Dear District 5020 members, Are you READY to LEAD? The 2012 District Leadership Training Assembly (DLTA) being held March 31 to April 1 at the Hotel Grand Pacific in Victoria, B.C. is open for registration . The event is an opportunity to increase the internal capacity of your club and develop future leaders. Space is limited so act fast! Early-bird cost is $90 per person ($100 after February 29) for the two-day event and special room rates are available at the Hotel Grand Pacific. This year includes learning modules such as: - Foundation fundamentals
- Grant management workshops
- Fundraising idea sharing
- Project management best practices
- Club Runner tips and tricks
- Social media techniques
And more … Also, a number of extra activities have been planned by the organizing committee including a fellowship event, Harbour Ferry Tour breakfast, appies and beer tasting at the Canoe Club and discounts on whale watching. This is an important event that shapes the direction of our district and helps make each club more effective through collaboration. For more information and to register, click or paste the following the link into your web browser: http://www.clubrunner.ca/Portal/SitePages/SitePage.aspx?accountid=50092&pid=49414&sid=70996. Thanks, The DLTA Committee
Tomorrow, Feb 8, a 7:30am is Sumner Rotary's board meeting. They meet at KC's.
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| Rotary clubs worldwide meet US$200 million fundraising challenge for polio eradication | Despite a stagnant global economy, Rotary clubs around the world have succeeded in raising more than US$200 million in new funding for polio eradication. The fundraising milestone, announced today at Rotary’s annual International Assembly in San Diego, was reached in response to a $355 million challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. All funds have been earmarked to support polio immunization activities in countries where this vaccine-preventable disease continues to paralyze children. “We’ll celebrate this milestone, but it doesn’t mean that we’ll stop raising money or spreading the word about polio eradication,” Rotary Foundation Trustee John F. Germ told the annual conference of Rotary leaders. “We can’t stop until our entire world is certified as polio free.” “In recognition of Rotary’s great work, and to inspire Rotarians in the future, the [Gates] foundation is committing an additional $50 million to extend our partnership,” said Jeff Raikes, chief executive officer of the Gates Foundation. “Rotary started the global fight against polio, and continues to set the tone for private fundraising, grassroots engagement and maintaining polio at the top of the agenda with key policy makers.” Since 1988, the incidence of polio has plummeted by more than 99 percent, from about 350,000 infections annually to fewer than 650 cases reported so far for 2011. The wild poliovirus now remains endemic – meaning its transmission has never been stopped – in only four countries: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan. However,India on January 13 marked a full calendar year without a case, paving the way for its removal from the endemic list. But other countries also remain at risk for polio cases imported from the endemic countries. In Africa in 2011, Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo had significant outbreaks. Also in 2011, a small cluster of polio cases in China, which had been polio-free for a decade, was attributable to a virus from Pakistan. Rotary members not only reached into their own pockets to support the Gates challenge,but engaged their communities in a variety of creative fundraising projects, such as a fashion show in California that raised $52,000; benefit film screenings in New Zealand and Australia that netted $54,000; and a pledge-supported hike through Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, that brought in $38,000. Many events were planned around October 24, widely observed as World Polio Day. To date, Rotary club members worldwide have contributed more than $1 billion toward the eradication of polio, a cause Rotary took on in 1985. In 1988, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention joined Rotary as spearheading partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. More recently, the Gates Foundation has become a major supporter. In 2007, the Gates Foundation gave Rotary a $100 million challenge grant for polio eradication, increasing it to $355 million in 2009. Rotary agreed to raise $200 million in matching funds by June 30, 2012. Reaching children with the oral polio vaccine in the disease’s remaining strongholds is labor and resource -intensive due to a host of challenges, including poor infrastructure, geographical isolation, armed conflict and cultural misunderstanding about the eradication campaign. |
Promote the success of the US$200 million challenge in your community | To help you publicize your club or district efforts toward meeting the US$200 million fundraising challenge in support of polio eradication, a news release template will be available for download in eight languages by Wednesday, 18 January atwww.rotary.org. In addition to distributing this news release to your local media, share it through social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and include it in your club or district newsletter. |
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Our guest speaker today is from Marlene's Market. They have lots of free programs in cooking and other "good health" living. Go to www.marlenesmarket-deli.com for more information.
Bring your cans of food to Rotary tomorrow or next Tuesday. Sumner High School is competing against Bonney Lake High School and we can help them win.
Hello fellow Sumner Rotarians, I forgot to mention at Rotary on Tuesday that this Friday, tonight, is our monthly Sit-N-Bull Social at Farrelli’s, 5:00 PM. This is a week early due to Thanksgiving. Hope to see you there! -Ed
Dave Harkness and the Tacoma South Rotary club are still looking for some golfers to join them this Friday at their Mini Golf Tournament at Harkness Furniture. This is their biggest fundraiser of the year and a guaranteed good time! I’m attaching their flyer with this posting but am not sure if it’ll display correctly. So if it doesn’t, and you’d like more information, please email me and I’ll send you a copy of the flyer with all the details.
Tina
From: Dave Harkness [mailto:Dave@HarknessFurniture.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 3:38 PM
To: Tina Pries
Subject: FW: Golf Flier
Tina, any chance we might talk you or some of your club members into attending our golf tournament this coming Friday? We have some guaranteed screaming monkeys to give away. All the best. Dave
Girl’s Night Out meeting Tuesday, Oct. 4th, 11:00, at Branks prior to our Rotary Meeting. This is an all call for each and every one of us to get involved to make this an even bigger success this year!! We look forward to seeing you there!
We’re planning to have a Founder’s Night committee meeting on Tuesday, September 27th at 11am at Branks. We’re thinking outside of the box this year and mixing it up, so if you want to get wild and crazy with us, show up on Tuesday and you’re “in”! We’re planning a Hawaiian Luau and our homework assignment is to be thinking of fun activities/ideas that will make this year’s founder’s night a sure-to-please event for everyone! Looking forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday and hearing the great ideas!!! Aloha!!!
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