Workforce Development Committee: Steve Onishi, Joann Leonard, and Adrienne Moberly—.  Their mission is to empower all members of our community to find careers that are meaningful and provide a living wage. Their initiatives span middle school, high school and community college age groups. A good example is the Teacher mini grant program that provides funding to teachers to support more enrichment activity for their students (e.g. Mock Trial program). This has been a long-standing initiative of CR. A new program of the workforce development group is the FUSHD ESL Connect program. It will launch June 15, and it intended to assist ESL students.  13 students are already signed up. They will be paired with Rotarian volunteers (over the phone) to help them practice their English speaking skills and hone their fluency. Steve will be sending out an invitation to Rotarians to participate. 

Community Services (Henry Buffalo and Josh Selo, co-chairs): This Community Service group is very hands-on. The projects are great team-building experiences, but also truly helpful in the community. 

Roxana: Vocational Awards recognition will be coming up June 17.  Please submit your nominations. This award honors someone who uses their talents, outside of their “day job”, to better the community. The nominee could be Rotarian or a non-Rotarian. Recent prior awardees include Steve Rudd and Henry Buffalo.

 

President Elect Stuart Rosenberg announced District Training event took place online and went very well. All the material is posted online and can be accessed by Rotarians to expand your ideas about helping our Rotary club thrive. 

 

RI convention in Hawaii has been moved to online format. It can be accessed at www.ri.convention.org. Sign up and attend! It will be FREE—so Rotarians can experience the amazing learning that happens at RI conventions (though, of course, not the jovial in-person fellowship). 

 

Padma: virtual tour of SJ Water Company is coming up, June 9 at 10am. Vardy Stein sent out a link. As many as want to attend are welcome.

 

Anjali: introduced  the “skip a lunch and donate your lunch money”  idea, to benefit Eisenhauer’s (our caterer). Rotarians can donate what they would normally spend for a Rotary lunch to The Cupertino Chamber of Commerce. The funds will be used to pay Eisenhauer’s for meals that will then be delivered to WVCS and Cupertino Senior Center. There is a double benefit to this program:   it  helps Eisenahuer’s stay in business,  and provides meals to needy members of our community. Click here to buy a lunch to donate (or a few).

 

PP Judy Wilson: Please pay your dues! Contact Dana if you need to discuss a payment accommodation. 

86 Participants were present as the meeting began

 

 

Pledge was led by Rich Abdalah. 

Visiting Rotarians: 

 

Rotarians with Guests: Hung Wei: introduced four guest—Rachel Park from Hyatt House; Kelly Kang—CUSD Board: Ray Liu; Mark Linder

 

Janel Breen introduced Luna Fagan, from the Portland Rotoract Club, visiting today to see how we do online meetings