Service & Scholarships

Feeding the homeless in downtown Denver.

"Service above self"

Five Avenues of Service

Club Service

This “Avenue” promotes the development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service. It involves the activities necessary to make the Club function successfully and achieve its goals.

Vocational Service

This area represents the opportunity that each Rotarian has to represent the dignity and utility of one’s vocation as an opportunity to serve society. Rotarians promote and foster high ethical standards in business and professions and promote the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations.

Community Service

This “Avenue” relates to the activities that Rotarians undertake to improve the quality of life in their community. Particular emphasis is given to helping children, needy families, the aged, the handicapped, and those most in need of assistance. Rotarians strive to promote the ideal of service in their personal, business, and community lives.

Youth Service

Youth Services acknowledges the positive change implemented by youth and young adults involved in leadership development activities, community and international service, and exchange programs that enrich and foster world peace and cultural understanding.

International Service

In this area, Rotarians strive for the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service. International Service Projects are designed to meet the humanitarian needs of people in many lands, with particular emphasis on the most underprivileged children and families in developing countries.

Project Amigo
Education and literacy are powerful keys to enabling a brighter future for the world’s children, who in turn benefit the nations they live in. For nearly three decades, Project Amigo, a U.S. 501 (c) (3) non-profit charity since 1996, has helped rural children in Mexico continue their formal schooling up to and including college level. The Rotary Club of Westminster has participated with Project Amigo for nearly a decade, sponsoring a student by providing the needs to be successful in school--bus money, books, school supplies, uniforms, a hot lunch, and weekly support through Project Amigo’s Homework Club. Read letters from José Ramón, our sponsored student.

Scholarship Program

Launched in 1999, the Rotary Community Scholarship undertaking is one of the most comprehensive local programs in Colorado. Over $1,000,000 in scholarships has been distributed to more than 500 successful applicants. Each Spring, active Westminster Rotary committees interview and select students who will be awarded grants ranging from $1,000 to $4,000.