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.
Thank you to the many veterans in our club! While this recognition comes during Veterans Day week, we should always endeavor to honor your service, and to serve you as well as you have served our nation.
What follows is a list, that may be incomplete, of veterans in our club. If there is someone not included below, please send me their name, years of active service, branch of service, overseas service years, and overseas location(s), so we can have an updated list.
Veterans
Bill Hodgkins
Edward Fink
Jack Ferreri
John A. Gerold
John Olsen
Larry Pincombe
Marshall Lambie
Michael Faulhaber
Paul Butz
Peder Moren
Ray Holloway
Richard Meister
Stan Koenig
Stuart Herro
Steve Aune has volunteered to be our new Membership Chair! In his new role, Steve will help us help us attract and retain top quality members to the BEST ROTARY CLUB in the WORLD! He is currently looking for people to join him on this committee. If you are interested, please contact Steve.
Toni Pabon did a training session on our Club Website and how to use ClubRunner on November 3rd. If you want to learn more, there will be another opportunity in the late winter or Spring. Stay tuned.
Photo Courtesy of Steve Aune
Thank you to all the members who attended! I hope you learned something new :)
I will be hosting a meeting for those who have indicated an interest in going to the RI Convention in Seoul, Korea next year. Please contact me directly (best way is email - jagerold39@gmail.com. Second best way is cell phone.) if you are interested in attending this meeting. Least expensive registration date for the convention ends December 15th.
Discussion Meeting About the Rotary International Convention
We will be placing an order for Club Apparel in the next few weeks, If you would like to order something, please order no later than November 27th. I am organizing the orders, so please send me your orders ASAP or order online.
Each member is entitled to one free tee-shirt (must order it to receive it).
Our vendor for the apparel is Madison Top. I have requested a size chart for the items on our list. This will help you determine which size you should order. The sizing details will follow shortly.
The Middleton-Cross Plains School District's mentor program is in need of male mentors. If you are interested in helping, please contact Fred Bartman, Mentor Program Coordinator, at 608-829-9541 or fbartman@mcpasd.k12.wi.us.
They have a number of boys who could really use the added positive relationship that mentors can provide.
Treasurer Assistant and Greeter Documentation Now Available
Thanks to Adam Schaller, we now have updated Weekly Greeter and Treasurer Assistant Responsibilities documentation. For those of you who are assigned to be Greeters or Treasurer Assistants, please review these documents:
The visioning process is designed to help a Rotary club create its own vision and to discover for itself the steps necessary to achieve that vision. The result is unique to each club because this is not a vision decided by the Rotary District or by Rotary International. The result is a vision designed and endorsed by the club’s own members.
A club visioning event brings together a good cross-section of its membership from the newest to the most experienced Rotarian. The process uses the talents and life experience within the club to develop a vision and goals reflecting that club’s membership. A club visioning event provides renewed focus on objectives and is completed in a dedicated, fun-filled four hour session. The challenge during this process is to gather as many ideas and opportunities for the future from a group of 15 to 30 Rotarians and then condense it down to the most important goals as determined by that club. To make sure that all of this can be accomplished within a limited time frame, the club visioning event is run by an outside neutral team of Rotary facilitators. The team has been well-trained in a specific process to help the club bring out its best thinking. The facilitation team does not suggest or promote projects.
This is not a strategic planning process. However, it does provide wonderful material that can be used to either help review an existing club’s strategic plan or help in the development of such a plan at a later time. By the end of this four-hour process, each club will have a clear vision of the following:
What the club stands for in the community;
The club’s target membership size in five years;
Identification of the club’s attributes;
Top three objectives for each avenue of service; and
Ways to improve the club’s leadership development.
Yogi Berra said, “If you don’t know where you are going, chances are you will end up someplace else.” If a club starts with an effective visioning event, it leads to a long range plan that can effectively result in programs locally and internationally. A club vision is a living management tool that begins this process by defining a shared commitment, providing long term direction, creating a framework to establish goals and objectives, and helping the club to optimize the use of its resources.
The key thing to remember is that this visioning process is designed to make sure that it is the club members who are providing the input and deciding the goals, objectives, and action steps that they want to take in order to realize the vision that they have created for themselves as a Rotary Club in their community.
Fitchburg-Verona Rotary Club's Annual Wine Tasting and Silent Auction!
The Fitchburg-Verona Rotary Club's Annual Wine Tasting Fundraiser is slated for Thursday, November 19th from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn in Verona! The fundraiser inlcudes over 20 wines, as well as appetizers and a silent auction. All proceeds support their local community and international programs.
Rotary President K.R. Ravindran has named six Rotary Global Women of Action for 2015. The honorees were chosen for their dedication and service, which has improved the lives of thousands around the world.
“Every day at Rotary I see firsthand how our members work to change lives and make a significant impact,” said Ravindran. “Rotary’s Global Women of Action embody Rotary’s motto, Service Above Self.”
The women will be honored at Rotary Day at the United Nations in New York City on 7 November. They will address attendees and lead discussions on various topics related to their work.
The six...
Apply to host a booth in the House of Friendship at the 2016 Rotary International Convention in Seoul, 28 May-1 June. This is an opportunity to showcase your club or district project, recruit members for your Rotary Fellowship, share information about your Rotarian Action Group, or market Rotary merchandise if you are a licensed RI vendor.
The application deadline is 30 September. Booth allocations will be awarded by 1 November.
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When Mariana Day moved in 1989 to the small beach town of Chacala, in Nayarit, Mexico, she noticed that the surrounding rural areas struggled to maintain schools. And most children weren’t able to go beyond an eighth-grade education. Day, who is a member of the Rotary Club of Bahía de Jaltemba-La Peñita, in Nayarit, had started a local scholarship program before she joined Rotary. Called Changing Lives, the program provided students with high school tuition, uniforms, school supplies, and transportation.
In addition, Rotary clubs from the United States and Mexico have been investing in the...
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