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There will be NO Meeting at Maggiano's on April 18 - Easter Holiday!
See you back at Maggiano's on April 25
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The Theme for the 2025 RCPC Fourth of July Parade is "America the Beautiful."
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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).
• Rotary District 5810 needs to find host families for 3 exchange students. The families will go through an orientation as well as have support throughout their hosting. We need two families living in the same school district, per student. The sooner we get the families lined up the better.
Please help us give these students the opportunity of a lifetime. Step up to be a host family.
The Interact Spring Fling on April 12th has been cancelled.
We had planned for the Interactors to stuff 1,440 Easter eggs with candy for local charities and organize and box shoes that we received at Club Leadership Training Assembly for our District Shoe Drive. We don't want to cancel these 2 great service projects. Therefore, EVERYONE is invited to Dallas College- Brookhaven Campus,Building H Room 125, Valley View Lane, Farmers Branch, TX (our usual Roundtable spot) to enjoy these 2 service opportunities from 10 am to Noon on Saturday April 12th. You are welcome to come and go as your schedule allows during these 2 hours.
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• CONGRATULATIONS to Dawn Gulley who has been chosen District Governor Nominee Designate. She is a member of the Dallas Uptown Club, and currently serves as an Assistant Governor. She previously held many positions of responsibility at the club level and in the District. If confirmed by Rotary International, she will follow Mike Callahan as District Governor for Rotary year 2027-2028.
•Thursday, April 17, 2025. 5:00-8:00pm, 20 Under 40at Communities Foundation of Texas, 5500 Caruth Haven Lane
Please join Nolan Duck as RCPC partners with People Newspapers in our 20 Under 40 program. We will be honoring twenty outstanding young people in our community.
The event will feature a presentation about our club from Nolan Duck. Additional speakers include: Calvert Collins-Bratton of Communities Foundation, a guest speaker from The George W. Bush Presidential Center and the evening will be emceed by our very own Jeff Brady.
As an RCPC Member you receive a special discount of 20% off - Clickhere to register and use the code 20U4025.
Once on the Accelevents site click "Register" then at the top of the screenin blue type click"Have an access code?" then on the registration page select the discounted ticket.
It's a very special evening and we would love to have your support!
•Monday, April 21, 4:00pm. Help make dinner for the families at Ronald McDonald House, 4707 Bengal St Dallas, TX 75235
Wear long pants, comfy shoes and long hair tied back
Need your license to enter building
Come join the team and warm your heart, You can wear your blue stocking cap too.
Click on Sign Up to view available slots and book yourself directly online.
* Tuesday, April 29, Program Meeting at 6:30 to 8:00 pm at the Moody Y on Preston Rd.
Every RCPC member is a member of the Program Team. Bring your ideas!
That is how we have so much variety in our programs! Programs are needed for a few meetings for the rest of this year and for next year.
Pizza will be served. We hope to see everyone there!
•Friday, July 4, 2025. The RCPC Fourth ofJuly PARADE!! Planning has started.
Volunteers are needed already for a variety of jobs. Sign up now and learn more about the Parade!
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.
