Working Together to Deliver Lasting Solutions
Each day, our members pour their passion, integrity, and intelligence into completing projects that have an impact. Our work is rooted in relationships with members in the communities we serve so we can deliver lasting and sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing issues.
Our Seven Areas of Focus
- Promoting peace
- Fighting disease
- Providing clean water, sanitation and hygiene
- Saving mothers and children
- Supporting education
- Growing local economies
- Supporting the environment
Local Projects
Building Forever Families: ACRC’s Annual Adoption Fest
Each year, the members of the Austin Cosmopolitan Rotary Club (ACRC) eagerly anticipate on...
EarlyAct FirstKnight, Pecan Springs Elementary School
In partnership with Austin University Area Rotary Club, and thanks to the generous DAP Gra...
Frida Friday ATX
ACRC members volunteer at the organization’s mercados. Frida Friday ATX creates marketpl...
Health Alliance for Austin Musicians
We offer event support at Ray Benson’s Birthday Bash – an annual event that raises...
Hill Country Ride for AIDS
Every year, we volunteer at the ride, which is the largest fundraiser in central Texas for...
Holiday Gift Drive for Travis High Mothers
Every year, Austin Cosmo members purchase gifts and diapers/wipes to make the holidays bri...
Other organizations we’ve supported: FloCode, Keep Austin Beautiful, Interfaith Welcome Coalition, Project Schoolhouse, Bookspring, Austin Parks Department, Communities in Schools, Hill Country Conservancy and many more.
Global Projects
Central and Southern Kenya
We partnered again with the Rotary Club of Naivasha, Kenya, and several clubs in the distr...
Library Bus (Bibliobus), Madagascar
Since 1905, Rotarians have placed service to their communities and to the world above them...
Ndabibi, Kenya
Where we repaired a well to provide clean water to a community of 20,000 people in partner...
Tamilnadu, India
Where we are establishing mental health awareness and treatment programs to elementary sch...
The Rotary Foundation
As a chapter of Rotary International, we are able to apply for grants and access matching funds via the Rotary Foundation to fund our projects above. Since it was founded more than 100 years ago, the Foundation has spent more than $4 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects. Each year, our club donates close to $15,000 to the Rotary Foundation and causes mentioned above.