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Wake Forest Rotary members assembling holiday care packages at a service project
Rotary Club of Wake Forest · Est. 1937

Service above self,
right here in Wake Forest

Neighbors who meet every week and turn that hour into festivals, scholarships, small-business programs, and millions in relieved medical debt.

48
Members
89
Years of service
$4.2M
Medical debt relieved
We meet
Mondays · 6:30 PM
Where
The Forks Cafeteria · 339 Brooks St
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16
July
Special event
Community Conversation on Maternal & Infant Health Event
The Forks Cafeteria

We need your help! Join us as we partner with our community to host a town hall on maternal and infant health. Rotary volunteers will help serve dinner and provide childcare for parents attending the meeting, making it easier for families to participate in this important conversation. Please RSVP to let us know if you can volunteer. Your support will help make this event a success for our community.

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19
September
Service
Wake Forest Charity Car Show Volunteers Needed on Sept 19
The Market of Wake Forest (Front of Big Lots)

The event organizers are seeking 10 Rotary volunteers to assist with parking, registration, and car judging on Saturday, September 19. If our club provides at least 10 volunteers, they will donate $500 to support our club. Volunteers will receive an event t-shirt. Please consider donating a few hours to help make this community event a success while furthering Rotary’s mission of service above self. VOLUNTEER RESPONSIBILITIES Parking | Shift: 7:00 am to 11:00 am | Hold/attend briefing meeting at 7:15 am to be ready for the gates to open at 7:30 am. Direct-entry cars were to park and be guided into their spots. We prefer each car to have its own parking space, and larger cars may need more space. Use a pool noodle to mark spacing when outside a parking space. Cars are “backed in” to each space, with the front of the car facing the aisle. Registrants are not permitted to choose their own parking space. Make sure to have volunteers at the entry and interspersed throughout the parking area, including the early leavers area, near the entry, and the back row of the lot near the ATM (all entries come through the main registration point, even volunteers). Supplies needed: pool noodles, safety vests. Volunteers needed: 10+ (Leads: Brad Scott) Judging | Shift: 8:30 am to 2:00 pm | Hold/attend briefing meeting at 8:30 am. Judging begins at approximately 9:00 a.m., and each team will be assigned two volunteers. If you have a car in the show, you cannot judge your own car. Cars will be judged on a 100-point scale. Volunteers will be provided with a clipboard, pens, judging forms, and judging dots. Forms are to be completed legibly and signed/initialed if the Judging Chair has questions. Judging forms will be picked up by “Runners” and delivered to the Tabulators inside Hartura. Prior experience is preferred. Supplies needed: clipboards (with classes on the backside), judging forms, pens, highlighters, judging dots, safety vests. Volunteers needed: 20 (Chair: Ken Nagy) All volunteers in the show area must wear a safety vest! Rotarians can wear their safety vests.

June 5, 2027 · Downtown Wake Forest

Cars & Carnivores turns five

Our signature street festival is back: 100+ show cars, an SCA-sanctioned steak cook-off, and a cornhole tournament, all for a good cause.

Festival-goers admiring a maroon Pontiac GTO, the 2026 Best in Show, at the Cars & Carnivores Street Festival
5th Anniversary of the Cars & Carnivores Street Festival
Presented with our 5th-anniversary sponsors
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Capital Cheverolet logoAshcroft Ace Hardware logoInfiniEDGE Real Estate Group logoProfessional Touch Painters logoElectric Motor CO logoHartsfield and Nash Insurance logo

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