2016 Lobster Fest

The Rotary Club of Belmont & Redwood Shores sponsors college scholarships for students from our high schools here in Belmont ($ 3,000 each, for up to four students per year). We also award Belmont and Redwood Shores teachers with special grants (up to $ 500 each) through our Gretchen Ross Legacy Teacher Mini Grant Program. Our Cars for Vets grants assures 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 to Second Harvest.

Internationally, we’ve helped equip six impoverished schools in Mazatlan, 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, with thousands of other Rotary Clubs, to give sustainable help to