Lake Report (Aug 04, 2020)

Posted by James Monroe on Aug 03, 2020

Our online meetings will start at 7:30. You will be able to join the meetings starting at about 7:20. We are using the Zoom online meeting platform. Click this link to join the meeting. Guests are always welcome.

The featured speaker this week is Traci Hanegan, a mechanical engineering principal with Coffman Engineers. Traci is an American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) fellow and a frequent lecturer about the impact of indoor air hydration on occupant health and the spread of infectious diseases. Her program will cover information about reducing the airborne transmission of infectious diseases. Programs Chair, Don Iverson, recommends that we read this Forbes Magazine article in advance of her presentation Friday. It will be helpful to understand the information we will see. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiegold/2020/06/30/covid-19-impacts-and-ideas-for-downsizing-seniors/#625da79b27e4.

The Corks & Kegs Hawaiian Style needs every member to round up a couple of donations. Need ideas? Baskets, gift cards, trips, vacation spots, sets of ??, wine and/or beer tubs, etc. Members were sent the Donation Procurement form and you can get one from our website. There is a weekly planning meeting following the regular Club Meeting.

Dues Statements have been sent out. Please send in your payments as soon as possible. You can send a check or use the Venmo app on a smart phone. Thank you.

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PHOTO CONTEST: You are encouraged to participate in this. Be the first person to correctly identify from where the photo at the top of this bulletin and at the top of our website was taken from by 7:30 am Friday, August 7th. Look carefully! Send your guess to the Editor.

Community Foundation of Snohomish County

Posted by Gary O'Rielly on Aug 03, 2020

Angelique Leone, Vice President of the Community Foundation of Snohomish County was our guest speaker via ZOOM on Friday, July 31st. She spoke about their Covid-19 Relief Fund.

Before that here is a bit of history of the organization. The Community Foundation of Snohomish County started in 1993 as the Everett Parks Foundation. In 2001 the organization changed its name to the Greater Everett Community Foundation and again in 2015 finally to the Community Foundation of Snohomish County.

Since 2009, the Foundation's average rate of return of their investments since 2009 is $32 million in assets with a pay out of about 14%. Most Foundation's are at 5%. Since their inception, the Foundation has awarded $20 million in grants. The Foundation direction changed a bit under Covid-19. The Foundation convened a partnership and opened the Coronavirus Rapid Response program in March. Funding was used for short-term, safety net needs for the vulnerable while government and other funding sources emerged.

The partners included Snohomish County and the Snohomish Health District for the Coronavirus Rapid Response. The Foundation received $1.4 million in contributions by other Foundations, corporations, individuals and the Gates Foundation. The first $150,000 given out on March 14th. Donations exceeded $1.4 million.

The Foundation was doing business differently. No grants, no reports just trust in the organizations expertise. The Foundation lists 15% as overhead. Angelique commented that "failure is an option - because you learn from these failures".

Every organizations counts. However, there were no funds to individual Food Banks and Senior Centers. The Food Bank distribution was handled collectively. Emails were answered as quickly as possible. Rotary's "Four Way test" is an overlay of their own initiative. When the Foundation distributed the funds, they simply got out of the way and let the recipient organizations do their work. Some of the lessons learned besides getting out of the way, were innovation happens; collaboration occurs and racial equity and social justice issues are amplified.

Now what? The Foundation will never go back. Donor focus vs. community/non-profit focus; plus grants will look different and funding will look different. There was so much more that Angelique reported that we could go on and on. To find out more about the Community Foundation of Snohomish County, visit their website at www.CF-SC.org.

Membership Dues

Posted by Chris Vallo on Jul 12, 2020

Members- invoices were sent to you for the semi-annual dues and voluntary contribution to The Rotary Fund (EREY). If you have yet to make your dues payment please contact the Treasurer to let him know when you will take care of this. Check your email for the invoice and be part of the Paid group. Thank you for supporting your Club.

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