Our Club, Our Charities
The Tysons Rotary Club is a service organization of professional men and women serving the community in around Tysons, VA Our club support local charitable organizations that serve our youth, the needy and senior populations. In addition, we provide need-based scholarships to college students who are in pursuit of higher education. We work to reduce child mortality by providing clean water and sanitation facilities, strive to eradicate polio and increase literacy by providing books and computers where they are most needed.
The groups Tysons Rotary support include:
Community:
- Falls Church-McLean Children’s Center
- Firefighters and Friends to the Rescue
- Insight Memory Care
- Pimmit Hills Senior Center
- Foundation for Fighting Blindness
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services
- PRS CrisisLink
- Second Story
- Stroke Comeback Center
International:
- Brigade of Mercy
- Guatemala Literacy Project
- Haiti Project – District Grant
- Global Grants for Clean Water & Sanitation
- Polio Plus
- Rise Against Hunger
- Shelter Box
Education:
- Scholarships at George Marshall High School
- Glen Rounsevell & Will Soza Scholarship Endowment
The Rotary Club of Tysons is a part of Rotary International and subscribes to the Rotary motto, “Service Above Self.”
The groups Dunn-Loring Merryfield support include:
Community Service Projects:
- Scholarships to Graduates of Fairfax County Adult High School
- Pollinator Garden and Vegetable Garden.
- Iliff Nursing Home
- Iliff Pediatric Center
- Alternative House
- Weekend Food for Kids
- Homestretch
- Needy Families in Fairfax County
- National Institute of Health
Community Charitable Giving:
- Assistance League of Northern Virginia
- Food for Others
- Second Story “Alternative House”
- Homestretch
- Pearls/Links
- Children’s National Health Hospital
- Foundation Fighting Blindness
International Charitable Giving:
- Abena Dokua Educational Foundation – Building schools in Ghana
- Open International Schools in Africa
- Bridges to Prosperity – Building Bridges in Africa
- Free Syria
- Sanitary Facilities in Zambia
- Learn Serve International
- Rotary International Foundation Polio Plus
- Clean Water Grant with Chantilly/Centreville Rotary Club