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Please take a few moments to thoughtfully consider how we can strengthen our membership. Your feedback and ideas are invaluable, thank you for taking the time to complete this. If you haven't already done so, you can paste these questions in an email to Siobhan, with your responses.
What do you most value and enjoy about being a part of our Club?
What do you think the Club is doing well in terms of attracting, engaging, and retaining members?
How can the Club improve efforts to attract, engage, and retain members?
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Congratulations to our RCPC Award Winner!
Susan Harris
Cleveland G. Clinton Collaborative Award
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It's time to choose your RCPC Teams for this Rotary Year!
or mail your check to Laurie Aldredge at the Club's office address - 8350 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 1900, Dallas, TX 75206.
Dues payments are non-refundable.
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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).
Hope Cottage CEO won the 2024 D CEO Leadership Excellence at a Midsized Nonprofit Award!
D CEO states:
Since becoming CEO of Hope Cottage, Stephanie Bohan has revitalized the organization, which provides adoption, foster case, youth education, and parenting supportive services. At the helm just since 2022, she has successfully taken the nonprofit’s $400,000 budget shortfall and transformed it into a $600,000 surplus. Under her leadership, Hope Cottage’s parenting department has grown from 28 clients to more than 200. Beyond that, Bohan oversaw the opening of CeCe’s Place in less than a year to provide maternal healthcare, taking on more than 50 clients in under 20 days.
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It Was a Fabulous Parade!
Huge Thank You to Our Festival and Parade Sponsors
Allie Beth Allman •Sewell • Origin Bank • Anne Oliver/Allie Beth Allman •
Frost Bank • Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International • The Rhodes Group
Burger House • Culwell & Son • Dave Perry-Miller • Hayne Boone •
Kathy L. Wall State Farm Insurance • The Preston of Park Cities •
Methodist Hospital • Pegasus Bank • Public Service Plumbers • PC Short Stop
•DFW Restaurant Week Support our partner, North Texas Food Bank, by participating in DFW Restaurant Weeks August 1 through September 1. (1) Go towww.dfwrestaurantweek.comto find participating restaurants and the timeframe they are participating, (2) Make your reservation through that link or through the OpenTable App and (3) Specify you want the DFW Restaurant Week menu when you dine. All Dallas & Collin County restaurants will give 20% of the prix fixe menu cost to NTFB. There are $29 lunch and brunch options and $49, $59 and $99 dinner options. Support some wonderful restaurants, try something new and feel good about eating out knowing it benefits hunger in our community!
•Monday, September 16- 4:00 to 6:45pm. Your help is needed on Monday, Sept. 16
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, September 28. Foot Care for the Homeless at Austin Street Center.
You can sign up directly on The Rotary Club of Park Cities website.
Questions? Ask Holly Hollenbeck.
Saturday, October 5. Dentistry With A Heart at Agape Clinic.
You can sign up directly on The Rotary Club of Park Cities website.
Questions? Ask Michael Rainwater or Fred Brown.
Coming This Fall! Fall Volunteer Day at the North Texas Food Bank
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.
