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 likeness on RCPC and related websites, social media, streaming video, emails, newsletters and similar methods.
The memorial service for Larry Farris, Past President Karen Farris' husband, will be this
Friday, March 11th at 2:00pm in Ellis Chapel at Park Cities Baptist Church located on
Northwest Highway between Preston and Hillcrest.
NEWRCPC Office Phone Number: 469-242-9448
Dates of Club Meetings NOT at Maggianos:
• Friday, April 29 - Ribbon Cutting at the Salvation Army
• Friday, May 6 - at Bonton Farms
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from Greg Pape:
Rotary Contributions to The Ukraine
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, click here.
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.
•Sunday, March 13, 1:30 - 3:30 pm. Class is at 2:00 - 2:45 pm. Equinox Regeneration Yoga* Class and Reception, Equinox, 8611 Hillcrest Rd. Regeneration Yoga is a healing class with slow paced relaxing stretches. The focus will be on releasing body tension and increasing body awareness. Light refreshments and snacks to follow. No cost to PCR members and their guests but space limited to first 15 to sign up, clickhere
• Wednesday, March 16, 5:00 - 7:00 pm. PCR Connect
RSVP: Please click here to RSVP, so we will have enough pizza! :)
Bring: Your great program ideas! If you are not able to attend, please click here to email Richard Stanford your recommendations.
•If you would like to sign up for some new teams, please click onthis link.
If you have already signed up for your teams, you do not need to do anything.
We need more people on a number of teams such as the Public Image Team specifically for Facebook/Linked/Instagram/Twitter posting, Membership, Military Appreciation Team, Parade Team, 2022 UP Tree Lighting Team, Bonton Farms Meal Packing, PCR Marketplace Advertiser Team, Interact, Greeting Team, etc.
Click herefor the RCPC Teams Descriptions List. Please feel free to call or email the Chairs or President Happy with any questions.
• April, 2022
Food Packing at the North Texas Food Bank
Details will be announced closer to the Event
• Friday, April 29,Regular RCPC Meeting at the Salvation Army
Ribbon Cutting of the Salvation Army's Adult Rehabilitation Center Project
Register here. Pay at the door. $20 for lunch, cash or check.
•Friday, May 6, Regular RCPC Meeting at Bonton Farms
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
