Welcome to the Rotary Club of Minnesota Veterans

 
PARTICIPATE IN OUR RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE
 
Club Member Jeff Staads volunteered at the drive and donated!
 
 
The Rotary Club of Minnesota Veterans is committed to strengthening our community and helping meet hospital and patient needs through blood donations. Blood drives are a way of giving the community an opportunity to help save lives. Veterans are known for being concerned about the safety and wellbeing of others. That is why Rotary is such a good fit for those who want to serve veterans and their families. 
 
It all began in 2020, after a Red Cross speaker presented at one of our club meetings about all that the Red Cross does for Veterans. When a club member asked what we could do to help, he suggested hosting a blood drive. Our veteran club has successfully hosted 20 Blood Drives! More than 2500 patients have received blood products from our efforts.  We are especially thrilled when our donors discover that their blood products end up at the VA to help vets! 

 

Our next drive will be Thursday, April 24, 1:00-7:00pm
Our July 24 drive appointments are already open!
 
 
 
 
YOU ARE INVITED TO OUR NEXT MEETING
 
Tuesday, May 8, 4:00pm
 
Brookview Community Center
316 Brookview Pkwy S.
Golden Valley, MN
 
Brookview Community Center - HGA
 
 
In May we will be hosting three local organizations and presenting grants. The Twin Cities are home to many veterans organizations.  Club members selected three this year to receive a grant / and partnership to continue to serve veterans. 
 
Our meetings are always open to anyone desiring to serve, support and walk beside veterans and their families.  The club hosts one club meeting each month (on the 2nd Tuesday at 4pm) where we enjoy a topic of interest to veterans, Rotarians, and our metro community families. 
 
Our 4th week gatherings occur around service projects or social connections with the veteran community. This is held in various locations and times as scheduled. If you are part of a veteran organization and would like to host a gathering of club members, please reach out to our president as we enjoy working on projects that benefit veterans.
 
 
VETERAN SERVICE ORGANIZATION GRANTS
Grant Distributions Announced
 
 
It wasn't easy to narrow down the organizations that serve veterans and their families in our community. Ten organizations were nominated. In order to have the greatest impact, the top three organizations receive a $1000 - 3000 grant selected by our club members.
 
We are honored to partner with the following three organizations. Click on the logos below to learn more about the good they do for vets:
 
 
 
                                 
 
 
 
                      
About Rotary Veterans
 
We are a group of Veterans and other service minded men and women living in Minnesota who were chartered as a service club within Rotary International in October, 2019.  Our sense of service derives from military core values of "Service before Self"  that parallels those of Rotary International "Service above Self." 
 
Service includes: actively caring for one another and our extended families - especially during times of hurt; serving in our communities - youth, civic organizations, schools and the elderly; duly honoring other veterans & their families - especially during times of grief; and serving those in area/regions where we have served, such as projects in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, etc.  

JOIN A PROJECT


Change your community with us by volunteering on a local project.
 
 

PARTNER WITH US


We work with groups and organizations of all sizes to accomplish even more.
 
 

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