Columbus Rotary

A few pics from last night's Walking With The Dead 5K at Green Lawn Cemetery. Thank you to everyone who made this fundraiser for our foundation a success!

Jonathan Moody, CEO of Moody Nolan Architects, the largest African American owned design firm in the country, was our guest speaker today. He gave an impactful talk about closing the gap of economic prosperity and its intersection with development.

On Thursday, we participated in one of our favorite service projects, preparing and serving a meal at Ronald McDonald House! A couple of Rotarians brought spouses and another brought three of her staff members to volunteer with us. We volunteer at RMH several times a year as part of our commitment to Service Above Self.

Please join us for our annual fundraiser with historic Green Lawn Cemetery. For more information and to register: https://lnkd.in/gpujC8a3

Andrew Shockney and Hugo Trux represented our Rotary Club for our Veteran Mentorship program at OSU We mentor veterans in career, education, job hunting and other needs.  https://lnkd.in/gJiXyc3X

Back to school season means school supply drive at our club. Every year we provide school supplies for every student at Windsor STEM, an elementary school in Linden that we adopted several years ago. Rotary is dedicated to supporting our public schools. Columbus City Schools - Ohio

A sneak peak of String Impact's 3rd Annual Free Community Concert: One Sound Live Music Show. Musicians Tia Ward and Asa Simpson-Cole have received scholarships from our Rotary Club and are serving others by providing community members of all ages the opportunity to hear beautiful music. The concert is Sunday, August 18 at 2 pm at The Lincoln Theatre, 769 E Long Street, Columbus. RSVP at www.stringimpact.org

The Columbus Rotary Foundation is pleased to welcome four new members to the Foundation Board, who continue in the tradition of "Service Above Self." Shelley Brown-Kujowski, of the Salvation Army Jessica Barwell, of Wesp Barwell, LLC Preeti Saboo, of State Bank Jason Southwell, of Hafer Design, as Columbus Rotary president -elect. The Columbus Rotary Foundation, Inc., a 501-c-3 charity, was founded in 1957, and funds the charitable service mission of the Columbus Rotary Club.

One of our scholarship recipients visited our meeting this week to give us an update on how she's doing in her premed program at The Ohio State University and all the activities she's doing at school and in the community. She's already paying it forward and she hasn't even graduated yet! She embodies our motto of Service Above Self.

This week, our club had the privilege of learning from Bear Davis about the Urban Lacrosse Academy. The former Ohio Machine head coach is using lacrosse to give kids in urban communities exposure to the game with the intent of providing physical and mental conditioning through on and off the field education and mentoring that can, in turn, create opportunities within their classrooms, communities and beyond.