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2016 district grant completed? Nearly?

21 Tuesday Mar 2017

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Yes, it is that crazy Rotary season

We know clubs are working to complete 2016-17 goals and projects and also transitioning to the 2017-18 Rotary Year.  And it must seem like we are nagging … “get this done, get that in, enter your data, and sign up for the Grant Management Seminar (GMS).”

All we are going to encourage you to do today is to submit your final district grant report through the Grants Module on dacdb.com as soon as you have spent the funds you received from the District Rotary Foundation Committee (DRFC) for your grant.  Even if your actual grant project isn’t completed, if you have spent all of the funds received for your grant from DRFC, you can submit your receipts, in situ pictures, and any other information required.

Not there yet?  OK, then be sure you are collecting and scanning all of your receipts, and other images and documents so you have it all in one convenient file or two for easy compiling and submitting when the time is right.  As you collect and scan, a practical thing to do is to share your electronic files with another person or two so that a catastrophic computer failure doesn’t undo all of the work you have already done to document your project.

We want you to be ready for your next district grant in 2017-18 and to do that you must first have timely filed your final 2016-17 grant report.  The district grant application deadline for the 2017-18 year is May 15.  Yep, slightly less than two months.

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Hats off to Fluvanna and to the James River (Richmond) clubs for having already submitted their final report for auditing by Don Vaught of the Brandermill club. The photo at left is one of the many photos submitted by the James River (Richmond) Rotary as part of its final grant report.

 

STEAM Lab Maker Space … Fluvanna District Grant

13 Tuesday Dec 2016

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A gift that will last for years

This is a super time of year to highlight the good that The Rotary Foundation and Rotarians do.  Last week we featured a thank you letter from a citizen of Central Virginia expressing appreciation to the Rotary Clubs of Petersburg for their fundraising and club grant to the YMCA.

Today we feature a project, funded in part by a Rotary 7600 District Grant to the Rotary Club of Fluvanna.  Why  this feature?  In poking around the grants module in dacdb.com we found that Fluvanna is the first and only club to have submitted its district grant Final Report in the Grants Module complete with pictures.

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Fluvanna Rotarians at work

The STEAM Lab Maker Space has nothing to do with a sauna in a spa.  STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math.  Fluvanna Central Elementary School identified the need for a program to help elementary school students start on the path towards developing more STEAM competencies.  The District Grant applied for by the Rotary Club of Fluvanna ensures that the school has a Maker Space (Room 209) and the tools to provide such a program for the 250 students at Central.  The program will focus on 1st and 2nd graders enrolled now and in years to come.  “The ability to teach higher level critical thinking and problem-solving skills is essential for helping prepare students for entry into not just secondary and post-secondary educational settings, but also to better prepare them to integrate into the future workforce.” About a third of the club’s members were engaged hands-on in unpacking and setting up equipment and the grant partner organization and recipient ordered and received the needed equipment and supplies.

Congratulations to the Fluvanna Club on this innovate project and for not waiting for the deadline to submit your Final Report.