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SRCF DoorDash Fundraiser Event

02/10 - 03/15, 2021

Help us raise funds for SRCF through DoorDash

Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation (SRCF) has distributed upwards of $2 million to community nonprofit organizations.

Please join us in supporting our work with youth, the community and the grants to local non-profits.

DoorDash will donate up to 20% of proceeds, to a maximum of $10,000 to the Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation.

Please order through DoorDash from Feb 10-March 15th and use promo code SRC21. With sincere thanks from Rotary Club of Saratoga!

The World Health Organization’s African region is officially certified free of wild poliovirus.

Upcoming Speakers

Kathleen McCarty

Mar 05, 2021

Improve your physical and mental health with TaiChi

For 15 years, I was a ski instructor in the Tahoe area.

When I hit my 60's, I could feel my balance was declining so I started taking classes in Tai Chi, which has a well-deserved reputation for improving balance. After four years, I switched from teaching skiing to teaching Tai Chi. Besides definitely improving my sense of balance, I felt calm, centered and happy after practicing.

I teach Chen style Tai Chi, which is the oldest style, and actually originated as a martial art. Some people practice it as such, but most people practice it for the health benefits of better circulation, balance, body alignment, leg strength and the good feeling it produces when practiced with intention.

Studies have shown that regular practice of Tai Chi can improve many health problems. Currently, I teach TaiChi classes virtually for the City of San Mateo and in-person in Saratoga on Saturday mornings.

William Imig

Mar 19, 2021

Moringa, Orphans and Rotary

Kathrin Winkler

Apr 23, 2021 12:30 PM

On Climate Equity and Justice

Past Speakers

2020-2021 Richard D. King Speech Contest

Feb 26, 2021

Duran N Yetkinler, MD, Ph.D.

Feb 19, 2021

3D Printing of Bones

Font72

Feb 12, 2021

Concert

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Together, we grow, open opportunities and serve the community.

Dear Saratoga Rotarians,

"Peace is not merely a distant goal the we seek but the means by which we arrive at that goal." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace has been a core tenet for Rotary since its inception 116 years ago. One of the means to achieve peace is through our work with youth. Quoting Carol Bellamy, Executive Director UNICEF (1995-2005), "In serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity."

Our club develops youth through Interact and programs like Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA), Presidential Winter Retreat (PWR), Fall Leadership Conference, Speech Contest and Enterprise Leadership Conference. On March 2nd, we celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday and "Read Across America" by reading to schoolchildren at Latimer Elementary and providing them with books to take home to their families.

These programs are enabled by our collective fundraising efforts channeled through the Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation. The cancellation of the 2020 and 2021 Art Shows challenges the ~100 of us members to seek alternate fundraising paths to allow us to continue such programs. The DoorDash fundraiser and the Happy Cravings program are novel ground-up efforts towards this objective, while also strengthening links among ourselves and our community. Kudos to all our members driving and participating in these efforts and thereby continuing to promote the cause of peace through Rotary.

Sesh

Community Service Project: Martha's Kitchen

What a great start to the week on an early Monday morning by helping someone? Its good karma! Martha’s Kitchen on Willow Street offers this opportunity ! A clean, airy, bright, hygienic and socially distanced work tables allows volunteers to make sandwiches,cut vegetables or whatever else is needed for the day. The food assembled or prepared there (lunch and dinner) is taken to several places in the South Bay to feed the homeless. Two weeks ago, ten of us Rotarians, spent 2-4 hours doing just that!
Kudos to Jamie, Terrence, Cynthia, Larry, Maria, Phil, David Guidry (w/daughter), Sangita, Sesh and Nada (w/camera). Our club intends to do this monthly – so if you are interested, please contact our 2020-21 Community Services Chair – Jamie Price.

Saratoga Rotary help feed the hungry in our communities

Immediately reacting to the immediate needs of the local West Valley Community, the members of The Saratoga Rotary donated $11,000 to West Valley Community Services. The needed funds are for the increased demand for food due to COVID-19. In addition, the club has donated an additional $1,000 for food to West Valley College students who are food insecure and now effected by COVID-19. In addition, Saratoga Rotarians have also donated $800 for meals that go directly to our medical providers.
Stay tuned for additional stories of volunteering at kitchens that cater to the homeless.

Saratoga Rotary Art Show

We are very sorry to announce that the 2021 Saratoga Rotary Art Show has been cancelled due to COVID-19.

The 2022 Saratoga Rotary Art Show will be scheduled for first weekend in May. Produced since 1957 by members of the Rotary Club of Saratoga, the Art Show is the primary fund-raising event supporting local and international charities under the guidelines of the Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation. To date, the Saratoga Rotary Foundation has granted over $2.5 million to nonprofits serving the needs of the community.

Rotary is dedicated to improving lives, creating a better world and ending polio forever. With fighting disease as one of our causes and the current need in our communities, we encourage you to participate in our 2022 Art Show to support Rotary while also supporting our artists, while enjoying the company of friends, food and entertainment.

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