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Give your Presidents-Elect a hand (or two)
01 Friday Mar 2019
Posted in Rotary 7600 Foundation News
Where are the P-Es this weekend?
The District 7600 Presidents-Elect are at Chesapeake Presidents-Elect Training (PETS) this weekend receiving training for their year of Presidency. Their terms begin July 1, but their work has already begun. They will return from PETS inspired, but also stunned by all of the possibilities. How can you help?
How can I help my P-E?
The first thing you can do is by helping take some of the load of her or his shoulders. One humongous opportunity for P-Es and their clubs is the whole grants thing. Every club wants to do a great local or international grant project. It is a reality that the district grant deadline (global grants operate differently) is on May 15, well before the P-E’s presidency begins. In addition to that two additional district grant eligibility requirements occur on May 1 when:
- a club must have its Foundation Giving Goals entered into Rotary Club Central, and
- a club must have closed out (approved final report) any 2018-19 district grants in which the club participated.
2019-20 Grants Documents:
You, yes you, whatever your role in the club, but especially if you are the incoming Club Foundation or the Club Service Projects Chair, can download important documents about this grant cycle. These documents will be shared with the P-Es this weekend, but they are also available on the District Foundation’s website.
While there, why not enter your email address to get up to the minute (almost) Rotary District Foundation news?
Peace Fellow Applications
22 Friday Feb 2019
Tags
Duke-UNC Peace Conference, Grant Management Seminar, March 16, Michael LIttle, Peace Conference Registration, Rotary Peace Fellowships
Peace Fellow application deadline May 31st:
The Peace Fellow application is a demanding but rewarding process, beginning with a club recommendation to the District of a vetted and club endorsed candidate. Then ensues an intense District level interview and further vetting process
Michael Little of the Rotary Club of Richmond is the District’s Peace Fellow Chair and can provide assistance in the process. His contact information can be found in dacdb.com of course.
Rotary Club of Richmond
District Peace Fellow Chair
For your initial information, you can download this fact sheet provided by The Rotary Foundation. The District will have its own internal guidelines and deadlines. Contact Mike for District 7600 specific information.
Enjoy this short video below.
Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center Conference on April 6
Registrations are being accepted now for the annual spring Peace Conference at the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center. The event normally sells out, so register soon at:
Gentle reminder about District 7600 #GMS:
You can register now for Grant Management Seminar (GMS) on March 16, 2019, on the dacdb.com calendar. Don’t let your club let this opportunity slip by to be eligible to apply for or participate in a Rotary grant.
The stuff of which dreams are made … #GMS
15 Friday Feb 2019
Register on dacdb calendar
Incoming District Rotary Foundation Chair, Stephen Beer, promised that registration for the Grant Management Seminar to be held on March 16 would be open by February 15th. By golly, it is open! In fact, Rotarians from the Western Henrico, Chester, and Prince George Rotary clubs have already registered.
A bit of nitty-gritty
For a club to be eligible to apply for and receive a Rotary grant, it must have had at least one member attend a Grant Management Seminar (GMS) for that grant year. It is recommended that a club have more than one club member attend because:
- that one person might win the lottery and decamp for the islands
- that one person might have napped off during GMS and missed something really important
- carpooling is a way to share ideas on the ride home
You might note there will be a GMS Webinar on April 20th. More details will follow about it. Attendance at either the March 16 Seminar or the April 20th Webinar will qualify the club to apply for a Rotary Grant. Registration for the Webinar will be open at a later date.
GMS details
Grant Management Seminar Coming March 16
23 Wednesday Jan 2019
Posted in Rotary 7600 Foundation News
Save the date for March GMS:
Yes, GMS is the acronym for Grant Management Seminar. The in-person GMS will be on March 16, 2019, at the Colonial Heritage Club in Williamsburg. More details will be shared about this training, and the registration will be open for it around the middle of February on dacdb.com.
More about GMS
A club’s attendance at a GMS is required every year for that club to be eligible to participate in a district grant for that Rotary year. Even if the club is not the lead club, but a partnering club, at least one member of that club, must have attended a district Grant Management Seminar. That is the rule of The Rotary Foundation. The district may not waive it. And, by the way, GMS is fun!
Redundancy is a good thing
26 Monday Feb 2018
Posted in Rotary Grants
Push back is also a good thing!
In our last blog, we wrote about a disappointed club which had to wait until Round 2 to get their district grant approved because the grant writer had not submitted the club’s MOU as part of the initial grant application. The Parable was supposed to highlight that, though the club had three attendees at the Grant Management Seminar (GMS), the grant writer had not been one of them and just assumed that somehow the MOU had already been dealt with. However, our gentle readers mistook our article to be critical of the grant writer when what was intended was the criticism of the club’s GMS attendees who didn’t advise or assist with the club’s grant application.
So let’s be clear … the teaching point to clubs is … send attendees to the GMS who commit to being engaged in the club’s grant application process.
Another sad story is actually a rather common one. The club has only one member attendee at the GMS. The club is now eligible to apply for a Rotary grant. However, that one attendee passes away, moves away, becomes ill, or leaves the club. This situation leaves the club in a similar situation as the story above.
So another teaching point to clubs … send at least two of your members who will be committed to engaging in the grant application process.
Not only does this provide some redundancy, but having more than one attendee at the GMS will help be sure that what one person doesn’t hear or understand, the other one might.
Enough teaching points for today. We don’t want to be accused of being pedantic.
All Rotarians are welcome to register and attend either the March 24, in-person GMS in Williamsburg or the April 21 GMS Webinar. Both with meet the club’s attendance requirement and both will deal with both district and global grants. Registration is available now for March 24 on dacdb.com calendar. The Webinar registration will be available around between March 5th and March 15. Please see the March24 Flyer.
GMS Registration now live!
10 Saturday Feb 2018
Posted in Rotary Grants, The Rotary Foundation
A little news you can use!
SuAnne Hardee Bryant (R) Grants Chair
Clubs, have the members you assigned to work on your 2018-19 district or global grant application register for the Grant Management Seminar (GMS) which will be held on March 24, 2018, Registration is at the dacdb.calendar by scrolling down to the March 24th date. It will again be held at the Colonial Heritage Club in Williamsburg, Virginia. It will be from 8:30 until Noon and the price of $25 includes a Full Southern Breakfast.
It is important that a club send at least a couple of grant assigned people so that if one person moves, gets sick, or goes off on a honeymoon, there is another club member who knows the drill.
Last year a very well known club was declined on the first pass. Why? Because the grant writer had not submitted the MOU (Memorandum of Understanding). Why? Because the grant writer was not one of the three people from the club who attended the GMS. Happy ending though, the club received its grant on the second pass.
Remember that the grant application process is totally online. No FEDEX, no faxes, no personal hand deliveries to the Grants Grants Chair. If you want money for that special project, accept all the training and suggestions you can get.
A GMS webinar will be held in April but it is still in the planning stages and the registration is notyet available for it.
It’s a little red hen thing … be prepared!
22 Monday Jan 2018
Posted in Rotary 7600 Foundation News, Rotary Grants
How to plan for the Grant Management Seminar on March 24th …
Registration on dacdb.com during 1st week of February.
The Grant Managment Seminar (GMS) is required for a club to be eligible for the award of a district 7600 grant or global grant. The Rotary Foundation requires that these GMSs be interactive and District 7600 will provide an in-person GMS on March 24th in Williamsburg at the Colonial Heritage Club and will also provide a webinar on April 21 which may be attended in person in Hampton or via webinar. Registration for the March 24th GMS will be available the first week of February on dacdb.com
Preparing for the GMS:
No, you don’t have to do any homework for the GMS, but looking over some of the 2017-2018 grants in dacdb.com (yes, you have to log in) will give you an idea what kinds of information are required and/or permitted in your online application package.
After you log on to dacdb you will see an array of tabs going across the screen. Click on the ‘GRANTS’ tab and you will see a list of the grants approved for 2017-18.
This image is too hard to read on a laptop (if on a mobile device you may be able to pinch and expand) but you will see the line of tabs across the screen just under the blue and red DACdb logo. About 2/3rds across you can see that one tab is highlighted in blue. That is the grants tab.
When you click on the grants tab you will see beneath the Grants tab the 2017-18 grants. The first column lists the clubs involved in each grant. The second column is the name of the grant. You can click on each grant and it will pull up documents and pictures provided by the club(s) for the grants committee to consider in its deliberative process.
An example of the grant application documentation.
Again, we know this is hard to read unless you are looking at it on a mobile device. You should be able to pinch and expand for a bit more detail. Here we clicked on the South Hill Grant. This is an instance when the club provided some pictures to increase its chances of an approval by the grants committee. Just above the pictures is a section which includes the documents necessary for grant consideration. There is for sure … the grant application and the MOU and whatever other documents required such as a budget, any agreements with participating partners, and so on.
So, what’s the point?
Well, here is the chance for your project/grant committee to look at how other clubs (remember, these were all approved grants) have put together their grant submissions. There is also contact information for the leads on each project. It is a chance for your grant committee to learn some of the ropes from those who have already been successful. It may also help your grant committee hone in on questions to ask at the GMS in March.
It will help the club so much in its efforts if it asks at least two members to attend who will actually be involved in the grant application, submission, execution, and closing of grant documentation. It will save so much confusion.
GMS, DTA, and COL, oh my
25 Tuesday Apr 2017
Tags
Bill Billings, Change of Leadership, District Awards, District Grant Application Deadline, District Training Assembly, DTA, GMS, Grant Management Seminar
Oh, forgive me, Bill Billings, let me atone
GMS: Grant Management Seminar; DTA: District Training Assembly, and COL, Change of Leadership …
GMS: April 26 is the last day to register for the GMS
This last session of the Grant Management Seminar for the 2017 -18 year is this Saturday and qualifies for certification of attendance via webinar or in person at the Peninsula Workforce Development Center, 600 Butler Farm Road, Hampton VA. This is a free training and those are hard to come by. If your club isn’t certified yet to participate in a district or local grant, this is your chance to fix that. Just a friendly reminder that the deadline for district grant application submission is May 15 & and another friendly reminder … it is a totally electronic submission process.
DTA: Register now for this May 13 training
2016 DTA
This fabulous event will also be held at the Peninsula Workforce Development Center, 600 Butler Farm Road, Hampton VA. This event will train club leaders how to lead their clubs to greatness. Presidents-Elect, President Nominees, Secretaries, Treasurers, Club Membership Chairs, Club Rotary Foundation Chairs, and all others in the club should plan to attend. You will not regret it. There will also be information about social media and everyone needs that!
COL: District Change of Leadership & District Awards Change of Date
The date for this event has been changed to July 22 so pull out your phone and change the date for this event in your calendar app.
And the place to register for all district events is on dacdb.com calendar.
last chance-Grant Management Seminar
18 Tuesday Apr 2017
Posted in Rotary Grants, Training
This is an appeal to 22 clubs in District 7600
Our District Rotary Foundation Chair, Chuck Arnason, sent an email to 22 clubs this week advising that they are not certified for participation in a 2017- 2018 grant. These clubs represent 1/3 of the district’s clubs. Only 3 of those 22 clubs have someone registered for the last opportunity to attend the required Grant Management Seminar/Webinar on April 29.
The non-certified clubs are not listed here as we don’t want to hurt any sensitive feelings but check with your club president, president-elect, or your outgoing or incoming club foundation chair to determine if your club is all set to participate in Rotary grants.
The Grant Management Seminar (GMS) on April 29th is free and can be attended in person in Hampton or in the comfort of your home office or leather chair. Register for it on the dacdb.com calendar.
Some clubs may think … well, we aren’t going to do a grant this year. We have too much 
other stuff going on. But then a sister club comes along and says, “Hey, why not join in on this super neato global or district grant with us. We’ll do all the planning and paperwork, all your club needs to do is kick in some money, sign grant documents, and supply Rotary hands to execute the project.” Sounds like a feather in the club’s cap, but you find out you can’t join in, because … your club is not GMS certified. That is a sad, sad story.
Registration for this last GMS is open until April 26. Don’t wait. April 29 Webinar
Got a Question?
April, May, June … 90 day calendar
11 Tuesday Apr 2017
Posted in Upcoming District Events
Tags
District Grant Application Deadline, District Training Assembly, Donations, Grant Management Seminar, The Rotary Foundation, Webinar
Time to refresh on upcoming deadlines & events
Such an enervating and exhausting time of year for Rotarians. The old year is closing out and the new Rotary year is already making demands of club and district leaders. But we are tough and quoting our beloved Jim Pierce …”Can we do it? YES! YES! YES!”
April:
29 – the last Grant Management Seminar (GMS). This is a webinar format, but attendees may do so in person if they prefer. There are still about 20 clubs in 7600 who have not been GMS certified to apply for or participate in a grant. This is the last opportunity to qualify for that certification. Register on dacdb.com calendar.
May:
13 – District Training Assembly in Hampton at the Peninsula Workforce Development Center at 600 Butler Farm Road. Training with breakouts for Presidents-Elect, President Nominees, Secretaries, Treasurers, Membership Chairs, and Foundation Chairs. Any Rotarian may attend and learn a whole lot, especially if the Rotarian is a new Rotarians. Light breakfast refreshments and LUNCH! Register on dacdb.com calendar.
15 – Deadline for submission of District Grant Applications through the Grants Module on dacdb.com. Questions? Contact SuAnne Hardee Bryant or Chuck Arnason, but please don’t wait until the last minute. If your club had a 2016-17 grant or participated in a group grant, that grant must be fully closed out before a grant award may be awarded to that club(s) for the 2017-18 year.
June:
10 – 14 – Rotary International Convention, Atlanta.
30 – Donations must be sent to The Rotary Foundation for the donations to count for the 2016-17 Rotary Year. Please don’t wait til midnight, June 30, please?
Questions? Comments?
37 d7600 clubs have GMS attendance certification
28 Tuesday Mar 2017
Posted in Rotary Grants
Tags
Bill Liepis, Blog?, District Grants, Don Vaught, DRFC Chuck Arnason, Global Grants, GMS, GMS Webinar, Grant Management Seminar, Mike Little, Scholarships, SuAnne Hardee Bryant, Wayne Boggs
SuAnne
The March 25th Grant Management Seminar (GMS) provided 61 Rotarians from 37 clubs with three hours of step by step instructions on how to use the Grants Module in dacdb.com and some practical tips on stewarding a grant project. Distinctions between district and global grants were explained and Mike Little explained how global scholarships and peace fell scholarships differ.
The faculty included our Chair, Chuck Arnason, the grants team SuAnne Hardee Bryant (Chair), Bill Liepis ( Global Grants), Mike Little (Scholarships), and Wayne Boggs from the Grant Audit team filling in for the Chair, Don Vaught.
Just a few highlights …
– district grants in our district now require certification of attendance at an interactive GMS
– the application, documentation and reporting process is all digital through the dacdb grants module
– this year all district grants must be closed out by June 15, but
– a club’s 2016-17 grant must be closed out before a 2017-18 grant can be approved for that club, so
– submit the final report for the 2016-17 grant in advance of the May 15 district grant application deadline
and there’s more, but
If your club needs GMS certification register for either the April 8 or the April 29 GMS Webinar on dacdb.com calendar. You can attend in person or in your home or business office.
Questions? Leave in the comments section or contact our DRFC, Chuck Arnason.
Next week … some tips on removing facial hair and an update of year to date club giving.
Countdown to PETS
28 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in Rotary Grants, Training
To avoid loving chiding from esteemed Franklin Rotarian and District Foundation Endowment Chair, Bill Billings … PETS is the acronym for Presidents-Elect Training Seminar.
Chesapeake PETS
Presidents-Elect from districts across the Chesapeake region gather this weekend in Chantilly for extensive training, idea sharing, and social mixing to help propel them into their Rotary year as President. District 7600 Presidents-Elect will be participants.
These Presidents-Elect will return from PETS with the mandate to develop their club goals, including Rotary Foundation giving, and development of possible district or global grants.
Club Rotary Foundation Chairs will be on the front lines
These incoming president will be asking the assistance of their leadership teams in developing these goals and plans. Please provide your input as Club Rotary Foundation Chairs to help develop meaningful giving goals based on club giving history and a slight stretch to grow club Rotary Foundation involvement. Your expertise is also important to help guide the development of impactful district and global grants. Don’t be shy. This is the year to think big, sustainable projects.Consider recommending joining with other clubs to multiply impact and scale.
Grant Management Seminar
Attendance at a District Grant Management Seminar (GMS) is now a requirement for both district and global grants. The first GMS is on March 25 at 9 am in Williamsburg at the Colonial Heritage Club. Registration is now open on dacdb.com on the district calendar and full details can be found there.
In April (8th & 29th) there will be two live GMS Webinars. Attendance can be in person or via computer. Registrations for these webinars will be open shortly after PETS, again, on the dacdb.com district calendar.
To help prepare look at the grant documents for the 2017 -18 Grants.
Questions, Comments, Feedback
Give Peace a Chance
21 Tuesday Feb 2017
Tags
dacdb.com Calendar, Duke/UNC Peace Center, Grant Management Seminar, March 25, Peace Conference April 1, Peace Fellow Scholarship Procedures, Peace Fellows
Update on Peace Fellow Scholarship Procedures …
Michael W. Little
Michael W. Little, District Peace Fellow Scholarship Chair, has just updated the 2017 -18 peace-fellow-scholarships-information-sheet. This set of procedures outlines the steps and timelines for a club to follow to sponsor a Peace Fellowship in the 2018 -19 academic year. For the academic year of 2018 -19 the applicant must apply for sponsorship by the club by May 1, 2017. From there the application is reviewed by the district in the May/June timeframe. If endorsed by the District the application is forwarded to The Rotary Foundation in Chicago by July 1, 2017. Again the application process is for the 2018-19 academic year.
Michael’s contact information is on page 2 of the guidelines or in ‘Find a Member’ on dacdb.com. The guidelines are also on rotary7600.org/The Rotary Foundation/Programs & Grants.
14th Annual Duke/UNC Peace Conference … April 1
This 2017 Conference features the scholarly research of the Year 14 Peace Fellows at Duke/UNC Peace Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, one of the 6 such Centers worldwide recognized by The Rotary Foundation. Click on Peace Conference Tickets to obtain your ticket(s). If you are interested in attending please get your tickets early. Last year the conference was sold out and many who wanted to attend could not get tickets.
Register by March 18 for Grant Management Seminar
A gentle reminder to register now on the dacdb.com calendar for the Grant Management Seminar to be held in Williamsburg at the Colonial Heritage Club, 6500 Arthur Hills Drive on March 25. We are serving breakfast (a full Southern Breakfast) so we need for those planning to attend by March 18th. A club must have a member or members attend a Grant Management Seminar to be certified as eligible to apply for a district or global grant.
Chanco DTTS … three things
15 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in Rotary 7600 Foundation News, Rotary Grants
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Chanco, DCO, Debbie Wall, DGE John Padgett, District Grants, DRFC Chuck Arnason, DTTS, Global Grants, GMS, Grant Management Seminar, March 25, Subscribe by Email
District Team Training Seminar (DTTS)
Club leaders for the 2017-2018 Rotary year joined District Governor-Elect John Padgett as they exchanged Rotary 7600 goals for the coming year. Known for his sartorial proclivities John did not disappoint wearing chinos with the Rotary logo embroidered on them, all over them.
District Rotary Foundation Committee (DRFC)
Chuck Arnason led the DRFC in a two-hour breakout of its own in the training room closest to the James River. The views of the river were only mild competition for the discussions occurring within.
Many things were discussed but most folks can’t handle more than three things at one time so here are three …
- Club attendance at a Grant Management Seminar is required for both District and for Global Grants. This is a change from previous requirements.
- Three Grant Managment Seminars (GMS) will be offered this spring, any one of which qualify to satisfy the attendance requirement for a grant. Registration for all of the GMS will be through dacdb.com and will cost $20. Registration now available for the March 25 GMS thanks to the District Communications Officer Debbie Wall.
- March 25 – Colonial Heritage Golf Club, Williamsburg, VA.
- April 8th – Live Webinar, in person in Hampton or at your home computer.
- April 29th – Live Webinar, in person in Hampton or at your home computer.
- All Club Foundation Chairs, Assistant Governors, and grant involved leaders are encouraged to subscribe to this blog by email (upper left-hand corner).
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