President Ken called the meeting to order at 12:20.
Pledge Ken led the pledge.
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Thought Barb shared some quotes on what the “good days” were.
Announcements:
Today is our Charter Anniversary!! Happy Anniversary to US!
Next week’s meeting will be in LL2, located downstairs through the fitness center door at the west side of the building.
We celebrate those with May birthdays
Please sign up to volunteer on June 2 for our monthly lunch making project for Connections for the Homeless.
Homeless Walk is Saturday. Walkers and donors needed! Rives regaled us with “Walk with Moha” – and Moha promised to work his Moroccan magic for good weather.
Dig N Grin: Lee shared some jokes around mental health.
Happy Bucks:
Moha shared an update/happy buck that Rotarians from the Rabat club will be onsite in the village next week for an orientation.
Program:
Thomas and CCNS Clinical Director Kim Hassenfeld presented on May as Mental Health Month. The meeting was adjourned at 1:30 and we went out to the pollinator garden to spread compost.
MONTHLY LUNCH PACKING FOR CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS
Pleasesign up to participate. Our monthly service project preparing 160 lunch bags forConnections for the Homeless is at St. Joseph's Church, Lake and Ridge in Wilmette, on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:00pm. Enter through the east lower entrance off the parking lot.
This is a collaborative project with members joining us from theWilmette and Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Clubs.
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.
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.
