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43 days and counting … will your clubs meet their giving goals?

18 Monday May 2015

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On June 30 the barn door closes. Foundation giving for the 2014 -2015 year will be over.  The amount given this year will govern the amount of money available for grant awards for District 7600 clubs in 2017 -2018. During that three years the 2014-15 club giving will be earning its keep, so to speak.

Foundation Advocates and Club Foundation Chairs (CFCs) are urged to communicate with their clubs NOW to remind club leaders and members of the importance of achieving club giving goals to The Rotary Foundation and to assist clubs in their efforts to meet those goals.  Club Foundation Chairs are the front-line leaders in their clubs on behalf of The Rotary Foundation.  Foundation Advocates are the CFCs support team.

During the last two weeks the Foundation Advocates have been following up with the Club Foundation Chairs in their areas to get assessments on club giving status.  This is important to our District Foundation Committee leaders so they can accurately forecast final giving and to have one last chance to help clubs with strategies to meet club goals.

Many of the Advocates have already provided their updates, but we still need a few more follow ups.  Everyone knows that this is the time of year when clubs and club leaders are doing double duty — wrapping up the 2014-15 year and implementing plans for the 2015-16 year.

If you are a Foundation Advocate, pick up the phone and check in with  your Club Foundation Chairs.  Club Foundation Chairs … don’t wait for a call … reach out to the Foundation Advocates for your areas.

Bill Henn-CFC Petersburg Breakfast

Bill Henn-CFC Petersburg Breakfast

Club Foundation Chairs don’t just serve as club leaders.  Bill Henn, white tee shirt above, got his hands dirty on May 16 working on the largest district grant awarded in 2014-2015.  The grant for $25,000 was awarded to 6 clubs to make improvements to the Appomattox River Regional Park.  The clubs were Petersburg Breakfast, Petersburg, Hopewell, Colonial Heights (lead club), Chester, and Prince George.

Thank you for all you do!

It’s May, it’s May, the Merry Month of May!

04 Monday May 2015

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May is such a wonderful time of the year.  May 1 is my birthday so the month has always been special to me.

For Rotary Clubs it is also a hectic month … meeting goals from 2014 -2015, setting goals for 2015 – 2016, submitting district grant applications, getting ready for the governance transition on July 1.  It is such a dynamic month for Rotary Clubs world-wide.

Many thanks to the Foundation Advocates who are following up with their clubs on all of the above and offering their assistance to Club Foundation Chairs, Presidents, Presidents-Elect, and to their counter-parts, the Area Governors.  Those who care about The Rotary Foundation are a creative, supportive community.

Thanks so much to Brad Reynolds and Jim Halasz  for reaching out with questions on behalf of their clubs.  Thanks to Dennis Wool, Louis Tayon, Paul Strong, and Cynthia Gregg for their followup on their Foundation Advocate duties.

Louis Tayon

Louis Tayon Area 13 Foundation Advocate

My personal goal this month … to use some of my recognition points to ‘recognize’ some of my fellow club members for committed service to Rotary by boosting them to Paul Harris Fellow level.  Would you like to know more?  You know how to reach me.

To all of you incoming leaders and those now serving … thank you for all you do.

It was such a serious District Training Assembly!

27 Monday Apr 2015

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Thanks to the Foundation Advocates and Club Foundation Chairs in attendance at the District Training Assembly … I don’t know all of the 60 something Club Foundation Chairs, but I am learning that many of the Foundation Advocates are Club Foundation Chairs for their clubs.  Foundation Advocates in attendance were Kevin Kelly (Goochland  Area 2), Stan Wall (Colonial Heights Area 7), Jan Rowley (Prince George Area 6) and outgoing Foundation Advocate Jeff Jacobs (Colonial Heights Area 7).  Jeff and Carolyn, both members of the Colonial Heights Club were honored for becoming level 2 Major Donors.  Thanks to all.

This is a heady time for all things having to do with The Rotary Foundation so the Foundation Advocates, Club Foundation Chairs, Presidents-Elect, and Area Governors have a lot on their plates.  Current priorities are achieving 2014-15 club giving goals, setting 2015-16 club giving goals and entering them into Rotary Club Central, and crafting and submitting applications for District Grants by the May 15 deadline.  Did you know there is still $2200 left over from the 2014 – 15 spending plan?  Ripe pickings for a club that can submit and complete a very focused grant by June 30.  So remember that the Presidents and Presidents-Elect cannot do it all alone.  That is why we are a community of volunteers supporting Rotary Foundation efforts.

We collected hundreds of dollars selling End Polio Now Crocuses, Croci … oh, heck … more than one crocus,  at the District Training Assembly thanks to Boo Elmore and Stan Wall.  Even DG Stephen got into the act.

Our Purple Pinkie Dancing Queen courtesy of Bill Pollard.

Our Purple Crocus Dancing Governor courtesy of Bill Pollard.

Stan Wall, co-chair of the 2015 End Polio Now Games was also on hand to promote our baseball games on July 9 (Richmond Squirrels) and July 20 (Norfolk tides.)  We couldn’t get the official team mascots to the District Assembly so our our ‘Bee’utiful Jan Rowley was on hand to encourage all to turn out for the ‘Bee’ball games in July.

"Bee"ball Jan Rowley, Jim Probsdorfer, and Clenise Platt Promoting End Polio Now Games courtesy of Dana Rieves.

“Bee”ball Jan Rowley, Jim Probsdorfer, and Clenise Platt Promoting End Polio Now Games courtesy of Dana Rieves.

The Next Big Narly (quoting PDG Bill Pollard) Event which all Foundation Advocates, DRFC leads, and Club Foundation Chairs should get on their calendars is the Foundation Workshop on August 1 at the Colonial Heritage Club in Williamsburg.  More to follow.

60 Day District Foundation Tasks

20 Monday Apr 2015

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7600 Foundation Advocates and Club Foundation Chairs please attend to the following during this last couple of months of the 2014-2015  Rotary year.

**Monitor and follow up with clubs vis a vis their  2014 Foundation Giving in relation to their 2014 -2015 Giving Goals.  You can view club reports directly on  Rotary Club

Central. For those  clubs who are more than 30% short of their goal please contact them find out how they intend to meet their goals and report that information back to Carol Woodward by May 15 at woodwardcd@aol.com or 804-691-8486.

** Check the status of each Club’s completion of 2015 -2016 Giving Goals.  Have these goals been entered by the President –Elect or Club Foundation Chair in Rotary Club Central?  Please report back to Carol Woodward by May 15.

** Register today for the April 25 District Training Assembly on dacdb.com.  Log on, click on  Calendar, scroll to the DTA and click on Register Now.  No need to report back to Carol Woodward she will know whether you have registered or not:)

Two Short Announcements:

Webinar News:  On Saturday April 18 the District Rotary Foundation Committee conducted its first ever webinar training when it did so for the second session of the Grants Management Seminar.  Dana Rieves was one of the webinar attendees and submitted this photograph of her desktop display(s).

District GMS Webinar

District GMS Webinar

Smartphone/Tablet – Mobile DACdb News:  Are you an on the go kind of Foundation Leader?  The mobile version of dacdb is superior.  Type in ‘m.dacdb.com’ into your smartphone or tablet browser.  Enjoy