Are volunteering with youth (one-on-one)? Mentoring, Youth Exchange, RYLA, Academic Decathlon, High School Business Plans, Etc...
If YES, you need to have an annual background check completed. CLICK HERE for more details about how to get your background check completed. This only applies if you are working with youth one-on-one. If you are in a group more than 2 people, you don't need a background check.
Mick Faulhaber is our Youth Protection Officer for our Club. Contact him if you have any questions or concerns.
The Rotary Foundation was started in 1917 and grown to over a billion dollars in realized and unrealized gifts. The Foundation supports all sorts of local and large-scale projects … about $250 million in grants a year. There are six focus areas:
Peace and Conflict Resolution/Prevention
Disease Prevention and Treatment
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
Maternal & Child Health
Basic Education & Literacy
Economic & Community Development
The Foundation’s long efforts on PolioPlus have virtually eliminated the disease around the globe, from 300,000 afflicted children in 1967 to likely under 40 in 2016. And this is only ONE of the many ways Rotary changes lives around the world.
Would you like to visit Nepal for a Rotary Friendship Exchange?
Some of you may have visited the Friendship Exchange booth at the Rotary District Conference. A trip is being planned from September 27 to October 20. Your cost would be airfare.
We can finalize details later, but everyone interested in taking part in the Friendship Exchange to Nepal should be ready to confirm in a few weeks.
If you are interested, please contact Dr. David Clemens at the contact details below:
Dr. David Clemens
245 W. Munroe Ave.
Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965
608-254-2345
Our Rotary Bell was a gift to the club at our charter night. I don’t know who and what club made the gift.
Our club was meeting at the West Side Businessmen Association building until a fire destroyed the property on Whitney Way (approximately where the West YMCA is today).
When I joined the club in 1981, I noticed that the bell was badly stained by the fire. Since my company specialized in maintaining brass instruments, I always pondered having our repair specialist, Corky Cain, rehab it for the club. Corky had performed numerous brass restorations, including spittoons, chandeliers and other antique brass objects. So, as your president in 1984, I immediately took the bell to our company and had it “restored” to its current appearance.
Upon closer inspection, we can see numerous “nicks” and scratches in the bell. The cause of these is unknown to me but may have had something to do with the fire and subsequent storage. I don’t have an answer.
Thus is “the rest of the story” on the MWTM Rotary Bell.
Raffle tickets and Mulligans included with the Golfer Package (and available individually)
New this year: "String Game" offer, to make the possibility for low scores available for every team
At the clubhouse afterwards, we'll have:
Full cookout
Prizes for top Team Scores and Hole Events
Silent Auction - we will expect that every Club member make an effort to provide prizes for the Silent Auction, as well as bring in prizes for the Raffle.
Your help is requested to make this year's outing a big success:
Donate to the silent auction and to the raffle. We expect every member to do this.
Showcase your organization to participants and guests with a sponsorship, available at $300.
Take the Registration Flyers available on the tables at the weekly meeting and start promoting this important fundraiser!
Our Club was very well represented at the Rotary International Convention!
Club President Derek Moehring, Jeannine Desautels, Mary Van Hout, Mary Cobb Dunn, John and Geri Gerold, and Dean Ryerson have been with more than 43,000 other Rotarians from around the world at the Rotary International Convention in Seoul, Korea. Among the speakers have been United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the Prime Minister of S. Korea, and the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. All reminded Rotarians of the important work around the world being done by Rotary International. A highlight of the experience was the visit to the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea and the chance to step briefly into North Korea during that visit.
Please let me know of any events or special situations in our fellow Rotarians' lives where a card, flowers, or a plant would be appropriate for their situation.
The Rotary Club of Madison West Towne-Middleton is sponsoring a high-school aged boy from Thailand. He will arrive in Madison in August, 2016 and is very excited to experience American culture.
His host families need to live in or near the Middleton School District as he will be attending Middleton High School. If you or someone you know may be interested in hosting him for 3-4 months, please contact us.
Hosting is a wonderful experience!
For more information on the program watch this video (11 minutes) or contact:
Forms in additional languages are now available to help you record individual donations to The Rotary Foundation or single donations that combine gifts from several club members. You can get blank or personalized versions of the forms in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish by signing in to My Rotary and visiting the Manage My Club section of the Club and District Administration page. You can also contribute at www.rotary.org/give.
In his address to convention attendees on Tuesday, 31 May, Trustee Chair Ray Klinginsmith proclaimed that The Rotary Foundation has never been stronger than it is today.
Bolstered by generous contributions from members and robust programs like PolioPlus and the Rotary Peace Centers, the Foundation's good work is drawing public notice, Klinginsmith said: CNBC, a leading consumer and business news outlet in the U.S., ranked Rotary No. 5 among the top 10 charities changing the world in 2015.
"Isn't it clear that our Foundation is truly better than ever before?" said Klinginsmith, who reported...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was among the first to welcome Rotary members and friends to the 107th Rotary Convention, heralded as one of the largest-ever gatherings of Rotarians and the most multicultural assembly of nonprofit leaders in Korea.
He offered a message of gratitude: “Rotarians do remarkable work around the world,” Ban told the thousands of attendees gathered at KINTEX, the Korea International Exhibition and Convention Center in Goyang city, on the outskirts of Seoul. “You help the United Nations reach our goals, and you help the world understand the United...
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