Community Involvement

For the past 2 years, David has volunteered his time as a staff member of Rotary District 6930’s annual 4 day RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) Camp held in remote Umatilla, Florida. This amazing leadership development program is administered by local Rotary club scholarship for approximately 100 high school students from all over Florida. Participants are identified and recommended by their teachers and principals as having leadership potential and the ability to make a difference in their local communities if only given the chance with some coaching, mentoring and guidance.David’s main role at RYLA is leading a special program that helps the RYLA students quickly overcome their natural fear of public speaking and become effective and confident communicators unafraid of speaking and performing in front of a large audience. To do this, David teaches them the basic skills learned in his many years of public speaking as an attorney advocate, community leader, and former member of Toastmasters International. RYLA culminates with a public speaking competition on the last night of camp between David’s students who are divided into several teams vying to win the RYLA public speaking championship.

Throughout the RYLA camp, David also regularly participates with the young students in various other programs that focused on:

• character-building
• leadership
• effective communication
• trust
• and cooperation.

David Eltringham lends his time speaking to students within the Palm Beach County School District about his experience in the legal industry. David strives to increase academic achievement amongst the students by providing technical expertise through career days, classroom speaking engagements, and offering job shadowing and internship opportunities. By creating an educational partnership with our local schools, David enhances and improves the quality of education by meeting the needs of the students, educators, and our community.

The Mayors Ball serves as a coveted tribute to those who have helped make Boca Raton the best place to live, work, learn, visit, heal and raise a family, the proceeds raised fund grant requests from Boca Raton-based non-profits whose communities have health and wellness needs.  Distributed through a formal RCDBR “Service Above Self” grant application process, proceeds from the 2021 Mayors Ball will fulfill grant requests submitted by 17+ area nonprofits, as well as a percentage donated to Rotary International’s fund for polio eradication.