Wawa had a successful Bake Sale in conjunction with their Senior Citizens Club. They coordinated baking goods and sold them at the Wawa Goose Club! We had posters in the windows, posters inside and a combination of Senior Citizens and Rotarians working together to bring awareness to the community regarding Polio in the last vestiges of our World! They raised $363 in donations and $540 from Club members for a total of $903.00! We will continue to raise funds throughout the year as well!
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The Rotary Club of Ludington celebrated World Polio Day with club members donating to the cause in honor of our members Chrissie Hall, whose mother had polio, and Wayne Buskirk, who is a polio survivor. Club member Patti Klevorn, center, pledged to donate a base amount plus an additional dollar for every club member who donated to the cause, which inspired fellow club member Jim Jensen to do the same. We raised $641 in cash and checks during our meeting on Thursday, Oct. 24, with additional donations given online at endpolio.org/donate.
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Blind River held our Polio Day events in July and August - music, BBQ, bubble-making for kids
A successful joint effort between the Frankfort and the Benzie Sunrise Rotary Clubs to raise awareness of the Polio Plus effort to eliminate polio worldwide. Carol Marsh, President of the Frankfort Club, John Grix and Scott Harrison of the Frankfort Club and I met with Rick Schmitt, owner of Stormcloud Brewing in Frankfort to see if he would run a Pints for Polio campaign during Frankfort's Beer Week (10/7-12). He agreed to provide $1/pint of beer sold for the entire week (we had asked for one night). Carol then led an effort to develop posters and table cards to publicize the event and encourage people to stop by to "beer it forward". I worked with the newspaper to get a press release published and pre- and post-event articles written (see attached).
At least one member of both Clubs was present each evening to talk about Rotary, socialize with the guests and contribute to the cause by enjoying Stormcloud's great product.
The event exceeded our expectations with $882 raised through pint sales which was matched by both clubs. The net result was $2652 raised for the Polio Plus campaign. With the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation match of 2:1, we raised a total of $7956. Needless to say we were very proud of this inaugural effort not only for the money raised but for the teamwork between our two Clubs.
This group of Interact kids makes impacts in big waves with even the seemingly smallest ripples of contributions. They just transformed $400 raised for their 💜 Fall Purple Pinky Campaign 💜, to completely eradicate polio from planet earth, into $2,400.
$𝟐,𝟒𝟎𝟎! 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭! 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞. 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃. 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓. 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍! Rotary changes lives. And when Rotary and their partners join together on a cause there are substantial revolutions that happen locally, regionally and globally.
These young, vivacious, passionate Rotary Interactors practice the belief of #𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 on the daily. Thank you Elk Rapids High School Interact Club.
👏🏼 JOB 👏🏼 WELL 👏🏼 DONE 👏🏼
$𝟐,𝟒𝟎𝟎! 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭! 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞. 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃. 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓. 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍! Rotary changes lives. And when Rotary and their partners join together on a cause there are substantial revolutions that happen locally, regionally and globally.
These young, vivacious, passionate Rotary Interactors practice the belief of #𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 on the daily. Thank you Elk Rapids High School Interact Club.
👏🏼 JOB 👏🏼 WELL 👏🏼 DONE 👏🏼
Rotary Club of Cadillac
The board donated $300 from a recent fund raiser and challenged the club to raise another $1200 with a purple pinkie event with a couple of Junior Rotarians at our October 22 meeting. We raised around $400 at that event, so we are now at $700