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Good News in Bonton - The Dallas Morning News(pagesuite.com)
From President Happy:
Our RCPC PR Team has been working on getting additional PR for our collaborative partners. Jeff Brady has amazing radio, tv, and newspaper connections from his years as a local TV anchor. Last month Jeff pitched a story on Daris Lee with Bonton Farms needing a kidney. Two tv stations and the Dallas Morning News responded. Thanks to that coverage, Daris Lee received a kidney on Christmas Eve. Stephanie Bohan provided a lot of time and care to Daris.
Fabulous work everyone! This is so exciting!! Way to go, Jeff! You’re doing wonderful work on the PR Team and as our auctioneer!
• 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 will be available this Friday. • 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.
Mark Your Calendars!
January Board of Directors Meeting
President Franklin would like to inform you,
The January 19, 2022 meeting will be a happy hour at the Club's new offices at
Venture X (Campbell Centre, 8350 North Central Expressway, Suite 1900)
from 5-7:00pm. Refreshments will be served.
The Board will vote to approve the December and January financials at the Board meeting in January.
They specifically mentioned these items being most in need: liquid body wash, shampoo, stick deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes, large gallon size zip lock bags, sweatshirts, socks, coats, boots, and any other warm clothing.
Travel sizes of bathroom products are preferred.
We were able to volunteer for their Thanksgiving meal, and the staff / veterans were very appreciative. (See immediately below.)
Doug Means will collect the supplies after each Friday meeting in January and deliver them to the shelter.
RCPC Served a Thanksgiving Meal at Veterans Resource Center
On the day before Thanksgiving, The Rotary Club of Park Cities
volunteered at the south Dallas Veterans Resources Center.
About 10 volunteers worked for 4 hours cooking, sorting and serving
of a complete Thanksgiving meal to 67 Veterans who attended the event.
These items are most in need: liquid body wash, shampoo, stick deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes, large gallon size zip lock bags, sweatshirts, socks, coats, boots, and any other warm clothing.
Travel sizes of bathroom products are preferred.
Doug Means will collect the supplies after each Friday meeting in January and deliver them
•Friday Afternoons, 3:00 to 5:00 pmat Bonton Farms
Volunteers are needed to help sort and pack Meal Bags. If you can help any Friday, please text or email our fellow PCR member Stephanie Bohan: stephanie@bontonfarms.org or 214-989-3513. Bonton Farms, 6915 Bexar Street.
• Have You Paid Your Dues?? Don't forget!
(Only if you chose to pay RCPC Dues in two parts)
•January 20th from 5 to 7 pm, PCR Connect at The Cheescake Factory, 7700 W Northwest Hwy on the south side opposite NorthPark. Please join us for the first PCR Connect Happy Hour of 2022! GREAT Happy Hour specials until 6 PM. No need to RSVP - just show up, network and socialize with all the cool Rotarians :). Questions, please reach out to Holly Hollenbeck 402-681-0601. See you there! - Holly Hollenbeck and Joi Gold
•January 23rd at 6:30 pm, Join us for our January club social:
Dallas Mavs vs. Memphis Grizzlies at American Airlines Center
Tickets: $24/person. Click here to purchase a ticket!
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. Our 35,000+ clubs work together to:
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
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
