Events

LEVANTAR provides education, cultural programs, and support services to immigrant families in North Fair Oaks and Redwood City through established relationships.

Our dedicated team meets the needs of our community and partners with local schools, congregations, businesses, and city leaders. Together with hundreds of volunteers, we help students and parents grow — in literacy, life skills, confidence, and connection. Academic support, cultural celebrations, and learning workshops are just a few of the ways that we foster belonging and connection. This work brings together generations and cultures, planting seeds of hope and lasting change in our community.

https://wearelevantar.org/

Rotarians are People of Action!

We are making it easy for everyone to participate in service. Join us as we build winter care packages for our unhoused community members. 
 

Ali and the Board of Directors --sounds like a new rock band!

Maybe not so musical, but you'll get a mid-Rotary-year update on Club activities and plans. Not just required by our bylaws, the club assembly will give you insights into what other club members have been up to while you have been working hard in your own areas of interest and expertise. 
Come and celebrate as we Unite for Good. 

Artificial Intelligence expert Susan Gonzales will present Generative AI - What is it and Why Does it Matter to You? A Conversation About AI and What You Need to Know! AI isn't coming someday; it is here, and everyone needs to understand the impact of this unprecedented technology. Join a conversation with a local resident and global AI expert who founded a nonprofit in 2019 to help people understand the opportunities and challenges with AI.

See www.aiandyou.org to learn more.

Rotarian Amy will review her recent trip to Kenya, including the club’s solar stove project in Kolong Village and delivery of books to Oloigero Primary School, as well as fellowship with the Rotary Clubs of Athi River and the Maasai Mara. Bonus pictures of wild animals!

Fairfax-based Filmmaker and author Len Dell'Amico will present Friend of the Devil: Len Dell'Amico Reflects on a Career with Jerry Garcia & the Grateful Dead. He will share stories and insights from his 2025 book Friend of the Devil, a refreshing and resonant look at his years working with the Grateful Dead and the creative spirit that defined one of America’s most iconic bands. As the Dead’s longtime video director and a close collaborator on concert films and documentaries, Dell’Amico offers a behind-the-scenes view of how music, friendship, and improvisation came together to create something timeless.

Melissa Prandi went on a Rotary international trip for H2OpenDoors while also delivering Save a Girl Hygiene Kits in Uganda. Melissa was so moved by the need to protect and help children and women in Uganda and her life was changed forever. Melissa went home to USA and founded The Melissa Prandi Children Foundation in partnership with Rotarian Ugandans.

The Melissa Prandi Children Foundation empowers impoverished communities in Uganda with educational opportunities, vocational training, microloans and donations of food and crucial supplies. Our mission is to give youth access to quality and higher education. With our “sponsor a student” program, our youth have become the first of their families to graduate from college! Our vocational training centers & microloans empower young women to be economically independent and stable.

https://mpchildrenfoundation.org/

Student tutors from Menlo Park high schools will be speaking about their tutoring experiences.

Healthy Cities Tutoring helps kids who struggle to succeed in school. Community volunteers provide one-on-one tutoring and mentoring for children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to improve their academic performance, engagement in learning and self-esteem.

https://healthycities.site/about-healthy-cities-tutoring/

Garth Illingworth, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics UC Santa Cruz

Garth Illingworth has been exploring for the earliest galaxies in the first 1-2 billion years of the Universe. His early work was on globular clusters and nearby ellipticals, but then with the advent of the powerful instruments on Hubble he transitioned to working on distant galaxies. This search over the last 15-20 years has been enabled by the world's most powerful telescopes, the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and the Keck telescope on Mauna Kea. Central to his research has been to use Hubble to look back through 96% of all time to find and measure incredibly faint, young galaxies that are the seeds that have grown into galaxies today, like our Milky Way.