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Service Above Self

Casino Night

Saturday April 5

7:00 - 10:00

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Admit One $75

Admit Two $125

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The Montpelier Rotary Club works to create lasting change by enhancing food and warmth security, fostering educational and cross-cultural exchanges, and developing future community leaders, while upholding our values of fellowship, integrity, and a commitment to Service Above Self.

Call to action

In order to increase our impact and create a sustainable mission that can serve our community for decades to come, we need leaders, we need doers, and we need money.

We are on a 3-year mission to double the membership of our club and raise $1M to plant the seeds for an endowment that will fund our current and future projects indefinitely.

You can help:

Share your time to help us with our projects by participating in service opportunities
Share your ideas as a thought leader by becoming a member our club
Share your resources for the benefit of others by donating to the Montpelier Rotary
Share the word throughout the community by telling others about the incredible work that we do in Montpelier

Send us an email or come to a meeting to learn more.

How does Montpelier Rotary Support our community?

Provides weekend food for over 90 elementary school students with our Backpack food project.

Manages, with community help, the annual Karen Kitzmiller Memorial Coat Drive which typically distributes over 800 coats, other winter clothing, and blankets. (Performed as a campaign through the pandemic.)

Has contributed, in recent years, a total of more than $50,000 in small donations to such local community organizations as Good Beginnings, Lost Nation Theater, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Just Basics Food Pantry and Good Samaritan Haven

Began in 1997 awarding annual scholarships to graduating students from Montpelier and Union-32 high schools. Total awarded by the Club since 1997 has exceeded one million dollars. To date, these scholarships have benefited over 130 students.

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Club Mailing Address

Rotary Club of Montpelier, VT

PO BOX 441

Montpelier, VT 05601

MontpelierVTRotary@Gmail.com

The Four-Way Test

From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The Four-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy.

This 24-word test for employees to follow in their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The Four-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four questions:

"Of the things we think, say or do: