Skip to main content

Our Club

C hartered in 1987, our club is dedicated to creating better communities at home and around the world.  We are an active organization of 35 members who gather to have fun while doing good in our community and around the world.

Please explore our website to learn more about us. We also invite you to join us for a weekly breakfast meeting as our guest to get to know us better and see if Rotary might be right for you.

Our club’s main focus internationally is on providing clean water to people who are suffering from high infant mortality rates, disease, and blindness as a result of living with contaminated water. Some of our recent projects include providing in-home water filters to families in Guatemala and building a 6-mile water pipeline and the rehabilitation of a well in southern Tanzania to provide clean water to 7 villages of Masai living near the Serengeti Plain. We traveled to Mexico to provide in-home water filters to several villages, and our most recent project was to construct a toilet facility and hand-washing area for a elementary school in Tanzania.

We also support the Rotary Foundation’s main health goal of eradicating polio worldwide. As a result of Rotary’s efforts, in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and many other smaller donors, the world is now 99.99% polio-free. And we support Rotary’s partner in disaster relief, ShelterBox. ShelterBox provides emergency shelter and lifesaving equipment to families who have lost everything through either a natural disaster or conflict.

If you want to connect with others in the Jacksonville-Applegate area who believe in giving back to our community and the world, then Rotary is the place for you!

To learn more, please contact our membership chair, Jill Tompkins at 541-994-9499, or complete our contact form.

We take pride in our commitment to many local projects, some of which include:

  • Providing weekend food packs for children who come from food-insecure homes
  • Recognizing outstanding students at local junior and senior high schools
  • Providing scholarships for local college or trade-school bound students
  • Assisting local non-profits in building and maintenance projects. For example: improving gardens at the Britt Festival grounds, helping to rebuild the equipment at Bear Creek Park, supporting the Ruch Community Outdoor School in rehabilitating their track and field area
  • Supporting the Interact Club at South Medford High School
62050_227991367329916_1553931204_n
1959863_465872466875137_1552903682_n
41500280_1684711021657936_6553866372797956096_n
198693063_3862190270576656_2362135240958431207_n
10154116_487904744671909_4531087527811571171_n
34033167_1538782139584159_678638247613562880_n
18222433_1168926799903030_7410635542917398991_n
21751504_1285791194883256_4149989633109444399_n
23915826_1348682288594146_7421370652027826134_n
24899986_1360138710781837_3536619890067572988_n
46063166_1759751574153880_7681237022471618560_n
26196433_1388210441307997_5924742161072882475_n
26195675_1388210444641330_2466863311352253677_n
26220038_1388210451307996_2372693771399105946_n
26907650_1404811456314562_4323284773646062875_n
27072464_1411401698988871_8838998032337049361_n
531960_286820344780351_306624518_n
28378435_1439085159553858_3504815319693460139_n
29573200_1470190179776689_3632243341822968631_n
1000545_344936958968689_1804277074_n
29571059_1470190256443348_862738984400136372_n
31956455_1502430296552677_8275028126728192000_n
1009723_564222747040108_8325126518536880183_o
31948532_1502434579885582_4536164679294124032_n
32387302_1509702475825459_365708206032289792_n
34131715_1538782122917494_2073294989974044672_n
34174706_1538782136250826_2247750990964981760_n
35159273_1550691458393227_2098209158955270144_n
36457831_1578143425648030_6886343291579662336_n
43013717_1711048829024155_7625240020550418432_n
45762707_1759751570820547_5931066513963352064_n
45814948_1760858940709810_5402403542164045824_n
45854011_1760859004043137_5674664516944658432_n
45863731_1762042000591504_7543574279728660480_n
45886641_1762042017258169_5889496947139543040_n
45856143_1762042030591501_4000859862694100992_n
45997334_1762042080591496_7928110114853093376_n
56119667_1962554967206872_7414114503614267392_n
57286249_1981625918633110_1709206811246067712_n
59641628_2001994266596275_8714231177474473984_n
59433070_2003688819760153_7220893300880834560_n
59555366_2004199496375752_5532813837490716672_n
60778884_2025868907542144_5153900204751060992_n
65482987_2089372701191764_2839128761687867392_n
69835758_2229653773830322_7371585595715354624_n
71919069_2279946688801030_2592905622412328960_n
72670543_2308728195922879_7499507069163143168_n
72194225_2358396470956051_5315962579393183744_n
100977723_2808596189269408_6711845814089547776_n
100852790_2808597089269318_7522961090997649408_n
116876541_2989017614560597_3118828263912366615_n
117715728_3035749286554096_1275308608599809021_n
123098661_3251982594930763_334899166918976437_n
129640031_3354005171395171_8655696175967450470_n
183842438_3761417147320636_5902120890145372027_n
183443603_3761417187320632_8593258807241271627_n
184168935_3761417313987286_6254152226879770577_n
192331060_3831964660265884_5822665544480017055_n
198456477_3862190240576659_3809593287963701010_n
197886905_3862190280576655_1931410332406592637_n
269729551_4436622203133457_8122452571697215004_n
Jacksonville-Applegate-Rotary-Club-Photo-by-Brian-Fitz-Gerald
Jacksonville-Applegate-Rotary-Club
header2

Get to Know JACET

The Jacksonville-Applegate Rotary Club sponsors a charitable foundation: the JACKSONVILLE-APPLEGATE CHARITY AND EDUCATION TRUST, INC. (“JACET”).

Its purposes are:

  1. To provide funds for educational scholarships for deserving youth and adults
  2. To provide financial support for community improvements
  3. To contribute funds to world community service projects

JACET is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, donations to which are tax deductible. To learn more, please contact any one of our members.

Our Projects

2019-20 Rotary Year

  • Provided over 200 bottles of hand sanitizer and disinfectant to residents of Hope Village and Dunn House and to clients of the Maslow Project during the time of the coronavirus
  • Made 130 masks for the residents of Pioneer Village
  • Provided three local students with scholarships
  • Sponsored the local Cub Scout and Boy Scout troops
  • Built a toilet facility and hand washing station for a kindergarten in Tanzania
  • Sponsored disaster relief assistance through ShelterBox
  • Packaged food for the weekend for 30 elementary school children during the school year
  • Donated toward the remodeling of the Britt Grounds
  • Sponsored an Interact Club at South Medford High School

2018-19 Rotary Year

  • Provided three local students with scholarships
  • Sponsored the local Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts
  • Recognized outstanding students from five local schools
  • Traveled to Yelapa, Mexico to assemble water filters for villages without access to clean water
  • Sent two students to the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards
  • Contributed money and labor to the rehabilitation of Bear Creek Park
  • Helped with the construction of the Jacksonville Community Center, the rehabilitation of the 3rd Street bathrooms, and the development of the Jacksonville dog park
  • Donated toward the remodeling of the Britt Grounds and helped with landscape cleanup prior to the summer opening
  • Helped the Durham Rotary Club fill 300 backpacks with school supplies so that students who were victims of the Paradise Fire could return to school
  • Helped the Ruch Outdoor School with funding to rehabilitate their track and field
  • Provided emergency flood relief funds for Yelapa, Mexico
  • Sponsored an Interact Club at South Medford High School

Prior Projects

  • Participated in the Adopt-a-Highway Clean Up Project on Highway 238
  • Provided volunteer labor and funding for the building of the Dog Griffith Park Playground Park fence and the Pheasant Meadows Playground
  • Helped with funds to construct the lobby of the Jacksonville Library
  • Provided signposts for the Jacksonville Cemetery
  • Built, furnished, and supplied a school for Tanzanian children and built a self-sustaining farm for orphans in Tanzania
  • Built a new chicken coop at Hanley Farm