Rotary District 7730

Always Think About Membership

It’s a very simple thought–without members there is no Rotary!! Accordingly, Membership and Extension should remain a fundamental part of our Club goals and our annual planning–we should make sure that we pull our club membership together so our entire Rotary family can focus on the heart of the organization and what makes it great — our more than 1.2 million members in 33,000-plus clubs worldwide. We should keep membership top of mind all year by implementing a new idea each month. For example, during the month of June why not place a Rotary promotional ad or insert in your local chamber of commerce directory???

Don’t Forget our Rotary Foundation during June

As we close out this Rotary year and we embark on a new and exciting journey beginning 1 July, let’s make an impression on those in the world who desperately need our support by making a powerful statement with our contributions to the Rotary Foundation. We can get a lot done in the remaining three weeks of this Rotary year–for instance:

Please review your Club’s contribution history for this year and make sure that everyone contributes something.

Work hard to make sure that your Club contributions to our Foundation meet or exceed $100.00 per member.

As a minimum, work to have your Club’s contributions this Rotary year equal or exceed last year’s contributions.

If your Club needs to know where it stands to date on Foundation contributions, please contact me at bronco549@aol.com, our District Foundation Chair PDG Bevin Wall at bevin@rli33.org or our District Annual Programs Funds Chair, Mark Lynch at mark@qualitysoundinc.com.

RI Convention 15 - 18 June 200, Los Angeles, California

Southland Breakfast Tickets!!

Word from our Governor-Elect Lee Dixon is that he still has two tickets left for our world famous Southland Breakfast in LA during our International Convention–tickets are only $40.00 each. If you’re going to the Convention and don’t yet have tickets for this breakfast, don’t risk being in LA without having the opportunity to have GRITS for breakfast!!! Please contact DGE Lee at ldixon@edapa.com.

June is Rotary Fellowships Month

The Rotary Fellowships program fosters international fellowship, friendship, and service among Rotarian interest groups. You can connect with Rotarians in other areas of the world who have similar hobbies or interests, share ideas and develop service projects. Join an existing Global Networking Group or start your own, and then tell your fellowship stories at club meetings. There are more than 80 Rotary Fellowships, from sports and hobbies to professional interests. For more about this fascinating opportunity go to www.rotary.org.

Rotarians Work and Stay the Course

“In the days and weeks after the devastating tusnami in South Asia, Rotarians came from all around the world to help. They came and were able to get to work immediately because they joined their fellow Rotarians who lived where the tsunami had struck, people who knew exactly what the needs were and how best to meet them and who were able to bypass local governments. Unlike the other aid workers, who stayed in distant hotels and flew into the affected areas every morning, the Rotarians stayed with the people. Today, the television cameras are gone, but Rotary is still there.” (RI President Bill Boyd, 2006-07, at the 2006 International Assembly.)

The Weekly Rotary Foundation Thought

While scouting locations for his film “Apocalypto,” Mel Gibson came upon a near apocalyptic situation on southern Mexico: the aftermath of Hurricane Stan.

The storm ripped through the states of Chiapas and Veracruz in October, killing 15 people and displacing 370,000, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Gibson met with Mexican President Vicente Fox and told him he would donate one million dollars to help families rebuild, with one condition: he would make the donation through The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International.

The Hollywood actor and director learned of Rotary from several of his relatives who had traveled with members of the Rotary Club of Tarzana Encino, California, on medical missions to Central America. Gibson and his wife, Robyn, were impressed that The Rotary Foundation had matched their family members’ donation to participate.

“The key in their minds (to) the money coming through Rotary is that they felt it would be responsibly handled,” says Clare Short, of the Tarzana Encino Club.

Following the Gibsons’ donation, the Foundation set up a hurricane disaster recovery committee, along the lines of similar national committees appointed after the South Asia tsunami, to oversee rebuilding efforts. (Frank Talk on our Rotary Foundation, pg 125)

For more information on giving or program participation, contact our District Foundation Chair PDG Bevin Wall at bevin@rli33.org.

“Rotary Shares”

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