Some items from ROTARY ON THE MOVE NEWSLETTER...are you interested?
RI Director Stuart Heal and RI Director Elect John Boag are the Convenors of the Rotary Success Conference to be held in Canberra on the weekend of July 21st-22nd. Noel Trevaskis is the Co-ordinator for the conference and Bob Greeney is Chairman of the organising committee. The Rotary Success conference will be about helping Rotary Clubs to be bigger, bolder, strong successful clubs. Some of the topics that will be discussed are membership recruitment, membership retention, PR & Media, membership diversity, leadership, Club visioning, Rotary Foundation Future Vision. It will be a conference where all Rotarians will gain knowledge and ideas from the weekend; it will be about "Rotary Success".
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Article by PDG Noel Fogarty Assistant Rotary Coordinator Would you be proud to belong to an organisation that contributes over $1 billion every year to helping local communities and people in need all around the world? Not only making contributing dollars, but also volunteering over 70 million hours of service. |
I know that a lot of people would like to join such an organisation where they could feel they were helping others as well as having fun along the way. What is that organisation?
Rotary
of course!At the recent Brisbane Zone Institute new RI General Secretary John Hewko outlined some of the changes to improve the efficiency of service to Clubs and give wider recognition to the work of Rotary. One of the things he is trying to do is quantify what Rotary does. RI needs some hard credible figures to tell the world about Rotary’s achievements.
Last year as D9700 Governor I asked all the Club Presidents to keep some simple figures. The total contributions to local communities and Rotary programs across the District were a staggering $1.3 million. In addition there were an estimated 67,500 hours of voluntary service. That is a tremendous contribution to the 2010/11 theme of
Building Communities - Bridging Continents.I know that all the Districts in Australia and probably most of those around the world would have made at least similar contributions. If we make that assumption (on a per capita basis) it means that last year in Australia, Rotary contributed over $37 million to local communities and Rotary programs, as well as over 1.9 million hours of voluntary service. If we put that on a world scale the figures are a staggering $1.36 billion in cash and 70.3 million hours of voluntary service.
There are many people in the community who would be proud to be part an organisation that makes such a great contribution to improving the lives of those in our local communities as well as those in need throughout the world.