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Jennifer Preston

Welcome to the Rotary Club of Fall River’s website. We hope this site will give you a little insight into who we are and what we do and that it will spark enough interest that you will come down to White’s for lunch on almost any Thursday and meet us in person.

Rotary is a International organization that unites neighbors, community leaders, and global citizens for the common good. This year’s theme is “Rotary Serving Humanity.” Major areas of focus include promoting peace, fighting disease, providing clean water, saving mothers and children, supporting education, and growing local communities. The Fall River club both supports these efforts internationally and locally.

Here in the Greater Fall River community we support the work of several non-profit organizations and schools through small grants and volunteering. We also run a number of programs each year including providing backpacks and schools supplies to low income children, hosting a “First Impressions” event to help BCC and other young people enter the work force with their best foot forward, and providing new sneakers and socks to children in needs through “Happy Feet” just to name a few. We are able to do this by raising money though fundraisers each year, most notably our Pancake Breakfast in the Fall and the Affair to Remember in the Spring.

How can you help?

Consider joining the Rotary Club of Fall River, we are always looking for committed, energetic individuals of all ages to expand the reach of what we can do.
Support our fundraisers through your work or personally; or make direct donations to our club to support particular projects (End Polio Now, Happy Feet, and the Backpack Project just to name a few.)
Volunteer with us as we support local agencies.

If you would like more information please reach out to me. I look forward to speaking with you.

Jen
President 2017-2018

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We meet Thursdays at 12:15 PM
White's of Westport

66 State Road
Westport, MA 02790
United States

Phone:

(508) 207-5611

Email:

jenapreston@yahoo.com

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Donations to Rotary

For those individuals who would like to support the work of the Rotary Club of Fall River specifically, donations can be made to our non-profit arm, The Fall River Rotary Club Charitable Foundation Trust and mailed to our address, PO Box 1802, Fall River, MA 02722. If you are making the donation to honor or memorialize someone, please include their name and the name and address of the person that should receive notification that the donation was made. Thank you for your support.

Go Green Class!

Pictured are students from the BCC STEM club that designed a 6-week hands-on Green Technology Educational program and taught it to youth at Greater Fall River Re-Creation. These college students did an incredible job of developing the whole curriculum and engaging the young students in learning each week. They combined hands on projects and power point presentations to teach about the impact of going green.

It is great to see the enthusiasm of these young people. How lucky we are as a club to have the opportunity to support this great partnership!

Happy Feet

Rotary Club of fall River Members (from far right) Lorraine Travers, Connie Vaillancourt, and Rick Vaillancourt
meet with members of the WalMart Team to accept a check to support the Happy Feet Program.

How can you help support Happy Feet? Did you recently receive a rewards coupon from Bob's Store or Jockey or some other favorite retail location, but don't really need anything? Don't let it expire, instead purchase some children's socks to help support our Happy Feet program. Kids socks (generally sizes 9-3 and 3-9, although there may be some variation) will be collected on an ongoing basis and can be brought to any Thursday meeting. White crew socks are preferred.

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