Events

Come get your hands dirty volunteering at the Virginia Zoo with horticulture work! More details to follow on exact tasks. This event is for participants 18 years and older. Volunteers 14-18 years old can be included with prior coordination.

Join us for a club dinner meeting where we will learn about the Hilltop Family YMCA from their new Operations Manager, Nicole Tsetsilas. 

Apage Consulting is a non-profit organization that provides resources to families within communities impacted by children with special needs both locally and abroad. They provide quality behavioral analytical services through training, mentoring, public outreach and supervision to those around the world who would not normally have access to these services. 

Join us for dinner and a presentation to learn more about Agape Consulting.

Come join us in our biggest fundraiser of the year! A lively and well-loved event, Neptune Festival is a great combo of music, art, and beach sport fun. We'll be posted up on 24th St to sell beer and waters to festival goers. We need maximum participation from all members to fill our time slots. A minimum of 8 volunteers are required at a time throughout the weekend. Final shift of each day will be in charge of bringing the cash bank to be closed out for the day. 

Headliners at our location include Cowboy Mouth on Friday, Modern English on Saturday, and Skip Castro Band on Sunday! A variety of other groups will also perform.

Use the Google Form to sign up for as many slots as you are available for by September 15th so we can identify gaps: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvRq9tbVLhDngpj9VNbjt-3ER-KKTASOLNPcRhO0pJVEIehQ/viewform?usp=sf_link 

See you there!

Come out to dinner at YNot Landstown Commons for a special meeting with District Governor Rudy Garcia.

Join us for a presentation by the Virginia Beach Community Development Corporation. 

Since 1985, the Virginia Beach Community Development Corporation (VBCDC) has strived to achieve its mission of providing affordable housing and support services with a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Virginia Beach Community Development Corporation (vbcdc.org)

TIME ADJUSTMENT as of October 18th! Come join a variety of other volunteers at the Fall Fest, an educational and fun annual event at First Landing State Park including info booths, hay rides, craft stations, smores, pumpkin painting, and more! Volunteers will be divvied out to the stations day of. This event is always a huge community hit! 

Join the Rotary Club of Virginia Beach for a club dinner where we will award two Outstanding City Employees! 

Come help Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) "Catch the King Tide!" We'll be collecting essential flooding data to assist marine biologists in understanding our changing local waterways. Exact location and time are tentatvie, and being selected with the help of our VIMS contacts, to best match the tidal movements for that day.

Please register BOTH here and use the link below to register with VIMS: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7vvGgsEClN3G5VkcKrmQVdFAyPA4M4f16M3oU9-a2sxoAVw/viewform 

If you are able to attend a training session, please do! They are not required, but the more the merrier. The link for training session options and sign up is: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScihh_ORwNSwLhc81UTDvZkidG7Rlv3okym8zctqPzJd0-_dQ/viewform 

Our Interact members are invited to join, and guests are always welcome. Before the day of, please download the Sea Level Rise app if you are able, which we will be using the day of the event. More info to follow!

During our next dinner meeting we will learn more about Toby's Dream Foundation from Executive Director and Founder, Joan Steele. 

Founded in 2009, Toby’s Dream Foundation is dedicated to bringing joy to children with life-threatening illnesses by granting them a Dream of a lifetime. This charitable foundation is focused on serving children who are treated and referred from Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters and from Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. Most of these children live on the  Eastern Shore of Virginia and Greater Hampton Roads, which includes Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton, Williamsburg, Yorktown, Isle of Wight, and parts of Eastern North Carolina and more. However, Toby’s Dream Foundation will serve any child that is treated at CHKD or Portsmouth Naval Medical Center regardless of where they live.

Toby's Dream – Toby’s Dream Foundation ensures that children living with life-threatening illnesses in Greater Hampton Roads & the Eastern Shore of Virginia have the opportunity and resources to imagine and experience their most fantastic Dream. (tobysdream.org)

Salvation Army is seeking out a big group of volunteers to assist with distributing food boxes for Thanksigiving. Come bring joy and nourishment to those who may have trouble getting food on the table this holiday season! This event is the same day as our Bingo Night, and we would like to prioritize supporting the Crisis Center since it is a Rotary run event. Many other groups will be chipping in to support the turkey distribution, and it could be a great way to meet fellow volunteers from throughout Hampton Roads. If you prefer mornings, or are unavailable in the evening that day, then this is the event for you! Interact members welcome. 

Let's bring some pre-holiday joy to the youth at the Crisis Center with a bingo night! We'll be hosting two simultaneous games (boys and girls) in different spaces at the center, so if you love bingo sign on up. 

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For information, please contact Dan Edwards at lionrun@aol.com. 

The Rotary Club of Virginia Beach continues to keep our traditions alive! Join us for this special club meeting when we will present our Doors to Opportunity and Special Achievement Awards. Let's fill the room and show how much our club appreciates the awardees!

**Special Notice - As voted on by the Rotary Club of Virginia Beach Board of Director's on November 2nd, our club meetings will now follow a new schedule. We will still hold a social time beginning at 6pm and will officially start our meetings at 6:15. This will allow for enough time for any special announcements, introductions of any guests and visiting Rotarian's and for presentations. It is our goal to always end our meetings by 7:30pm. 

Join us in stylish red aprons ringing bells for the Salvation Army! We will be camped outside of Kroger asking for donations to help our community this holiday season. We will be broken into two 2-hour shifts. A second event is being created for an afternoon shift on December 9th, so if you wish to participate both days, please RSVP to both! Interact members are welcome. If we have enough interest, we can reserve additional shifts. 

Add your preferred shift in the comments when you register. 1st shift is 10am-12pm and 2nd shift is 12-2pm. Before the day of, there will be a reminder email to let everyone know the exact time slots they are signed up for. Can't wait to see you there!

Join us in stylish red aprons ringing bells for the Salvation Army! We will be camped outside of Kroger asking for donations to help our community this holiday season. We will be broken into two 2-hour shifts. Another email came out for the shifts on December 2nd, so if you wish to participate both days, please RSVP to both! Interact members are welcome. If we have enough interest, we can reserve additional shifts. 

Add your preferred shift in the comments when you register. 1st shift is 2-4pm and 2nd shift is 4-6pm. Before the day of, there will be a reminder email to let everyone know the exact time slots they are signed up for. Can't wait to see you there!

Come join in for the second year in a row with Girls on the Run! Group volunteer opportunities can range from being course marshalls, cheering on participants at cheer stations, passing out water and medals at the finish line, and a ton more.

This event requires you to register using the link below:

https://www.pinwheel.us/register/index/GOTR-HR-Fall-2023-5k-Volunteers?sid=6257d873913f4f2b9215c0f3e8cbf645

Please RSVP here in Clubrunner as well so we know how many of us will be attending. Thanks and see you there!

Join us at The Casual Pint to celebrate the holiday season!

Cost to attend is $25 and will be billed to you after the event. This fee will provide you with 1 drink ticket and plenty of heavy hors d'oeuvres to enjoy. Additional drinks can be purchased separately.

Bring a wrapped gift (around $10) for a fun exchange game!

Registration is required for this social event and will end on Monday, December 11th at 5pm.

Come join a variety of volunteers in wrapping holiday presents at REI. This is a fun-filled event that's been going on for years! This annual fundraiser benefits the Friends of First Landing, a group whose mission is to act as a non-profit Citizens Support Organization to assist in conserving the natural, cultural, scenic, and recreational resources of First Landing State Park; to assist in providing a variety of recreational and educational opportunities; and to assist in promoting environmental stewardship of Virginia’s most visited state park.

You can learn more about the organization here: https://friendsoffirstlandingstatepark.com/ 

Join us as we induct a NEW MEMBER into our club! Help us welcome Cash Jackson-Green into our club as an official member of the Rotary Club of Virginia Beach!

We will also hear from Kayla Lundy, Community Relations Coordinator with the Virginia Arts Festival. Ms. Lundy will share with our members and guests details about the planned 2024 festival season. The Festival is a non-profit performing arts organization with a mission to bring world-class performing arts to Hampton Roads through partnerships, education, and culture. The new festival season includes amazing dance, music, theater performances and more! 

As a reminder, we will be gathering at 6:00 pm for a brief social time and will begin the meeting at 6:15. Our target ending time remains the same at 7:30.

We hope to see you there!

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For information, contact Dan Edwards at lionrun@aol.com. 

You guessed it, we have yet another NEW MEMBER to induct at this meeting! We will then hold a business meeting to discuss important club issues so please plan to join for this important conversation.

6:00pm Social Time, 6:15 Meeting Starts, 7:30 Meeting Concludes

Pre-registration is strongly encouraged to help us in planning for our meetings.

For the second year in a row, let's head out to First Landing State Park's campgrounds and clean up ahead of the March 1st campground season opening. We'll pick up trash and enjoy some fresh air while supporting our local State Park! Can't wait to see you there! Interact is welcome.

Join us for a tour of Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Brock Environmental Center. Following the tour, we will gather for dinner nearby, where we will have another new member induction. 

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The Chesapeake Bay Foundation built the Brock Environmental Center to engage, inform, and inspire generations about the environment and how we can all help save the Bay. It serves as the hub of CBF's Virginia Beach programs and is home to a mobile oyster restoration center and the Virginia Beach City Public Schools Environmental Studies Program for high school students. 

The Brock Environmental Center, located at Pleasure House Point in Virginia Beach, is an innovative example of environmentally sensitive and smart building—among the first in the nation to embrace energy and water independence—and advances CBF's efforts to defend one of the nation's most valuable and threatened natural resources, the Chesapeake Bay. 

Continuing with a February focused on environmental cleanup, let's meet up at Francis Land House to pick up trash for the Lynnhaven River Now group. We're looking for 5-6 people for this event to be a success. Interact is welcome!

Come on out and help distribute Girl Scout cookies to all of Virginia Beach! This event was a blast last year, and you definitely won't need to work out for a couple days after... This will involve unpacking cookie boxes from trucks, then counting and placing them into the vehicles each Girl Scout troop drives up. At the end fo the day, volunteers have historically received a free box of cookies! Final registration numbers are due to the event coordinatora by February 14th. There will be 2 shift options released at a later date (likely 7-10 and 10-1), or you can come help the whole time. Interact members welcome!