Community Service
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Provide a forum for Clubs to discuss ideas for community projects, fundraisers, and planning of projects. Provide tools for new Club Community Service Chairs to plan, implement, and evaluate effective service projects. Provide tools to perform effective community assessments to assist in developing community projects. Keep the District web pages for Community Service up to date and pertinent. Work with the District Governor to develop best practices for utilization of District Grants under the Future Visions Plan. For the most current information: Contact Mel Gallegos, District Chair of Community Services Phone 858-705-1403 Fax 858-486-1794 Email at mel.gallegos@prodigy.net Contact Sarah McAfee, District Vice-Chair of Community Services 760-717-0905 (H) Email at retirementlady@att.net |
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GREAT CLUB COMMUNITY SERVICE EVENT: Many Rotary Clubs already participate but I am sure there are many who don't. All over San Diego County on June 28th from 6:30 am - 9:30 am people will be gathered at intersections (yes and on medians too) with Red Shoes collecting donations for the Ronald McDonald House Charity. Can't make it out that early? But still would like to participate: contact http://www.razoo.com/team/RedShoe-Day for more information. Register with Marilyn Phenaw (858-598-2448) or email her at mphenaw@rmhcsd.org. Your team will be assigned an intersection (you select the area) . A member of your team needs to pick up your shoes and tee shirts at a specific day. Supporting our Community can not get much easier than this! |
Rotary International offers many resources to our clubs and their leaders. There are resources to help each club's Community Services Chairs. please click on the links below to view some of these resources. You can view them online or download them to your computer:
Communities in Action: A Guide to Effective Service
The Community Service Update is a quarterly electronic newsletter that provides Rotarians with news about effective service practices, project resources, and important service-related events. You can sign up here: Sign up
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Don began this worthy project in 2002, with the simple aim: To ensure that third graders could receive free dictionaries to help them with their school studies. He worked diligently and tirelessly as a one man operation to get the word out. He organized the project so that civic and community service groups would act as the 'arms' of the project. To date over 200,000 dictionaries have been distributed all over California as well as neighboring states. After Don passed away the project continues as the SoCal Dictionary Project which picked up the project where Don left off. The mission remains the same: to provide third graders with a free dictionary. The SoCal Dictionary Project is not limited to California or neighboring states, but to every third grade child in our country. It is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation and contributions are tax deductible. You can get more information at this link
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Clubs plan for Rotarians At Work Day (74 KB) |
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Please click on the "Club Military Support" link on the banner above the Community Service title to view the new webpage highlighting how our Clubs are supporting the Military men, women and their families that live in the District 5340 area.
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Rotarians At Work Day 2012 will be in April 2012. We expect each of the 61 Clubs within our District to work on one or more hand-on projects in their community. The projects are listed on the new Rotarians At Work Website. Click on Submit A Project to register your project for this year! |
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What is the Don't Wait Vaccinate Committee?
Because of Rotary's success in world wide eradication of Polio, Rotarians were asked to help with the improvement of infant immunization rates here in the United States. In the early 1990's infant immunization rates against all childhood diseases including Polio for children under two in the USA was approximately 50%, one of the lowest rates in the entire world. Rotary International launched this program in 1994 under the name "PolioPlus USA." The District 5340 "Don't Wait Vaccinate" Committee was formed in 1994 and has been meeting monthly ever since.
The Don't Wait Vaccinate Committee is part of the San Diego County Immunization Initiative (I-3), a coalition of over 130 community and health service organizations whose goal is to raise immunization rates in children and adults. These combined efforts have raised rates in children under two from 51% in 1987 to 81% - 85% today. The effort is ongoing.
The Committee meets monthly at St. Paul's Senior Home in Hillcrest. The room space and a continental breakfast is provided by Cheryl Wilson of the Downtown Rotary Club.
The purpose of the District Committee is to motivate and guide Rotary clubs in District 5340 to launch immunization projects in their respective communities. These are hands-on projects, usually with local clinics and schools. It is distinctly not a fund raiser.
Representatives from all D5340 clubs are welcome and encouraged to attend.
We are available to give programs to clubs about immunizations. Contact: H. Glenn Kellogg, M.D. (HGKELL@aol.com, 619-281-8593) or Amnon Ben-Yehuda (AmnonBy@aol.com, 619-582-6127).
How can you save a life?
More than 1500 persons in the San Diego area wait for an organ transplant, people who could live, if an organ became available. While signing a donor card and placing the pink dot on your license served as an important symbol of your intent, it did not place you on any list or registry.
Donate Life California will allow you to express your commitment to becoming an organ, eye and tissue donor. The Registry guarantees your plans will be carried out when you die. Your generosity can save up to eight lives through organ donation and enhance another 50 through tissue donation.
You'll give people a second chance to experience life's joys-childhood, attending college, building a career, having a family. Ultimately, your gift of life will touch countless more people-the recipients' friends, family and loved ones. You'll allow them to continue their cherished relationships.
However, the person who may be affected the most by your life gift is you. While deciding to donate, you'll learn more about yourself. You'll share your insights with your family and friends. And you'll realize you'll be doing one of the most caring and unselfish things in your life.
We can now register by going to www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org or www.doneVIDAcalifornia.org.
For more information about organ and tissue donation please contact Lifesharing through Sharon Ross at ssross@ucsd.edu or by phone at 619-521-1983.
What better way is there to do Service Above Self?
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