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Madison Rotary Celebrates 100th Anniversary

Madison Rotary invited all its past presidents in attendance at the 100th anniversary gala on Thursday, May 18 to stand and be recognized along witith its future club presidents. Madison Rotary was founded 100 years ago this week, on May 24, 2923. From left are future presidents Lois Bhatt and Jim Foster, past presidents Carol Martorana, Rev. Michel Belt, Jeannie Tsukamoto, Ray Freaney, Joe Smith, Jim Allison, Nancy Adamczyk, Barry Kroll, Joe Nastus, Jeffrey Kraft and current president Doug Willis. Photo by Alex Parker-Magyar

Reprinted from the Madison Eagle - As more than 100 people gathered to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Madison Rotary on Thursday evening, May 18, there was no mistaking what the organization stands for. The word “service,” as in Rotary’s motto of “Service Above Self,” was on the lips of many attendees as they celebrated the centennial with hors d’oeuvres, dinner and dancing at the Park Avenue Club in Florham Park. Click Read More for additional details

2023 Madison Rotary Scholarship Winners

Installation Dinner

Madison Rotary Hybrid Meeting

Interested in Rotary - Madison Rotary now has two in person weekly meetings on on Thursdays 7:45-8:30 am at the Madison Area YMCA and on Thursdays, 12:00-1:30 pm at Firehouse Pizza on Central Avenue, Madison. Continental breakfast is $8.00 and full lunch is $20.00. Each week Rotary conducts a short business meeting followed by a speaker. Topics and descriptions are on the left under Upcoming Speakers. The morning meeting will continue to be a hybrid meeting and those wishing to attend virtually CLICK HERE at 7:40 am on Thursdays. Recordings of morning meetings are posted above. Guests are invited to participate free of charge contact Joe Smith at info@njrotary.org for details. Information on how to join Rotary is below - check it out!

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Madison Rotary Mission

Madison Rotary members actively engage to eradicate food insecurity in our community, to empower youth and to partner with other local organizations to enrich the Madison community for all.

May is Youth Service Month

Madison Rotary Becomes Official Charity

The Madison Rotary has transitioned into a 501(c)(3) organization as of July 1, 2021, announced the rotary. The Rotary Club of Madison, a social welfare service organization, has been serving our local and global communities since 1923, said the organization. Over the past 33 years, the Rotary Club of Madison Foundation has successfully carried out humanitarian projects, such as End Hunger 3.6, to help fight food insecurity locally. The two entities have merged after a year-long, unification process to streamline governance, administrative and financial development operations, they announced. Click Read More for additional details.

The Rotary Foundation

For the 11th consecutive year, The Rotary Foundation has received the highest rating — four stars — from Charity Navigator, an independent evaluator of charities in the U.S. Click read more for additional information.

Rotary Theme 2023-24 Gordon McInally

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Rotary

Ladles of Love

Madison High School Interact Club Supports Maasai Girls

Madison High School Interact Club is a school service club. Students with the support of faculty advisor Carole Rawding and support from members of the affiliated Madison Rotary, identified the Maasai Girls Fund, a local NJ foundation that makes possible scholarships for young Maasai village girls in rural Kenya. Without the Fund’s help, these girls would have only a few basic grammar school years, then lives of hard servitude, being sold in exchange for cattle as genitally cut child brides into polygamous marriages. The Fund, led by Paul and Avery Mantell of Kinnelon, also Rotary members, arranged to stop cutting, and has helped dozens of these village girls attend four-year boarding school including tuition, uniforms, room and board. MHS Juniors Nina Kornchankul and Owen Weller led a successful Walk-a-Thon fund raiser campaign in Madison back in May that, combined with a follow-up online fund raiser, netted over $2,600, enough to fund four years of high school for one young lady, Leah Malano, pictured.

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Madison Rotary Supports World Central Kitchen

Following the recent destruction in Puerto Rico, Florida, and the surrounding areas caused by Hurricanes Fiona and Ian, The Madison Rotary Club is proud to donate $1,000 to World Central Kitchen (WCK) in support of their immediate relief efforts feeding those in need. World Central Kitchen, led by chef José Andrés, started with a simple idea: When people are hungry, send in cooks. Not tomorrow, today. Wherever there is a need, the WCK team is often first to the frontlines, providing hot fresh meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. “As part of Madison Rotary’s mission to fight food insecurity we looked for ways to quickly assist our friends in the South. With WCK’s experience and existing teams already on the ground, supporting them directly seemed a sensible choice”, said President Doug Willis. To learn more about World Central Kitchen, click here.

Madison High School Interact Club End Hunger Video

Rotary Donates $50,000

From left are Madison Rotary Club President Elizabeth “Liz” Parker; Madison Rotary Club Treasurer David Farrell; Madison Area YMCA Senior Director of Organization Advancement Amie Herman; Madison Area YMCA President & CEO Diane Mann; Barry Kroll, Madison Rotary Club past president and district governor; and Madison Area YMCA Associate Development Director Leigh Anne Soroka.

The Madison Rotary has pledged $50,000 to the Madison Area YMCA's capital campaign. "The Madison Area YMCA is excited to announce that the Madison Rotary Club Board of Directors pledged an exceptionally generous $50,000 gift to the Madison Area YMCA’s multi-million-dollar Family Center expansion" YMCA President and Chief Executive Officer Diane Mann said.

Ladles of Love - Soup Making
Healthy Italia

Jun 05, 2023
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Installation Dinner
Madison Community Arts Center

Jun 22, 2023
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Bottle Hill Day
In Front of Housing Authority Offices

Oct 07, 2023
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Breakfast - Donna Salvati

Jun 08, 2023 7:45 AM

Senior living options

Donna Salvati is on the Sales and Marketing team at The Delaney at The Green in Florham Park. She has been in the healthcare industry for 8 years and enjoys helping the senior population live their very best lives. Ms. Salvati will discuss the business model and offerings of The Delaney at the Green, a new luxury senior living community.

Breakfast - Claire Whitcomb

Jun 15, 2023 7:45 AM

Water sources for Madison and the role of trees in supporting that water supply

Breakfast - Chris Schorr

Jun 29, 2023 7:45 AM

The work of the Friends of Madison Shade Trees

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