Our club fosters the ideals of Rotary with a number of programs to include the Annual Rotary Soccer Classic whereby local high school soccer teams play at Blackbaud Stadium. It provides a showcase for the soccer teams. Our members are expected to either donate $300 or solicit community businesses for the donation. This is our major fund raising event of the year and the proceeds pay for four college scholarships ($9000) for deserving area students. The Club also sponsors 3 Trident College scholarships in the amount of $1000 each and named for our Charter President, Don Spoonheim. We have donated money to the following organizations over the years: Meals on Wheels, ECCO, Mt. Pleasant Library, North-South Soccer Classic, Charleston Chaplaincy Program, Junior Achievement, and the Rotary Foundation. The Rotary Soccer Classic has been held every year since 1984. The Mt. Pleasant Rotary Club sponsors an Interact Club at Wando High School that introduces youth to the concept of community and international service. The Club sponsors a Christmas Party on the Yorktown at Patriots Point with the help of other local Rotary Clubs for the various orphanages in the area. The Club sponsors a Literacy Program called Rotary Reader whereby Rotarians and others act as mentors for primarily first graders and help these young people develop their reading skills. The Club sponsors this program in all six elementary schools East of the Cooper.