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In response to the deepening humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, The Rotary Foundation has created an official channel for donors around the world to contribute funds to support the relief efforts underway by Rotary districts and has designated its Disaster Response Fund [https://my.rotary.org/en/disaster-response-fund] as the main avenue for contributions.
To this end, The Rotary Foundation has approved:
Now through 30 June 2022, designated Rotary districts that border Ukraine and the Rotary district in Ukraine may apply for grants of up to $50,000 each from the Disaster Response Fund. These expedited disaster response grants can be used to provide relief to refugees or other victims of the crisis including items such as water, food, shelter, medicine and clothing.
During this same period, other impacted Rotary districts that wish to offer support to refugees or other victims of the crisis in their district can apply for $25,000 grants from the Disaster Response Fund. To read the entire notice, clickhere.
Additional ways to contribute:
IF you wish to donate to help the Ukrainian people, these are three organizations you could contribute to,
• Buy our new RCPC club cap with club logo for wearing to the RCPC parade, club events/service projects/socials, and around town. This cap will replace the club straw hat. The cap is made with moisture wicking material, so it is a higher end baseball cap. Click here to purchase. ($20/cap) • Buy a blue and white Santa hat to wear at any November/December RCPC service project, social, and RCPC Snider Plaza Tree Lighting event. Click here to purchase. ($7/cap). The Santa hats is available! • Buy a RCPC Tumbler to enjoy your favorite beverage.Click here to purchase. ($20/tumbler) • Click here to buy all three for $47.The club has very limited storage, so items will be ready to be distributed as soon as they arrive to those who have prepaid for them.
Prepaying for your items helps ensure you receive the items at the first club meeting upon delivery of the items.
• Amazon Wish List for the Salvation Army's Adult Rehabilitation Center Project is now open!RCPC members may purchase wish list items for the ARC's Leisure Time Activities Outdoor Activities Area. This is the area that RCPC is helping to renovate. Wish list items include 10 basket balls, 6 pickle ball rackets, 20 to 30 outdoor pickle balls, 3 footballs, 3 sets of horseshoes. The amazon link ishere.
• Friday, April 29,Regular RCPC Meeting at the Salvation Army (the same location as our Chili Lunch in December.)
Ribbon Cutting of the Salvation Army's Adult Rehabilitation Center Project. There will be a special program highlighting the completion of the outdoor Leisure Time Activities Area and invite you to see it in person. With Health & Wellness being one of our strategic priorities, the new outdoor Leisure Time Activities Area will benefit countless men who participate in the ARC program for years to come.
Register by April 26here. Pay at the door. $20 or more for lunch, cash or check.
•Friday, May 6, Regular RCPC Meeting - Picnic at Bonton Farms (rain or shine)
Hear updates on Bonton Farms & the Bonton Clinic, 6907 Bexar St. Dallas, TX 75215
12:00pm, $21.00/person Box Lunch Prepared by Bonton Cafe
Reply by May 2 on the Club website.
Come Tour Bonton Farms, the Cafe, Coffee shop and Farm Stand and see the site where the Wellness clinic will be built.
Gus Walton began his career with the City of University Park while he was in high school as a seasonal employee for the Parks Department from 1982 through August 1989. He obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration Management from Wiley College.
Gus worked for Baylor Hospital in Dallas from December 1989 – February 1991 after graduation from college. Then he returned back to University Park in a full-time position as the Utility Billing Clerk. In 1997 he began his duties as a Communications Specialist in the 9-1-1 Communications Center and in 2019 was promoted to the Manager position.
Some of his duties include:
• Managing the 9-1-1 Communications Center
• Responsibility for TCIC Audits & CJIS Audits
• Facilitates the Training Program for newly hired Communications Specialists
• Processes bond monies
• Represents the City of University Park at Home Rule Managers Meetings & 9-1-1 DFW Managers Meetings
Gus Walton is married and has three children. He is a terrific baker, loves spending time off with his family and is very active with his church.
Nancy has been a part of the Highland Park Library team since 1996 when she became a children’s assistant. She joined the library full-time as the cataloging assistant in 2016.
Nancy began her library career at the age of 8 when her grandma let her stamp the cards and put them in the book pockets in a small Carnegie Library. Now a grandma herself, she enjoys watching a new generation develop a love of books and reading.
Nancy holds training certificates in the Fundamentals of Metadata and the Fundamentals for Cataloging from the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, which is a branch of the American Library Association. Throughout her career in libraries, Nancy has worked in academic and public libraries.
Nancy crafts the physical and bibliographic descriptions about library materials that become the items’ records in the library’s online catalog. These records include the keywords and subjects that allow patrons to search and discover materials to meet their needs. They let patrons locate a specific item, but also describe the breadth and depth of the collection.
While most of her work is behind the scenes, Nancy enjoys visiting with long-time library patrons and suggesting new books for them. She enjoys telling visitors about the art displayed in the library.
Nancy has experienced many changes in the field of librarianship and looks forward to seeing the future of libraries. On vacations she can be spotted popping in to check out libraries and get new ideas for improving the patron experience.
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
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 Jeff McNaughton, President-Elect of RCPC and President of the RCPC Foundation - 2021-22
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 grant request approved at our May 2021 meeting includes:
• $4000 grant for scholarships for Hillcrest High School graduating seniors
The Executive Team denied the following two grant requests:
Children First
Family Compass
The Executive Team voted to roll over the remaining $7,152.81 available grant monies until the 2021-22 fiscal year, which starts on July 1, 2021.
According to the Fund’s Policies and Procedures dated November 8, 2011, Section 11. Tenure; Removal Non-Ex Officio members of the Executive Committee serve four year terms. The Executive Team recommended to the RCPC Board that Daniel Drabinski replace Cleve Clinton as a Non-Ex Officio member of the Executive Committee. The RCPC Board unanimously approved his nomination. His term will be held from 2021-2025.
The fund balance as of May 11, 2021 was $1,847,218.00 (almost $400K higher than this time last year). The Communities Foundation of Texas has done an incredible job managing the 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 Kyle Marmillion, reported that the RCPC Foundation fund donations thru 4-30-21 totals $62,822.10 from 89 donors!
To the Foundation Fund: $6,422.10 from 37 donors
To the Bonton Clinic: $56,400.00 from 52 donors
Your contributions make an incredible difference in the amount we are able to distribute to worthy local organizations. Please consider making a contribution today. https://portal.cftexas.org/donate-park-cities-rotary
