• The Opportunity To Give Back To Your Community.   Some of the local charities that our club is involved with include:  Chartiers Boys and Girls Club, Carnegie Free Library, Meals On Wheels, Family Hospice, Local Food Banks, Shoes That Fit, Camp Aim, Adult Literacy, Presents For Patients, Salvation Army, Relay For Life, Boy Scouts, Operation Backpack, Carnegie Youth Baseball, PAWS With A Cause and the St. Patrick's Day Luncheon for Parc-Way Industries.  Our annual fund raiser, The Big Event, raises between $16,000 to $18,000 for local charities.                                                                                                                                                                                           
•  The Opportunity To Help Our Youth.  Over the years, the Carnegie-Collier Rotary Club has hosted or sponsored local high school students to attend Rotary Youth Leadership Conferences, Ethics Symposiums and World Affairs Conferences.  We currently sponsor an Interact Club at Carlynton High School, which is like a mini-Rotary club, where the students are responsible for their own service projects and fundraisers.  We also have an endowment fund which provides secondary education scholarships to students from either Carlynton, Bishop Canevin or Chartiers Valley High Schools.

• Professional Networking.   A founding principle of Rotary was to provide a forum for professional and business leaders.  It's true that Rotary's motto is "Service Above Self" but people generally like doing business with people they know and trust.  (See the Four-Way Test)

• Personal Growth and Development.  Leadership, public-speaking and communication, organization and planning, team-building, fundraising, and teaching are just a sampling of the skills that can be exercised and enhanced through Rotary.

• Fellowship.  The Carnegie-Collier Rotary Club's social calendar is a full one.  Our members have attended CLO performances, Penguin and Pirate games, golf outings to various country clubs as well as, our monthly international dinners.  Our club members have also taken trips together to Las Vegas, Aruba, the Bahamas and Ireland. We also have our annual Christmas party and the President's Dinner at Nevillewood.

• Excellent Weekly Programs.  Weekly Rotary club programs keep members informed about what is taking place in the community, nation, and world. Some of our past speakers have included: Handwriting expert, Michelle Dresbold, Stan Savran, Jack Bogut, Jim Roddey, Eleanor Schano, WTAE's Mike Clark, Gene Collier and Jim Leyland. 

• World Understanding.  Since 1984, our club has hosted 23 Youth Exchange Students through Rotary.  In 2007-2008, our club hosted Lauri Pelander of Finland. The Carnegie-Collier Rotary Club has also sponsored several local students to travel abroad as well.  In 1991, our club sponsored Sean Wright of Thornburg to be a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar.  Sean studied international law in France for one year and received a Rotary scholarship valued at $22,000.  Our club has also sponsored or participated in numerous World Community Service projects over the years.  We've help build water wells in Haiti, sent used textbooks to the Philippines, built orphanages in the Ukraine and have delivered medical supplies to Russia.   We've also provided leg prothesis to people in India and have shipped shoes to earthquake victims in Chile.  In September of 2008, Rich Meyer, from our club, led a group of four non-Rotarians to Norway as part of a five week Group Study Exchange (GSE).  GSE is a vocational and cultural exchange between countries. In May of 2009, a GSE team of six from Norway arrived in Pittsburgh to complete the exchange.

Bonnie Smith is the newest member to join the Carnegie-Collier Rotary Club this year.   Pictured here from left to right are three of our newest members:  Ruth Forsyth, Charles Oke and Bonnie Smith.

Joanne Letcher rejoined our club in February of 2010 after a ten year sabbatical.  Joanne was originally a member of our club from 1990 to 2000. Joanne owns J & L Travel in Carnegie as well as the JustLadies Travel Club.  Welcome Back, Joanne!

Judi Van Balen is pictured here with her father-in-law and long time Carnegie-Collier Rotarian, Adrian Van Balen, Sr.

(Associated Press) A blockbuster of a trade was announced today as the Pittsburgh Rotary Club traded a past president of theirs, Dana Craig, to the Carnegie-Collier Rotary Club for five number one picks, Sidney Crosby and an Rotary international service project to be named later.  Welcome Dana!!!  (I'd say that we got the better half of this trade)!

Pictured here is 2009-2010 President, Diane Karcz alongside Andrew Clark.

Karen is in real estate and works for Coldwell-Banker.  Karen joined our club on November 12, 2009 and her husband has the great name of Richard.

Ruth Forsyth is a financial advisor and is a member of The Advisors Group of Pittsburgh.  Ruth joined our club on November 12, 2009.  Over the years, Ruth has also been very active with The Nevillewood Neighbors Organization. Pictured from left to right: Ruth Forsyth, V.P. Kay Phanse and our past-president Diane Karcz.

Meet Kay Downey-Clark, one of our newest members.  Pictured left to right: Club President Dave Brosky and Kay Downey-Clark.