Projects
Rotafeliz - Cleft Lip and Palate Repair in Bolivia
International Service Travel Opportunity:
Club Members Traveled to Santa Cruz, Bolivia in January of 2025
Alzheimers Weekly Raffle
Founded in 1995 by Roger Ackerman, a Rotarian in Sumter, SC, The CART Fund (Coins for Alzheimer’s Research Trust) is a non-profit grassroots organization that provides “seed” money for cutting edge, high impact research grants to help find a treatment or cure for Alzheimer’s Disease.
Club Connect Evenings
The club is committed to getting Rotarians together for informal meeting outside the weekly lunch meeting. These gatherings are held periodically at local restaurants.
One this year was celebrating the season with fellow Rotarians at the District 6900 Christmas Cheer at 101 Steak here in Vinings 
Duffel Shuffle: Holiday Heroes for Youth Villages at Inner Harbor
The Youth Villages Inner Harbour Campus is home to residential psychiatric treatment programs for children and youth with serious emotional and behavioral challenges. Eleven Vinings Cumberland Rotarians joined Youth Villages staff to stuff backpacks with hats, gloves, coloring books, and other gifts for the 144 kids in residence at Youth Villages Inner Harbour
Free Bikes for Kids - FB4K
In conjunction with the Campbell High SchoolInteract Club, our club assisted in a Service Project to provide free bicycles for kids. We helped clean bicycles which others at the warehouse had previously rebuilt. Over 25 bikes were cleaned by Rotary, Interact and friends of Rotary on a Saturday morning in Atlanta. Chains were adjusted, medals were tightened and wheels aligned.
HERO Kids Holiday gifts
According to the CDC, youth aged 13-24 accounted for 20% of all new HIV diagnoses in the United States in 2020, despite representing only 7% of the US population (
RYE Student Support
In conjunction with several other Cobb County Rotary Clubs, our club supported a RYE student, Mariana Rodrigues Santos, from Brazil this year. From meeting her at the airport to exposing her to Rotary and US culture at events such as baseball games and city tours, hearing from her about her native country and future life plans, we enjoyed her presence throughout the year. We hosted her 16th birthday party at a local residence. She is a bright and enthusiastic young lady!
Sack Pack - Children's Lunches
Vinings Cumberland Rotarians get together every Second Thursday of the month to assemble lunch sacks (chips, sandwiches, etc.) that are distributed the next day by
San Luque Rotary Club Visits Atlanta
The ViningsCumberland Roarty Club has assisted the Luque Rotary Club of Paraguay for the last several years in some water projects, including in person visits. This year The Lugue Club visited us in Atlanta. We showed them some of the Atlanta and US customary tourist locations.
VCR Road Clean-Up January 2026
On Saturday, January 17, 2026, Vinings Cumberland Rotary joined forces with the Vinings Homeowners Association and Keep Cobb Beautiful to conduct a road clean-up in the Vinings Community, starting just above the Chattahoochee River. Thirty volunteers, including 11 Rotarians, bundled up, gloved up, and bagged up to work on this community project. Roughly fifty bags of trash and miscellaneous debris were picked up, beautifying the area and preventing trash from moving into the waterway. Hat tip to Rotarian Jim Johnson who loaded the bags into his pickup and delivered them to the appropriate disposal area.
Vinings Downhil 5K, a Run for the Kids
On August 19th, 2024, almost 1,500 runners gathered to compete in the 27th Annual Vinings Downhill 5K race. The Vinings Down Hill 5K course begins at the top of Mt. Wilkinson
Weekly Book Donation
Each week at our Rotary Club meeting, we have our speaker sign a book for donation to the Vinings Public Library. This then becomes available for the community to read and enjoy fostering literacy and enjoyment.