Visioning Session

 We were pleased to see 17 Rotarians come out for our visioning session. Patricia began the session by sharing the process for the visioning exercise. We had an open discussion about our goals for the next 5 years. These goals were categorized into different sections and as with any democracy we all had the chance to vote with stickers in each section for what goals we felt were most important.

Here is a sneak peak at some of the results:

-Our mission for the Osoyoos Rotary Club is to make a difference locally and internationally with the needs of children being a specific focus 

-Our goal for 2016 is to have 50 members

-We would like to see the overall attributes of our club to include a more diverse range of members (ethnicity, age, gender) and we would like to achieve and maintain 90%+ member participation

-Other goals include creating/updating a strategy to recruit and mentor new members 

-Encourage 75%+ meeting attendance

-We would like to increase school scholarships to 5+ and also increase student awareness of Rotary

-We would like to create an effective Business Attraction Strategy to help attract younger families and new businesses/industry to the area 

-In 5 years we see our club completing our Legacy Project

-We would like to continue to keep our Youth Exchange Program going strong and adopt a community elsewhere in the world in need and be extremely hands on with support

-Our annual golf tournament is to be well maintained and grown and we would also like to explore the possibility of co-championing a community pool project

-Over the next few years we see more of our funding going towards local initiatives such as the Legacy Project but in 5 years we would like a 50/50 split between local and international projects

-We would like to sustain 100% of our members

-We would like to increase the profile and awareness of our club and our initiatives by doing a montly newspaper article, social media, and storefront Rotary window stickers 

Thanks so to everyone for their excellent ideas and participation.