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Volunteers Needed for the Transportation Committee!
Provide a ride to and from meetings for members unable to drive.
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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).
August 9, 2023 was a tragic day the residents on the Island of Maui. The fires across the island have changed lives forever. Truly devastating. Our sympathy, thoughts and prayers are with everyone impacted.
As people of action, we can take immediate action. As we come together to recover and rebuild, we need to support each other.
If you would like to help, donate directly to the Rotary District 5000 Foundation which is a special relief fund for the fire victims. Charitable contributions to this organization are tax deductible. Click Here to Donate.
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We are seeking donations of 10,000 books in English for kindergarten through 5th grade for the Books Brigade to Mexico this fall.
In addition, we are seeking school supplies or donations to buy school supplies and Days for Girls Hygiene Kits ($11 each).
Books, school supplies and check donations can be brought to the September Roundtable (Sept. 9th) and the October Roundtable (Oct. 14th) at the Scottish Rite Hospital in Frisco. School Supplies Needed: Pencils, Pens, Crayons, Scissors, Geometry Sets, and Glue Sticks. Remember our goal is 10 pallets that will be sailing on Carnival Valor in November. Note we would appreciate your donations by Oct. 15.
DG John Curtis and DGE Regina Edwards will be bringing these supplies to the Yucatan on a Carnival Cruise in November 2023.
•Volunteers Neededfor the Transportation Committee! Give a ride to and from the meeting to members who are unable to drive.
•Volunteers Needed! Interact is back at Hillcrest H.S.!!If you like to work with highschoolers, consider signing up for the 2023-24 school year.
Questions? Ask Tracy Gomes or Ley Waggoner.
•Monday, September 18, 4:31 to 6:45pm. Volunteers Needed!
Ronald McDonald House, 4707 Bengal St., Dallas. 75235. A few more Volunteers are needed! August is a busy month at the RM House as kids are out of school. Join the team as we prepare and serve dinner to the families. Various jobs available. Bring your driver's license for entry. Wear long pants, closed-toed shoes, with long hair pulled back while we have lots of fun Sign UpQuestions? Ask Kathleen Klaviter.
•Monday, Sept. 18 and Wednesday, Sept. 20. District 5810 Rotary Leadership Institute
•Saturday, September 30.Foot Care Clinic for the Homeless, at Austin Street Center. Pre-Event Help Needed! and day of 09/30/23. Various jobs available. Join the Team now or volunteer for the event. Sign Up. Questions? See Holly Hollenbeck
•Saturday, October 14, Save The Date! RCPC's Volunteer Day at the North Texas Food Bank.
•Saturday, October 14, District 5810 Roundtable at Scottish Rite Hospital in Frisco
•Sunday, October 29, Anti-Defamation League Walk Against Hate at Klyde Warren Park
Sign up to join the RCPC Team for the walk. More information and registration at www.walkagainsthate.org
Questions? Ask Mark Kashar.
•Thursday, November 9, Save the Date! Sparkling Wine Tasting at Total Wine.
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.
