Welcome to the Rotary Club of Spartanburg

Immediate past President Barney Gosnell and incoming President Koger Bradford

Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the community's business and professional men and women. The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.

Rotary membership provides the opportunity to: Become connected to your community. Work with others in addressing community needs. Interact with other professionals in your community; assist with RI's international humanitarian service efforts. Establish contacts with an international network of professionals. Develop leadership skills. Involve family in promoting service efforts.

The Rotary Club of Spartanburg provides both voluntary and financial support for a number of service, educational and humanitarian efforts. Each year, the Club gives back approximately $60,000-$70,000 in financial support and countless hours of community service in many ways. Efforts include the funding and administration of the Piedmont Interstate Science Fair, which reaches more than young people annually; Youth at Risk grants to youth serving organizations; occasional one day service projects such as working for Habitat for Humanity or ringing the bell for the Salvation Army; and hosting Youth Exchange students and/or Adult Group Study Exchange participants. 

Other current or recent efforts include literacy-based projects (stocking a library for an elementary school and providing dictionaries for third graders); collecting coats for the needy; organizing blood drives; funding scholarships for college students through the Spartanburg County Foundation; providing mentoring experiences for high school students; and providing a grist mill for farmers in Peru that helped them double what they can make on their crops.