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 for 2025-26
will occur at the regular lunch meeting on November 15, 2024
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A new Legacy of Leadership cohort is forming.
It will meet for eight sessions beginning in October
If you are interested in joining them, contact PE Sarah Oliai or PP Cleve Clinton
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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).
Don't forget to sign up for the NTFB Volunteer Packing Day
on October 26, 2024, 9:00 to 11:30 am!
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Dentistry with a Heart
October 5, 2024
Dental Volunteers
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Foot Care Clinic for the Homeless
September 28, 2024
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The Book Vending Machine Has Arrived!
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.
• 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!
• All of October, Winter Coat Drive benefitting Austin Street Center's clothing closet. Please bring new or gently used adult winter jackets. Also needed are new adult underwear (women XS-Med, men XL-Plus Sizes) and new adult socks. A donation box will be at the lunch meeting at Magliano's every Friday during October.
• Monday, October 14, 6:00pm. RCPC Program Committee Meeting at Moody YMCA, Bring your ideas for GREAT programs. Every RCPC member is a member of this committee!
•Monday, October 20- 4:00 to 6:45pm. Your help is needed on Monday, Oct. 20
Ronald McDonald House, 4707 Bengal St., Dallas. 75235
Join the team to prepare, cook and serve to the families staying at Ronald McDonald House. The resident families are there receiving hospital care for their seriously sick children. You will have fun and warm your heart.
•Saturday, October 26 - 9:00 to 11:30am. North Texas Food Bank RCPC Volunteer Packing Day!
Come Join us to "Fight Hunger" in our community! We are sorting and packing, produce and non-perishable food, for Children, Families, Seniors, and Individuals in our community who are "Food Insecure" for distribution at local Food Panties!
The event will be at the North Texas Food Bank’s Main Distribution Center at:
3672 Mapleshade Ln., Plano 75077 (about 2 miles west of 75 off of the George Bush Toll Road). You will see the address and map when you sign-up so you can put the address into your GPS. We only have a limited number of spots, so sign-up today!Children, 12 or older, are welcome.
How to register for NTFB / RCPC Volunteer Packing Day / Event:
• You MUST Register NO LATER Than Friday, Oct. 18th
• Make it a Family Volunteer Day! - bring your family / children 12 yrs. Children must have a waiver signed by their parents, when they register to volunteer.
• All volunteers – please arrive 10-15 minutes (8:30-8:45am) prior to the shift. Anyone arriving after 9:00am for the morning shift will not be able to participate in the volunteer shift.
• All volunteers – Wear closed toed shoes for the shift, and RCPC shirt, if you are a Rotarian.
• If you have any questions, please ask Susan Glen.
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•Friday, November 1, Sparkling Wine Tasting at Total Wine and More. More details coming soon.
Deputy Superintendent of Academics and Transformation
and
Oswaldo Alvarenga,
Deputy Chief of Strategic Initiatives
spoke on
"Dallas ISD Career Institutes"
Listen to this presentation on the
Park Cities Rotary YouTube Channel!
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Ronald McDonald House in September
Here's your proof, if anyone asks, you can cook! We served 55 meals in total, with leftovers for later. Wonderful paprika chicken, roasted sweet potatoes and
fresh vegetable pasta salad enjoyed by all. You earned a heart felt thanks!
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.
