Durham Rotary Club

2013-14 Update

What we’ve

accomplished

What’s next?

Engaging our Community

Engagement through Service

Focus on Youth and Young Adults

Community Catalyst

Engaging our Community

Salvation Army Bell-Ringing• Sixty-five Rotarians

• Seventy-five volunteer hours

• $4400 in donations

• More donations than any other organization

Annual Poinsettia Sale• Over $2400 collected—proceeds support

scholarship program

Engaging our Community

Reading Rangers

• 60 Volunteers, including 37 Rotarians

• YE Smith Elementary and Neal

Middle School

• 80 Children

• $10,000 in grant funds for books

Service to Youth

and Young AdultsRYLA

• Ten participants from six

different high schools

• Largest number of

sponsorships of any club in the

District

• See Chris Hyland to help with

transportation

Service to Youth

and Young AdultsRotaract

• Planning new club for young

members (with North Durham

Club)

• Recruiting students from Duke

& Durham Tech and young

professionals

Service to Youth

and Young Adults

• This just in!--Interact

• Riverside High School

• See Aubrey Zinnach-Howell or Todd

Taylor to help

Community Catalyst

• Crayons to Calculators

• Stop Hunger Now

• Scholarships for the

Emily K Center

• Rotarians against Drugs

Community Catalyst Crayons to Calculators

• Partnership with other Durham Clubs

• Nearly 240 collection bins placed in

180 local businesses

• 80 volunteers

• $63,000 in supplies and materials,

and financial donations collected

Community CatalystStop Hunger Now

• Partner with other Durham Clubs

• Students from Duke, NCCU & DTCC

• $25,000 collected in financial support

($7,000 from our club)

• 700 volunteers

• Over 100,000 meals packed for

Nicaraguan orphans

Community CatalystEducation Partners

• Brown Family Scholarship

• Durham Public Schools scholarships

• Rotary Peace Fellows

• Rotarians Against Drugs

• EDCI Partnership

Engaging the World

Rotary Exchange Student

• Marina Sousa, student at Durham School of

the Arts

Rotary Peace Fellows

• Rhett Sangster

• Manish Kumar

• Mark your Calendar—PEACE conference

April 12

Engaging the World

• Global Projects• Guinea-Bissau Economic Development effort

• Pune, India Sanitation Project

• Partners with clubs in United Kingdom, Venezuela,

and India

• International Services Committee includes

members from all Durham clubs

• Sister Cities visit to Durham, UK

Engagement through

Fellowship

Progressive Dinner

• Over eighty participants

• Nine Dinner Hosts

Rotary After Hours

• Promote fellowship amongst members

• 3rd Thursday of each month

Engagement through

Fellowship

Membership

• Twenty-one new members since July 1

• Eight resignations since July 1

• One removed from Leave of Absence

• Three terminated for non-payment

• Net increase of nine members since July 1

Current Budget

• $115,000 2013-14 operating budget

• $65,000 to Fellowship (56%)• $62,000 for meals

• $44,000 to Club Operation (38%)• $18,000 dues to District & Rotary International

• $13,000 for Executive Secretary

• $6,000 for Outreach (6%)

The Rotary Foundation

• 98 Every Member Every Year Rotarians

• 158 Total Contributors

• 9 Paul Harris Fellows this year

• $13,200 Year-to-Date Contributions

• $1900 to Polio Plus (second largest

amount in the district)

• $1300 to Alzheimer’s research

What’s Next?

• Annual Meeting Monday

February 10

• Vote on revisions to by-laws

• Elect board members and

officers for 2014-15 year

What’s Next?

Slate for 2014—2015 (Election

February 10)

• Board members (3-year terms)

• Andy Esser

• Meg Solera

• Blake Strayhorn

• Two-year term

• B.C. Dash

What’s Next?

Slate for 2014--2015

• Officers (one year terms)

• Vice-President: Todd Taylor

• Secretary: Phyllis Coley

• Treasurer: Susan Miller

• Sargent-at-Arms: Reginald

Hodges

What’s Next?

Slate for 2014--2015

• President-Elect

• Vandana Dake

• President-designee for our

Centennial year

• Lois DeLoatch

Centennial Celebration

• Chaired by Past President Don Stanger

• One Hundred Acts of Service

• Celebration of Club History

• Presidential Rotary Minutes begin in

February

Engage Rotary—Change Lives

Thank you for a great six

months!

Durham Rotary Club