Welcome to Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotary Club!

The Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotary Club (CHNR) welcomes Rotarians and other visitors to its Monday meetings. The club meets at the Holiday Inn (Bressi Ranch at Innovation Drive) the 2nd and 4th Mondays each month.  A buffet lunch with salads and hot entrees is open at noon, with the business meeting beginning at 12:20 pm. Please check this page for scheduling or the website for specifics:  carlsbadhinoonrotary.org.

The Club, chartered in February 1980, has 52 members. The membership is very active and committed to the Rotary principle of "Service Above Self."  The club sponsors an energetic Interact Club at Carlsbad High School and each year sends both facilitators and students to the annual RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award) conference for high school juniors and the Rotary LEAD symposium for eighth graders. 

Additionally, CHNR also supports our Carlsbad students via the AVID program at Carlsbad High School with a business and ethics conference and initiates a scholarship raffle to raise funds for college and trade school scholarships, a literacy project and book fair at Jefferson Elementary School, Junior Achievement and What Grown-Ups Do For Work, music instruction and a competition for middle school students, an essay contest for middle school students and a speech contest focusing on the Rotary Four-Way Test for high school students. Yes, we have a major focus on our young people. 

CHNR members provide extensive community: once a month at Brother Benno's to serve breakfast to the homeless; once a month to the North County Food Bank; and a massive 20,000 food packaging event to assist the Food Bank. Additionally, the club provides financial support (resulting from our fundraising events) and personal service to a variety of nonprofit organizations in Carlsbad affecting youth programs, food insecurity, homelessness and seniors. A club committee also deals with international service projects supporting water projects, school rehabilitation, mental health, refugee assistance and equipment. 

We are People of Action.

During the 2025-2026 Rotary year, club members provided over 2,400 hours of volunteer service to the local and international communities. Completing 50 projects, club members assisted:

1. Food insecurity - 24 projects for 555 hours delivering, packaging, serving, or organizing food products for the needy.

2.  Schools - for elementary schools the club provided a book fair for 500 students; for middle schools provided speakers to open eyes to  What Grown-Ups Do For Work on a routine basis throughout the year and taught the Junior Achievement curriculum; for high school students coordinated the Interact Club at Carlsbad High School, created two competitions (speech and music); designed and implemented an AVID conference, raised $52,000 for scholarships for college and trade school students; and analyzed and interviewed students for those scholarship awards.

3. Seniors and Families:  designed and implemented Oktoberfest #43 together with the Carlsbad Rotary to raise $20,000 for Carlsbad projects; and bought gifts for 14 needy families during the holidays.

5. International:  Bought desks for a school in Kenya, Africa; provided funds for gardens at three schools in Cape Town, South Africa; provided funds for solar energy generation and wastewater treatment in Poland; distributed funds for food supplies and music therapy for mental health of PTSD refugees at a peace shelter in Ukraine; helped rehabilitate a school in El Salvador; helped fund gifts and special needs supplies for disabled children in Tijuana, Mexico; continued work on a water project in Kibera, Uganda; and helped the club's CHS Interact Club gather and ship books to schools in Africa.

Making a difference is important to each member of Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotary Club . . . if YOU want to make a difference too . . . come JOIN US.  For further information look at carlsbadhinoonrotary.org for membership information.  CHNR meets the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month at the Holiday Inn, Bressi Ranch, at noon. Lunch is $34.  Come check us out . . . you'll like what you see.