Welcome to the Guilford Rotary website. You are about to start on a amazing journey to see exactly what this dynamic club has done and will continue to do in serving our community locally, regionally, and worldwide. We are part of Rotary International, a global service organization whose purpose is to provide humanitarian services and to advance good will and peace in our communities and around the world.
We have four major fundraisers during the year; Lobsterfest in June, the Silent Auction at Lobsterfest, the Rose Sale in October and the Frosty 5K on New Year’s Day. The funds we raise go to local, regional, and international charities including The Guilford Food Bank, The Guilford Fair Parade, Raise the Roof (Habitat for Humanity), New Reach (the largest provider of shelter in CT for women and children), Christmas Senior Luncheon, Guilford Interfaith Ministries, Read to Grow program, Haitian Health Foundation, Warm the Children (buying winter clothes for needy children), and cooking and serving at the Community Dining Room (a Branford based soup kitchen that serves the shoreline). You can find a complete listing on our projects page.
The theme for this Rotary year is “Be The Inspiration.” It is our hope that you will be inspired to be part of the Guilford Rotary in continuing to improve the lives of others through service – while having fun at the same time.
Thank you for visiting our website. Please consider this my personal invitation to attend one of our weekly meetings as my guest. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
our most successful Rotary fundraiser again this year:
our sponsors, volunteers, and attendees!
We donate $1,250 to Women & Family Life Center
Guilford Rotary Club President Guy Tommasi presents a check to Lisa Ott and Simona Neery to help fund W&FLC's Girls Coach Girls Run -- a peer-mentoring program open to all Shoreline families. The Girls Coach Girls Run promotes self respect, community, leadership and healthy living while training for a 5K run. No running experience is required!
Ian Evans Inducted as New Rotary Club Member
Pat Todd welcomes Ian Evans to the Guilford Rotary club as John Stax (left) his sponsor, and President Guy Tomassi, look on.
Hurricane devastates Haiti, we pack 28,000 meals
and get them on the ground in Jeremie
On October 4, 2016, Hurricane Matthew made landfall on Haiti's Tiberon Peninsula as a category 4 storm. It devastated the area around the Haitian Health Foundation in Jeremie, stalling international aid for nearly a year. On March 24, 2018, six shoreline Rotary clubs gathered at First Congregational Church in Madison to pack 28,000 meals for shipment to the Foundation. The Rotary Clubs raised $3,500 (plus a matching District grant grant of $3,500) and partnered with The Outreach Program, a non-profit that organizes food packing events around the country. Bill Stableford (above) helped organize this remarkable event.
Nicholas Hunsaker, an alumn of the Guilford High School Interact Club (and now at Providence College), put together a partnership between a Haitian orphanage and several U.S. green companies, including Connecticut honey producers. His new nonprofit organization - Honey For Haiti - raises money through the sale of products here in the U.S. The orphanage is using this seed capital to grow its own food, drill a well for clean water, and make use of renewable energy resources.
Let us know if you have any questions about about Rotary: How to become a member; How to participate in our fund-raisers; More about our scholarships and outreach to high school students; How we help others in our local community and worldwide. We welcome your comments and suggestions.
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