Rotary District 7730

Rotary Foundation Seminars

Plan ahead and mark your calendars for these upcoming Foundation events in your area–much more coming:

5 November–Monday evening–Areas 1 & 2 — Carteret & Onslow Counties.
6 November–Tuesday evening–Area 3–Wilmington area (New Hanover County).
7 November–Wednesday evening–Area 4–Brunswick & Columbus Counties.
8 November–Thursday evening–Areas 5 & 6–Bladen, Robeson, Cumberland, Scotland and Hoke Counties.
9 November–Friday evening–Areas 7 & 8–Pender, Duplin, Sampson, Lenoir & Jones Counties.

Go Door-to-Door for New Rotarians

“By going outside your comfort zone, you can discover many men and women who would make good Rotarians,” says Bob Kelley, an RI membership Zone coordinator and member of the Rotary Club of Selma, Alabama. “Just before becoming club president, I realized how many businesses I had never stopped into because I might not have needed to wallpaper a room or practice martial arts.” For months, Kelley made a point of going into every store in town that he’d never visited, and as a result, seven new members joined his club.

Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI)

Remember, one of our District Goal’s this year is that every Club send at least two members to this powerful, fast-paced, interactive, one-day course offered to refine a Rotarian’s leadership skills and increase their base of knowledge in Rotary. The next training event is on 27 October at Methodist University in Fayetteville. Registration cutoff date is eight days prior to the event. For registration information go to www.rli33.org.

Governor’s Official Club Visit Scheduled

24 October–Jacksonville Breakfast Club–7:00 AM–Jacksonville Country Club.

Support Our Boys and Girls Homes

Lake Waccamaw–On 3 November, The Brunswick Little Theatre will bring the musical production “Godspell” to the Lake Waccamaw campus of Boys and Girls Homes of NC. Thanks to the generous support of the Southport and Shallotte Rotary Clubs, all proceeds from ticket sales will go directly to the Homes and the children who reside there. Children who are currently residents at the Homes will be featured both on and off stage as singers, stagehands, and ushers. Only 300 tickets are available–tickets are $10.00–a number of VIP tickets are also $15.00. Order tickets by mailing checks to:

Boys and Girls Homes of NC
Attn: Rev. John Cobb
P.O. Box 127
Lake Waccamaw, NC 28450

Our Youth Exchange Program Needs Your Help

Great opportunities for Families to host inbound exchange students from other countries (August 2008 - June 2009). Families need to be identified not later than end of November 2007 and applications are due in January 2008. Applications for Outbound Students (for period August 2008 - June 2009) are due not later than 31 October 2007. For more information on this exciting program contact our District Youth Exchange Officer Lori Harris at 910-409-0202 or E-mail lharris2006@yahoo.com.

Upcoming Training on District Youth Exchange Program–Mark your calendars–on Tuesday evening, 16 October from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM in Wilmington, our District will host a training session with ESSEX (Eastern States Student Exchange), our supporting exchange organization. Rotarians from several other Rotary Districts in Eastern North Carolina will be in attendance. This is a very important training session and all Club Presidents and Club Youth Exchange Officers should plan to attend. For more information, contact our Youth Exchange Officer, Lori Harris at 910-409-0202 or E-mail lharris2006@yahoo.com.

District Newsletter Articles Needed

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Every Rotarian Every Year (EREY)?h3>
One of our District Goals for this year is that we all give something to the Rotary Foundation Annual Programs Fund–and hopefully we can do that in such a way that we will average at least $100.00 per member across the District. This past year we averaged $109.00 per member, the first time in our District’s history that we broke the $100.00 average. Please keep the momentum–we can do even better than that!!!

More About Membership
Maybe your Club should consider obtaining space in a prominent shop window to display information about the Club’s activities in the community. Once you see that list in writing, chances are that even you will be amazed at all the good things that you and your Club members do for the community–and chances are that non-rotarians who see the list will be amazed, too. Remember, everyone wants to be on a winning team–invite them to be on your’s!!!

Weekly Rotary Foundation Fundraising Strategy

Leverage with a Beverage–Some like their beverages hot, as in coffee, and some like it over ice. Either way, the Madison West Towne-Middleton Rotary Club Foundation Chair (District 6250) invited over for drinks her club’s most “passionate about Rotary” members. She asked them do two things to support what they love — make a contribution to The Rotary Foundation, and to ask four or five other members in the club to do the same. Her club, which previously had only modest success with fundraising for the Foundation, is now guaranteed to post over $100.00 per capita this year through quarterly invoicing. What did the trick?? She said, “I just asked!!”

Give “Every Rotarian, Every Year” the opportunity to support our Rotary Foundation. For more information on devising a strategy for your club or on district giving or program participation, contact our District Foundation Chairman, PDG Bevin Wall at Bevin@RLI33.org.

“Rotary Shares”