Events

Jo will give the club a brief recap of a 21 day tour and cruise featuring countries around the Baltic Sea

Learn more about today's 4-H youth programs! 

4-H is America's largest youth development organization, empowering more than 6 million young people with the skills to lead for a lifetime!

Past civil wars, political unrest, and genocide set the stage for significant rural poverty in Cambodia today.

The plight of Cambodia’s rural villager is what inspired Trailblazer Foundation’s co-founders, Chris Coats and Scott Coats, to create a nonprofit that focuses on Siem Reap province and clean water. 

Golden Pantry & Thrift is a non-profit organization that provides a sustainable food pantry and financial assistance to our community in crisis and/or to those experiencing hardship.

Venu will give us an overview of renewable energy projects now underway at NREL in Golden.

Tamara Fennell (Tamie) found her Rotary home with the Rotary Club of Highlands Ranch in 2016. In 2020-2021 she served as Club President. The Rotary Club of Highlands Ranch was the recipient of the 2020-2021 Paul Harris Award and Rotary Presidential Citation during her term. Tamie has served her club as Fundraising Chair, Community Service Co-Chair and is currently Co-Chair of the Pediatric Mental Health Committee. She has served District 5450 as Area 4 Assistant Governor and worked on the 2021-2022 District Conference Planning Committee. Tamie is a member of Rotary Action Group on Mental Health Initiatives, a member of the Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group, a multiple Paul Harris Fellow, and a member of the Paul Harris Society.

Past career experiences include nonprofit fundraising and operations, floral design, owning her own small wellness centered business and project management, planning and design development for healthcare and corporate facilities. Through her passion for mental health advocacy, Tamie has worked at state and local community levels as a program facilitator and trainer to raise awareness of mental illness and battle stigma.

Tamie holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Interior Design and Minor in Dance. Her love of the Arts, nature, gardening, and hiking provide a balance to an active life of volunteering and advocacy. Tamie lives in Roxborough Park with her husband Kurt and enjoys traveling back east to visit their adult son, Emerson.

We will have a special session of LFRC meeting on this date with Charles Sprague (director of the school's STEM program), meet the student participants and learn more about WRHS science, technology, engineering, and math programs (aka STEM). We will plan on lunch following the tour at around 11:45 am at Ester's or Illegal Pete's restaurant (26th and Kipling in the Gold's Marketplace).

The presentation will include highlights from Chapala Rotary Club's (Mexico) projects for this past year, including sanitation projects, dental services, and how this club addresses locally prevalent diseases such as diabetes and kidney disease.

The resurgence of polio in Gaza is a consequence of people being forced to live in unsanitary conditions and the destruction of civilian infrastructure by Israeli forces during the war. Doctors Without Borders is helping to address this critical health issue!

Our mission is to create opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families to participate fully in the community.

Vision Statements

• DDRC provides easy access to person-centered, quality services and supports.
• DDRC is a leader in providing a quality work environment.
• DDRC partners with our community to increase participation and expand opportunities for people with disabilities.
• DDRC inspires the citizens of Colorado to welcome people with disabilities in all areas of life.

Fostering opportunity and prosperity by cultivating connections through the celebration of our vibrant community.

Inspiring a thriving destination where people desire to be.

Project C.U.R.E. was founded in 1987 to address the staggering shortage of medical resources around the world. Since our humble beginnings in a garage in Colorado, Project C.U.R.E. has become the world’s largest distributor of donated medical supplies, equipment and services to doctors and nurses serving the sick and dying in more than 135 countries.

A Minnesota native (born in St. Mary's Hospital, owned by the Mayo Clinic), he grew up in rural South Dakota and attended a one-room country school. He was the first member of his family to attend college, where he majored in journalism. Since then, he's gone back for a master's degree in journalism and public relations, taken courses in creative writing, and had a long career as a writer, editor, educator and p.r. specialist. He resides in Colorado.

In addition to writing hundreds of news, sports and feature stories, both as a journalist and in public relations, he's authored 9 books – including "And The Wind Whispered" (winner of a 2016 Colorado Book Award for historical fiction) and his newest, "Rainbow Rock," a mystery/thriller.

In our society today, when many Americans think about poverty, they tend to think in economic categories. You may have heard someone comment, “They just need to get a job!” as if that would solve the problem. While a good job may help someone escape poverty for a time, most cycle back in within 3-5 years. So, there is more at play than mere economics.

When many people look at people in poverty, they say, “What’s wrong with you?” At CrossPurpose, we start with “What’s happened to you?”

At CrossPurpose, we define our holistic approach as abolishing economic, relational, and spiritual poverty.

Clements offers transportation services via Lakewood Rides, a hot lunch program, a variety of classes and drop-in activities, travel programs on location, reach out office appointments and private rentals. Drop-in activities are available for adults 55 and over.

Hands of The Carpenter (Hands) is a faith-based nonprofit community that uniquely serves working single moms by addressing the often overlooked issue of transportation. Hands provides automobile placement, repair and maintenance in an effort to relieve the enormous financial burden and related distress that automobile repair puts on this population and their opportunity for economic self-sufficiency.

The Empowerment Resource Center offers holistic family services aimed at guiding and supporting children and families as they work towards achieving self-sufficiency.  We provide a cost-free store for eligible families stocked with items such as clothing, food, home goods, toys, books, diapers and baby essentials. This allows our clients to allocate their limited resources towards crucial living expenses such as housing, utilities, transportation, and healthcare.