WELCOME TO ROTARY

WHAT IS ROTARY?
Rotary is where neighbors, friends, and problem-solvers share ideas, join leaders, and take action to create lasting change.
Watch our film and explore our website to see the many ways we build communities.

BUILDING OUR COMMUNITY
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EVENTS
We run events through the Rotary year to raise money for Scholarships and our club to pour back into the community.
Click on the button below for more information.
SERVE TO CHANGE LIVES
We serve internationally in many areas including wheelchair distribution in Mexico & trip to Pakistan to help distribute Polio vaccinations.
Serving locally, we contribute to emergency relief for fires and the Mono Wind event. The Stop Sign Project which was the 2022 Mariposa crosswalks project began in the early 2000's with the stop signs at Main street and 8th.
COMMUNITY GIVING
Through our Community Giving Project, each year the Mariposa-Yosemite Rotary grants between $6,000 - $10,000 to local educational, charitable and nonprofit groups in need. Please read the guidelines and fill out an application
to be considered for funding.
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ROTARIANS IN ACTION



ALL SERVICE, ALL HEART
We strive to work with "Service Above Self" in mind. Providing shoes and food to Greely Hill; Veteran's Appreciation Diner; supplies to Mountain Crisis; Gift Cards for grocery workers and those who lost all their food in the Mono Wind event; Cemetery Clean-up; Building and maintaining bus shelters for school children; Salvation Army Bell Ringing.
To name but a few!!
Have a look through our yearly Service Projects in the link below.
BUILDING TOMORROW'S FUTURE
The future matters.
What we build today, will affect tomorrow.
As such, we work towards building the next generations through many avenues including: Interact, a Rotary Youth Club; Speech Contests for High schoolers; Dictionaries for third graders; Interact Pet Parade; Livestock Auctions; Grizzlies Sports; RYLA; FFA Speakers; MCHS Chorus Support and Toys for Cops for Kids.
ROTARIANS NEVER STOP
There are many projects and ways to help build the community, partnering with other service clubs, our commitment is never ending. Do you know any of the projects that we work on?
We work with: Adopt-a-Highway; Providing necessities for foster and homeless children in the school system; Covid and Flu Clinics; Supplies for Manna House; Veterans Film and Memorial; Ewing Wing Garden; Trail Clearing; Grants; Paseo De Mariposa; Helping the 7th Street Pavilion.........
The list is endless - click the button below for more info!

MEETINGS, SOCIALS AND MORE....



MORNING MEETINGS
Bright and early on Thursday mornings we meet up for breakfast, building great friendships and the order of business.
We also have speakers each week, covering many current issues in the community and other interesting topics.
Want to know what is happening in your community? Come and join us Thursdays at 6:30am for 7am start till 8am.
EVENING SOCIALS
The first Thursday of every month we hold an evening social from 5:30pm till 7:30-8pm. Including themed evenings, such as, Valentines Day; St Patrick's Day; 4th July and many other holidays.
Come and join us!
Contact us at the email below for more information.
HOLIDAYS
Participating in Mariposa's Safe Families Trunk or Treat; The Town's Christmas Parade or impromptu get togethers after service projects. Making great friends whilst serving.

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see”