CAPITAL-VIRGINIA DISTRICT

 

Optimist Club of Fredericksburg

The Optimist Club of Fredericksburg has more than 30 years of community service in Fredericksburg and the surrounding area. Our membership is made of of people from diverse backgrounds and professions including small business ownership, recruiting and job placement, engineering, public accounting, criminal justice, financial services, social services, education, and retail management. Our diversity extends across generations with members just starting their families to seasoned retirees. The primary focus of the Optimist Club of Fredericksburg is on projects for the benefit of disadvantaged youth and on recognition of outstanding area students.

The Fredericksburg Optimists In Action page lists some of the many projects and scholarship programs the club conducts or supports. If you have questions about any of these projects please us the contact information provided later on this page.

The Fredericksburg Optimist Club News page provides recent and current club news.

The Fredericksburg Optimist Club Calendar shows a schedule of planned activities.

Members of the local organization have contributed time and energy to numerous community service projects and have contributed funds to help a number of local organizations that work with children execute beneficial projects. Our service projects have changed over time as we adapted to the changing needs of our community.  We continue to look for new opportunities within our community through which we can reach out to children in need and make a difference in advancing the well-being of youth and community. We aspire to become an ever more effective force in service to youth and community in future years.

To achieve that aspiration the Optimist Club of Fredericksburg depends upon the community at large. We need members from the community to manage, plan, and execute community service projects. We need volunteers from the community to provide time and effort to assist in executing service projects. We need community support for our fund raising activities to ensure we have adequate monies to conduct service of benefit to the community. We need project need input from the community to help us identify service opportunities.

Interested in what you can do as a volunteer with the Optimist Club of Fredericksburg? Do you see a youth oriented community need within the City of Fredericksburg, Stafford County, or Spotsylvania County? Are you looking to give something of yourself in service to youth and community? Would you like to attend an Optimist Club dinner to learn more? If you answered yes to any of these questions, please contact us. 

Contact Information:

 
By U.S. Mail
Optimist Club of Fredericksburg,
        P. O. Box 7243
Fredericksburg, VA 22404
 
By telephone
        Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania:  Tom Best (540) 898-9432
Stafford: Dawn Schwartz (540) 657-2044
 
By E-mail
Larry

In Person - Join us at one our Dinner Meetings. We meet the second Wednesday of each month at the Ramada Inn located at 5324 Jefferson Davis Highway, Fredericksburg, VA

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