Smyrna Rotary Club, Smyrna, Georgia

The Smyrna Rotary Club, in Smyrna, Georgia unites business, professional, and community leaders for business networking, fellowship, great speakers, delicious food, and, most importantly, service projects in Smyrna, across Georgia or internationally. Interested in community service in Cobb County, Smyrna Rotary Club should be the place for you. We love great people who want to get involved and make our community and planet a better place.

Rotary International is the world’s largest and oldest community service organization (1.2 million Rotarians in 35,000+ clubs in 200+ countries/territories). The various clubs do local, regional and international projects.

Smyrna Rotary Club’s recent local projects include scholarships, book drives for the Smyrna Jail and the Cobb Jail, Robotics equipment for Griffin Middle and Teasley Elementary, involvement with the Adult Education Center, the Center for Children and Young Adults, Read Across America Day and Career Day. We've sent ShelterBox kits to Nepal and Haiti after natural disasters, and we're constntly committed to fighting polio and Alzheimer's research.

COVID-19 UPDATE: We are using social distancing at our meetings we have a live feed for virtual attendance. We usually meet at Brawner Hall (3180 Atlanta Road, Smyrna, GA 30080) most Tuesdays for lunch (12:15 to 1:15 pm). To attend, please email f12@nfiweb.com.

Projects

For 2018-2019,we participated in a global grant project for Bangladesh, a hearing aid project in India and a SOUNS global grant project. For 2017-2018, some of our projects included Cobb Christmas, a food drive in February, a project in Bangladesh, Adopt a Mile on Windy Hill, Career Day at Teasley Elementary, sponsoring Smyrna Memorial Day and Smyrna Veterans Day, etc.

Polio Plus

Smyrna Rotary Club supports the Polio Plus initiative generously every year. Polio has been defeated in all but a few countries. Soon it will be gone for good!

Alzheimer's Disease

Smyrna Rotary Club raises about $2,500 annually to combat Alzheimer's Disease!

2018/2019 Hearing Aid Project!

The Jeevan Jyoti is a special needs school in in Dhanbad, India. Thanks to a $4,680 grant by Smyrna Rotary Club and the Dhanbad Rotary Club, 50 children got hearing screenings and fitted hearing aids for the first time in their lives. They've also received hearing aid batteries for three years. Rotary not only improves the lives in our community but touches lives around the world. Thanks to President Nominee Raymond Coffman for leading this project!

2018 Bangladesh Project

North Columbus Rotary Club, Smyrn Rotary Club, East Cobb Rotary Club and other Rotary Clubs teamed for a global grant for a hospital in Bangladesh for a mobile mammography vehicle and staff training that will do thousands of screenings.

2017/2018 Christmas Projects - Rotary Cares!

Smynra Rotary adopted two local families to help provide their eight children ages 3 to 16 with the blessing of waking up to Christmas presents on Christmas morning. Presents included shoes, clothes, and a few toys on their wish lists.

Smyrna Rotary joined in with hundreds of volunteers to assist in providing Cobb Christmas this past year. Cobb Christmas, staffed 100% by volunteers, provides 3 toys to each child to families in need. Smyrna Rotary volunteers spent half a day doing what was needed to ensure a successful 2017 Cobb Christmas.

2014-2019 Teasley Elementary School

Teasley Elementary School invites us to read to their kids on Read Across America Day in March and make presentations on Career Day in the Fall. Thanks to our friends Amy Crosby, Principal Leslie Mansfield, etc., for inviting us! The pleasure is ours!

Charity Navigator: Rotary 100%, Red Cross, etc., much lower

See Charity Navigator: Rotary 100%, Red Cross, etc., much lower. Rotary is at 100%, while the American Red Cross is at 79%, March of Dimes 73% and United Way at 86%. United Way's CEO compensation is $849,581; Rotary's is $167,291 though its revenue is almost three times greater than United Way's. Rotary donations go to those who need them. Questions? please email f12@nfiweb.com.

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