Helping Our Community

Local Rotary Programs

  • Youth Exchange Program since 1970
    • This program offers clubs the chance to promote world understanding and enrich the lives of qualified young people by sending selected high school-aged youth abroad to study and gain insight into a culture different from their own.
    • Participation in the International Youth Exchange program began in our Club in 1970. As of 2016, we have hosted 35 students from 25 different countries, and we have had 14 local students live and study overseas on the program.
  • Caring and Sharing Christmas Gift Program for Families in Need
    • This program was new to the Janesville Rotary Club in October, 2000. It was started in 1987 by Janesville resident Becky Miller, to help area families that may be having a difficult time making ends meet during the Christmas season. Due to Becky’s illness and death from cancer in 2000, she was unable to offer the program in 1998 and 1999. Becky’s husband, Frank Miller, asked the Rotary Club if the club would consider taking over the program, and the transition was completed. The program is being continued in memory of Becky and to benefit the entire community. In the first 16 years as a Rotary program, 977 children from 344 families received Christmas gifts purchased and donated by the public.
  • School Staff Appreciation Picnic
    • ​The regular meeting is held at the beginning of each school year. As special guests, the Club invites the staff from Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton School and Trinity Lutheran School. Lots of good food and fellowship is enjoyed by all.
  • Charitable Gambling
  • Farmers’ Event
  • Adopt-A-Highway
  • Academic Banquet
    • ​This event was first held in April, 1987. The purpose is to honor and recognize annually those JWP high school students who earn an Academic letter, according to standards set by the school. (At least a B+ average or higher the first semester during one school year.)
  • Fine Arts Banquet
    • The first annual Fine Arts Banquet/Program was held on May 29, 1991. The purpose of the event is to honor JWP high school students who have made outstanding contributions in the area of fine arts, including band, chorus, speech, art, theater, science, FCCLA, mock trial, and industrial arts.
  • STRIVE Program
    • ​This program of our club started in October, 1999. STRIVE is a scholarship program which recognizes and rewards those students in the lower one-third of the senior class of JWP who show the most improvement in their grade point average during the school year. Rotary furnishes a mentor for each student involved in the program, and they meet periodically so the mentors can provide support and encouragement toward meeting each student's goals. Rotary awarded 3 scholarships ($500-$1,000-$1,500) to the most successful students participating in the program each year from 1999 through 2003. Beginning in 2004, scholarships of $250.00 to $1,000.00 have been awarded each year.
  • College Scholarships
    • ​Since 1977, the Janesville Rotary Club has presented a scholarship annually to a graduating Senior at JWP High School.
    • The first scholarship was $150.00; it was increased in 1978 to $250.00 annually through 1990; in 1991 and 1992, the Club gave two $250.00 scholarships; in 1993, four $500.00 scholarships; and from 1994 through 2004 eight $500.00 scholarships have were awarded annually; and in 2005 two $500.00 scholarships were awarded; from 2006 through 2010 four $500.00 scholarships were awarded annually, and, in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 two $500.00 scholarships were awarded annually. In 2015 and 2016, two $1,000 scholarships were awarded. Between 1977 and 2016, a total of $67,400.00 has been awarded by Rotary to graduates of JWP.
  • Book Exchange
  • Business Appreciation
  • Haydaze Fun Run


Other Organizations

Our Rotary Club Members are also actively involved in many different organizations and activities within our community. Many of these are listed below.


  • JWP School
  • Trinity Lutheran School
  • Trinity Lutheran Church
  • St. Ann's Catholic Church
  • Faith Lutheran Church
  • United Methodist Church
  • City of Janesville
  • Youth Athletics
  • Bulldog Backers
  • Scouts
  • Janesville Fire Department
  • Hay Daze Celebration
  • Janesville Chamber of Commerce
  • Janesville Matters/Beautification Group
  • Janesville Foundation
  • Janesville Ministerial Association
  • Community Food Shelf
  • Friends of the Library
  • Youth Fire Arm Safety Course
  • Benefits for Community Members