The Newburgh Rotary Club was chartered in 1917 and is one of the oldest continuous clubs in the world. Such distinguished civic leaders as Archie Stewart of Stewart International Airport fame, and Dr. Russell Scobie, known as the father of fluoridation, have been members.
Your Newburgh Rotary Club continues its good works by sponsoring numerous programs on a local level, which have included:
- International Youth Exchange, in which one to two high school students study abroad for a year, and one to two foreign students study in Newburgh for a year, while living with host families arranged through the Rotary Club.
- International Group Study Exchange, in which business people and professionals spend several weeks as Rotary's guests in a foreign country as ambassadors of goodwill.
- Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA), in which one to two students from Newburgh Free Academy attend the Rotary Youth Leadership Conference, held at the Storm King School in Cornwall-on-Hudson every summer, teaching public speaking and management skills and the ethical responsibilities of leadership.
- Vocational Service, in which disadvantaged youth are given an opportunity to train with an experienced business mentor.
- The Archie Stewart Rotary Scholarship Fund, in which every year one or more NFA students receive a stipend to study at an accredited college of their choice.
- Local non-profit organizations assisted by the Newburgh Rotary Club have included the YMCA/YWCA, The Salvation Army of Newburgh, Meals on Wheels, The Holden Home, Independent Living, Inc., local chapters of the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, and numerous others.