Projects

In addition to the ongoing service that the Rotary Club of San Francisco offers to the community, there are a number of special projects under way at any given time. Please contact the Rotary office  for more information and see the pages under this section for ongoing projects.

The San Francisco Rotary Foundation is the organization affiliated with the Rotary Club of San Frncisco which disburses grants for Rotary projects. Over the past six years, it has disbursed close to $1.9 million for such projects as (highest awards):

• SF Boys & Girls Club: $167,500
• Salvation Army: $142,000
• Habitat for Humanity projects in the Bay Area:  $100,000
• University of California at San Francisco Mt. Sutro Park restoration: $100,000
• Scholarships: $94,000
• Camp Enterprise: $97,000
• Academic Decathlon (a national program that rewards academic skills in youth): $94,500
• Boy Scouts: $73,000
• Junior Achievement: $70,000
• YMCA: $65,500
• Rotavision: $65,000
• Rotaplast: $57,500
• Interact and High School Scholarships: $50,000
• Tsunami Relief, Indonesia: $40,000

Other Service Projects in Our History

1923 - Adopted the Boy's and Girl's Club of San Francisco as a service project
1924 - Sponsored the Sunshine School for challenged children
1926 - Founded and organized the California Society for Crippled Children, following a Rotary project in Ohio; later became the Easter Seals Program
1942 - Purchased 2,000 acres of land in Mendocino County which later became the site for Camp Mendocino for the Boy's and Girl's Club of San Francisco
1945 - Helped host delegates, many of whom were Rotarians, to signing of the United Nations charter in San Francisco
1985 - Started Camp Enterprise, providing leadership training to high school juniors
1985 - Completed construction of a bridge at Camp Mendocino

1987-88 - Initial donation of $165,000 to the Polio Plus Program of Rotary International to help eradicate polio, with a total of more than $400,000 being donated over the years.
1988 - Started Academic Decathlon encouraging academic excellence in high school students in San Francisco
1995 - Helped host events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter
1997 - Began World Wide Rotary Day honoring the Consular Corps of San Francisco 1998;  

began the Boeddeker Park project providing playground equipment and         improvements for use by the children of the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.