Our major fundraising drive of the year is dependent upon your participation and ticket sales for its success. As of today, Sunday, March 20 we are at 51% of $30,000 goal - with $15,427 raised! But there is more to do!
Without you, we wouldn’t be able to monetarily support our community, our friends, and our neighbors.
The Raffle is the way to raise money to help:
Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook fund services for youth in crisis
Gratitude Generation build a new generation of service
North Suburban YMCA provide vocational training and employment opportunities
Northbrook Symphony Orchestra continue to provide music
Northfield Township Food Pantry feed those who are food insecure…
and many more
Without you, we can’t be successful. Without you, we can’t help the needy. Without you, we aren’t Rotary. We need YOU!
Raffle tickets are available or direct friends and family to this link. Contact Gary if you need more tickets.
Just to keep you all posted on upcoming speakers/programs for the Rotary Club of Northbrook and where we'll be meeting...
March 22: This is an EVENING meeting. Congressman Brad Schneider will give us an update on Washington, DC. We meet at 5:30 for drinks at the Acorn Grill, Heritage Oaks Golf Course, on 3535 Dundee Road. [formerly Sportsman’s] Dinner will be served at 6:00.
March 29: Normal meeting time (12:15) but we will meet at the North Shore Senior Center, 161 Northfield Road, Northfield, to hear about their programs.
April 5: Please join us at 12:15 at Allgauer's for our RAFFLE drawing.
April 12: Kate Hall from the Northbrook Public Library.
April 19: Stu Rosen and Highland Baking
April 26: Join us as we give out grants and recognize the recipients.
(And so you can plan ahead... save-the-date: May 24th will be a service project at Bernie's Book Bank with lunch following at The Silo.)
Remember to send in your lunch/dinner orders to Suzi Gantz. If you decide at the last minute that you can join us, let her know IMMEDIALTY. It's easier to adjust the count than to come up with food at the very last moment.
Looking forward to seeing each of you at upcoming Rotary meetings!
Jim Kucienski Reports:
“I have some great information about our Rotary Club’s GBN’S Interact Club, which needs to be shared. Last week club had a blood drive.
According to their GBN teacher advisor to the club, Christi Rose, their event was very successful. The students’ work generated 81 units of blood donations.
It’s my belief that our club is helping to generate a dedicated group of future leaders to understand what Service Above Self means.”
Interact is Rotary International's service club for young people ages 12 to 18. Interact clubs are sponsored by individual Rotary clubs, which provide support and guidance, but they are self-governing and self-supporting.
Club membership varies greatly. Clubs can be single gender or mixed, large or small. They can draw from the student body of a single school or from two or more schools in the same community.
Each year, Interact clubs complete at least two community service projects, one of which furthers international understanding and goodwill. Through these efforts, Interactors develop a network of friendships with local and overseas clubs and learn the importance of
Developing leadership skills and personal integrity
Demonstrating helpfulness and respect for others
Understanding the value of individual responsibility and hard work
Advancing international understanding and goodwill
As one of the most significant and fastest-growing programs of Rotary service, with more than 10,700 clubs in 109 countries and geographical areas, Interact has become a worldwide phenomenon. Almost 200,000 young people are involved in Interact.
Gary Moriello Reports:
Northbrook Rotary will have a fund-raising event at Grill House on Monday, April 18th from 10:30 AM to 9:00 PM. Grill House will donate 20% of all proceeds from people who come in and say they are with Rotary or they are supporting Rotary.
Invite your family or friends to dine and support the club. Want to catch up with fellow Rotarians? Plan a meet-up for lunch or dinner and enjoy great food and fellowship.
Example: Our club will get $4 from a $20 meal (excludes tax & tip of course) so help raise funds effortlessly. No sign-up necessary, just come and eat some delicious food!
Owner of Grill House Nick Drivas believes in giving back to the community that has been so kind and supportive of him and his restaurant.
Nick, who grew up in Northbrook and still lives with his family in Northbrook, has seen the community grow and believes in the importance of giving back. In the past several years, Grill House has hosted fundraising events for such organizations as Autism Speaks, the Alzheimer’s Association, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, Bernie’s Book Bank, and Youth Services of Glenview and Northbrook, and Rotary. He has also given back to dozens of local schools, religious organizations, and first responders by creating special fundraisers just for them.
Since opening its doors in 2017, Grill House has donated more than $30,000 to help with equipment for schools, fundraising for education and services to those in need. During this pandemic he and his team have donated food to schools, hospitals, fire stations, police stations and those less fortunate within Northbrook and the surrounding suburbs.
Grill House is located in White Plains Plaza at 3061 Dundee Road, Northbrook.
She had an idea to address the Ukraine tragedy, by creating awareness of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, and driving donations to the Rotary Ukraine initiative.
Her vision is to dress up the Village in bows, that encourage donations to come full circle. Rep. Jonathan Carroll’s team is participating along with the Village of Northbrook and Park District.
For a $10 donation to the Rotary Humanitarian Relief in Ukraine donors will have their name added to the bows. This fun option will encourage people to find their name, take selfies and post to social media.
The other benefit of this project is to illustrate what Rotary is about to community members who might want to donate or JOIN!
Thank you Elly Fawcett-Neal, Outreach coordinator for working on this poster (it's not done yet) but Rep. Carroll's office will help with the social media!
Thank you, Rick Rivkin, for updating our Jotform to include this option!
Therefore, we can encourage people to go to our website directly -which is easier for most of us. Then they can check off their choice of donation – and the club will manage it. We are fortunate to have a legitimate option for people to help in Ukraine.
Celebrated all over the globe on March 20th, International Day of Happiness is a day that recognizes the importance of happiness to human beings and is also a day in which people are encouraged to do those things that make them happy.
This holiday was initially founded in 2011 by the United Nations and has been an important day for millions of people all over the world.
Be happy! Do something to make yourself or someone happy!
The crisis in Ukraine is having devastating consequences on civilians as families flee their homes. According to the United Nations, more than 3 million people, most of them women and children, have sought refuge in neighboring countries and across Europe, while about 1 million more people have been displaced within Ukraine.
Rotary and Rotaract clubs in Europe and around the world have taken swift action and are working with members nearby to provide food, water, medical equipment, and shelter for refugees.
The Rotary Foundation created a funding channel for relief efforts in Ukraine.
The European Rotaract Information Centre, a multidistrict information organization that serves Rotaractors all over Europe, created a United for Peace site that compiles information for refugees and volunteers.
The site offers information about free rail, bus, and air transportation available to refugees and lists details about what’s needed and how to help at specific national borders.
It also has fundraising details for hospitals in the western Ukraine city of Lviv, as well as for clubs that are helping in various places and for other organizations in the region.
The site lets Rotaractors coordinate shelter for refugees stranded at the border. Volunteer hosts can sign up through an online form and specify how many people they can house and for how long. Begun as an initiative to help fellow Rotary members leaving Ukraine, it’s now being used by Rotaract and Rotary members all over Europe to offer help.
A tool on the site links a demand for goods with available supplies. It was created within 48 hours after a team of 60 members from 10 countries met by videoconference about how to meet the most urgent needs.
Ukraine
Ukraine has 62 Rotary clubs and six satellite clubs with about 1,100 members, and 24 Rotaract clubs with more than 300 members.
District 2232 (Ukraine and Belarus) formed a committee to help people affected by the crisis. It has launched an appeal to Rotary members worldwide for funds to provide basic necessities.
The city of Lviv has had an influx of people displaced from other cities around Ukraine. The Rotary Club of Lviv International, working with local authorities and major hospitals, created an online spreadsheet of relief items that can be accessed by people who want to help. Members arrange for the donated items to be delivered to hospitals and coordinate storage with local warehouses.
Poland
Poland has taken in more than a million refugees, and Rotary clubs all over the country created a central account for contributions.
The Rotary Club of Olsztyn is collecting and managing donations for more than 150 Ukrainians who are staying at Ostróda Camp, a conference and recreation center. Most of the occupants are unaccompanied children whose parents stayed in Ukraine. Four cars full of supplies including food, clothes, toiletries, and toys were donated hours after the center began accepting refugees.
Members of the Rotary Club of Zamosc worked with a member of the Rotary Club of Wolsztyn, who owns a medical supply distribution company, to coordinate a partnership with other organizations to collect supplies and equipment.
The Rotary Club of Gdansk Centrum is providing accommodations for four refugee families, and members who own businesses are offering them work.
Other countries that border Ukraine
The Rotary Club of Kisvárda, Hungary, is coordinating contributions and mobilizing members to donate necessities and deliver the items to where they’re needed.
Rotary members in Romania and Moldova have created a central fund for contributions and set up WhatsApp groups that organize food donations and coordinate shelter for refugees.
In Slovakia and the Czech Republic, clubs have partnered with a railway and cargo company to offer transportation to nearly 2,300 refugees.
Kim Widlicki and Claudia Brunner contributed to this article.
Power of One Possibilities - Service Opportunities
TBD - soon Ukraine Ribbon Day with club & community volunteers - see Bev to help
TBD -Pancake Breakfast
APR 23: Save-The-Date: Ak ‘Tenamit trip, April 23-May 2, 2022 -- Join Rotarians from District 6440 and 6450 in Guatemala this Spring. Sixteen people have signed up, six spots remaining. Contact Dr. Bob Steinberg, rotarydrbob@comcast.net or 847-650-3668.
May 20-22, 2022 for our District 6440 Conference at Grand Geneva Resort in Lake Geneva. More details to come!
Save-The-Date: May 24th Bernie's Book Bank Day of Service with lunch following at The Silo.
Join Zoom meeting on the good old-fashioned telephone!
+1 312 626 6799 Meeting ID: 295 416 335 Password: 726580 for telephone only
Please note - Meetings are no longer recorded. If you do not attend on zoom or in person you will miss the fun! Meeting dates and times, or virtual access may change, always check our website for updates. In-person meetings are held at Hilton, 2855 Milwaukee Rd., Northbrook or other locations as announced, and the club Covid protocol must be followed.
We have hybrid-meetings. Join us! Contact RotaryNorthbrook@gmail.com to join us.
NOTE: The 3/22 meeting with Brad Schneider will at 5:30 at Heritage Oaks Golf Club.
The 3/29 meeting will be at the North Shore Senior Center
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