Welcome to the Crescent Rotary Club of Greensboro (North Carolina) website! We hope you will find it useful and informative.

Crescent Rotary was founded in 1964 and currently has over 115 members. Beyond our weekly lunch meetings and speakers of local interest, our Club has a rich heritage of fellowship and embodiment of the Rotary theme, “Service Above Self.” In addition to raising tens of thousands of dollars each year to support local charitable causes, Crescent Rotary provides considerable financial and hands-on support to international causes such as polio eradication, Operation Smile,  and health, hunger, clean water, and literacy causes for poverty-stricken areas throughout the world. We believe strongly in the work of Rotary International, as evidenced by our recognition in 2004 as the first Rotary club in the WORLD to achieve the “Triple Crown Club” status – meaning that our members are:

• 100% Paul Harris Fellows (they contributed $1000 to the Annual Fund of The Rotary Foundation)
• 100% Sustaining Paul Harris Fellows (they contributed  $100 or more per year to the Annual Programs Fund)
• 100% Benefactors (they made the Permanent Fund a beneficiary in their estate plans or they made an outright gift of US$1,000 or more to the Permanent Fund).

Crescent Rotary members and their families volunteer their time for a wide variety of local and international activities such as the Greensboro Urban Ministry “Potter’s House,” the Salvation Army “Red Kettle” program, Kids’ Voting, Greensboro Beautiful’s “Big Sweep,” and the "Give a Kid a Coat" campaign . We are also continuing with our commitment to Smith and Dudley High Schools through participating in Shadows Day, a day for students to learn about different careers. Our “Get REAL (Rotarians Excited About Literacy)” Program, started last year by our new Crescent Rotarians, seeks to promote literacy for disadvantaged youth by building a loft/library environment at The Salvation Army Boys & Girls Clubs of Greensboro and stocking it with books. This year, we have a new exciting project called Project Rebuild. We are working with the Greensboro-based Rotary Clubs and Housing Greensboro to do critical home repair work for low-income, elderly and disabled home owners.

We also enjoy another important component of Rotary International, fellowship and fun! We have a number of fellowship and social events outside of our weekly meetings – including our annual Dinner/Fundraiser, outings to local sporting events, club and district golf outings, a Holiday evening social for Crescent Rotarians and their spouses/significant others, and a “Family Day” picnic/outdoor adventure. This year, we are instituting ‘5^th Mondays’. When our calendar indicates a month with 5 Mondays, the weekly luncheon meeting will be cancelled and instead, we will have an evening hour-long social event.   

I invite you to peruse our site and learn more about us. For more information about our Club and the work of Rotary, feel free to contact me at Abby@DrivenForResults.com or (336) 884-1348. 

Abby Donnelly

Crescent Rotary President, 2007-2008

For more information about membership, contact:				Questions, Comments?
Ashley Madden Membership Committee Co-Chair Ashley.madden@triadfinancialadvisors.com (336) 230-0071 or Barbara Vinson Membership Committee Co-Chair BarbMackay@aol.com (336) 286-2790		Abby Donnelly    President    336-884-1348    Sandler Sales Institute    Abby@DrivenForResults.com	Tom Veltri 336-389-1101 tveltri@a3its.com