Greetings, and welcome to the Schenectady Rotary website.

Our Club meets in downtown Schenectady, and each year we raise between $7-8,000, the overwhelming majority of which is donated to food and shelter programs based within Schenectady County. For many years we have been a primary bell ringer for the Salvation Army, raising over $3,000 during the Kettle Season in 2009. We engage in numerous service projects each year, including serving summer lunch to kids on Hamilton Hill, maintaining and improving the Rotary Park boat launch on the Mohawk River, and helping with the Schenectady Holiday Parade.

We are an active club for dynamic people with interest in Schenectady.

What is perhaps unrecognized, though, is that Schenectady Rotary Club participates actively in Rotary's efforts internationally. Last year we made substantial donations to relief efforts in Haiti, and this year we have applied for matching grants to send up to $10,000 worth of tents to help things on the ground. We sponsored a Union College student's effort to incubate a small business in Cambodia, and this year we will raise funds to help finish the eradication of Polio, a project that Rotary has worked on for decades that is now within a whisker of the complete eradication of this disease from the face of the earth. Nothing insignificant about that!

If you believe in service above self, then we want to talk to you. If you are too busy to be in Rotary, then you are exactly the kind of person we want in the Club… we'll help you integrate Rotary into your priorities. Good Rotarians are hard to find, and our Club is blessed with 80 people just like you. Join with us, and make a difference.

-- Fred Daniels, President