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      • District Videos
      • Past Governor's
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      • District Events
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      • Start a Jr Optimist Club
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  • Governor's Message
  • District Info
    • Club Meetings
    • District Chairpersons
    • Downloads
    • Bulletins 2018-present
    • Bulletins 2008-2017
    • Bulletins 2000-2007
    • NC East Pictures
    • District Videos
    • Past Governor's
  • Events
    • District Events
    • International Convention
    • Mile of Hope
    • iMagining a Club Project
    • Golf 2023
    • International Programs
  • Membership
    • Join Us!
    • Start a Club!
    • Start a Jr Optimist Club
    • Club Fitness
    • Heroes in Uniform
    • President Incentives 2023

Welcome!

Friends of Youth

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About Us

How We're Helping

We are an international community-based organization focused on helping make the youth around us  better and happier. With the help of our tireless volunteers, we organize fundraisers, participate in exciting community events and make a difference. We serve the Youth in the eastern part of North Carolina.

What is an Optimist?

Mission: By providing hope and positive vision, Optimists bring out the best in youth, our communities and ourselves.


Vision: Optimist International will be recognized worldwide as the premier volunteer organization that values all children and helps them develop to their full potential.


Purposes: To develop optimism as a philosophy of life utilizing the tenets of the Optimist Creed; to promote an active interest in good government and civic affairs; to inspire respect for the law; to promote patriotism and work for international accord and friendship among all people; to aid and encourage the development of youth, in the belief that the giving of one’s self in service to others will advance the well-being of humankind, community life and the world.

Optimist Creed


Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything 

and make your optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best, 

and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others 

as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past 

and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times 

and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself

 that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

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Optimist NC East District

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Monday - Friday: 9am - 5pm

Saturday - Sunday: Closed

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