President-Nominee Thomas Applegate opened the meeting at 12:16pm and welcomed everyone. Thomas quoted Eleanor Roosevelt for the thought of the day.
With a full room of grantees, Bob Baker stepped to the microphone as the co-chair of the Winnetka-Northfield Rotary Charitable Foundation. Bob was excited to share that this year our foundation is awarding grants totaling $18,000 to 12 local nonprofits. Co-Chair Patti Van Cleave proclaimed today as her favorite of the year, because we join with our grantees in making our communities better.
Patti invited each grantee to the podium to share how their grant will be used to benefit the people that they serve. In attendance where:
1) Counseling Center of the North Shore, 2) Deerfield Free Store at Holy Cross, 3) Hadley, 4) Hunger Resource Network, 5) North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic, 6) Our Place of New Trier, 7) SaLT: Service and Learning Together, 8) TotalLink to Community, 9) Volunteer Center, and 10) Youth Philanthropy Board.
Two grantees were unable to attend: 1) SamaraCare Counseling and 2) Saroj Ghandi Sue's Pantry.
Patti thanked all the grantees for their important and impactful work for our communities. Thomas closed the meeting with the 4-Way Test.
Our Club’s charitable foundation, the Winnetka-Northfield Rotary Charitable Foundation, recently completed our annual Community Grants process. We are pleased to report that this year with a budget of $18,000, we awarded 12 grants to local non-profit organizations that serve our community. Links to these those organizations are:
312 626 6799; Meeting ID: 198 435 237; Password: 798428 (note, if asked for User ID, press #).
Reminder- you can give happy bucks, dig n grin, birthday donations and other donations to our foundation at https://wnrotary.org/page/donate/ or by texting DIGNGRIN to 44-321.
The Rotary Club of Winnetka-Northfield is teaming up with The Rotary Foundation and the Rotary Club of Rabat in the capital city of Morocco to establish a women's clothing cooperative in the village of Tomoulilt. This will be a project funded in part with a Rotary Foundation Global Grant (GG#2571461).
The program's objectives are to:
Create a revenue-generating cooperative run by stakeholders of village women/girls;
Empower women to run and manage a long-term sustainable and profitable business operation.
The project funds new equipment and training for the cooperative's participants. Training will encompass technical use of the equipment, entrepreneurial skills, business planning and management, sales and marketing planning, and financial management. The program's vision is to create a self-sustaining long term business enterprise for the participating women in Timoulilt.
Overall program budget is $100,000. The club is seeking cash and District Designated Funds (DDF) support from Rotary Clubs and Districts.
At the March 6 meeting, Rich Lalley presented an overview of the work of our two foundations- the Winnetka-Northfield Rotary Foundation (WNRCF) and The Rotary Foundation (TRF) of Rotary International. You can review that presentation here.
The club's board has set a goal of achieving 100% participation in supporting TRF this Rotary Year. To reach this goal, every active member needs to donate a minimum of $25 to The Rotary Foundation. You can do this online by clicking here.
We also aspire to be a 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club. For member who are not yet a Paul Harris Fellow, once your donation level reaches $250 and you have made a contribution this year, our club will celebrate you with a Paul Harris Fellow Award.
We appreciate all of our members who have contributed generously to The Rotary Foundation and to our club's WNRCF foundation. Thank you!
Paul Harris Fellows
Bob Baker, Wes Baumann, David Birkenstein*, Moha Boucha, Debra Campbell, Ken Drummet, Tom Evans, David Grant*, Tony Kambich*, Marie Kuipers, Rich Lalley, Bill Leske, Robert Mardirossian, Ned Meisner, Chuck Norton, Lee Padgitt, ArLynn Presser, Fred Schwimmer*, Heidi Sibert, Peter Skalski, Liz Taylor, Barb Tubekis, Patti Van Cleave.
Bold indicates donation made this Rotary Year. * indicates Major Donor.
Winnetka Historical Society honors and preserves the village’s heritage; gathers and shares its artifacts and stories of its past, to foster meaningful connections among Winnetkans and the broader community.
The club's board has set a goal of achieving 100% participation in supporting TRF this Rotary Year. To reach this goal, every active member needs to donate a minimum of $25 to The Rotary Foundation. You can do this online by clicking here.
