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October 1st, 2025
Tiburon Golf Club ~ 10302 South 168th Street ~ Omaha, NE 68136
- 10:30AM Registration Begins
Lunch Specials Available in the Pub
Purchase Mulligans and Raffle Tickets
Warm up on the Driving Range and Putting Green - 11:30AM Shotgun Start for the Tournament
- 5:00PM Dinner Served
- 5:30PM Winners Announced
Flight Awards, Pin Prizes and Raffle Prizes
Click here for the Omaha Millard Rotary Calendar event for more information and to register.
ELECTRONICS RECYCLING EVENT
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Help Protect the Environment & Secure Your Data! Join us for a safe and secure electronics recycling event.
Bring your old, unwanted, or broken electronics and ensure they are properly recycled and disposed of in an eco-
friendly manner.
Event Details:
Date: October 11, 2025
Location: 10912 Prairie Brook Road, Omaha, NE 68144 – Rockbrook Village
Time: 9:00AM – 12:00PM
For information on accepted items and otehr details, click here for the flyer
Join the delegation from Uzbekistan in a panel discussion with Nebraska State Senators hosted by Lincoln 14.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Jayne Snyder Trails Center ~ 228 N 21st St . ~ Lincoln, NE NE 68503
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM - Reception - appetizers will be served; cash bar
Contact Christine - click here.
ENVY Volleyball Casino Night Gala
Oct 23, 2025 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Champions Run - 13800 Eagle Run Dr - Omaha NE 68164
Chef-prepared heavy appetizers, table wine, live piano music, and $500 in play money for a night of gaming excitement
Live Auction—including weeklong trips and Raffle Prizes
Connect with ENVY Founder, Mike Picard, USA Volleyball National Youth Coach of the Year
Click here for ticket prices - individual and sponsorship levels.
Click here for flyer.
Tickets can be purchased here: https://omaharotarynight.org/events/casino-night/
Contact Karalee: karaleepicard@outlook.com
Lincoln South Rotary Club invites you to join us for a special meeting - our speaker will be Mayro Leirion Gaylor Baird.
Pre-registration is required - Click here .
Friday, October 24, 2025
$17 per person meeting charge
Lincoln South Rotary Club Meeting
The Venue - 4111 Pioneer Woods Drive - Lincoln NE 68516 - Private Dining Rooms (around to the east and north)
Contact - Nicolette "Nicki" Klein - click here
The Annual Salute to Business is a collaborative event of The Rotary Clubs of Lincoln. We hold a luncheon and honor one business that has made a significant contribution to the city of Lincoln through employment of people and the good works they perform.
The honoree selected for the 2024 Salute to Business is CEDARS.
Oct. 28, 2025 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
The Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel
333 S 13th St
Lincoln, NE 68508
Registration link - click here
Oct. 28, 2025 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
The Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel
333 S 13th St
Lincoln, NE 68508
Registration link - click here
Celebrate CEDARS as The Rotary Clubs of Lincoln's 2025 Salute to Business honoree!.
CEDARS (formerly known as Cedars Youth Services) is a nonprofit organization in Lincoln, Nebraska, that was founded in 1947 to provide safety, stability, and support for children, youth, and families facing challenges like homelessness, abuse, or family crises. The organization offers services including emergency and residential housing, foster care, family preservation, youth intervention programs, and youth opportunity centers for basic needs and support. CEDARS utilizes a trauma-informed approach to help children thrive and build strong, enduring family relationships. It employs approximately 190 people in Lincoln and Omaha
For more about CEDARS, please visit https://www.cedarsfoundation.org/
Send information about club activities to exec@rotarydistrict5650.org. It will be featured here and added to the District Calendar. Compliant logos are required for any items posted to the District Website.
The Service Above Self Award is considered the highest honor that RI can bestow on a member. It recognizes up to 150 outstanding Rotarians and Rotaractors each year whose service activities make an impact on humanity. No more than one recipient is selected from a given district each year, and a person can receive the award only once.
The Lincoln South Rotary Club Board nominated Jenny, the District submitted the nomination to Rotary International, and Jenny was selected to receive the award.
Read the article as published in the Lincoln Journal Star - click here.
Photos by John Herdman were added for publication to this page.
Story as published to Lincoln South Rotary Club Website - click here.
News Story: Representatives from the Columbus Noon Rotary club presented over 2300 items, including backpacks, binders, paper, notebooks, crayons, etc on Friday, July 26 to the Simon House. $240 to be used by the Simon House to purchase additional supplies was also donated.
Lincoln East Rotary Club, with the help of friends and partners, has supported menstrual hygiene in Zambia for several years.One of the reasons girl children drop out of school is because they do not have the means to live and attend school through their puberty ages. Period health is important for girls ability to stay in school in rural low income communities around the world.
Pictured are school girls receiving their routine sanitary towels in rural Zimba District of Zambia.
On May 2, 2024, Lincoln South Rotary Club celebrated 40-Years of Service at Capital View Winery.
Lincoln East Rotary Club has a focus on climate stewardship initiatives both in our district and beyond. Click read more to learn about their project and view photos of the project in Zambia.
Each month, the Nebraska City Rotary Club selects a community organization to support. As members are fined for various things, their donations are matched by the club's treasury.
Lincoln East Rotary Club presented a $5,000 check to Liz Shea-McCoy, chair of the Pershing Mural Historic Preservation Effort. “I’m glad that our club supports projects like this,” said Rotary member Duane Tappe, who invited Shea-McCoy to a recent meeting. “The Pershing mural within Wyuka Park will have historical and educational value for Nebraskans – statewide.”
Two of our clubs make the front page in Lincoln.
Rotary 14 raised money for it's foundation
https://journalstar.com/.../article_c20103ae-cac0-11ee...
Lincoln South donated to No Footprint To Small
https://journalstar.com/.../article_a4f30475-e436-502f...
Rotary 14 raised money for it's foundation
https://journalstar.com/.../article_c20103ae-cac0-11ee...
Lincoln South donated to No Footprint To Small
https://journalstar.com/.../article_a4f30475-e436-502f...
Lincoln South story as saved to webite:
Oct 21, 2023
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Trendwood Park
7799 A St
Lincoln NE 68510
From Lincoln East Rotary Club:
Our club has partnered with Lincoln Parks and Recreation to plant Trees in our efforts to engage our community in mitigating the effects of climate change.
I am writing to invite your club members to join us in this event at Trendwood Park this Saturday starting at 10 am, volunteers are required to come with closed-toed shoes and gloves if they own a pair, if not there will be extra ones available. This is a family event and members are encouraged to come with their children.
Click here for flyer.
Led by Omaha Downtown Rotary Club, Omahans post flags at Memorial Park to remember 9/11 victims.
Click here to read the story in the Omaha World Herald.
Click here for the story as saved to the District Website.
Read more about: Dario Asencio – Spanish Rotary Exchange Student to Nebraska.
The Beatrice Daily Sun included a story about the Beatrice Rotary Club project to support the middle school mini market on August 23, 2023. Grant funds were used to set up shelving and to provide some food items. See below for the article and more photos.
The Magical Memories Formal through Nishna Productions, Inc. was held Saturday, January 21, 2023.
Contact: Emily - em.martin1074@gmail.com or 641-891-4338.
June 30th was an opportunity for Lincoln East Rotary Club to welcome seven new members and install their officers for 2023-2024.
There were several spouses, friends and our 2023-24 District Governor, Kathryn Schubert from Omaha Suburban, along with Assistant Governor, Clay Ehlers to help welcome these new members and install our President, Andrew Mwape. Andrew is a Ph.D. student in Applied Climatology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his home is in Zambia.
On April 6th, the Western Douglas County Rotary Club held their annual Scholarship Awards Luncheon during the club’s regularly scheduled meeting at the Elkhorn Public Schools Foundation Community Room Alumni Center. The scholarship winners, their parents, counselors and school administrators were special guests of the club.
The Blair Rotary Club received a District 5650 Matching Grant to support the Blair School District Skills Academy. The grant provided funds for educational materials to support the Skills Academy. Click here to read the story as posted to the newspaper.
The Blair Rotary Club supports the Midweek Meal program to help provide meals during a time of economic uncertainty. This was done using matching funds from a Rotary District Grant.
Click here to read the story as published in the newspaper.
The Fairbury Rotary Club (Club 1520) celebrated its 103rd anniversary on Feb. 26, 2023, with a celebration at the Bonham Theatre in Fairbury.Joining in the celebration were current and past District Governors for District 5650, representatives of other Rotary clubs in the district, family members of deceased Rotarians, representatives of organizations for which Fairbury Rotary provides support, and members of the Fairbury Rotary Club. Some in attendance were dressed for the 1920s.
Dan Blankenau never imagined that his expertise in water would lead to a trip to Africa; not just once, but a half-dozen times.
Read more for the full story as published in the Lincoln Journal Star - The Neighborhood Extra section.