President Richard opened the meeting with the flag salute by Jerry and Greg led the Four Wat Test with 27 members present and 3 guests. Guests present: Speaker Clayton Lee, Larisa Perryman and Lindsay DaRosa from RunningForRhett. Richard invited them to share a bit about their non-profit. They spoke of Rhett, a child with severe cerebral palsy who died at age 7. His mother used running as a way to handle her grief. She encouraged her friends and family to run a half marathon at the 1 year anniversary of Rhett's passing by saying: "We all need to run for Rhett since he was never able to run." Ultimately the Non-Profit was formed in his memory and serves to encourage children to run for their health. More information is available at: www.runningforrhett.org.
Clayton has been a Rotarian for 45 years. His current passion is guiding larger Rotary Grants to fruition. Why does he favor larger size grants? He used past water projects, for example, that were constructed by individual Rotary Clubs. He said that when a year or two had passed, members would return to see how the project was doing. These smaller projects frequently would not be functioning at all. The community simply did not know how to maintain the facility themselves; expected that Rotary would come back and fix it. So Rotary wanted to develop Global Grants that would have lasting IMPACT. This requires A LOT more Money. So partners with Districts and other organizations with common aspirations were sought out: particularly World Vision. This allowed trial projects in Honduras, Ethiopia and Zambia that ranged from 3 - 6 million dollars. Local people were trained to maintain the water projects, maintain a bank account sufficient to make repairs, and physically be involved in the construction. The IMPACT on the region was tremendous, as women could spend more time with their families, possibly get educated and the communities would be able to develop businesses. These grants are called Grants of Scale. Clayton stressed that Rotary needs these bigger projects to make lasting IMPACT. World Vision is an ideal partner as they match partners dollar for dollar. The impact of Districts getting together is beyond significant. District 5180 last year donated support from 100% of the clubs which has never happened before in Rotary.
Mike Rutledge is our next guest speaker. He will speak about first responder drone operations.
President Richard opened the meeting with the flag salute by Jerry and Greg led the Four Wat Test with 27 members present and 3 guests. Guests present: Speaker Clayton Lee, Larisa Perryman and Lindsay DaRosa from RunningForRhett. Richard invited them to share a bit about their non-profit. They spoke of Rhett, a child with severe cerebral palsy who died at age 7. His mother used running as a way to handle her grief. She encouraged her friends and family to run a half marathon at the 1 year anniversary of Rhett's passing by saying: "We all need to run for Rhett since he was never able to run." Ultimately the Non-Profit was formed in his memory and serves to encourage children to run for their health. More information is available at: www.runningforrhett.org.
Alan's topic for his poem this week was "Natures colors". As usual, something to think about.
Clayton has been a Rotarian for 45 years. His current passion is guiding larger Rotary Grants to fruition. Why does he favor larger size grants? He used past water projects, for example, that were constructed by individual Rotary Clubs. He said that when a year or two had passed, members would return to see how the project was doing. These smaller projects frequently would not be functioning at all. The community simply did not know how to maintain the facility themselves; expected that Rotary would come back and fix it. So Rotary wanted to develop Global Grants that would have lasting IMPACT. This requires A LOT more Money. So partners with Districts and other organizations with common aspirations were sought out: particularly World Vision. This allowed trial projects in Honduras, Ethiopia and Zambia that ranged from 3 - 6 million dollars. Local people were trained to maintain the water projects, maintain a bank account sufficient to make repairs, and physically be involved in the construction. The IMPACT on the region was tremendous, as women could spend more time with their families, possibly get educated and the communities would be able to develop businesses. These grants are called Grants of Scale. Clayton stressed that Rotary needs these bigger projects to make lasting IMPACT. World Vision is an ideal partner as they match partners dollar for dollar. The impact of Districts getting together is beyond significant. District 5180 last year donated support from 100% of the clubs which has never happened before in Rotary.
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