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.
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.
Thanks to all of our generous supporters of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, Madison West Towne Middleton Rotary’s interim contribution report is as follows:
Annual Fund Giving
$13,710 (as compared to $14,300 goal- we are at 96% of goal)
Per Capita
$207.73 (#1 in the District)
PolioPlus Giving
$8,615.00 (TRF asks each Club to contribute minimum of $1500)
Total Giving
$22,825.00
Because of your gifts, we are “this close” to eradicating polio; we are providing literacy opportunities; providing clean water, hygiene & sanitation; assisting in disease prevention; allowing for more and better maternal & child health; creating environments for effective community & economic development which; all lead to peace and conflict prevention & resolution. Thank you for being aGift to the World.
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!
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:
Though they were a long way from home, members of the Rotaract Club of Bugolobi, Uganda, felt confident they could tackle problems in rural Kanabulemu during their annual 1000 Smiles project.
Their original plan focused on curtailing the spread of HIV/AIDS. It's in the Rakai District, where the first case of AIDS in Uganda was uncovered in 1982 and about 12 percent of the population has been infected with HIV in recent years. But the Rotaractors discovered that problems in the village extended far beyond the disease.
"The community lacked water, the school was in a sorry state, and the...
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...
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