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Baseball May 2 and May 16, District Training Assembly, End Polio Now Baseball, Giving Tuesday, Giving Tuesday April 2, Grant Mangement Webinar
The forecast is sunny with a chance of Baseball!
April is Maternal & Child Health Month:
April 2: District 7600 Giving Tuesday. Individual contributions matched up to $500. Must be made online in My Rotary to the Annual Fund. April 2 only. Accelerate your first or your multiple Paul Harris Fellow Recognition.
April 20: Grant Management Webinar. Attendance qualifies a club to apply for a Rotary grant. Attendees may attend in person or in the location of their choice by computer. Attendees will need access to wifi/internet connection. This is the final chance for a club to meet this attendance requirement. Registration is free and is on the dacdb.com calendar.
April 27: District Training Assembly & the Foundation, Public Image, and Membership Seminars (no separate August Seminars this year). The Grant Doctors will be on duty that day. Registration will be available next week on dacdb.com calendar.
May is Youth Service Month:
May 1: Clubs must have entered their Foundation Giving Goals for the year in Rotary Club Central to be eligible to apply for a Rotary grant. This is a new district requirement.
May 1: Clubs will need to have closed out any district grants for the 2018-2019 year to be eligible to apply for a district grant. All grant related processes are completed in the grants module on dacdb.com.
May 2: Polio + Baseball at the Norfolk Tides at Harbor Park.
May 15: Deadline to submit district grant applications through the grants module.
May 16: Polio +Baseball at the Richmond Flying Squirrels at the Diamond.
May 23-26: Marshalling at the LPGA Tournament at Kingsmill.
Welcome home to the Costa Rica Literacy Global Grant Team:
This was a follow on visit to Costa Rica by members of the Rotary Clubs of Richmond, Huguenot Trails, James River, and South Richmond. This multi-year, multi-club global grant provides books in the English language for a regional Costa Rican school system. On previous visits Rotarians realized that there was a shortage of toothbrushes and toothpaste in the schools. So they chipped in on the side and brought along the much needed items. This grant was featured in the March issue of the Spirit of 7600 which can be found on rotary7600.org. A follow up article will be featured in the May issue of the Spirit.
Jeanne Walls & Kelly Keene 
Toothbrush & Toothpaste Anyone
announce new pledges toward the polio eradication effort at the Rotary Convention in Atlanta. During the session, we heard the news that world governments and other donors have pledged to contribute US$1.2 billion total to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative for polio eradication efforts. The government funding will substantially help to close the US$1.5 billion funding gap, allowing partners to immunize 450 million children every year and support rigorous disease surveillance in both endemic and at-risk polio-free countries. While the government funding makes considerable headway in the fight to end polio, continued support from donors remains vital to achieve a polio-free world.
have red ‘End Polio Now’ t-shirts for sale, $10 for most shirts and $12 for the fulsome 2x and 3x sizes. A dollar from each shirt sale goes back to End Polio Now.
more to the Annual Fund will be matched dollar for dollar with district recognition points. This is only on Tuesday. Not Monday. Not Wednesday. Tuesday!
You’ve heard there have been changes in Club Giving Banners. What happened to Every Rotarian Every Year (EREY)? What about Sustaining Members? With these changes how does a club encourage giving to The Rotary Foundation? Rudy Garcia and the Development team has answers to these and other questions.This is a great chance to meet the entire Development team.
there any clubs in the district that we can join with in a big global grant? My club did apply for a District Grant, if we get the grant, how and when do we document our progress? Everything is online now. Isn’t that hard to do? SuAnne Hardee Bryant and her Grants team will answer those questions and allay those concerns.
The first of our two End Polio Now Baseball Games in Richmond on July 7 was a huge success. Game Coordinator and now Assistant Governor Stan Wall and Debbie Wall, District Secretary, sold 1016 tickets, a record for the Richmond Squirrels Game. Two dollars from each ticket was a donation to End Polio Now, the Squirrels threw in a bit more, and Debbie’s employer Sabra Dipping added another $2 for each of the 400 tickets that Debbie sold. Add the matching contribution from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and our Richmond Squirrels game raised over $8000 for End Polio Now. At left District Polio Plus Coordinator, Colleen Bonadonna, under the watchful eye of that giant Squirrel, Nutzy.
, Zoe Romano, Skyped in from Maine to share her plans for her two-year graduate program which will span three South American countries and will include academic semesters and semesters of volunteer teaching in under-served schools. She especially praised Delmar Dayton of the South Richmond Club for his patience and persistence in the two years it took to steward her acceptance as a global scholar.
So two weeks in and there is another fantastic End Polio Now Baseball Game in Norfolk on July 27th being organized by David Mansfield. There is still time to get tickets for this Triple-A game. Join in with hundreds of area Rotarians doing their bit to eradicate Polio and have a heck of a lot of fun. Rip Tide will be so disappointed if you don’t show. Check the 
Chuck Arnason, incoming District Rotary Foundation Chair, introduced his 
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