The Durham, North Carolina, downtown Rotary Club has an active program of engagement in the community and the world. This is the president's mid-term report of those activities.
4. Engaging our Community
Salvation Army Bell-Ringing
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Sixty-five Rotarians
Seventy-five volunteer hours
$4400 in donations
More donations than any other organization
Annual Poinsettia Sale
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Over $2400 collected—proceeds support
scholarship program
5. Engaging our Community
Reading Rangers
• 60 Volunteers, including 37 Rotarians
• YE Smith Elementary and Neal
Middle School
• 80 Children
• $10,000 in grant funds for books
6. Service to Youth
and Young Adults
RYLA
• Ten participants from six
different high schools
• Largest number of
sponsorships of any club in the
District
• See Chris Hyland to help with
transportation
7. Service to Youth
and Young Adults
Rotaract
• Planning new club for young
members (with North Durham
Club)
• Recruiting students from Duke
& Durham Tech and young
professionals
8. Service to Youth
and Young Adults
• This just in!--Interact
• Riverside High School
• See Aubrey Zinnach-Howell or Todd
Taylor to help
9. Community Catalyst
• Crayons to Calculators
• Stop Hunger Now
• Scholarships for the
Emily K Center
• Rotarians against Drugs
10. Community Catalyst
Crayons to Calculators
• Partnership with other Durham Clubs
• Nearly 240 collection bins placed in
180 local businesses
• 80 volunteers
• $63,000 in supplies and materials,
and financial donations collected
11. Community Catalyst
Stop Hunger Now
• Partner with other Durham Clubs
• Students from Duke, NCCU & DTCC
• $25,000 collected in financial support
($7,000 from our club)
• 700 volunteers
• Over 100,000 meals packed for
Nicaraguan orphans
13. Engaging the World
Rotary Exchange Student
• Marina Sousa, student at Durham School of
the Arts
Rotary Peace Fellows
• Rhett Sangster
• Manish Kumar
• Mark your Calendar—PEACE conference
April 12
14. Engaging the World
• Global Projects
• Guinea-Bissau Economic Development effort
• Pune, India Sanitation Project
• Partners with clubs in United Kingdom, Venezuela,
and India
• International Services Committee includes
members from all Durham clubs
• Sister Cities visit to Durham, UK
16. Engagement through
Fellowship
Membership
• Twenty-one new members since July 1
• Eight resignations since July 1
• One removed from Leave of Absence
• Three terminated for non-payment
• Net increase of nine members since July 1
17. Current Budget
• $115,000 2013-14 operating budget
• $65,000 to Fellowship (56%)
• $62,000 for meals
• $44,000 to Club Operation (38%)
• $18,000 dues to District & Rotary International
• $13,000 for Executive Secretary
• $6,000 for Outreach (6%)
18. The Rotary Foundation
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98 Every Member Every Year Rotarians
158 Total Contributors
9 Paul Harris Fellows this year
$13,200 Year-to-Date Contributions
$1900 to Polio Plus (second largest
amount in the district)
• $1300 to Alzheimer’s research
19. What’s Next?
• Annual Meeting Monday
February 10
• Vote on revisions to by-laws
• Elect board members and
officers for 2014-15 year
20. What’s Next?
Slate for 2014—2015 (Election
February 10)
• Board members (3-year terms)
• Andy Esser
• Meg Solera
• Blake Strayhorn
• Two-year term
• B.C. Dash
21. What’s Next?
Slate for 2014--2015
• Officers (one year terms)
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Vice-President: Todd Taylor
Secretary: Phyllis Coley
Treasurer: Susan Miller
Sargent-at-Arms: Reginald
Hodges
22. What’s Next?
Slate for 2014--2015
• President-Elect
• Vandana Dake
• President-designee for our
Centennial year
• Lois DeLoatch
23. Centennial Celebration
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Chaired by Past President Don Stanger
One Hundred Acts of Service
Celebration of Club History
Presidential Rotary Minutes begin in
February
