January 23, 2022

Upcoming Events
Passport Club - Business / Statutory Meeting
 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/77417116547
Jan 25, 2022
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
 
Passport Club - Social Gathering
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Feb 08, 2022
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
 
Passport Club - Business / Statutory Meeting
 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/77417116547
Feb 22, 2022
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
 
Passport Club - Social Gathering
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/77417116547
Mar 08, 2022
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
 
Passport Club - Business / Statutory Meeting
 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/77417116547
Mar 29, 2022
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
 
Passport Club - Social Gathering
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/77417116547
Apr 12, 2022
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
 
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District Events

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District Governor's Foundation Moment

What Makes a Successful Global Grant Application?
 
Consult with local experts early in the planning process to build a strong program plan and global grant application. The district resource network (see below) can help.
To be approved, your application must clearly describe how your project, scholarship, or vocational training team:
 
  • Is sustainable — include plans for long-term success after the global grant funds have been spent
  • Includes measurable goals
  • Aligns with one or more of Rotary's areas of focus
  • Responds to real community needs
  • Actively involves Rotarians and community members
  • Meets the eligibility requirements in the grant application terms and conditions
 
The Rotary Foundation's grant model empowers Rotarians to continue advancing world understanding, goodwill, and peace by implementing health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
 
 

Executives & Directors

President
 
President Elect
 
Treasurer
 
Secretary
 
Past President
 
Public Relations/Communications
 
Membership
 
Director Greater Cornwall
 
Director Greater Montreal
 
International Service
 
The Rotary Foundation
 
President Nominee
 
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Margaret Shibley
January 10
 
Ginette Valériote Legault
January 30
 
Join Date
Brian Patterson
January 1, 1989
33 years
 
Len Goddard
January 1, 1968
54 years
 

President's Message

Maddie Roy
member photo
January is Vocational Service Month.
 
"Imagine a world that deserves our best, where we get up each day knowing that we can make a difference."
 
These are the words guiding Rotary International's President-Elect, Jennifer Jones, in her vision for the 2022-23 Rotary Year and its theme, "Imagine Rotary". In her address to Rotary International, she affirmed that engaging members is crucial to retaining members and that we need to ask members what they want to get from Rotary and give them meaningful responsibilities.
 
The most important part of our club is our membership roster; an engaged group of people will benefit from one another's fellowship, and our communities will in turn benefit from our energy and dynamism!
 
Thank you for all that you do as Rotarians and let's keep up the good work.
 
See you on Tuesday,
 
Maddie
 
Editor's Note
 
Our monthly business meeting is this Tuesday, January 25, starting at 4pm Eastern,
1 pm Pacific, 10 pm Europe, Egypt, Malta time.
 
Please log in well ahead for fellowship and  entry. The meeting will be live online a half hour ahead of the scheduled starting time.
 
-Secretary Chris
 
From the President Elect
 
The following comes from the District 7070 website. 
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Rotary International is always searching for strategies to renew and energize our Rotary Clubs. The best way to attract and retain members is to have a strong and vigorous Rotary Club, whose members are knee deep in exciting service in the community and beyond. But how can we bring new life and direction to our Clubs?
 
Rotary International recently introduced the new Club Leadership Plan, based on the best practices of successful clubs. The plan calls for a simplified board and administrative structure. The plan also encourages clubs to develop long-range goals and annual objectives to support them. 
 
The leadership in District 7070 has developed an effective format for guiding a Rotary Club through strategic planning and renewal.
Our model is called Visioning. The model involves: 1) developing a core District training team, 2) holding individual "Vision Facilitation" sessions with individual Rotary Clubs, one at a time, and 3) assuring regular follow up after the initial Vision session. Too often Clubs operate in a reactive fashion, without clear long terms goals, and this' Visioning 'process is designed to help Clubs more clearly identify long term priorities.
 
Rotary Clubs that have participated in this strategic planning and re-visioning process typically show a clearer Club vision -- a sense of mission and purpose as a Club - and a revitalization of members' involvement in the Club. Ref.: https://rotary7070.org/sitepage/my-club-s-future-club-visioning-exercise
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Sound like a familiar strategy - a simplified Board structure followed by a Club Visioning exercise? By now you’ve had time to read the proposal for the restructuring of our own Board. Please email me your comments or arrange a chat where I can take notes. Wherever your thoughts sit on the spectrum - from complete disagreement to cautious suggestions for improvements to enthusiastic support - we need the whole picture to be able to bring a realistic assessment of Club response to the proposal, as well as a document that responds appropriately to concerns or gaps, to our February discussion / vote.
Margaret 
 

Coffee With a Rotarian

The list for January is out and can be found HERE.