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.
At the January 29th club meeting, Club President Derek Moehring provided members with a summary of the club's Visioning meeting that was held on January 6th.
At the Visioning meeting, Derek presented the group with his Vision for the club. The President's Vision can be found below. Also at last weeks club meeting, Derek had members fill out a "Member Questionnaire". If you were not at last week's club meeting, please be sure to fill out a Member Questionnaire (which will be available at every club meeting in the month of February).
If you would like to have a Member Questionnaire emailed to you, contact Derek at derek.moehring@capitolbank.com or call him at 836-4304.
Central to the President’s Vision are Members
Gowing our membership is
Priority # 1
Adding new members and retaining our existing members are the keys to our club’s success.
Members
The Club Needs To Have a Clear Vision
First, determine what we want our club to look like in three to five years (Strategic Plan). Next, determine what we need to do to get there (Tactical Plans). Our Vision should address our club’s membership, service projects, public image, leadership development and involvement in The Rotary Foundation. Finally, determine how all club members can contribute to achieving our
Vision
A Key to Success is Having Members Who are Empowered
Develop and maintain a culture that promotes the practice of sharing informaiton and power with members so that they can take initiative and make decisions to solve problems and improve our club’s overall performance. Empowerment is based on the idea that giving members the skills, resources, authority, opportunity and motivation while holding them responsible and accountable for the outcomes of their actions, will contribute to their overall satisfaction and keep our club dynamic and successful. Empowerment is different than delegation. Delegation is task-based while Empowerment is decision-based. Every member of the Rotary Club of Madison West Town-Middleton should feel empowered to shape our club’s future.
Empowered
Another Key to Success is Having Members Who are Engaged
Club involvement keeps new and long-time members Engaged. Engaged members feel ownership of and dedication to their club’s Vision. Engaged members are “Tuned In” to what is happing, they are “In The Know” and are actively participating in the two way communicaiton process between club leadership and club members.
Engaged
Engaged and Empowered Members with a Clear Vision Coming Together to Serve
Rotarian mottos, “Service Above Self” & “One profits most who serves best”.
12x12
(One service project per month with a minimum of 12 volunteers at each service project)
Providing our club members, their spouses, children, and friends as well as potential new members with an opportunity to come togetehr at least one time every
I am a beginner cribbage player and would like to get better. I am wondering if there are a couple of Rotarians who know how to play cribbage who would like to play more and teach a beginner along the way?
If so, please contact me and we will see about meeting and playing. My home is available.
John A Gerold, 214 Saratoga Circle, Madison, WI 53705, [H] 608-833-5121,[C] 608-234-2253, Email: jagerold39@gmail.com.
Dick Murray, Deb Dieter, Jack Ferreri, Mary Beth Growney-Selene, and Mary Feldt enjoying a brief pause during the Marketing Committee breakfast meeting
at the Egg and I on Thursday, Feburary 4th.
Connie Smith, Derek Moehring, and Dean Ryerson review Dean’s Marketing Committee meeting notes.
Mary Dunn and Deb Dieter discuss labeling ideas for the Chrome Book to be donated to Jefferson Middle School.
At the January 22, 2016 Club Meeting, President Derek Moehring presented Club Members with a copy of the “Unanticipated Funding Requests Worksheet” and had the following comments.
When the Board approved the budget for Fiscal Year 2015 – 2016, they felt that it was important to have some funds set aside for funding project support requests that would come along during the course of the year (after the budget for Fiscal Year 2015 – 2016 was already approved and in place). In the past, when an unexpected project support request was presented to the Board, the Board would not have the funds necessary to fund the request and would need to take a pass on that request (often times suggesting the request be presented for funding in the following fiscal year). For Fiscal Year 2015 – 2016, the Board set aside $17,000 for Unexpected Funding Requests. At the same time, the Board adopted the “Unanticipated Funding Requests Worksheet”. This worksheet sets forth the requirements for requesting access to the $17,000. When it was determined that the TOGO Global Grant project was not going to go forward this year, the $1,500 in the budget for that project was reallocated to the Unexpected Funding Requests fund, thus increasing the fund to $18,500. In December 2015 the Board approved earmarking $500 of this $18,500, for a new storage shed at Pope Farm Park. Currently there are $18,000 available for Unanticipated Funding Requests for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2015 – 2016 (ending June 30, 2016).
For questions on this subject, please contact any Board Member or contact our President, Derek Moehring, or our Treasurer, Dean Ryerson.
The original MWT-M Book Club has been meeting for several years but not taking any new members due to club size. Therefore, about two years ago a few members started a second MWT-M Book Club. We meet every other month, usually a Tuesday evening at 7pm and end around 8:30pm. In January we discussed "These Is My Words" by Nancy E. Turner. Our next meeting is scheduled in March and we will discuss "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande. In May, we will discuss "Killing Lincoln" and in July, "The Witches" by Stacy Schiff. We rotate our meeting location which is held at one of our homes.
If you like to read and would like to participate in our lively discussions, please consider joining. You may contact any one of our members: Char Breunig, Deb Dieter, Ruth Domack, Bill Hinckley, Paul Patenaude, Susan Prest.
Volunteers Needed for State Academic Decathlon on February 24 and March 3!
Please see below and sign up at our weekly meetings or email Molly Ritchie at mritchie@wiad.org.
Feb. 24 opportunity:
Essay Readings: We need volunteers to grade essays. This will be on Weds. Feb. 24, at the First Weber Building across from West Towne from 1 until 4 PM. Sign up with Mick or contact Molly Ritchie at mritchie@wiad.org.
March 3 opportunities:
A complimentary shuttle bus will leave for the Dells, Wilderness Resort, from the Zor Shrine Bldg. @ 2:30 (575 Zor Shrine Place, behind West Towne Mall) and return by 10:00.
Speech Judges: Pairs of judges (30 needed on March 3, 3:30-8:40) Listen, critique and grade the students’ prepared and impromptu speeches. A Judges’ Handbook is provided (available online), along with a brief orientation on the day of the event; dinner and parking included.
Speech Timers: stationed in each speech room, (15 needed on March 3, 3:30-8:40). Monitor and time each student’s speech. A timer’s handbook (available online) is provided, along with a brief orientation on the day of the event. Comfort with a stop watch is necessary; dinner and parking included.
Interview Judges: Pairs of judges (30 needed on March 3, 3:30-8:40). Jointly interview students; guidelines and sample questions are provided in the Judges’ Handbook (available online), in addition to a brief orientation on the day of the event; dinner and parking included.
Sign-up at our meetings or contact Molly Ritchie via email: mritchie@wiad.org.
We're kicking off The Rotary Foundation's centennial celebration at the Korea convention, 28 May-1 June. But you can get started now planning your club's centennial activities with the resources available in our promotion kit:
Ideas and activities for clubs
Doing Good in the World promotional flier
Doing Good in the World bookmark
Sample press release
Centennial letterhead
Centennial PowerPoint template
Centennial postcard
History of The Rotary Foundation PowerPoint
Find more ideas in "Rotary's Foundation Is Turning 100," in the January issue of Rotary Leader
Watch and download A Century of...
From the February 2016 issue of The Rotarian
Rabia Raja thought she knew exactly how the residents of her home village of Dandot, Pakistan, should improve their schools. "I remember saying to them, 'You don't do this; you don't do that,' and they answered me, 'What have you done for this place?'" Raja remembers. "That's when I realized I could do something."
Rabia Raja
Area of focus: Supporting education
Age: 39
Occupation: Entrepreneur
Location: Lahore, Pakistan
Peace Center: Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 2011
That something turned out to be the Sunshine Consulting Welfare Organization...
From the February 2016 issue of The Rotarian
Growing up in India, Sachin Rane dreamed of being a police officer like his father and grandfather. "Our walls were decorated with uniformed pictures of my ancestors," he says. But he never imagined how far police work would take him.
Sachin Rane
Area of focus: Promoting peace
Age: 49
Occupation: Detective inspector
Location: Mumbai
Peace Center: Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 2013
Rane became a Mumbai police officer in 1991. He investigated bombings, kidnappings, and murders while working for a variety of law enforcement branches, including...