Lobster Fest

The Rotary Club of Belmont & Redwood Shores sponsors college sponsorships for students from out high schools here in Belmont ($3,000.00 each, for up to four students per year). We also award Belmont and Redwood Shores teachers with special grants (up to $500.00 each) through our Gretchen Ross Legacy Teacher Mini Grant Program. Our Cars for Vet grants assure that wounded or disabled veterans have transportation for work, family, or medical needs. With the Belmont Footsteps after-school program, we provide assistance to the youngest children and their parents who need this valuable service. Members have mentored high school youth participating in the county-wide Mock Trial competition, and through our sponsorship of the Carlmont High School Interact Club and Belmont Crew 650, a co-ed program of the Boy Scouts, we continue to focus on local youth development. Members help out at Samaritan House and provide hands-on assistance at Second Harvest.

Internationally, we’ve helped equip six impoverished schools in Mazatlán, Mexico, obtained approval for a Global Grant to support a woman’s healthcare initiative in Uganda, and supported Rotary’s effort to eradicate polio everywhere in the world.

We believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things; we can change the world. Together, we can create a world of good will, understanding and peace. We begin to do this, one step at a time, by bringing people together, in fellowship, to improve our own community here in Belmont and Redwood Shores, as well as to reach across our country and the world