• 1st Session: Global Grants
  How they can positively impact your club and the world?
• 2nd Session: District Grants
  How they can positively impact your community?
• 3rd Session: Polio Challenge and our Polar Plunge
• Lunch: Annual Giving
  Has your club submitted members' donations yet?
• 1st Qualification Seminar: 1pm - 3pm
  (shorter format, but still a requirement for all presidents-elect and one other from each club in order to submit grants)

Susan Hartmere, Past President and multiple Paul Harris Fellow from the Rotary Club of Woburn recently travelled to Guyana on a humanitarian mission.

The following is brief account of her trip...

“Our group of 12 spent two weeks constructing a playground adjacent to a school for intellectually challenged children ranging in age from 6 - 20. The playground consisted of a basketball court, swings, seesaws and a jungle gym.

In September of 2014, the Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor embarked on an exciting grant to install 40 lock boxes on the homes of seniors in the community to provide timely access to homes in the event of an emergency. The project was the brainchild of the newly formed ElderAct Club, a group of senior volunteers under the umbrella of the Rotary Clubs of Marblehead Harbor and Swampscott. The project sailed through the development and planning process with support of the Marblehead Council on Aging and the Marblehead Fire Department.

 

• boxes were back ordered on a slow boat from China, arriving in January!  
• unexpected absence of a key player at the COA
• relying on volunteers     
• “snowmagedon”!!

Registration for the May 7, 2016 RLI sessions at the Holiday Inn in Peabody is happening now! Sign up for Part I, II, III or Graduate now and reserve your seat!

 

The Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) is a day for Rotarians to learn how to develop leadership skills and to learn about the tools and resources which allow club members to build vibrant clubs. You accepted the invitation to become a Rotarian for a reason. You also continue your journey in Rotary for a reason. Spending a day at an RLI session will add many more reasons for you to be a Rotarian and enhance yourself and your club. Remember, “Those who serve the best profit the most.”

 

Attendees will learn how to

 

They will come back to their clubs motivated, energized and inspired and share that enthusiasm with other members.

 

RLI -  Peabody

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Holiday Inn Boston - Peabody
1 Newbury Street
Peabody, MA 01960

For more information visit www.rlinea.com; or email Jim Babbin.

 

Sign up now! You can register  now for Part I, II III and Graduate.

 

If you have never attended RLI, find out how you could attend for free.

Did you know this year we had only 9 months between Polar Plunge events?! In that time we set a record breaking average of just over $10k in pledges per MONTH! To date, the Distrct has in $92,458.39 in pledges! Many thanks to our participants, volunteers, committee and donors are surely in order. Please remember to submit your final donations to the Rotary Foundation by March 31st in order to ensure proper accounting. If you have any questions regarding online donations made to you or your club, please contact Amy Luckiewicz at polarplunge7930@gmail.com. Thanks again for all of your help and congratulations on an outstanding year in our efforts to #endpolio!
 

 

 

Join us for a great, affordable night of candlepin bowling on Sunday, March 20th! $10 per person includes two hours of bowling and rental shoes.

 

We invite all clubs, EarlyAct members, Interact members, Rotaractors, ElderAct members, Assistant Governors, committee chairs and all members to consider making a team of 4 or 5 and join us at Metro Bowl in Peabody!

 

 

Contact Amy Luckiewicz at rotary7930publicimage@gmail.com with questions or register for Family Fun Day here!