International Service Update

  This week we will continue our effort to highlight our Club’s Avenues of Service with a presentation from our International Chair Patrick O’Regan. Patrick has been a Rotarian for over 25 years. He is a past club president (Falmouth (MA) Rotary) and has held leadership positions within Rotary at the Club and District level. Patrick practiced law on Cape Cod for many years but became a recovering lawyer after telling his then new bride, a native Californian, that Cape Cod was "below the snow line" - only to have 100 inches of snow fall on the cape the next winter. [Four way test fail?] Patrick now teaches a slate of classes on entrepreneurship at the undergraduate and graduate school level: entrepreneurial management, entrepreneurial finance, and entrepreneurial leadership. He also coaches business plan competitions participants and the venture capital investment competition for USF. Patrick also has a start-up in the clean tech space which is focused on water re-use.

  PAUR has a community based International program. Unlike other Rotary clubs, PAUR's program focuses on improving a single community at a time by getting to know the people in the community, developing a working relationship with the elected officials, and funding stakeholder driven projects related to healthcare, education and economic development. The community PAUR serves has had measurable results in the improvement of the in-country poverty level.

  Patrick will be providing an update on the many accomplishments of the International Committee in El Salvador.