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The Parade theme for 2024 is Red, White and You, submitted by Sarah Oliai.
It is time to plan the Fourth of July Parade!
Jill has put a list of jobs before, during and after the Parade under the Volunteer portion go the website.
ALL members are encouraged to volunteer for at least one job. Something for everyone!
Contact Jill Jordan here or Alan Winn here if you have questions.
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Club merchandise!
This is only for second shirts and hats! The first shirt and hat new members receive for free as part of their blue badge requisites (during their visit to the Club office).
Message from DG John Curtis: Disaster Response Representative Needed
Disaster Response in our communities is an arena of growing concern. We have recently experienced tornados, floods, fires and all matters that effect large numbers of people at a single time.
We are invited to join with other service organizations to respond as a team to these events.
We will discuss this opportunity to serve at the February Roundtable.
My interest in sharing this with you now is to ask for a volunteer to become the 'Captain' for the Rotary Response Team. That person would work
with other service groups and develop a team of Rotarians that work with the others in response to needs during major events.
This may be a new area of service for us but it is no less important that we can be available when our communities need us in a difficult time.
Please consider helping in this manner.
I am available to answer your questions and we will discuss this further at Roundtable.
See below for the date and time for the District Roundtable.
•Friday, May 3, RCPC regular meeting will be at Agape Clinic, on site with a tour and box lunch. The Agape Clinic is at 4104 Junius Street, Dallas 75246.
Your donation makes a difference to those who need our help most.
EREY: Every Rotarian Every Year contribute $100 or more to THE Rotary Foundation
Checks payable to the Rotary Foundation
Contribution levels include EREY, Paul Harris Fellow, Paul Harris Society, Major Donor
Contributions may be earmarked to SHARE Annual Fund, Polio, Disaster Relief Fund
The mission of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues. Over 46,000+ clubs that work together to provide 7 areas of focus:
Promote peace
Fight disease (including but not limited to the Global Eradication of Polio Initiative)
Provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
Save mothers and children
Support education
Grow local economies
Protecting the Environment
POLIO: Rotary has reduced cases by 99.9% since 1988. ONLY(2) countries remain endemic, Afghanistan and Pakistan
Service Above Self is the principal motto of Rotary because it best conveys the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service
From Nolan Duck, President-Elect of RCPC and President of the RCPC Foundation - 2023-24
The Rotary Club of Park Cities' Communities Fund was originally sponsored in the 1960’s by the Rotary Club of Park Cities (“RCPC”) for the purpose of providing an enduring legal entity through which members and friends of the Rotary Club of Park Cities might make donations for the good of mankind and the Dallas community. The fund continues to this day to consider internal and external grant requests submitted on the RCPC Foundation online grant portal found on the club website.
The following grant requests were approved at our November 2022 meeting:
• $1,000 grant for scholarships for Hillcrest High School for scholarship to honor RCPC long term member C.C. Collie
• $5,413.44 grant for Equest
• $6,000 grant for the Agape Clinic
The Executive Team denied the following grant request:
• Addison Midday grant request for Genesis Women's Shelter
The fund balance as of November 30, 2022, was $1,710.729.17. The Communities Foundation of Texas manages the RCPC Foundation Fund. The amount available each year for grants is derived from an average over 16 quarters (4 years), then, 4.5% of that amount is the amount available for distribution the following year.
Our Sgt. at Arms Kathy Wall for 2022-2023, reported that the RCPC Foundation Fund donations thru 11-30-2022 totals $9,116.00 from 37 donors!
To the Foundation Fund: $9,116.00 from 37 donors
To the Bonton Clinic: $200.00 from 1 donor
Your contributions make an incredible difference in the amount we are able to distribute to worthy local organizations.
