🌎 Rotary Youth Exchange
Every year, Northampton Rotary sponsors local students to study abroad and welcomes international students to our community through Rotary Youth Exchange. It's a wonderful opportunity for students and host families to build lifelong friendships and experience new cultures.
Interested in learning more? Contact our Youth Exchange Officer, Caroline Gear,, International Language Institute (caroline@ili.edu)
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Join Us for a Northampton Rotary Meeting
Interested in attending a Northampton Rotary meeting? We'd love to have you join us!
Meeting Schedule
The Northampton Rotary Club meets on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month at the Northampton Elks Club.
Please Note: There are no club meetings in July or August.
Lunch Orders
If you plan to attend, please email your lunch order to nohorotary@gmail.com with your lunch sandwich or salad selection from Tandem Bagel menu: Menu – Tandem Bagel
Please include bread selection (bagel, wrap, etc).
Lunch is available from Tandem Bagel. Please select your preferred sandwich or salad from the Tandem Bagel menu and include your choice of bread (bagel, wrap, bread, etc.) when placing your order.
Meeting Fee
A $20 meeting fee applies to all attendees, whether or not you order lunch. This fee helps the club cover meeting expenses, including meeting space and food order minimums.
We look forward to welcoming you and sharing how Rotary is making a difference in our community and around the world!
Another great turnout for rotary day of service planting over 20 trees at JKF Middle School
Many thanks to all our sponsors, vendors and attendees. Our 2025 Festival of Trees was an amazing success!
Santa stopped by our annual Northampton/Easthampton Rotary Club's Children’s Holiday Party delivering gifts to over 60 happy children!
On Sunday, April 13, the Northampton Rotary Club sponsored a Day of Service Tree Planting Project at JFK Middle School, in cooperation with the City of Northampton Department of Public Works, Tree Warden Richard Parasiliti, Jr., the Urban Forestry Commission, the non-profit, Tree Northampton, and the Northampton Public Schools.
Volunteers planted about 30 trees representing six different species. As they grow, these trees will help shade the school and grounds, purify the air and water, provide oxygen, and help curb climate change.
Participants included Rotary members, JFK students and family members, Tree Northampton representatives, and city and school officials, including Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra, City Council Vice Chair and Ward 7 Councilor Rachel Maiore, At-Large School Committee Member Aline Davis, Ward 3 School Committee Member Emily Serafy-Cox, and JFK Middle School Principal Keddie Loughrey. Volunteers called it a “great day” and a “wonderful experience for both young and old!”
The Northampton Rotary Club along with matching funds through a District Grant, is partnering for a second year with the International Language Institute of Massachusetts (ILI) to train Rotarians and other community members as volunteer tutors to work with immigrants and refugees studying at ILI. The grant runs September through next April and includes in-person and virtual training and support for new tutors. If you are interested in joining the training and volunteering with ILI, please contact Jeanne@ILI.edu.
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Congratulations to Kim Montague, Jennifer Ewers, Jennifer Margolis and Greg Dibrindisi, all Northampton Rotarians (who have served as President of our club) on receiving the Paul Harris Fellow honor this evening. Many thanks to District Governor Christine Burns for always supporting our efforts and Barbara Devlin for making this night possible. It was truly a special night! April 30, 2024
Northampton Paul Harris Fellows in Attendance
As part of a Rotary International focus on protecting the environment, the Northampton Rotary Club worked with the Northampton’s Department of Public Works (DPW), the Urban Forestry Commission, the non-profit Tree Northampton, and the Ice Pond Association to organize a tree planting event on Ice Pond Drive on Saturday, April 20, 2024, planting 12 new trees.
Susan Lofthouse, Vice Chair of the Urban Forestry Commission and a key contact for the project, stated, “Thank you to the Northampton Rotary for your interest in protecting the environment through a partnership with the city! We are thankful for Rotary’s help planting trees at three elementary schools and a residential area in 2022 and 2023, and are very excited to be working with the club again in 2024. The newly planted trees along Ice Pond Drive will replace ash trees destroyed by an Emerald ash borer infestation, and will benefit the community for decades to come.”
To view coverage by 22 News, click here: https://youtu.be/psq_ooBtedA?si=y08gPSG7XHXDlhnJ
April is Volunteer Appreciation month, and we are full of gratitude for all of the volunteer tutors supporting English learners at ILI including Northampton Rotarian Barbara Devlin. On April 2, ILI’s tutor training program, which is supported by a Rotary Foundation District Grant, hosted the sixth of seven trainings for this year. ILI volunteer coordinator Jeanne Barron facilitated the session, which included time for tutors to discuss their tutoring successes and challenges with each other, strategies for helping learners with time-bound questions, an introduction to a photo discussion resource and an exploration of ILI’s resource room. If you or someone you know is interested in volunteering as an English tutor, contact ILI or visit their website www.ILI.edu
Many thanks to all who supported and attended our Festival of Trees 2023 and our presenting sponsor Country Hyundai.
2023 Northampton Rotary Club Back to school back pack drive where we filled over 600 backpacks with school supplies and books!
Thank you our incredible community sponsors Finck & Perras Insurance Agency Inc. and Applied Mortgage!!!
Also thank you Northampton Walmart for your support.
Thank you to our sponsors Tommy Car Auto, Hospice of the Fisher Home, BankESB, People's Bank, Greenfield Savings, MJ Moran, Reall, Lucentini & Lucentini, Greenfield Coop Bank, and Florence Bank for a successful Festival of Trees. Proceeds will benefit childen and seniors in our area.
Northampton Country Club Annual Fundraiser - this year's tournament raised over $7000
THANK YOU GOLD SPONSORS!!!!!
Northampton Rotary leads an annual fundraiser to provide over 500 backpacks to local students. Many thanks to our sponsors Applied Mortgage, HarborOne Mortgage, Taylor Real Estate, and Walmart of Northampton along with all the local businesses and individuals who contributed to this fundraiser.
Northampton Rotary supports the expansion of our local hospital's ER transformation with a $5,000 gift. "This is a project that truly touches everyone in our community and the club is honored to support the hospital", said President Steve Roberts. Gifts to the ER Dept campaign will support additional and better designed spaces and increased privacy, and faster access to computterized tomography CT scans, improved coordination and more patient rooms.
Northampton Rotary presents our 2021 donation to Grow Food Northampton. Many thanks to Rotary District 7890 for the matching grant.
Northampton Rotary supports the District Attorney's Children's Advocacy Center of Hampshire County to provide emergency needs funding and child care kit (toys, games, toiletries, snacks) to those who visit the center.
Many thanks to all our sponsors, participants and those who attended our 2nd Annual Chowderfest! Congrats to Fitzwilly's for being voted "Best Chowder"! This event raised over $4,000 for local charities.
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We were happy to join the Summer 2019 RYLA students at Lake Norwich on 8/5. On Aug 12, the future leaders performed community service at Look Park in Northampton.
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23RD ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT (JULY 22, 2019) - Many thanks to our sponsors and sponsors for our 24th annual golf tournament held yesterday Northampton Country Club. Our major sponsors included: bankESB, Chiropractic Associates of Northampton and Reall, Lucentini and Lucentini. Thank you also to our hole in one sponsors, Burke Chevrolet of Northampton and Teddy Bear Pools & Spas!
We also couldn’t do it without our many tee sponsors, raffle and auction donators and of course the 13 teams who played and dodged the showers. The 1st placed team was BankESB and 2nd was the Francis Collins Team. A fun day and many thanks for supporting the children’s charities supported by Northampton Rotary!!!
We also couldn’t do it without our many tee sponsors, raffle and auction donators and of course the 13 teams who played and dodged the showers. The 1st placed team was BankESB and 2nd was the Francis Collins Team. A fun day and many thanks for supporting the children’s charities supported by Northampton Rotary!!!
Northampton Rotary is a proud sponsor of the second "Welcome to Northampton" sign on Pleasant Street.
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Posted on Oct 25, 2022
The Northampton Rotary Club is an Annual Supporter of this multi-club District Project which provides funding to build a potable water distribution systems and provide hygiene and sanitation training, and operation, repair, and maintenance training, as well as organize a fee collection system for sustainability, in Guatemala. Prior to the water systems provided by rotary clubs, women and young girls carried water for miles in jugs shown below. Our support has built complete gravity fed water systems with gray water filters, vented pit latrines and improved vented stoves
Posted on Jun 22, 2017
Northampton Rotary Club is proud to be a part of this life-changing project:
Eye Hospital Global Grant Projects
Dan Shaver
The Northampton Rotary Club serves the greater Northampton community,including especially its neediest children, by charitable deeds and contributions. Our Club also advances the mission of Rotary International by fostering personal integrity, and contributing to world understanding and good will, through our like-minded fellowship of business, professional and community leaders.
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