20 person team paddling for three intense brief heats as well as fundraisers for this worthy cause. This is a great way to join a team, compete, flex your guns and most importantly, serve others. An equal opportunity event, the rules require at least six female paddlers out of twenty! We have a seasoned veteran as coach and an inspiring survivor story within our own club! A perfect opportunity to have fun and serve for
the physically active Rotarian. We welcome you to join Captain Rob!
We can't brag enough about our 2019 Akron Rotary Wavemakers! Not only did they place second at the Dragons on the Lake Dragon Boat Festival, but they also had the 2nd best time in the history of the race! Paddles Up! Special thank you to our Captain Robert McGregor on this achievement! And all for such a great cause! Thank you to all who participated in this tremendous event.
The United Way Day of Action takes place each year in June, communities around the world come together to harness the volunteer spirit and improve the conditions in which they live. Our club is extremely active on this day. We are assigned a business or nonprofit that needs work done. This ranges from shelving books at a library, landscaping, painting, working at pet rescue and more. This is a great time to work side by side with fellow Rotarians and have a great time getting to know each other.
Rotary clubs in Iowa began this project which has grown to include Rotary clubs in Texas, Michigan, and Ohio. It was in response to the devastating living conditions of children near the town dump in Chinandega, Nicaragua. Shoeboxes are filled with
school supplies, a basic outfit, and basic care items and sent to Nicaragua in August for distribution to the children ages 4-17 in December of each year. This project has also expanded to help provide education, housing health care, and maternity care, and infant layettes. Rotary Club of Akron fills 30-40 shoeboxes as part of the project.Steve Buie – EMAIL STEVE
The Ronald McDonald House project is a quarterly service project where our club meets on a Saturday afternoon at the McDonald House to prepare a hot dinner meal for the families of children and adults who are receiving much needed medical care at Akron Children’s Hospital. We bring our own groceries and then we prepare and cook the meal. Our hours of preparation and cooking are from 2:00 – 5:00, and we have been preparing enough food for 50 people. We generally have a team of 4-5 people with the potential for 7-8 people to handle increased volume of people. Our time together is a blast and there is always tremendous fellowship..png)
