Rotary Marco Island Noontime Welcomes Newest Member

The Rotary Club of Marco Island Noontime inducted a new member, Amanda Nelson, into the club on August 4th. Growing up in Marion County, California as the child of two very active community volunteers, Amanda caught the bug early. She was the “practice-diapering baby” when her mother, a board member of the local Red Cross, gave parenting lessons! From then she went from Girl Scouts to serving on nonprofit boards and has continued volunteering throughout her life.

Amanda earned her B.A. in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and then moved to London where she studied European Art through a year-long course at Sotheby’s. Unsure at that point of what she wanted to do when she returned to the States, she started working for Washington Public Research Group in Seattle, produced her first special event and has been working and serving nonprofits ever since for over 30 years! That work has caused her to work up and down the West Coast, New York City, Memphis, Wharton, Texas, and now in her words’ “heavenly Marco Island.”  We are blessed to have Amanda as the new Executive Director of Our Daily Bread on Marco Island.

Amanda loves everything to do on or under the water; swimming, diving, sailing, snorkeling, or lounging on a float in the pool contemplating important global issues with beverage in hand! She is a rabid political and general news consumer, lover and enjoyer of all forms of the arts, crazy for all animals and happy rescue- mutt owner. 

Amanda’s volunteer work includes the Sierra Club, Northwest AIDS Foundation, NARAL, Community for Youth, Seattle Art Museum, Santa Barbara Botanical Garden, Surfrider Foundation, United Way of King County, Bailey-Boushay House, and Casa Dorinda. She has served on the Boards of DAWG, Just Communities, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis, POCAAN and Resilient HEARTS Animal Sanctuary. The Rotary motto is “Service Above Self” and Amanda certainly fills those shoes. Welcome Aboard our Rotary Family, Amanda.

For more information on the Rotary Club of Marco Island Noontime please contact Linda Sandlin, Linda@MarcoRealtySource.com.