This is always a quality program with more than 100 in attendance. Join with other Area 3 Rotary Clubs. Invite other Veteran Families to join you. Please let Mark Shockey know if you plan to attend by Friday, 10/30: RotaryMNVeterans@gmail.com
Welcome to the Rotary Club of Minnesota Veterans
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Veterans are known for being concerned about the safety and wellbeing of others. That is why Rotary is such a good fit for those who want to serve veterans and their families.
The Rotary Club of Minnesota Veterans is committed to strengthening our community and helping meet hospital and patient needs through blood donations. Blood drives are a way of giving the community an opportunity to help save lives.
Remember also that the quarterly drives include the collection of used electronics, clothing, and new household items for veteran partner organizations.
Here are the dates of the next blood drives - all held at St. Peter's - Edina on France Avenue South.
Thursday, January 21, 2027 | 1:00–7:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 22, 2027 | 1:00–7:00 p.m.
Thursday, July 22, 2027 | 1:00–7:00 p.m.
Contact RotaryMNVeterans@gmail.com to sign up.
A furnished apartment for veterans should not be too much to ask. The Vets club has stepped up to help. Sofas for Service is the #1 organization we support - with past club president, Jeff Staads, now serving as their executive director. Last year we provided a check for $3,000.00 from our Club Foundation at a ribbon cutting for a new warehouse in Altoona. A dozen volunteers were on hand giving tours and sharing stories of vets helped every week. We know we can provide more support here in the cities!
Do you have a love seat or sofa or kitchen chairs that would help a vet family? Complete this Sofas for Service Form.
Jeff Staads and volunteers at the Sofas for Service ribbon cutting
We have discovered the stress and burden that deployment has on military families. Our club is thrilled to launch a new program in 2026 to walk beside those who are facing heading a family by themselves for 6 months or a year.
We want to provide activities for children while the parent has an opportunity to spend time with other adults who understand what they are going through. We would also like to provide assistance around the home and offer food gift cards for those long days when there is not energy and no time to prepare a meal. We'd like to help the community support these families with restaurant cards, pizza, grocery gift cards, Target cards or even movie tickets just to let them know they are remembered and appreciated.
Interested in helping? Got ideas? Contact us: RotaryMNVeterans@gmail.com
We are a group of Veterans and other service minded men and women living in Minnesota who were chartered as a service club within Rotary International in October, 2019. Our sense of service derives from military core values of "Service before Self" that parallels those of Rotary International "Service above Self."
Service includes: actively caring for one another and our extended families - especially during times of hurt; serving in our communities - youth, civic organizations, schools and the elderly; duly honoring other veterans & their families - especially during times of grief; and serving those in area/regions where we have served, such as projects in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, etc.
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