We are proud to list just some of the activities that have benefited both the business and resident members of our area in our over 40-year history:
- Send members to teach and participate in the District 7230 RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) program.
- Donated a Swiss atomic clock to the new Greenburgh Town Hall in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Rotary International.
- Gift of Life, is an international program offering life-saving heart surgery to children.
- Sponsored Rotary International Scholars.
- Collected and sent school supplies and clothing to a small school district in the Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky.
- Planted Cherry Blossom trees at Webb Park commemorating the town’s Bicentennial. (see Photo Left)
- Established the yearly Hartsdale Rotary – Ralph LaMaire
- Community Service Award through the Woodlands Scholarship Fund for a student who best exemplifies “Service Above Self.”
- Participated in sending 280 wheelchairs to Peru in 2004.
- Constructed a community Bus Shelter. Sponsored a Hartsdale high school student to Sweden for a year.
- Sponsored a Hartsdale high school student to New Zealand for a year.
- Contributed to the People’s 911 Memorial Wall at Webb Field.
- Contributed to the Rotary Memorial Wall at Webb Field. (see Photo Below)
- Assisted students in vocational counseling.
- Provided the community with a burglary deterrent program in conjunction with the Greenburgh Police Department.
- Provided food and gifts to needy children and families at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
- Recognition of a Student of the Month from the Greenburgh Central School District (ongoing program). (see Photo Right)
- Installed trash baskets around Hartsdale.
- Sent children of homeless families to summer camp each year.
- Constructed elevated gardens at Woodlands for use by the elderly who are unable to garden at ground level
- Erected community Bulletin Boards at the Greenburgh Town Library and at the Hartsdale train station plaza.
- Provided an annual camper-ship for the Boy Scouts.
- Chaperoned high school dances for charity.
- Sponsored an Indian child on an Arizona reservation.
- Sponsored a deaf child at the Knollwood School for the Deaf.
- Manned Salvation Army kettles at Christmas.
- Helped underwrite and made contributions to various local organizations and causes, such as student trips to foreign lands, the Dad’s Club, etc.
- Established a Safe Driver Program in conjunction with the Greenburgh Police Department.
- Hosted a foreign high school student for a year from Bolivia.
- Hosted a foreign high school student for a year from Belgium.
- Erected a memorial flagpole in the Hartsdale train station plaza.
- Developed an award and incentive reading program at the high school.
- Contribute to Camp VIVA, a summer camp for families dealing with AIDS.
- Instituted “Safe School Bus Driver of the Month” award.
- Collect eyeglasses for the needy.
- Helped promote recycling throughout the town of Greenburgh by providing Rotary logo bins.
- Assisted restocking the library at the Montrose Veterans Administration Hospital through a book and magazine collection program.
- Donated library card sleeves to Greenburgh Public Library.
- Contributed both financially and physically toward the construction of the playground at Webb Field.
- Helped raise funds for the playground at Westhab.
- Read to children at the Greenburgh Library during Literacy Week.
- We have also supported the Elmsford Animal Shelter, the Hartsdale Players. Day Top of Westchester, the Lord’s Pantry, the Dad’s Club of Hartsdale, the Grace Church, the Bridge Fund, the
- Greenburgh Chess Association, the Gift of Life program and the New Orchestra of Westchester.
- Provide dictionaries to each fourth grader at R. J. Bailey School. (see Photo Right)
- Sponsored two students who have gone on to win the Rotary District 7230 FourWay Speaking Test Contest.
- Donated sign and sponsor “Teenburgh” at the new Greenburgh Public Library.
- Actively participated in Rotary’s “Polio Plus” program as we work to eradicate the disease throughout the world.
- Lead club in international projects to provide potable water in Honduras and Tanzania.
- Provide school supplies to those in need in the Greenburgh Central 7 school district.