President Katy Miller had the pleasure of inducting Dave Rich to the Rotary Club of Akron, OH. 

Dave is pictured below with President Katy and his sponsor Thomas Knauer. 

Dave has a B.A. in Communications and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from The University of Akron. With over 15 years of nonprofit experience at all levels, Dave has worked in domestic violence and sexual assault prevention, companion animal rescue and adoption, social determinants of health innovation, and addiction treatment service improvement.

Dave is the Director of Development for New Roots Institute.  Through their leadership development programs, they offer fellowships for students motivated to dig deeper into the impacts, and solutions, of factory farming—while being trained in effective communication, advocacy, and leadership skills. 

Dave has experience in volunteer management, fundraising, grant writing, quality improvement and program development project management. 

He is a past Torchbearer and member of the Downtown Akron Partnership Young Leaders Board and is in the process of joining the board of West Akron Baseball League (WABL). 

He is a lifelong Akronite – he and his wife, two children, three dogs, two cats and two hermit crabs reside in the Highland Square neighborhood.  As a hobby, he plays guitar in various rock bands and hopes to live to see the day when the Cleveland Guardians win the World Series.

World Polio Day, was on October 24th, is also sometimes referred to as “Purple Pinkie Day”. This is because during National Immunization Days kids have their pinkies marked with purple ink that lasts for 30 days, to ensure they are not vaccinated more than once.

Thanks to Dunkin's graciousness, District 6630 sold Purple iced donuts again this year!  Proceeds will go to the End Polio Now campaign.

We appreciate all who purchased donuts and those who volunteered to be at each location to help distribute them.

Akron Rotarians and spouses volunteering and getting to know each other at the Annunciation Akron Greek Orthodox Church for their One Hot Meal Program.

Thank you Tom Knauer, Katy Miller, Tim Miller, Morgan Lasher, Matt Long, Thane Billow and Fred Carter (not in photo). 

The need is felt more than ever at OPEN M Ministry! Thankful for all they do for the community. 

Each of these groups of Akron Rotarians packed 150 bags (300 bags) of food for Innes Middle School Students.

Thank you Virginia Addicott, Sandy Naragon, Janet Palcko and Angie Claypool!

Thank you Dr. Rob McGregor, Sandy Naragon, Fred Carter and Liv Pilon!

It’s nearly that time again … for the Salvation Army Bell Ringing for our Rotary Club of Akron. 

Times for both dates will be 10am - 6pm with various time slots.

CLICK ON THE RESPECTIVE DATE BELOW TO SIGN UP!

Friday December 5^th (AMCE#10 in Cuyahoga Falls) 

Friday December 12^th (ACME#1 in Wallhaven)

We need more fun photos showing our Club activities!!

Since Cheryl Warren cannot participate this year, she has offered to give away a couple Starbucks gift cards (for each of our service dates) to the most CREATIVE/FUN photo showing you in action for this service project!

 Just a few VERY SIMPLE but important photo rules: 
Please do not include children without parents being present or non-volunteers without permission and please avoid store products if possible. You MAY include Acme and The Salvation Army signage in the photos.

Deadline for photos is end of day on December 13th! 

Email photos (no texts please) to Cheryl Warren at cawarren@neo.rr.com and include names of those in the photo with you.

Note: Judging will be done by a non-Akron Rotary member.