Rotary District 7730

Rotary Foundation Fund Development Club Goal Report Form

Presidents-elect and Assistant Governors — Thank you to all those who have completed and sent in your TRF Fund Development Club Goal Reports. There are still some of you who have not yet sent in the reports.

The deadline is today! May 1, 2006. The Rotary Foundation expects all of our district’s reports today and I do not want to disappoint them. Those of you who have made the commitment to “Lead the Way” in your clubs, please take care of this obligation today. Thank you!

Reminder: Planning Guide for Effective Rotary Clubs & Club Inventories
Presidents-elect and Assistant Governors — The deadline for these reports is May 31^st, 2006. I am confident that you are all working on these reports and are using them as a tool so set reasonable goals and benchmarks for your year of service. I will need them by May 31^st in order to do an effective job in assisting you during my official visit to your club this summer.

Group Study Exchange — Twelve excellent candidates have applied for the Group Study Exchange to District 2690, Japan, October 9^th to November 8^th, 2006. Our committee interviewed seven candidates Sunday afternoon, April 30^th, and will interview the remainder next Sunday, May 7^th. We will be accepting four GSE team members and two alternates. Thank you to District GSE Outbound Chair Beth Steelman for an excellent job in organizing the project and thank you to Dave Baggett, Lee Dixon, and Donna Shiro for identifying our extraordinary candidates. We will announce our selections in the next few weeks.

Health & Hunger — This in from Health & Hunger Resource Group Chair Lori Goodell:
Calling all citizens to participate in eliminating and eradicating hunger on May 13, 2006. Join the National Association Letter Carriers and the National Rural Letter Carriers Association in the largest one-day food drive in America.

City and Rural Letter Carriers throughout New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender, and Columbus County will be carrying and delivering much more than mail when they walk and drive along their postal routes on May 13^th, 2006. Our City and Rural Letter Carriers will collect non-perishable food donations left in or on mailboxes and in post offices from their postal customers participating in the 14^th Annual NALC National Food Drive — the largest one-day food drive in the nation. All donations will be delivered to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina at Wilmington.

While this campaign is occurring in 4 of the counties in our Rotary District, it is likely to be happening throughout the other counties in our district as well. Nationally nearly 1,500 local NALC branches in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands are involved in the one-day food drive. Campbell Soup Company and the U.S. Postal Service are co-sponsors of the 14^th Annual NALC National Food Drive.

The donated food will be distributed to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina and Wilmington’s partner agencies to directly support eradicating and eliminating hunger in many food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, emergency shelters, emergency food programs, and after-school programs. In 2005 the food drive brought in locally 42,000 pounds of food which equates to 35,368 meals provided. The 2006 goal is to collect and distribute over 75,000 pounds which will provide 63,158 meals to the Food Bank’s partner agencies and their programs.

All citizens need to do is place a box or bag of non-perishable foods (peanut butter, dried goods, canned meats and vegetables, stews, soups, tuna, rice, cereal, paper products, attends, elderly drinks and infant formulas and foods not in glass) in or on their mailbox before their letter carrier delivers mail on Saturday, May 13^th, 2006. The carrier will pick up the donation and deliver to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina.

Volunteers are needed from 11 AM to 5 PM on May 13^th to support Rural Carrier collection and City Carriers collection to move donations to Food Bank bins. Those interested in volunteering need to contact the Cape Fear Volunteer Center at (910) 392-8180 or email CFVC@bellsouth.net. For more information visit www.nalc.org

Lead the Way!