The Boulder Flatirons Rotary Club focuses its service activities in three main areas: community service, international service and vocational service. Locally, we support a number of activities which help our community, including:

Attention Homes provides temporary housing and counseling for at-risk youth in transition. Its motto is "Attention, not Detention." Besides financial assistance, club members helped with the reconstruction of one of the homes, we provide dinner to residents once a month, donate books and other necessities and are available as mentors.

Justice High School is a charter college preparatory high school designed for young people who might otherwise be neglected by the educational system. Its mascot is the phoenix and its motto is "Rising Above the Ordinary to Achieve the Impossible." In 2008, we helped a team of students raise enough money to travel to Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica, to build a library and launch a literacy program for residents.  Later that year, the club established two $500 scholarships for students between their junior and senior years, to be used to earn the college credits required for graduation.  The 2009 recipients are Juanita Suarez and Nancy Cano (pictured at left with club youth liaison Sally Sandoe).  Juanita and Nancy will participate in the Colorado College Summer Scholars program in Colorado Springs.

Meals on Wheels of Boulder provides home delivered meals to the elderly and disabled in our community. In addition to financial assistance, members serve as volunteer and substitute drivers.

Carriage House, a drop-in daycare center for the homeless, helps clients find work, health care, counseling, and provides a daily meal. Rotarians help with food preparation.

KidLinks is summer rehabilitation program for kids developed by Boulder Community Hospital. Club members are instrumental in planning and staffing an annual golf tournament which raises close to $20,000 for the program.

Internationally, we work to address Rotary International's areas of emphasis: clean water, health and hunger, and literacy, and to complete the work begun in 1988 to eradicate polio from the planet.
Specific projects supported by Boulder Flatirons Rotary include:

• Escuela la Minga (pictured below) is a school in the mountains of Ecuador built by a retired Boulder teacher. We have found numerous ways to help, including donations for the construction of the new school, subsidies to pay teachers and matching grants from Rotary International to bring fresh water to the region.
  
  

  

• Global Hope provides a loving, stable home to Rumanian orphans.

• Multiple wells have been dug in several villages in rural India, financed through a grant involving a dozen other clubs in Colorado with funds matched by Rotary International.

• Uplift International provides funds and volunteers to assist teams of medical professionals in their work to repair children's cleft palates and other disfiguring afflictions.

To fund these activities, members participate in several fund raisers: fruit sales in August and November, the KidLinks golf tournament and staffing the beer tent at the Boulder Creek Festival in May, and partnering with Meals on Wheels of Boulder in presenting the Holiday Festival of Trees each December.

Vocational Service projects include RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award) and Young RYLA. This year, members of all three Boulder Rotary Clubs brought the 4 Way Test into the Boulder middle schools through a three-way partnership involving Rotary Clubs in the Boulder Valley, Boulder Valley School District, and the YMCA of Boulder Valley. Our relationship with Justice High School offers opportunities to serve as mentors to these young people.   We are involved with Greenhouse Scholars, an organization that provides scholarships, mentors and professional liaisons for "under resourced" high school graduates.  Finally, we are sponsors of Rotaract at the University of Colorado (for college students and individuals under 30) and Interact in Boulder (for high school students).