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Don’t forget to celebrate …

06 Tuesday Sep 2016

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Don’t forget to share your celebration with us …

The Rotary Foundation (TRF) has been doing good for 100 years.  All Rotary clubs around the world  have been asked to celebrate the centennial. Please share your club’s plans to celebrate The Rotary Foundation’s Centennial Celebration.  We’d like to share those plans here, on Facebook, and on all of the Rotary 7600 Foundation channels.

Would you like some inspiration? This 4 minute TRF video may help.  Click Here.

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Petersburg Breakfast TRF Recognition Presentation

The Rotary Foundation has recommended that clubs urge each member to donate at least $26.50 to the Foundation as that was the amount of our first donation.  We urge you to up that a bit for a contribution from each member of $126.50.  That will recognize the 100 years of TRF, the commemoration of the first donation amount, and will enable each club to achieve the newly organized Every Rotarian Every Year/Sustaining Member Club Foundation Banner.  What do you think?

Finally, a super hack on how to read the book, Doing Good in the World:  The inspiring Story of The Rotary Foundations First 100 Years, commemorating the 100 years of The Rotary Foundation.  The hard bound book, and it is beautiful, is $40.  Did you know that on My Rotary (via Amazon)  you can order it as an ebook for $9.99?  It is on this writer’s iPhone and easily available for writing newsletter articles, press releases, and such.  Just a thought.

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The Rotary Foundation Centennial Year

05 Tuesday Jul 2016

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Welcome to the Centennial of The Rotary Foundation …

Chuck Arnason

Chuck Arnason

It is a great honor that the beginning year of my tenure as the District Rotary Foundation Committee Chair is the Centennial Year of The Rotary Foundation.  This year brings great optimism in that we will celebrate the Centennial throughout the district from now until July 1, 2017.  We trust that the heightened awareness of this special year will spur giving and the completion of remarkable district and global grants.  This will happen only with your help, whatever your club or district role.  The Rotary Foundation is the personal connection for each and every Rotarian to the greater good we are accomplishing throughout the world.

We are eradicating Polio, building wells and sanitation systems, linking isolated communities with state of the art foot bridges, bringing literacy  and educational programs, and improving access to health and wellness facilities for people across the world. This does not happen unless a Rotarian reaches into his or her ‘pocket’, makes a contribution, and contributes time to design and execute impactful, sustainable projects. We, as Rotarians, are The Rotary Foundation.

So, my challenge to all of the clubs and members  is promote the celebration of The Rotary Foundation Centennial, donate generously, and participate in doing good in the world.  –Chuck

A useful tool …

A list of ways your club can celebrate The Rotary Foundation Centennial.

Events of note …

End Polio Now Baseball Games on July 7 2016 Rotary Night Flyer Richmond Flying Squirrels and on July 27 2016 Polio Plus Tides Baseball (2) in Norfolk.

Membership & Foundation Workshop on August 6, 2016.  Register now on dacdb.com Calendar. 2016 WorkshopFlyer3 .