What does Rotary do?

This event will be fun, promote fitness, and provide an opportunity for kids and adults to raise funds to make this a better world. The Edina Morningside Rotary Club has teamed up with the Edina Community Foundation and other organizations to make this event possible.

Rotary does a lot of great things through the year. Grant monies fund benefit projects such as these:

• V.E.A.P. and other area food shelves - feeding families facing financial hardships

• Bikes for Kids - gathering and fixing up donated bicycles for children throughout the metro area, many of whom have never owned a bike

• Bike Racks - providing bicycle racks for local schools to promote healthy lifestyles.

• Edina ABC Foundation - providing minority youth from other parts of the country with an Edina High School education

• Junior Police - helping young elementary students in our schools understand the role the police play in the community

• Edina Education Fund - supporting initiatives towards science, reading and innovative teaching methods in the Edina Schools

• Troop Support - providing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with encouragement and care kits including food, drink powder, magazines, energy bars, socks, candy to build relationships with the children and more 

• CampEnterprise - introducing high school juniors & seniors from throughout Minnesota to business and the free enterprise systems in an intensive three day course

• Rotary International Foundation - supporting a variety of needs including: polio eradication, worldwide disaster relief efforts; AIDS caregiver kits for Africa, local YMCA and more

• Rotary International Ambassadors - provide high school students, college students and young business professionals with an international experience that will broaden their horizons

• Clean Water in Haiti - building a well and refurbishing a school in Pignon, Haiti

• Playgrounds in the Middle East - rebuilding unsafe playgrounds destroyed by bombs