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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 ...
We’re proud of the accomplishments of the GW Rotaract Club!—exemplifying #ServiceAboveSelf
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Last week at the #DCRotaryClub — Every year, Rotaractors and Rotarians around the world celebrate World Rotaract Week during the week of 13 March to commemorate the founding of the first club in 1968.
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World Rotaract Week is a time for celebrating the success and importance of the Rotaract program. This is also an excellent opportunity to inform members of our community about the amazing work that Rotaract clubs do, and give them an opportunity to get involved.
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The Rotaract Club of Washington D.C. was founded in May 1994. Their club is a part of a global effort to bring peace and international understanding to the world. Their effort starts at the community level but knows no limits in its outreach. Rotaractors have access to the many resources of Rotary International (RI) and The Rotary Foundation. Rotary International provides the administrative support that helps their Rotaract club thrive, and they`re also sponsored by our Club the Rotary Club of Washington D.C. Their members include young professionals from around the world.
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Our Club also established a very vibrant Rotaract Club at George Washington University a few years ago! We continue to be inspired by these young community leaders!
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In addition, we also invited the wonderful students from CHEC, Cardozo, and Richard Wright schools that our Club sponsored to RYLA - Rotary Youth Leadership Awards to share their experience about the leadership training with our members.
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If you couldn’t make it, see our YouTube channel for replays!
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Our latest YouTube Postings
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