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Advocates’ Access to Area Club Reports & Goals

10 Monday Aug 2015

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Jim Probsdorfer

Jim Probsdorfer

Greetings on this great Monday morning to all of you who subscribe to and read this blog.  The blog began by Advocates Chair Carol Woodward as an experiment in providing important District Rotary Foundation priorities in an informal, accessible, and timely way, without overloading folks with endless emails and phone calls.  We still do some of the latter, but we have cut down significantly on the frequency and length of those emails and phone calls.  The blog, open to all, provides a great archive of time sensitive tasks , and has a ‘Resources & Documents’ page of useful tools and references.  I hope you will encourage others to join.

Three important updates for you:

  1. This week the District 7600 Area Governors will be using the RI developed Delegation Tool to delegate their level of access to their area clubs to their counterpart Foundation Advocates. Both will be able to see the goals, goals progress, and club reports for the clubs in their areas. By Friday, August 14, if you are a Foundation Advocate and do not have such access, please report to Carol Woodward and she will get on it.
  2. I have updated the 2015 Club Foundation Presentation Program Slides for Foundation Advocates to use in an early club visit to brief their clubs on The Rotary Foundation and on the District 7600 goals. Slide 20 allows the presenter to insert club specific information.  Click above or log on to the blog site https://7600advocates.wordpress.com. Click on the ‘Resources & Documents’ page above the title.  You will see the Foundation Slides listed among the other documents and references available.
  3. You will also see TRF_52_Week_Message. This provides short weekly messages which we encourage Club Rotary Foundation Chairs to present to his or her club, one each week, to keep TRF before club members as an important component of ‘doing good in the world.’  It may be updated soon by The Rotary Foundation.  We will let you know when that update arrives.

Thank you

Finally, a thank you for supporting and advocating for The Rotary Foundation.  Let me know how we can make it easier for you to promote OUR Foundation. —- Probs

Brave New World of Rotary Grants

27 Monday Jul 2015

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Grants With Impact

Jim Probsdorfer (“Probs”), District Rotary Foundation Chair, recently related a short PawPawBushhistory of the new world of Rotary grants to District leaders. This history began with “Future Vision” which was the pilot and transition to a systematic revamping of all Rotary grants. The ultimate goal of Future Vision was to increase the impact made on communities by Rotary grant projects.  Greater impact means a higher profile for Rotary which in turn leads to increased membership and increased giving.

One aspect of the revamped Rotary grants is evident in District 7600.  According to Probs in the 2012-2013 year our District Simplified Grants totaled $46,700. In the 2013 -14 year (the transition year) the District Grant Program totaled $116,000.  In 2014-2015 it totaled  $119,800.  This year the total is $122,800 >>> that’s almost $350,000 in local service projects in 2013-14, 2014-15 and now 2015-16.  Quite an increase from the $46,700 three years previously.

Area 7 Foundation Advocate, Stan Wall

Area 7 Foundation Advocate, Stan Wall

The 2015-2016 Grant Spending Plan for District 7600 has been approved and the District leadership is in the process of contacting the 15 project leads (some of the approved grants are multi-club projects) of their successful applications.  Of the fifteen successful projects most are in the areas of Education (literacy and STEM) and Community Development (often partnering with governmental entities) to provide healthy facilities for youngsters and those with disabilities. More will be published about these projects in the future.

Foundation Workshop on August 1 … a Gateway to Grants

Register for the Foundation Workshop.  Yes, there is still time to register!

Workshop Flyer

Workshop Flyer

Grab a buddy or two and carpool.  When you register you will select Giving, Grants, or Grant Writing.  If three from your club attend you will cover all the Foundation bases.

In the Giving Workshop you will learn the many ways Rotarians may engage in supporting and promoting Foundation Giving which has a direct impact on the amount of grant award money available to District in any given year.  Giving Chair, Ken Hodge, is an inspiring leader, but also knows how to connect with the nuts and bolts of giving campaigns.

Grants will hone in on the criteria, areas of focus, and the definitions of accountability and sustainability which are the keystones in modern grant giving.  SuAnne Bryant is a living, breathing encyclopedia of Rotary Grants and what makes sense ‘grant-wise’  in District 7600.

SuAnne also teaches the Grant Writing Workshop.  This is not only about the writing of the application, but is also about the maintaining of records along the way, and the successful close-out and final reporting which opens the door to future grant awards for a club.

So, share a Saturday morning with other Rotarians in historic Williamsburg  to jump start your club’s knowledge of the world of Rotary Grants.