Rotaract and Interact have a new look. We’ve refreshed the logos and graphics to reflect Rotary’s visual identity and to help you deliver a compelling message in your promotional materials. In addition, we’ve created guidelines for applying the new look to RYLA and Rotary Youth Exchange communications.
In coming months, you will find more resources in the Brand Center, including templates for using our new look in your brochures, slideshows, and promotional materials.
Visit the Brand Center to download new logos.
Download the Visual Identity Guide: Young Leaders
Questions? Email us at...
Enjoying calm winds and peaceful Pacific waters, Seung Jin Kim dove off his 43-foot sailboat, the Arapani, to swim with some dolphins nearby. The serenity that day near the equator was a stark contrast to the 60 mph winds and 23-foot waves he had to fight around Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America. But Kim, a veteran sailor and member of the Rotary Club of Seokmun, in Chungcheongnam, Korea, expected such challenges when he set out in mid-October on a 25,600-mile journey around the world. In addition to fulfilling a lifelong dream, Kim is using the trip to raise awareness and funds...
We'll be making some system upgrades this weekend, 21-23 March. Some areas of the site will be unavailable.
• Club invoices and grant applications will be unavailable from 3:00 P.M. Central Time (UTC -5) on Saturday, 21 March, until 5:00 P.M. Central Time (UTC -5) on Monday, 23 March.
• Club and district administration, Rotary Club Central, convention registration, Foundation reports, and online giving may be unavailable from 5:00 PM to 7:00 P.M. Central Time (UTC-5) on Saturday, 21 March, and from 1:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M. Central Time (UTC-5) on Sunday, 22 March.
These outages may affect PETS...
Join local and national experts for a panel discussion on the global water crisis, on Tuesday, 31 March from 17:00 to 20:00 at One Rotary Center in Evanston, Illinois. The event, titled Tap into Lake Michigan, is cast as a "local perspective on the global water crisis."
The event, which organizers hope will start a broader local conversation, will enable Rotary members and the general public to mingle with influencers and representatives of local water organizations. Panel speakers are:
Cameron Davis, a senior adviser to the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyIan Hughes...
Every Rotarian has a unique story about Rotary, and how it makes a difference in communities throughout the world.
Help spread the good word about our organization. Create a video illustrating how you have grown personally and professionally through your club, made lifelong friendships, improved your community, and made connections with others from around the world.
How to enter
Visit our Facebook page to submit your entry.
All videos must be at least 30 seconds, but no longer than three minutes. Video must be in English or have English subtitles.
Post your video on your own social media...
With the assistance of our Interact coordinator, Eric Germain, we have added the members and school counselors in our 'Other Users List'. This enables us to include the Interactors in our communication loop, e.g. e-Strathconian, email notices, etc.
We are also in the process of building a site page off our ClubRunner website.
It is still in the construction stages, but when completed, it will enable dedicated Interact member(s) to post and maintain the page, including creating their own photo album(s) with slide shows, posting documents for general distribution to their members.
In 'My ClubRunner' box, click on Email Message Centre.
Click orange [Compose new message] button.
Step 1: Select recipient(s) by clicking ‘Active and Honorary Members’.
Click on Expand List on the ‘Active’ line.
If you are addressing all members, put a check mark in [Select All], otherwise check individual names.
Step 2: Type the Subject line.
Compose your message in the editor.
Ignore the other fields in Step 2.
Step 3 (Optional): Click blue [Select Files For Upload]
A box will open displaying the file folders on your computer. Select the file and click the [Open] box.
Maximum bytes to upload is 6 MB.
Step 4: Two boxes. Select ‘Send a list of recipients as an attachment’ will generate a small text file showing the recipients. Chose to avoid unnecessary forwarding.
Always select the ‘Copy me this email’ so you have a copy of the note on your personal email server.
Step 5: You can send right away, schedule the send or Save as Draft.
Coming Up …
How to look up club documents, board minutes, financial statements, club by-laws and constitution…
Forgot about some of the earlier tips? Open the Club Information site page HEREand open the file 'Weekly Tips -- Archive' in the bottom left column.
This 'hands-on' project has now been fully subscribed. If you have not already done so, please download the three page PDF instructions, complete page 3 and return to Vincent Campbell at your earliest convenience.
Our Club has secured Tuesday May 19 as a Community Project day and a good number of our members have signed up to work on a house construction in the 'Neufeld Landing' area of the city's south west.
For that reason, the regular lunch meeting has been canceled. For those of you who are physically unable to volunteer to work on the project, you will not be required to make up the meeting.
WANTED – Flag planters, sales & marketing personnel
This important club fund raising initiative needs your help! We currently generate close to $19,000 per year (less expenses) from our “Canadian Flag Program”. Your ideas about how to retain current clients and grow the business would be welcomed.
If all our “able bodied” members were to generate or continue to maintain a small manageable customer base close to home, it would enable us to continue this program. Existing large customer client routes also need to be maintained as best we can and your help would be appreciated for these accounts.
Maintenance of existing physical inventory is ongoing and new flags, poles & holders have been ordered. A reasonably accurate list of current clients has been produced. Your thoughts & offers of assistance, where needed, can be communicated via e-mail to our chairperson Dennis. email: freeman5@telus.net He is looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Congratulations are in order!! The Heartland Oklahoma Team (H.O.T.) is a local-area Kiva team of 340 members, with total lending near $900,000. Today H.O.T. reached an impressive and fairly rare Kiva benchmark of 100 loans per member!
There are some big lending teams on Kiva but the size of the teams and their impact can be deceiving, browsing through Kiva's stats the other day I was impressed to see some of the milestones some lending teams have achieved, teams like Paying It Forward with 60.1 loans per member, Wind Power Now with 30.1 per member, Team Australia with 30.4 per member and even Team Canada with 7500 members registering 22.1 loans per member.
The team that is disappointing is HP, with vastly more members than any other team (121,000!), but still only 1.6 loans per member. Almost all of the loans were given by the company, and it seems very few employees have carried on the idea, what a missed opportunity.
So I am thrilled with our little 21 member team that currently has made 21 loans per member, tiny but mighty, keep up the great work.
Our Rotary club's Kiva team continues to move our loan portfolio ahead. To date we have made 162 loans and to date we have 32 loans that have been successfully paid back.
Update
The average lender on Kiva has an outstanding loan portfolio of just $38.30 while we have an outstanding loan portfolio of $1942.33 the average lender on Kiva has a delinquency rate of 5.77% while we have a delinquency rate of just 2.05% and the average lender on Kiva experiences a default rate of 1.11% while we have a default rate of 0.00%.
Update
Our Kiva lending team now consists of 21 individual Kiva lenders and one other Rotary club as well as the J. Percy Page Interactors, as well some team members are members of our Rotary club, some are members of other Rotary clubs and some are not Rotarians at all, this small group of committed lenders has now cumulatively made 448 loans totaling $12,400.
The ongoing good work by everyone involved in this positive, immediate solution helps us connect one on one with real people around the world.
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Private information is secured using 128-bit encryption, and all access requires unique logins and passwords. Access to information is also restricted, for example, a member can only see a list of membership in his or her club, and his or her own personal information.
Data on the server is protected by TCP/IP filtering, firewall and anti-virus software that protect against any unauthorized intrusion. Backups of data are made daily and stored off-site.
Your information is kept private; to review ClubRunner's Privacy Policy, visit www.clubrunner.ca.
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No need to worry. ClubRunner secures all your private information using the latest security technologies.