We are a diverse, welcoming and energetic group of 30 business and professional leaders and community volunteers connected to each other and to the communities we serve. Our members seek to make a difference in our Minneapolis-St. Paul community and in countries throughout the world through our service to people in need. The Minneapolis University Rotary Club is unique and bold in the Rotary world:More...
Club President Beverly Carlson Gazda joined leaders of the five Minneapolis Rotary & Rotaract Clubs, who together with the Minneapolis University Rotary Club (MURC), to receive a special Club Collaboration Award at the District Conference. The award recognized the work of the clubs in organizing, promoting and staging the 2nd Annual Rotary Taste of Lake Street for Minneapolis Hunger Relief which raised $65,000 for inner city food shelves.
MURC threw its heart
and soul into supporting the event as its primary Community Service project for this
Rotary year. Every member contributed through
event and raffle ticket purchases but, most important, 80% of its members
devoted considerable time and talent to the event. Each and every participating member along with family and friends "walked the talk" of Service Above Self.
Club member Floriane Robins-Brown
received a Service Above Self Award at the Rotary District Conference recognizing her work in partnering with Rotary and engaging her fellow club members in helping her to attain an audacious goal to build
an orphanage in Rwanda that would provide education,
education and, most important, the stability of a home with a mother. She is focused like a laser on her
larger-than-life dream to provide loving homes to 30 foster mothers and 150
Rwandan orphans between the ages of 8-18 by forming a new community called the
Nibakure Children's Village.
Inspired by her
commitment, the members of the Minneapolis University Rotary Club agreed that our club's role would begin with development of a water system for the village
and contributed the initial seed money from the club's service foundation.
With her heart, her determination, her humor and her
spirit, Lou Burdick demonstrates "service above self" and those qualities were recognized when she received a Service Above Self award at the Rotary District 5950 Conference. Perhaps the most
crystal clear example of this commitment is Lou's leadership, for two
consecutive years, of the Rotary Taste of Lake Street project which raised dollars for inner city food shelves. Founded in 2008, this fundraiser sprung to life as a celebration of the diversity
among the restaurants along Lake Street. By inviting the public to come in and
taste the offerings of the neighborhood, the event accomplished so much more
than raising sorely needed revenue to help feed the hungry. It also brought together people who might
never have had the opportunity and good fortune to meet, to mingle, and to
share their personal stories and cultures.
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A Rotary Group Study Exchange (GSE) team from Kenya and Uganda was welcomed to Minnesota by our Minneapolis University Rotary Club (MURC) on May 4 when they arrived ready to spend the next six weeks with District 5950 Rotarian host families and Rotarians from 12 Minnesota Rotary clubs. Group Study Exchange is a Rotary Foundation program offering a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for businesspeople and professionals ages 25-40.
Community Services Chair Jean Westberg coordinated the visit for the first days with introductory vocational meetings/tours scheduled at Minneapolis City Hall, 3M Corporation, a Woodbury library, North High School, and the University of Minnesota. The cultural aspect of the program included getting to know their host families during their first week, eating pizza, presenting their countries and culture to Rotarians at the MURC Rotary meeting and an all-American backyard barbecue.
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