Events

Report from the Board Meeting, and plans for service events coming up.  Please come and help us organize and assign tasks.

This meeting will be HYBRID -- some members at Hamilton's Restaurant, 1366 Beacon Street, Brookline, and some on Zoom.

Please register for this meeting.  Non-members need to be registered by a member.  The Zoom link will be sent out to those registered on Wednesday August 17.

On Thursday evening, August 25, at 5:30 pm Brookline Rotary will meet at the VFW Post at 386 Washington St, Brookline, MA 02445 for a group service project.  Pizza will be served to the volunteers. We will pack backpacks with school supplies for low-income children. This is a project we have done for many years.  The backpacks are distributed through Steps to Success (STS) and through the Eastern Service Workers Association (ESWA).  

This meeting is in-person only.  There will not be any zoom access provided.

This project is chaired by Dr. Karen Jacobs, professor of Occupational Therapy at Boston College.  She and her team have chosen backpacks appropriate for young people carrying books to school on their smaller frames.  Supplies have been funded through donations of goods and money gathered by Rotarians and associated local businesses.

Steps to Success is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote equity for students from low-income families in Brookline by expanding their horizons, building upon their skills, and supporting their educational journey in order to maximize their life choices. https://www.stepstosuccessbrookline.org/

Established in 1977, Eastern Service Workers Association (ESWA) is a free and voluntary membership association run by and for Boston's service workers, temporary, domestic and other low-income workers and their families. Through the self-help efforts of our association members and community volunteers, ESWA has organized a year-round, 11-point Membership Benefit Program to help meet the immediate needs of our families while we organize together to fight for long-term solutions to poverty conditions caused by lack of living wages. Membership benefits include emergency food, clothing, preventive medical care and non-emergency dental care, legal advice and more. http://eswaboston.org/

Paul Saner, former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, and long-time co-chair of Brookline’s Economic Development Advisory Board and member of Brookline Town Meeting will speak with us September 15.  

Saner is a former managing director of BankBoston (now Bank of America) and previously worked as a real estate executive.

He has served as a volunteer vision rehabilitation teacher and board vice chairman at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton and as a leader with the Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library in Watertown.

Saner was the founding board chair of Boston’s Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, and served as a trustee of the Brookline Community Foundation.  He is presently on the board of MAB Community Services based in Brookline.  He has lived in Town for 34 years, and his daughters are graduates of Brookline public schools.

He holds an MBA in finance from the University of Rochester and a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College.

We will meet for lunch at Hamilton's Restaurant, 1366 Beacon Streeet, for a Hybrid meeting -- some folks in the restaurant and some on Zoom.  The Zoom link will be sent out the day before the meeting to all registered attendees.  Non-members need to be registered by a member.