Nooga Night Rotary Club

09/14/2026

🎃 It's giving season, and we'd love for you to give it a shot.

Join Nooga Nights Rotary for our Fall Food Drive on September 22nd, 5:30–7:30pm at White Duck Taco Chattanooga. We're collecting canned goods, peanut butter, cereal, boxed dinners, and more for the Chattanooga Area Food Bank, and we'd love for you to be part of it.

No membership required. No pressure, no pitch, just good people, good food, and a good reason to be in the room.

If you've got a heart for service and have been looking for your people, this is a great low-key way to see what we're about. Bring a donation, bring a friend, bring yourself. 🧡

📅 Sept 22 | 5:30-7:30pm | White Duck Taco
Questions? [email protected]

09/12/2026

Six Rotary Clubs. One Chattanooga. BIG energy. 🎉

President AnnE Rosenberry and President-Elect Stephanie Carlsten joined all six Chattanooga Rotary Clubs and District Governor Deb Birdsall at the Rotaract Quarterly Full Club Meeting.

This is Rotary: people, leadership, action.

Want in? Nooga Nights Rotary meets the 2nd & 4th Tuesday, 6pm, at White Duck Taco — laid-back, service-focused, no stuffy breakfast meetings. There's a seat for you. 🧡

09/08/2026

Join us tonight at White Duck Taco! Welcome our speaker Hope Henchey to discuss urban environments.

Speaker Bio:

Hope Henchey is a mother of five, a fearless explorer of cities, and a refreshing new voice in the urbanist movement. As a writer and content creator with a sharp eye for place and people, Hope has worked for outlets like Strong Towns, Incremental Development Alliance, New York By Rail, and The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy. She has an infectious love for people—especially strangers—and finds joy in discovering what flourishing looks like for people all over America. Her goal is to help people flourish everywhere, starting in Chattanooga, with her family, her street, and the city she loves deeply.

08/26/2026

Come explore the future of community green space with us! Farm Park Chattanooga is creating a one-of-a-kind public food forest where families can learn, gather, and enjoy access to fresh food and nature. From outdoor education spaces to regenerative environmental practices, this project is reimagining how communities grow and thrive together. We hope you'll join us for this special visit!

08/21/2026

The Nooga Night Rotary Club is entering its third season of planting trees in Chattanooga! To date we've planted over 170 trees in the city.

We provide and plant up to two trees per address for adopters who agree to care for the trees by watering, mulching, and weeding them. We will provide adopters with instructions and knowledge on how to do all of that to ensure each tree thrives!

If you are interested in becoming a tree adopter please feel free to reach out here, attend one of our meetings, or copy/paste the link below!

Questionnaire Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLBkcYf1yD5Sqh5E08504pKdgM32m2F3WhuMEHmpnH6OZVmA/viewform?usp=header

08/20/2026

Join us for our next meeting! We will take this time to network, discuss the Rotary Tree Towns Project, and explore other service opportunities.

📅August 25th
🕑6:00PM
📍White Duck Taco

We'd love to hear your ideas! 🌳

08/10/2026

Join us tomorrow at White Duck Taco in welcoming our speaker, Emily Holden, with Voices for a Safer Tennessee. Emily brings perspective combining public-health expertise with compassion and lived experience to champion meaningful, lasting change that helps ensure safer communities for all.

Voices for a Safer Tennessee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition of 30,000+ Tennesseans from all 95 counties. We are dedicated to advancing responsible, data-driven fi***rm safety policies and programs that strengthen public safety while upholding and respecting our Second Amendment rights. We engage in thoughtful, fact-based conversations focused on what works for Tennessee — by Tennesseans, for Tennesseans.

08/05/2026

We're so grateful for our member and leader of Rotary Tree Towns, Kurt Martig, and the passion he brings to growing Chattanooga's urban tree canopy!

Last Thursday, Kurt gave a wonder presentation at the Canopy Connections event, alongside speakers from the , , Tennessee Bureau of Conservation, and the City of Chattanooga's City Forester. He shared the story of how our club's first Rotary tree planting began with just 12 trees, limited by how many Kurt could fit in his pickup truck! 🌳

Since then, the project has grown tremendously through generous grants and community partnerships 😄 In no short part to Kurt's leadership, vision, and commitment to making a lasting difference...one tree at a time!

We are now looking for tree adopters for the 2026-2027 planting season. If you or someone you know is interested in receiving a tree (and a team of enthusiastic Rotarians to help you plant it), please have them reach out to us at [email protected]

07/31/2026

We were so happy to be a part of the CNE backpack drive! 5 Rotary clubs collaborated to provide 145 backpacks with school supplies to Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise Oak Grove Backpack Bash at Eastside Elementary School.

Community give-backs like these are why our members continue to show up and are proud to be Rotarians 💙

A spirit of collaboration and community service was on full display on Saturday, as five Chattanooga-area Rotary clubs joined together for the first time to...

07/13/2026

Join us tomorrow in welcoming our speaker Megan Ledbetter with ! We will be meeting 30 minutes early at 5:30pm to assemble back-to-school backpacks and supplies for East Side Elementary School.

Speaker Bio:

Megan Ledbetter is an artist and educator based in Red Bank, Tennessee, whose lens-based work explores community and belonging through visual storytelling.

Her current photographic project, The Field, is part of a larger collaborative initiative to recognize a derelict municipal cemetery for the poor and dispossessed in operation from 1890-1912. Through generous support from the Current Art Fund (2023-2024), Tennessee Arts Commission (2025-2026), High Work (2026) and South Arts (2026) her work combines visual imagery, historical research, and community engagement to shine a light on the complex overlapping histories at this abandoned burial ground.

She earned her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2011), a BFA from East Tennessee State University (2008), and a BA from Auburn University (2002). She attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2013), was awarded a Resident Artist Fellowship from Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2014), attended Stove Works Artist Residency (2025) and Light Work Artist Residency (2026).