Events

Link to sign up for October 5: https://forms.gle/sVCoq9HLppdhwRWY8

On the 1st Wednesday of each month, our Palo Alto Rotary Club helps Nuestra Casa distribute food to food insecure families at the Rise City Church, 1305 Middlefield Road, Redwood City. Up to 5 of us will volunteer from 2:00-4:00 and/or 4:00-6:00 on Wednesday, October 5. Please wear a face mask and your Palo Alto Rotary Club t-shirt if you have one. This activity is outdoors, under canopy tents. Neighborhood parking has a 2-hour limit, so if you volunteer for both shifts, you may park in the church parking lot.

Nuestra Casa is a past Palo Alto Rotary grant recipient. Their food distribution program serves 6,000 people per month in East Palo Alto and Redwood City. They recover healthy, high-quality food from distributors around the Bay Area. This reduces peoples’ grocery bills so they can use that money for rent, utilities, or transportation. It reduces the stigma and transportation barriers people face when using local food pantries. By reducing food waste, we're also reducing greenhouse gases. Learn more at https://nuestracasa.org

Members are welcome to attend by Zoom. Link is the same as for a regular meeting.

Join fellow Rotarians and partners to socialize monthly, mid-week. Matt Dolan, GM of Homewood Suites is our host. Watch your emails for details and if you can bring something.

Contact Mike Reynolds or Stans Kleijnen for Zoom information and meeting agenda

Join us for our monthly Friday night member socials. Details and address will be in your email.

Jennifer Mercies, Professor of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University

Contact Chair, Rebecca Geraldi for details on joining in

Link to sign up for November 2: https://forms.gle/v1KXCFdCnwnqFYeYA

On the 1st Wednesday of each month, our Palo Alto Rotary Club helps Nuestra Casa distribute food to food insecure families at the Rise City Church, 1305 Middlefield Road, Redwood City. Up to 5 of us will volunteer from 2:00-4:00 and/or 4:00-6:00 on Wednesday, November 2. Please wear a face mask and your Palo Alto Rotary Club t-shirt if you have one. This activity is outdoors, under canopy tents. Neighborhood parking has a 2-hour limit, so if you volunteer for both shifts, you may park in the church parking lot.

Nuestra Casa is a past Palo Alto Rotary grant recipient. Their food distribution program serves 6,000 people per month in East Palo Alto and Redwood City. They recover healthy, high-quality food from distributors around the Bay Area. This reduces peoples’ grocery bills so they can use that money for rent, utilities, or transportation. It reduces the stigma and transportation barriers people face when using local food pantries. By reducing food waste, we're also reducing greenhouse gases. Learn more at https://nuestracasa.org

Contact Committee Chair Sally Tomlinson for Zoom contact info.

Become acquainted or reacquainted with three of our longer term members. Always a great program!

Members are welcome to attend by Zoom. Link is the same as for a regular meeting.

Join fellow Rotarians and partners to socialize monthly, mid-week. Matt Dolan, GM of Homewood Suites is our host. Watch your emails for details and if you can bring something.

Cornelia Weiss is a 2015 Rotary Peace Fellow (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand). A former USAF military colonel, awards received include the U.S. Air Force Keenan Award for making the most notable contribution to the development of international law. She holds a GED, an AA (Colorado Mountain College), a BA in Women’s Studies (University of Utah), an MA in Defense and Security Studies (ANEPE), and a JD (Vanderbilt).  She has published in journals ranging from the European Journal of International Law to The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. A graduate of the Inter-American Defense College (where she was the sole female military student in her class), she most recently provided recommendations to the Inter-American Defense Board to end practices of excluding military women from military education.​ 

Roots of Peace, Turning Mines into Vines - Replacing Minefields with Vineyards and Orchards. Roots of Peace is a humanitarian - nonprofit organization founded in September 1997. From a family of Rotarians, Heidi has received the Rotary International "Service Above Self" Award. In December 2021, she was among those honored in Forbes "50 Over 50", and many other recognitions for their work over the past 25 years.

Report on WCS Programs being supported by Palo Alto Rotary 2022-23

Christian Martine was born in Beckley, West Virginia. He earned dual bachelor's degrees cum laude from Washington and Lee University in 2014. His career experience includes working as a senior product manager of employer growth for Glassdoor, Inc, and in other information technology companies focused on trust and safety. His past employers include Facebook and Amazon.

 Christian is the 2022 Democratic candidate for West Virginia House of Delegates, 45^th Delegate District.

 Martine has been affiliated with the Rotary Club of Beckley, the Mount Hope Lions Club, Working America (AFL-CIO Affiliate), and the Association of Information Technology Professionals. He is a former member of the Rotary Club of Palo Alto.

Via Zoom from West Virginia

Quarterly meeting of the Endowment Board via Zoom. Use club meeting link or contact Betsy Bechtel, Chair.

Contact Chair, Rebecca Geraldi for details on joining in

Link to sign up for December 7: https://forms.gle/cTAHYQkXYLHCQiw29

On the 1st Wednesday of each month, our Palo Alto Rotary Club helps Nuestra Casa distribute food to food insecure families at the Rise City Church, 1305 Middlefield Road, Redwood City. Up to 5 of us will volunteer from 2:00-4:00 and/or 4:00-6:00 on Wednesday, December 7. Please wear a face mask and your Palo Alto Rotary Club t-shirt if you have one. This activity is outdoors, under canopy tents. Neighborhood parking has a 2-hour limit, so if you volunteer for both shifts, you may park in the church parking lot.

Nuestra Casa is a past Palo Alto Rotary grant recipient. Their food distribution program serves 6,000 people per month in East Palo Alto and Redwood City. They recover healthy, high-quality food from distributors around the Bay Area. This reduces peoples’ grocery bills so they can use that money for rent, utilities, or transportation. It reduces the stigma and transportation barriers people face when using local food pantries. By reducing food waste, we're also reducing greenhouse gases. Learn more at https://nuestracasa.org

In person, bring guests, to enjoy our final program of 2022 with beautiful musical selections from Palo Alto's own West Bay Opera. 

Members are welcome to attend by Zoom. Link is the same as for a regular meeting.

Learn more about these three new active club members

Join fellow Rotarians and partners to socialize monthly, mid-week. Matt Dolan, GM of Homewood Suites is our host. Watch your emails for details and if you can bring something.

Instead of a speaker, we will do a service project in the room for Life Moves, one of our past Grant recipient organizations

Larry N. Gerston is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at San Jose State University. He is the author or co-author of 12 academic books, including three on public policymaking. Professor Gerston has written more than 150 op-ed pieces for major newspapers that focus on public policy issues, and since 1980, he has been the on-air political analyst at NBC Bay Area television, where he appears weekly to explain complex political themes to the viewing audience in understandable terms. He also serves as the political analyst for KCBS radio, an all-news radio station in San Francisco.

Join us for our monthly member social. Details with address will be in your emails

Contact Chair, Rebecca Geraldi for details on joining in

Join fellow Rotarians and partners to socialize monthly, mid-week. Matt Dolan, GM of Homewood Suites is our host. Watch your emails for details and if you can bring something.

Join us for our monthly member social. Details and address will be in your email.

Quarterly meeting of the Endowment Board via Zoom. Use club meeting link or contact Betsy Bechtel, Chair.

Join fellow Rotarians and partners to socialize monthly, mid-week. Matt Dolan, GM of Homewood Suites is our host. Watch your emails for details and if you can bring something.

Join us for our monthly member social at the home of Megan and Todd Lewis. Details will be in your email.