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.
Eric Knepp, Superintendent, Madison Parks Division
We learned that Madison is a national leader in public parks, with 92% of Madisonians living with a quarter-mile of a park. The division has 279 park properties and a budget of $17.8 million plus a varying capital budget.
We're a northern city with a unique commitment to the outdoors. Parks are more than just green spaces ... they boost real estate value, they improve the environment, and they're a place to help us all to find a healing sanctuary in busy times. It's in parks that many kids first build a connection with the natural world.
Completed Requests For Project Support are due to Ruth Domack, Club Secretary, by May 15, 2016. They will NOT be accepted after that date. It is important to get these forms in by the deadline so that the Board has sufficient time to prepare the Budget for Fiscal Year 2016 – 2017.
Help fill our donation box at the district conference! Bring personal care items to one of our meetings through Friday, May 13, and items will be collected and taken to the district conference. These items will be donated to local food pantries throughout our District.
Let's make Mary proud and overfill our donation box!
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!
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:
Our Club has been approved to apply for grants for the 2016-2017 Rotary year. All requests should be submitted to Ruth Domack, Club Secretary, by May 15th.
This means that you need to submit a Request for Project Support (link can be found in Derek’s article above) by May 15th, whether you are asking for money only from the Club, money from the District and the Club, or money from the Rotary Foundation, the District and the Club. This allows the club to determine the 2016-2017 budget in a timely matter.
If you are asking for less than $5,000, this usually requires funds from the Club only. If you are asking for over $5,000 up to $30,000, this is usually a District Grant. If your project is over $30,000 this is usually a Global Grant with funds from the Rotary Foundation, the District and the Club.
If you would like to work on your grant and would like my help, we can set up a workshop for this purpose. Please let me know. The District will assign you a mentor if you are applying for a Global Grant.
If you are only asking for money from the Club, the dollar amount requested is the total cost of the project.
If you are applying for a District Grant, you would state that you want $___ from the Club and $____ from the District. The District will match Club dollars, dollar for dollar (for example, $5,000 Club funds and $5,000 District funds). The maximum that the District will give a Club is $5,000 per project. If you can find 2 other clubs willing to support the project, the District will give up to $14,500. However, when a project gets close to a total of $30,000, the District will strongly encourage you to make it a $30,000 so you can apply for a Global Grant. When you apply for a District Grant you need to complete the Club Request for Project Support and the District Grant Request.
If you are applying for a Global Grant, you will state that you want $____ from the Club, $____ from the District and $____ from the Rotary Foundation. The District will match the Club portion dollar for dollar, and the Rotary Foundation will match the Club funds at $0.50 on the dollar and the District Funds dollar for dollars. As an example, Club contributes $8,700, District contributes $8,700 and the Rotary Foundation contributes $13,050, for a total project cost of $30,450. You need to complete the Club Request for Project support and the Rotary Foundation grant application.
If it would be helpful, I can furnish you with these blank forms and with a sample completed forms.
I know this is a lot of paperwork, but it is a wonderful way to get the most money for a project. It reduces the amount of money we need to raise through Club fund raising activities.
If you are only asking for money from the Club, the dollar amount requested is the total cost of the project.
If you are applying for a District Grant, you would state that you want $___ from the Club and $____ from the District. The District will match Club dollars, dollar for dollar (for example, $5,000 Club funds and $5,000 District funds). The maximum that the District will give a Club is $5,000 per project. If you can find 2 other clubs willing to support the project, the District will give up to $14,500. However, when a project gets close to a total of $30,000, the District will strongly encourage you to make it a $30,000 so you can apply for a Global Grant. When you apply for a District Grant you need to complete the Club Request for Project Support and the District Grant Request.
If you are applying for a Global Grant, you will state that you want $____ from the Club, $____ from the District and $____ from the Rotary Foundation. The District will match the Club portion dollar for dollar, and the Rotary Foundation will match the Club funds at $0.50 on the dollar and the District Funds dollar for dollars. As an example, Club contributes $8,700, District contributes $8,700 and the Rotary Foundation contributes $13,050, for a total project cost of $30,450. You need to complete the Club Request for Project support and the Rotary Foundation grant application.
If it would be helpful, I can furnish you with these blank forms and with a sample completed forms.
I know this is a lot of paperwork, but it is a wonderful way to get the most money for a project. It reduces the amount of money we need to raise through Club fund raising activities.
The Korea convention is sure to be one of the most spectacular yet.
It's not too late to register!
Come to Korea May 28 through June 1 to experience the hospitality of the Korean people and the energy of the Korean wave. See unforgettable performances at the WelcomeFestival on May 28. Connect with old friends and make new ones at convention and be a part of the best Rotary has to offer.
Thousands of Rotary members, motivated by a special invitation from Pope Francis, gathered at the Vatican in Rome on Saturday to celebrate a message of compassion, inclusiveness, and service to humanity.
At midmorning, the group -- numbering some 9,000 members from 80 countries -- made its way through the congested streets of Rome, past the tight security surrounding St. Peter's Square, and settled into the area reserved for Rotary in front of St. Peter's Basilica for the Jubilee audience.
Francis, a 79-year-old Argentine, urged the crowd of more than 100,000, which included members of the...
From the May 2016 issue of The Rotarian
If there is one absolute truth about millennials, it is this: Anyone who says there is an absolute truth about millennials risks being subjected to their collective eye roll.
Millennials are individuals, and fiercely so. According to the Pew Research Center, most of them don’t even like being called “millennials,” let alone hearing generalizations about their shared attitudes and behaviors.
Case in point: Christa Papavasiliou, 31, recoils at the notion that older folks see her generation as a bunch of selfie-snapping smartphone addicts. “I’m the...
Editor's note: After the May 2016 issue of The Rotarian went to press, we were saddened to learn of the death of Garvin Evans, who along with his son, U2 guitarist The Edge, appeared on the cover of that issue. Evans was a longtime member of the Rotary Club of Dublin North. We are grateful that we were able to share his remarkable story with our readers.
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The boys of U2 are home. It’s Friday, 27 November, two weeks after the terrorist attacks in Paris. Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. had been in Paris that terrible evening, rehearsing at the venue where they were...
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