Eugene Southtowne Rotary

Club #341, District 5110, Chartered December 22, 1975

Southtowne Rotary in Eugene, OR has been dedicated to doing good in the world through local and international projects since our founding in 1975. With approximately 90 members, we’re currently the second largest Rotary Club in Eugene, and by far the most fun!

Our Rotary motto is “Service above Self” and to honor that commitment, Southtowne Rotary has devoted countless hours and raised hundred of thousands of dollars to help create new educational opportunities for youth, distribute aid to the disabled and homeless, provide food for the underprivileged, improve outdoor and recreational living environments, and support visual and performing arts. Our service to the community takes place not only with the direct involvement by our club members but also through our monetary contributions to local scholarships and projects through our Southtowne Rotary Foundation.

We gather once a week on Thursday at noon on Zoom. Contact us if you would like to join. We have interesting speakers on many topics. We receive updates on our ongoing projects and coordinate with each other about our many activities. Together we make a difference. Please check out the articles below and other pages on this site to learn more about us, and if you’d like to come to a meeting, let us know.

Learn about our Food Boxes Program

Southtowne News & Program Summaries…

Below you will find the most recent summaries of our weekly programs, project and event updates, and other interesting news. The full Southtowne Blog can be viewed here.

Each of the articles below is summarized. Click on the image or “read more” link to get the full scoop!

Transgender Stories: A Gender Journey with Claire Hall

Aug 28, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Health and Wellness, People and Personalities

Gender dysphoria is essentially where the mind and body parts don’t match. It has been described as a homesickness in your own body that never goes away. Technically, it is the condition of feeling one’s emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be...

Organic Meals Made With Love By Positive Community Kitchen

Aug 13, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Environmental Concerns, Fundraising, Health and Wellness, Local Business, Non-Profit, Volunteer Opportunities

Welcome to Positive Community Kitchen. This non-profit sources local produce and cooks healing, organic meals for community members with life-threatening illnesses. The meals are plant-based, full of nutritious ingredients, and gluten-free. In addition, local teens...

Education Sponsorship In Colima, Mexico With Project Amigo

Jul 24, 2020 | Education, Fundraising, International Concerns, International Rotary Programs, Non-Profit, Volunteer Opportunities

Project Amigo Invests In Education Project Amigo is a Rotary education sponsorship project based in Colima, Mexico that supports children from a very young age through college degrees. Fellow Rotarian, Heather Edwards, explains the value of this program and invites...

Undocumented Citizen Reform In The United States

Jul 13, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Miscellaneous, Politics

Hugo Nicolas’s Story When Nicolas was 11, his mother told him and his two younger siblings that they would travel to the U.S. to join their father, who was an undocumented farmworker. He remembers walking for two days to cross the border. He was dehydrated and...

Southtowne Rotary’s Food Boxes Are Serving Families In Need

Jun 20, 2020 | Fundraising, Health and Wellness, Local Rotary Programs, Volunteer Opportunities

Expanding Southtowne Rotary’s Food Boxes Program Camille Ronzio says that when the pandemic hit, Southtowne Rotary already had the food, the resources, and the delivery people signed up to help. So, they decided to make a go of it. For their monthly Food Boxes...

Spreading Kindness in Our Community

Jun 14, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Health and Wellness, Non-Profit, Programs we Support, Volunteer Opportunities

Think of Kindness, Act with Kindness It's proven that if you're thinking about kindness, you become a kinder person. That is what the Spreading Kindness Campaign is based on. Spreading Kindness to the Unhoused Recently, the Spreading Kindness Campaign has led the...