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Favorite Travel Spot: Toured Israel with a church group last year which was an incredible and deeply religious experience.
Favorite Rotary Moment: Volunteer day for the construction of ChildsPlay at Bachman Lake in 2005 - the Centennial Year of Rotary.
Why did you join Rotary: My father was an active Rotarian, and my sponsor, Rod Pirtle, invited me to apply for RCPC membership at the right time.
Interesting personal fact: I'm a descendent of one of the Immortal 32 which reinforced the Texian force in the Alamo shortly before it fell.
#ParkCitiesRotary #RotarianToKNow
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Name: Shawn Foster
Classification: Financial Services
Birthday (mo/day): November 2
Favorite Restaurant: Three Forks
Favorite Hobby: Boxing
Favorite Travel Spot: Maui, Hawaii
Favorite Rotary Moment: 4th of July Celebration, including Jet flyovers by Tom Rhodes, kids, floats, flags, bands, dignitaries, unicycle, animals, fireman, watermelons, cool cars.
Why did you join Rotary? To get involved in the community, make a difference, meet people and hear interesting speakers.
Interesting personal fact: My wife and I went to Richardson High School, graduated in same class but didn't marry until thirty years later.
"Under Cunningham's leadership, in fiscal year 2020 the North Texas Food Bank provided a record break-ing 96.9 million meals to kids, seniors and families in need and distributed more than 34 million pounds of fresh produce."
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Join us for our September Service Project Opportunity
Benefiting the North Texas Food Bank!
RCPC NTFB Peanut Butter Drive!
Every September during Hunger Action Month, the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) creates awareness about food insecurity, and hosts the Peanut Butter Drive which collects a shelf-stable, kid-friendly protein for our hungry neighbors. The goal for the 2021 drive is 300,000 pounds of peanut butter physically and virtually.
1. Donatedirectly to the Virtual Peanut Butter Drive where every dollar is equal to one pound of peanut butter (16oz jar).
Click here to donate! It's fun and easy from your phone, tablet, computer, etc.
2. Bring any 16 ounce plastic jar (no glass jars) of any brand peanut butter to a Friday meeting starting Friday, August 27 through Friday, September 24th)
(Nut butters are also accepted.)
3. Take a picture in front of our club's red carpet banner with your peanut butter donation and encourage others to donate.
Post the picture on your social media using the following hashtags.
•RCPC Members: We want to congratulate and support those who are college bound.
Send name of student, school/city, major, class and relation to RCPC member to Elaine Allen at elainekallen4@gmail.com to be published in The Hub.
•Friday Afternoons, 3:00 to 5:00 pm- Bonton Farms
Volunteers are needed to help sort and pack Meal Bags. If you can help any Friday, please text or email our fellow PCR member Stephanie Bohan: stephanie@bontonfarms.org or 214-989-3513. Bonton Farms, 6915 Bexar Street.
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
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
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
