Rotary Community Corps (RCCs) are our non-Rotarian partners in service. Under the sponsorship of Rotary clubs, they plan, conduct, and support service projects to improve their communities. RCCs are a great way to enhance Rotary’s impact and reach around the world. Attend this session to learn how to establish RCCs and maximize the benefits of this partnership.
3. • What are Rotary Community Corps (RCCs)
• How to sponsor and grow a successful RCC
• How to leverage RCCs to
Expand Rotary’s reach
Enhance Rotary’s impact
Ensure project sustainability
Develop future leaders
You Will Learn
4. What are Rotary Community Corps?
● Teams of non-Rotarian men and women who
work in partnership with Rotary clubs to improve
their communities
● They meet regularly and
plan and implement
local projects
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● RCC projects address a wide array of needs
in their community, such as:
Illiteracy
Lack of safe water
Hunger
Disaster preparedness
Pollution
What are Rotary Community Corps?
7. FACTS: from Rotary Community Corps
Surveys
RCCs
are
young Active in
urban & rural
areas
High
Women
Participation
8. Poll Question
Take a minute to think about
problems facing your
community
Share your findings with the
audience
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● Each RCC is sponsored by a Rotary club. The
sponsor club acts as its partner in service.
● RCCs may exist for the duration of
a single project or go on indefinitely
to address various local needs
● RCCs are everywhere
In urban and rural communities
In developed and developing countries
RCCs: Flexible Partners in Service for Rotary
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● An entire village, neighborhood, or community
association that wants to work together or a diverse
group of service-minded individuals
● RCCs offer disadvantaged and
underrepresented groups an
opportunity to empower themselves
and their community
Who can Join RCCs?
11. A PAGE FOR BIG BOLDBULLET ITEMSWHY RCCs
Empower communities / enhance impact
Community members take the lead in taking action to address their community
needs
Develop leaders
Rotarians help RCC members develop leadership skills.
Enhance Rotary’s reach
Opens Rotary up to a broader audience and give us opportunity to work with
community volunteers
Sustain impact
Ensure that progress is maintained even if the sponsoring Rotary clubs are no
longer directly involved with the project.
12. A PAGE FOR BIG BOLDBULLET ITEMSHow to Start a Rotary Community Corps?
• Tell your club about the RCC program and its benefits
• Research the need for establishing an RCC
• Guide the process of forming an RCC once the club(s) has agreed to
sponsor one
• Identify & recruit at least 10 members for your RCC from the
community
• Introduce the RCC members to your club and discuss ways of
collaboration on service projects
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Register your Rotary Community
Corps with RI
Find resources and application materials at:
www.rotary.org/rcc
Contact RI staff for questions
rotary.service@rotary.org
This presentation is available through the convention
mobile app
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Register your Rotary Community
Corps with RI
15. Cristian Falup Pecurariu
Romania & Moldova Republic
Carlos Eduardo Buchweitz
Brazil
Richard Delos Trinos dela Rosa
Philippines
Kirk Driskell
USA
OUR
PANEL
TODAY
16. Cristian Falup Pecurariu
- Club President, Rotary Club of
Brasov Burg Transilvania,
Romania & Moldova Republic
- Rotary Foundation Polio Plus
Chair, D-2241
crisfp100@yahoo.co.uk
PANELIST
17. New
concept
14th April 2018, Charting day - Rotary Burg
Transilvania Brasov Family
Rotary + Rotaract + Interact + Rotary Community Corps + Rotakids
21. • Vaccines
• Breastfeeding – “mother school”
• Sexual life in adolescents – avoiding pregnancy
• Nutrition – urban/rural areas
• Personal hygiene
Areas of focus – education
high number of people
38. Tips…
• Joint Rotary + Rotaract + Interact/RCC projects
• Donate funds for RCC projects
• Work togheter
• Include women!
• Recognize oficialy their work in community – “follow your
heart”
39. Carlos Eduardo Buchweitz
- Club President, Rotary Club of
Maringá-Aeroporto, Brazil
- D-4630 RI Convention Promotion
Chair
carloseduardo@buchweitz.com.br
PANELIST
40. RCC - Rotary Community
Corps
NRDC – Núcleo Rotary de
Desenvolvimento
Comunitário
50. Rotary International and Member Clubs united to provide service to others, promote
integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of
business, professional, and community leaders.
35,000+
clubs
54. A PAGE FOR BIG BOLDBULLET ITEMSRotary Community Corps
2017-2018 SURVEY
0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000
Turkey
Bangladesh
Brazil
Philippines
India
Countries with High No. of RCCs
Growth Rate
6%
60. COMMITMENT
4. MOLD THE COMMUNITY THROUGH
CONTINUING PROJECTS
• RCP Rotarians
• Anns
• Sister Club of Baran (South Korea)
• RCC Members
• InterAct Club
• Malaya Tuyuan Cubic Cooperative Members
• Local Government Officials
82. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
The Malaya
Cooperative was
awarded the
2016 CDA-MEO
GAWAD PARANGAL
under micro-
cooperatives category
83. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
4 years winner of
Annual Community
Excellence (ACE) Award
& Most Outstanding
RCC and Hall of Famer
84. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
RY 2015 – 2016
• National Award for
Community Service
• “Best in Economic
Development” Sitio
Malaya RCC &
Microcredit Project
85.
86. A PAGE FOR BIG BOLDBULLET ITEMSGoal: Lupang Pangarap RCC
87. A PAGE FOR BIG BOLDBULLET ITEMSGoal: Lupang Pangarap RCC
88. A PAGE FOR BIG BOLDBULLET ITEMSGoal: Lupang Pangarap RCC
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90.
91. C COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT
O OFFICER ENGAGEMENT
M MAKE IT OFFICIAL
M MOLD THE COMMUNITY THROUGH CONTINUING PROJECTS
I INCORPORATE LEARNING
T TACTICAL AND STRATEGIC PLANNING
M MONITORING AND SUSTAINABILITY
E ELECTION OF OFFICERS
N NURTURING SELF SUFFICIENCY
T TIMELY PUBLICATION AND DOCUMENTATION
93. Kirk Driskell
- D-6900 District Governor
Nominee
- Rotary Club of Alpharetta, USA
rotary@kirkdriskell.com
PANELIST
94. A PAGE FOR BIG BOLDBULLET ITEMSAlternative Way to form a new RCC
95. A PAGE FOR BIG BOLDBULLET ITEMSSTART: Tips for Conducting Assessment
Remain open minded
Choose Participants carefully
Include overlooked groups
Consider yourself an outsider
Don’t promise a Project before you
make a decision
105. This presentation and others from throughout
the convention are available through the
convention mobile app and on SlideShare at
www.SlideShare.net/Rotary_International.
Notes de l'éditeur
Briefly introduce yourself.
Audience question: how many of you know what Rotary Community Corps is? Raise hands! Raise your hand if your sponsors a RCC.
Countries with highest number of RCCs1. India- 5,300
2. Philippines – 2,000
3. Brazil – 385
4. Egypt – 242
5. Bangladesh – Turkey 230
Back to the moderator.
Moderator: We have three Rotarians with us today who have extensive experience with RCCs. Now we will hear from them about their own experience forming and working with RCCs
- Each panelist briefly introduces himself/herself and talks about their best practices and lessons learned about RCCs.
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Good Afternoon to all. Let me first introduce myself. I am Richard De La Rosa, President of Rotary Club of Paranaque City in the Philippines. It is my honor to stand here before my fellow Rotarians all over the world. It is both overwhelming and fulfilling to be in the same room with honorable men who share the same commitment to our mission to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
All over the world, Rotarians have taken action to create lasting positive changes in their respective communities through socially relevant and impactful projects. At a personal level, since I became a Rotarian, I witnessed how our projects have changed the lives of people in our community.
The question is, can we do more? Of course, our answer will always be YES. Service above Self.
The more relevant question to ask ourselves is HOW? How can we do more? How can we increase our impact as a humanitarian organization?
We can think of various ways but I believe that he most direct and most sustainable way is to increase our reach through the creation of Rotary Community Corps or RCCs.
As you all know, an RCC is a team of non-Rotarian men and women who are committed to their community’s long-term economic development and self-sufficiency. An RCC can exist anywhere a local Rotary club sponsors one. By sponsoring an RCC, the various clubs give more people a chance to take action to solve their respective community’s problems because we are promoting awareness and encouraging involvement. By creating an RCC, we make our projects not just a one-time thing but an efficient and sustainable one.
In the Rotary Community Corps 2017-2018 Survey conducted by the Rotary International, Philippines has the second highest number of RCCs with 1,928 Corps from 876 clubs, next to India. Interestingly, the countries with the highest number of RCCs are different from the countries with the highest annual growth rates. The growth rate of RCC in the Philippines is relatively low at 6%.
This data only shows that there is always a potential to increase the number of RCCs sponsored by the different clubs across countries. Even those with high number of RCCs like the Philippines can still tap potential RCCs by getting more community involvement and create awareness for the RCCs at our district level.
Perhaps, the starting point is to look at how successful RCCs around the world were created, built and sustained. Now it is my pride to say that one of those successful RCCs is the one that our club has built – the RCC of Sitio Malaya which was established as early as 1997 and has been existing for almost 22 years now. Sitio Malaya is located in Paranaque City, one of the component cities of Metro Manila and my club’s area of service. Let me share with you how we were able to create the RCC of Sitio Malaya and how it became very successful.
The factors in creating a successful RCC like Sitio Malaya can be summarized in one word – COMMITMENT. Literally, this means that Rotarians should be actively engaged and committed in order to establish and maintain an RCC. But the word COMMITMENT also stands for the 10 things that our club has implemented in creating Sitio Malaya.
C – C stands for COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT. RCP Identified the needs of Sitio Malaya as a community which was isolated, had no access to basic education, basic utilities and commodities for livelihood. When we conducted the Community Needs Assessment, we discovered that majority of the members of the community are into micro-entrepreneurship but are controlled by loan sharks.
O – O stands for OFFICER ENGAGEMENT. In the Philippines, every community has its elected officers or officials. The best way to penetrate a community is to engage its officers and make them part of the projects that your club wants to implement. In Sitio Malaya, our club RCP signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the officials of the said community and designated its top official as a Point Man.
M – M stands for MAKE IT OFFICIAL. This means that you have to register your RCC officially with Rotary International. This is an important step because the goodwill established by Rotary International is a key factor in the recognition of the RCC by other members of the community. Sitio Malaya was registered with the Rotary International on July 12, 1997.
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M – The second M stands for MOLD THE COMMUNITY THROUGH CONTINUING PROJECTS. Organizing and molding an RCC to be successful is not an overnight task. Through the years, Sitio Malaya RCC and RCP continued to establish projects to address the needs of the community using Rotary areas of focus during the administrative year. The most successful projects we have established are as follows.
I wish to highlight that these project will not be possible if not for the help of Rotary Family - RCP Rotarians and Anns, Sister Club of Baran (South Korea), RCC Members, InterAct Club members, (the Rotary Family) Malaya Tuyuan Cubic Cooperative Members and the local government officials.
The most successful projects we have established are as follows.
1. Sitio Malaya Day Care - The initial project in the community was the establishment of a Day Care Center. This enabled RCP to gain the cooperation of the parents and at the same time address the needs for basic child education. The community felt the care and concern of Rotary to truly help and make a difference in their lives and the community. AvOS – Club Service, Community Service, Vocational Service, International Service, New Generation & AOF- Basic Education and Literacy.
b. RCP’s Microcredit Project - During RY 2000-2001, RCP was awarded Matching Grant 16001 worth Php 980,000. Microcredit Project -
b. RCP’s Microcredit Project - In contrast with traditional programs based on dole outs and subsidies, the project is self sustaining which promotes the recovery of costs and encourages the beneficiaries to become responsible and self-sufficient.
b. RCP’s Microcredit Project - This project provides loans to small enterprises and micro-projects ranging from P5,000 to P50,000 (USD100 – USD 1,000) without collateral and is anchored on a group guarantee scheme using peer pressure.
b. RCP’s Microcredit Project - Self Help Group Trainings were provided and we conducted orientations on credit investigations and loan evaluations.
b. RCP’s Microcredit Project - AvOS – Club Service, Community Service, Vocational Service, International Service, New Generation & AOF- Economic and Community Development. AvOS – Vocational Service, New Generation & AOF- Maternal and Child Health Care.
c. Therapeutic Polvoron Project – “Polvoron” is a sweet milk cookie in the Philippines which is an attractive food for children.
c. Therapeutic Polvoron Project –RCP created this project to make a Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) and put multi-vitamins mixture in “polvoron”.
c. Therapeutic Polvoron Project –This aims to eradicate severe malnutrition among children 5 years old and below and to educate parents of the possible diseases related with malnutrition.
c. Therapeutic Polvoron Project – AvOS – Vocational Service, New Generation & AOF- Maternal and Child Health Care.
d. RCC Common Lavatory – To promote Water and Sanitation Hygiene (WASH). AvOS – Community Service, Vocational Service, International Service & AOF- Water and Sanitation Hygiene
e. Annual Pediatric Evaluation and Medical Mission -AvOS – Club Service, Community Service, Vocational Service & AOF- Disease Prevention and Treatment.
f. Citizen Crime Watch Seminar - AvOS – Community Service & AOF- Peace and Conflict Resolution.
g. Life Saving and Rescue Equipment and Rescue Operation Team - (Disaster Management and Preparedness)
I – I stands for INCORPORATE CONTINUING LEARNING and EDUCATION. A key factor in sustaining projects in the RCC is to encourage education and learning among its members. Thus, community members were made to attend Community Service Seminars, RCC Summit and Assemblies so that the members will be aware of the projects being implemented and learn from them. There is also a promotion of the RCC and the benefits of setting up a cooperative.
T- T stands for TACTICAL and STRATEGIC PLANNING. This means that the Sitio Malaya Officers and Members are trained to think of sustainable solutions and means for the community. There was a creation of long term plans, creation of committees, goals setting and actions, formulation of procedures and annual budget.
M – the 3rd M stands for MONITORING AND SUSTAINABILITY – To ensure sustainability, there are regular monthly meetings where committee reports are part of the agenda, and problems are addressed with recommendations and resolutions. Financial reports are also presented.
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E – E stands for ELECTION OF RCC OFFICERS – It was made mandatory that the sponsoring club induct the RCC officers elected every year to remind them of their duties and responsibilities to the community.
N – N stands for NURTURING SELF SUFFICIENCY – The creation of the Malaya Tuyuan Cubic Multi-Purpose Cooperative under the administration of Sitio Malaya RCC has substantially improved the social and economic conditions of its members. From a seed money of P90,500 (approximately USD2,000) the share capital of the members has now grown to P1.5M (USD25,000) after 8 years.
T – Lastly, T stands for TIMELY PUBLICATION AND DOCUMENTATION. We emphasize the timeliness of publication and documentation because this has a direct impact on the response that the RCC will get from various organizations and groups who heard the call for assistance and help. As they say “strike while the iron is hot” – this means calling for the responsiveness of the community at the time when it is urgent and relevant. Timely publication and documentation does not only help the community in need but also inspires others to be involved and to help. Media outlets such as radio and tv were also utilized.
Because of COMMITMENT, Sitio Malaya has become a successful and sustainable RCC and has gained various recognition and awards from various award giving bodies. Here are some of the awards received by Sitio Malaya RCC.
Because of COMMITMENT, Sitio Malaya has become a successful and sustainable RCC and has gained various recognition and awards from various award giving bodies. Here are some of the awards received by Sitio Malaya RCC. An Award given by the Cooperative Development Authority under the Office of the President – Republic of the Philipines
The Annual Community Excellence Award given fro three consecutive years thus a Hall of Fame Awardee.
The National Award for Community Service as the Best in Economic Development.
Going back to my earlier question – CAN WE DO MORE? Yes we can. In RCP, we want to increase our impact by applying COMMITMENT to replicate the success of Sitio Malaya in another community we want to create as RCC in Lupang Pangarap.
The project is a work in progress and RCP is looking forward to improving the lives of the household and children of Lupang Pangarap.
The project is a work in progress and RCP is looking forward to improving the lives of the household and children of Lupang Pangarap.
The project is a work in progress and RCP is looking forward to improving the lives of the household and children of Lupang Pangarap.
The project is a work in progress and RCP is looking forward to improving the lives of the household and children of Lupang Pangarap.
I am certain that most of you, if not all, have their own positive experiences in their respective RCCs and can attest that indeed, RCCs play a vital role in implementing the projects conceptualized by your clubs. Knowing that we can increase our impact through RCCs, the challenge now lies in how we can encourage involvement and lead to formation of more RCCs in our community.
To end my message, let me summarize the points I have given in establishing a successful RCC like Sitio Malaya that hopefully can help you as well in creating your own RCCs.
C - COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT
O – OFFICER ENGAGEMENT
M – MAKE IT OFFICIAL
M - MOLD THE COMMUNITY THROUGH CONTINUING PROJECTS
I - INCORPORATE LEARNING
T – TACTICAL AND STRATEGIC PLANNING
M – MONITORING AND SUSTAINABILITY
E – ELECTION OF OFFICERS
N – NURTURING SELF SUFFICIENCY and
T – TIMELY PUBLICATION AND DOCUMENTATION.
In establishing a successful RCC, COMMITMENT is the KEY. Thank You.
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