Please note that RCPC meetings and other events are public events where photos and video are customarily taken. By attending you are consenting to free use of your liken ess on RCPC and related websites, social media, streaming video, emails, newsletters and similar methods.
Volunteers Needed for the Transportation Committee!
Provide a ride to and from meetings for members unable to drive.
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The club's Annual Meeting and Election of Officers and Directors for 2025-26
will occur at the regular lunch meeting on November 15, 2024
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There will be NO MEETING on Friday, November 29, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Club merchandise!
Hats are Back!
As a New member, you get an RCPC hat free. Let Laurie know if you don't already have one.
If you are an existing member, you can buy a new one online.
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).
THANK YOU to LaTara Scott at LUCL Financial Solutions for sponsoring our event. https://lucifinancial.com/
All Rotary Members (any level of Rotary) are encouraged to attend
and share your business services or expertise.
Bring a GUEST. Show them how well Rotarians are connected
Retired? Come to the event and be a mentor!
• District 5810 is excited to announce our first Rotary Leadership Institute Training Part 1 on Tuesday, November 12th and Thursday November 14th, 6:30-9:30PM on Zoom. Open to all Rotarians! Cost is $50. Click to Register
Rotary Leadership Institute Training Part I - The Rotarian
• Insights Into Leadership (characteristics, volunteer motivation, leadership styles)
• My Rotary World (org charts, core values, Rotary’s history)
• Ethics – Vocational Service (guiding principles, examples, service ideas)
• Foundation I - Our Rotary Foundation (world peace & understanding, operations, Future Vision)
• Engaging Members (survey, age differences, development, assessment)
• Creating Service Projects (meeting a need, creativity, sustainability)
• A new Legacy of Leadership cohort is forming, It will meet for eight meetings starting in October and ending in February. You can join them! See PE Sarah Oliai or PP Cleve Clinton to ask questions or sign up!
•Monday, November 18- 4:00 to 6:45pm. You are invited to the Ronald McDonald House.
Prep, Cook, Serve Dinner for the families at Ronald McDonald House, 4707 Bengal, Dallas 75235
Great Team Effort!
Long Pants, Closed-Toe Shoes, Long Hair Tied Up
Driver's License needed to enter building
Warm Your Heart and Food at the same time.
Questions, ask Kathleen Klaviter
Please sign up on the RCPC website
•Friday, November 22 - 11:45am. Club's Annual Meeting and Election of Officers for 2025-26, at the Regular Meeting at Maggiano's.
•Saturday, November 23, 8:30am (light breakfast), 9:00am - 11:30am. Popcorn Packing at Scottish Rite Hospital
This fall's Legacy of Leadership cohort's Capstone Project is a Book Vending Machine,
installed at Jack Lowe, Sr. Elementary School.
Students will earn tokens to use to vend books from the machine.
RCPC has funded the books for the machine and has added inserts with activities and
information on healthy lifestyles, eating, play, etc.
What a great way to encourage reading!
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Members of the 2023-24 Legacy of Leadership cohort are inserting health and nutrition inserts from the NTFB into the supply of books before being loaded into the cohort’s capstone project of placing a book vending machine in the Jack Lowe Sr. Elementary School.
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 Sarah Oliai, President-Elect of RCPC and President of the RCPC Foundation - 2024-25
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.
