Our Service Projects

The Rotary motto, Service Above Self, is alive and well with Asheville-Biltmore Rotarians.There are many opportunities throughout the year to volunteer in a wide variety of community service projects.

Among our local projects have been the following:

• Provision of dictionaries and atlases for school children
• Financial and volunteer labor support to the Manna Food Bank
  
  
  
  
• Participation in the Rotarians Against Hunger program
• Meal preparation and service for the Veterans Restoration Quarters
  
  
  
  
• Volunteers for public feeding programs
• Provision of blankets for the homeless
• Bell ringers for charity fund raising
  

• Support to Habitat for Humanity (financial and volunteers)
• Providing protected bus shelters for underserved areas
• Scholarships for local youth to attend Rotary Youth Leadership
• Established a foundation to assist in managing charitable resources
• Major contributions to local and national dementia care and research program

Among our international efforts have been the following:

• Fund raising for a community library in Mexico
• Purchase and delivery of solar lanterns to a Haitian village without electricity
• Sponsoring Rotary Exchange Students
• Major donations to CART  (Rotary’s Coins for Alzheimer’s Research Trust)