Summary of Large Club Conference - San Diego - Feb. 9-12

Your President-Elect, Ken Noack, Jr. and your Executive Director, Hal Shipley attended the Large Club Conference in San Diego week before last and were able to gather several items of information that will be beneficial to our club. There were 151 attendees from 62 of the largest Rotary Clubs in the United States and Canada. The largest club in attendance, Seattle has 665 members. Of the 62 clubs, Sacramento was number 51 with 430 members. (Includes Honorary members.) We found that 53 of the clubs have their own foundations that range in value from $25,400 in Charlotte to $7.5 million in Long Beach. Our foundation is approximately $2.7 million.

The conference concentrated on four major areas; Planning, Membership, Marketing and Fundraising. Both Ken and Hal came back with some great ideas.  Keep tuned to this station and see some of these items as they are implemented. In the mean time, consider the following statement relative to fundraising, “People give money to people, not causes.”, and the following statement that pertains to our club in general, “No one is as good as the sum of everyone.”