Here is a list of service projects that the Rotary Club of Menlo Park is involved in. If you would like more information regarding any these programs please send us an email via our Contact Us page and let us know your area of interest.

• High School Awards Ceremony
• Four Year College Scholarships - Each year the Rotary Club of Menlo Park awards financial grants to for local high school seniors attending four year colleges. The awards are given to students who display outstanding leadership, who demonstrate academic excellence, who exemplify the Rotary ideal of "Service Above Self," and who furnishes evidence of financial need. Please visit our College Grant Program page.
• Community College Financial Grants - Each year, a total of five financial grants are given to students from Menlo-Atherton High School and East Palo Alto Academy High School.  Students must display acceptable academic standards, have been involved in service to their family or community, and furnish evidence of financial need.
• Tour de Menlo - The Tour de Menlo is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Menlo Park and the Almanac, a community newspaper. More than 500 riders signed up for the 2009 Tour with all riders stopping at the Picchetti Open Space Preserve and Winery in Cupertino for lunch. Proceeds from the ride support a Rotary tutoring project at Garfield School and need-based scholarships for local high school seniors.
• Menlo Park Block Parties
• Water Purification in Guatemala
• Interact Menlo Atherton
• Special Olympics
• Tutoring at the Veterans Administration Hospital
• East Palo Alto School Programs

• Garfield School Tutoring - Rotary Club members and Friends of Rotary work on English literacy with third and fourth grade students Garfield School.  These students live in the Fair Oaks area of Redwood City and most speak Spanish at home.  Our mission is to bring these students up to proficiency in English to facilitate and enhance their education in future years.  All tutoring is done during class hours using special materials supplied by our Rotary Club and Garfield School.

• Garfield School Field Trips - There is a large amount of poverty in the area that Garfield School serves.  A large number of the parents do not drive or have no vehicles, so the exposure these students have is to poverty and gangs.  Our field trip program is to expose sixth and seventh graders to experiences such as seeing the ocean, experiencing museums, and visiting places related to their classroom studies.

• Garfield School Special Projects - Many projects have been completed at Garfield School over the past ten years.  They include landscaping the front of the school, building a sun cover for the preschool, providing educational materials for the tutoring program, supplying books for the library, and providing supplies for the science lab.

• Garfield School College Day at Menlo College - Each year, our club sponsors a trip to Menlo College for all Garfield School seventh graders.  It is the first exposure to a college campus for many of the students.  The students first are treated to a lunch of their choice at the dining commons.  Then, Menlo student volunteers take them on a tour of the campus which includes a dormitory room, the library, bookstore, and a classroom.  The afternoon is capped off by recreation with the Menlo students and a frank discussion on the importance of doing well in school and the importance of education for their future success.
• Rotary Volunteers
  • Second Harvest Food Bank
  • Ronald McDonald House
  • Bell Ringing for Salvation Army
  • Pancake Breakfast with Santa