Support the Wake Forest Rotary’s community programs while enjoying fresh, delicious pecans this holiday season! Place your online order by October 20 to ensure delivery by November 20, just in time for Thanksgiving. Every purchase helps fund essential local initiatives like scholarships, medical debt relief, and food banks. From classic pecan halves to sweet, chocolate-covered varieties, there’s something for everyone. Get your orders in today and enjoy these holiday treats while positively impacting our community! This year, we'll have the following nuts available for purchase:
Purchase now; we will receive our first shipment of pecans and peanuts in early November.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What happens with my donation?
A: When you contribute to the Annual Pecan Sale on BetterUnite.com, your donation goes to the Wake Forest Rotary Foundation. The Wake Forest Rotary Foundation is a registered public charity dedicated to charitable endeavors and overseen by a dedicated Board of Trustees. The Wake Forest Rotary Foundation and The Wake Forest Rotary Club are based in Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA.
Q: What type of programs will the Foundation use for my donations?
A: The Wake Forest Rotary Foundation provides support for the following programs:
- LaunchWakeForest & LaunchROLESVILLE - We support and develop entrepreneurs of small businesses in the Wake Forest and Rolesville area by providing access to training, business loans, business development services, mentors, and networking opportunities.
- Medical Debt Relief Program - We partnered with Wake Med to help cancer patients with unpaid past-due medical bills piled up from ongoing treatments.
- College Scholarships - We annually offer high school scholarship opportunities to seniors in the community who have been accepted to a four-year college/university or a two-year technical college for higher education.
- Local Youth Leadership Conferences - RYLA is a unique leadership conference designed for high school juniors. Delegates chosen to attend this conference are students who have demonstrated leadership potential in academic, athletic, and civic activities. Those who attend the Rotary Youth Leadership Award Conference will be tomorrow’s leaders.
- Foreign Exchange Students - Students learn a new language, discover another culture, and become global citizens. Exchanges for students ages 15-19 are sponsored by Rotary clubs in more than 100 countries. Long-term exchanges last a full academic year, and students attend local schools and live with multiple host families. Short-term exchanges last several days to three months and are often structured as camps, tours, or homestays when school is not in session.
- Eradication of Polio Worldwide - Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever. As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.
- Tri-Area Ministry Food Bank - Tri-Area Ministry Food Pantry provides food and personal hygiene products to our community families in need. Together, we strive to Stop Hunger and Feed Hope.
- The Boys & Girls Club - Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina provides a continuum of care to meet the physical, emotional, mental, behavioral, social, educational, and spiritual needs of children, youth, and families in distress and at risk. To provide an environment of care that promotes health, healing, and hope among children, youth, and families who enter our continuum of care.
