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100k Grant Awarded. The Rotary Club of Washington, DC today announced that a special Centennial Community Service Grant of $100,000 has been made to the Multicultural Career Intern Program (MCIP).
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Our Club meets every Wednesday, promptly, 12:30pm – 1:30pm at the University Club of Washington D.C. Our meetings are hybrid and available via zoom. To request an invitation to join our weekly meetings, click the button below to send us an email. Be sure to regularly visit our Club Calendar for updates.
Every Wednesday at 12:30 PM

If you are interested in learning more about our events, click the link below to our Club Calendar.  Each and every month, we host and attend numerous insightful, energetic and service-oriented events.  Come and see what we’re all about…roll up your sleeves and help us – help others.

One of the Club’s most popular ways of serving our local community is through Grate Patrol DC.  To learn more about how you can volunteer to help us feed the homeless on the evenings of every 3rd Tuesday and 3rd Friday.  Click the button below to sign up today!

Vision Statement

A world of peace, justice, equity, opportunity, and human well-being within a thriving and sustainable environment.

Mission Statement

To transform lives in the nation’s capital and throughout the world through service, friendship, networking, and fun.

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Gabrielle Webster was our guest speaker this week. Gabrielle is a visionary thought leader and youth development expert who is sparking positive change as President and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington (BGCGW). She was introduced by Past President Jennifer Hara.
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Under Gabrielle’s leadership, BGCGW, which serves more than 21,000 youth, is exceeding financial goals and achieving record accomplishments. Gabrielle is the driving force behind a first-ever $30 million comprehensive campaign.  Gabrielle also tripled the number of Clubs in the metro area, earning BGCGW the distinction of being among the top 5% of BGCA (Boys & Girls Clubs of America) affiliates in the nation. In 2022, BGCGW celebrated its first National Youth of the Year in 75 years.  Gabrielle is further blazing new trails with plans for a flagship Center of Transformation at the Nation’s Boys & Girls Club, which will serve as an incubator to pilot and implement innovative programs across local sites and ideally the BGCA movement.
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Our Club’s Foundation, the Rotary Foundation of Washington, DC, administers the Jelleff Fund, established many years ago with a bequest from Rotarian Frank Jelleff, who, as a Rotarian, had helped found a forerunner of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Great Washington.  The proceeds of the Jelleff Fund are used uniquely to make grants to the Boys and Girls Club for capital costs. This year’s annual check amounts to $92,000 to assist BGCGW with the wonderful programs it delivers to the community each and every day.
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Our Rotary Club is fortunate to have so many members with wonderful contacts such that we are able to attract a wide variety of newsworthy, sought-after speakers! The diversity of our speakers reflects the diverse interests of our members.
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Our guest speaker last week was Kathleen Franz, Ph.D., Chair of the Division of Work & Industry and Curator of Business History at the National Museum of American History.  Her scholarship has focused on the intersections of technology, popular culture, and gender history. In honor of women’s history month, Kathleen showcased women inventors featured in a recent exhibit at the museum, as well as a behind-the-scenes view of the curatorial process of designing the exhibit and bringing it to fruition. Stay tuned for the YouTube video of her presentation
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Kathleen’s first book, Tinkering: Americans Reinvent the Automobile, explores the gender dynamics of technological knowledge and invention.  She was also the project director for the recent exhibition, Girlhood (It`s complicated), that looked at the various ways in which girls and young women had political influence and advocated for social, cultural and political change in the U.S. from 1800 to the present. 
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Dr. Franz holds a BA in American Studies from the University of Texas at San Antonio and a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University.
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Prior to the featured presentations, Club Historian, Rotarian Monica Smith, enlightened us with a history of unknown women inventors noting there are an unimaginable number of inventions that would be attributed to women and minorities if men had not been the chosen patent makers for so many decades over the course of history.
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Our Rotary Club is fortunate to have so many members with wonderful contacts such that we are able to attract a wide variety of newsworthy, sought-after speakers! The diversity of our speakers reflects the diverse interests of our members.
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#DCRotaryClub #hybridmeeting
#clubmeeting #zoommeeting #newsworthy #guestspeaker #RotaryInternational #RI #RotaryDistrict7620 #ImagineRotary #workandindustry
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We’re proud of the accomplishments of the GW Rotaract Club!—exemplifying #ServiceAboveSelf

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Our own Past President Jennifer introduces today's speaker Ms. Gabrielle Webster.<br />Gabrielle Webster is a visionary thought leader and youth development expert who is sparking positive change as President and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington (BGCGW).  As a skilled convener who engages communities, business leaders, philanthropists and partners in service of capital area youth and their families, Gabrielle has put to use her strategic planning, management abilities and development skills to fuel unprecedented growth for BGCGW.  Under her leadership, BGCGW, which serves more than 21,000 youth, is exceeding financial goals and achieving record accomplishments. Gabrielle is the driving force behind a first-ever $30 million comprehensive campaign.  Gabrielle also tripled the number of Clubs in the metro area, earning BGCGW the distinction of being among the top 5% of BGCA (Boys & Girls Clubs of America) affiliates in the nation. In 2022, BGCGW celebrated its first National Youth of the Year in 75 years.  Gabrielle is further blazing new trails with plans for a flagship Center of Transformation at the Nation’s Boys & Girls Club, which will serve as an incubator to pilot and implement innovative programs across local sites and ideally the BGCA movement.<br /><br />Gabrielle has a depth of leadership experience as a nonprofit and public sector professional with a track record of growth and exceeding expectations.  Prior to BGCGW, she raised more than $220 million as part of her leadership roles at three large non-profit organizations, which operate in the Washington metropolitan area, the Mid-Atlantic region and at the national level.  Gabrielle served as the Chief Development Officer at the United Way of the National Capital Area as well as National Vice President for the American Heart Association, where she was charged with the development, implementation, and execution of a new national business to consumer campaign. Prior to that role, she was Vice President of the Mid-Atlantic Region’s Leukemia & Lymphoma Society where she managed a $36 million budget across nine states. Before her career in the nonprofit sector, Gabrielle spent more than a decade with the Eastman Kodak Company and she held several leadership positions in marketing, sales, university relations, and engineering technology.<br /><br />Gabrielle was selected by Washingtonian Magazine as a 2022 Washingtonian of the Year. She was also a National Science Foundation Fellow, a National Biomedical Symposium Fellow and a Polaroid Scholar.  She was chosen to attend the Center for Creative Leadership in 2009 as one of the top executive directors at the American Heart Association.<br /><br />Gabrielle earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Xavier University and a Master of Physical Chemistry degree from Atlanta University. Gabrielle is also a graduate of the Leadership Greater Washington program and was recently awarded a Harvard Business School Executive Education Certificate for Strategic Agility and Inclusive Leadership.

Our own Past President Jennifer introduces today's speaker Ms. Gabrielle Webster.
Gabrielle Webster is a visionary thought leader and youth development expert who is sparking positive change as President and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington (BGCGW). As a skilled convener who engages communities, business leaders, philanthropists and partners in service of capital area youth and their families, Gabrielle has put to use her strategic planning, management abilities and development skills to fuel unprecedented growth for BGCGW. Under her leadership, BGCGW, which serves more than 21,000 youth, is exceeding financial goals and achieving record accomplishments. Gabrielle is the driving force behind a first-ever $30 million comprehensive campaign. Gabrielle also tripled the number of Clubs in the metro area, earning BGCGW the distinction of being among the top 5% of BGCA (Boys & Girls Clubs of America) affiliates in the nation. In 2022, BGCGW celebrated its first National Youth of the Year in 75 years. Gabrielle is further blazing new trails with plans for a flagship Center of Transformation at the Nation’s Boys & Girls Club, which will serve as an incubator to pilot and implement innovative programs across local sites and ideally the BGCA movement.

Gabrielle has a depth of leadership experience as a nonprofit and public sector professional with a track record of growth and exceeding expectations. Prior to BGCGW, she raised more than $220 million as part of her leadership roles at three large non-profit organizations, which operate in the Washington metropolitan area, the Mid-Atlantic region and at the national level. Gabrielle served as the Chief Development Officer at the United Way of the National Capital Area as well as National Vice President for the American Heart Association, where she was charged with the development, implementation, and execution of a new national business to consumer campaign. Prior to that role, she was Vice President of the Mid-Atlantic Region’s Leukemia & Lymphoma Society where she managed a $36 million budget across nine states. Before her career in the nonprofit sector, Gabrielle spent more than a decade with the Eastman Kodak Company and she held several leadership positions in marketing, sales, university relations, and engineering technology.

Gabrielle was selected by Washingtonian Magazine as a 2022 Washingtonian of the Year. She was also a National Science Foundation Fellow, a National Biomedical Symposium Fellow and a Polaroid Scholar. She was chosen to attend the Center for Creative Leadership in 2009 as one of the top executive directors at the American Heart Association.

Gabrielle earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Xavier University and a Master of Physical Chemistry degree from Atlanta University. Gabrielle is also a graduate of the Leadership Greater Washington program and was recently awarded a Harvard Business School Executive Education Certificate for Strategic Agility and Inclusive Leadership.

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