| Posted by Leigh Carpenter on Feb 13, 2018 |
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Ray gets a gold star for attendance during February 8ths Club Assembly! |
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Nancy & Mary lead Pledge Rich shared words of inspiration about kindness Club Assembly Announcements - Community Super in Stow was great fun! Afterwards the group went out for pizza together
- If you haven’t had chance to see cable TV’s Soapbox interview with Bob & Ray about Repair Café – watch it! They made us look great!
- Reminder for March 6th informal member recruitment night at Slaters for people to get to know us. Please invite potential members.
- New application for membership has been received which will go to the Board. Carol also met someone at DECA who might be interested as well
Happy/Sad - Mary is happy her “incredibly kind husband” has been so supportive and is always such a great sounding board. Glad so many are here tonight
- Chris is happy that his cousin came to visit from Texas. Celebrated her 70th birthday together. She said it was the, “best birthday of her life”
- Ron very sad about the Superbowl but is coming out of mourning. But happy kept offensive coordinator
- Laura was happy to have been an empty-nester for 23rd hours, spend time with Chris’s cousin, and now empty nesters again! Thanks to all who helped at Community Dinner
- Carol happy because 1st customer has signed on to use new community workspace, happy to be going to see friends & that Superbowl was a “good, fair game”
- Ray sad about game but it was well played and defense stepped up at the end.
- Steve don’t worry be happy dollar for wine fellowship reminder is on Feb 27th at Fiorella's Cucina in Concord. Happy for Elon Musk and his team for putting the red tesla roadster and space man heading to Mars orbit!
 - Rich sad that officiating at the Pat’s game was terrible. Glad for Community Supper. Happy for their daughter who has been helpful with a project he’s working on
- Bob is just upset about the winter!
- Don is happy that got to go to Kennedy Space Center and hear Director speak. Over 230 pilots went. Happy that on his way back from RI, he drove by Slater’s and heard a great Irish band. Finally … everyone is invited to birthday party on March 4th 😊
- Nancy happy about smiling grandson (showed photo)
Presentation from Mary to check in about where we’ve been, where we’re going & are we on track - Mary reviewed what came out of Visioning to share where we have been
- Someone said we are, “service above self without all the baggage” – this club moves on our hearts and passions to do good in the world
- Core Work
- Strategic Planning Committee – Steve
- The group is going through all the ideas and pulling out what is actual (about 2/3 way through) to come up with SMART actions to prioritize. Will be presented to the Board. The group calls themselves SPAC which = Strategic Planning Action Team
- Membership
- Mary reports for Nanci who is away this week. She has been meeting with folks who have not been as active to engage, learn about expectations, etc.
- Don’t forget March 6th!
- Grants
- Every year opportunity to do a District & Global Grant
- District Grant is done! It was a great day to help Cultivate Counseling
- Global Grant for Orphanage in Kenya is in progress. Been going back & forth to District but almost at the point where we can ask other clubs for support
- Youth Activity
- Food packaging event is May 12th – Chris doing great job
- RYLA – 3 scholarships available which Bob is working on. Interviews coming up after applications come in by mid-March.
- Reality Fair – April 6th. Laura reached out to new representative from school and Clinton Savings Bank. The team is getting together on 2/13.
- Scholarship increased this year, highest given. Interviewing applicants in April-May, a new component. Also added a scholarship for a student at Minuteman.
- Fundraisers
- Dogs2Vets – energy is awesome with all those working on the event
- Everyone asking how to help … everyone needed day of the event (April 29)
- Attendance goal is 1,000
- Vendors are being worked on by Ayer Club – any type of business welcome. Fee is $50
- Food trucks being invited
- Working with an association and learned that Natick Club has a food truck
- Individual donors will be invited through a gofundme page (coming soon). No fees for 501c3 organizations – we should go through Clear Path for gofundme
- Goal is to raise $20,000 minimum to get two service dogs.
- Two members have donated and have $2,000
- $3,500 from a bank/credit union
- Sponsorship ideas needed! Great perks for business of $5,000+ supporters but any value is appreciated
- Share ideas with Mary
- Foundation
- Rich is the chair
- Half way through year, and 2/3 of way towards goal! Keep it up
- Well on way towards Global Grant
- Donations can be weekly, monthly or yearly – whatever suits your budget
- $12.50 is added as an optional donation at the time of dues, which most members contribute
- Financial Health of our club – Ron
- Mary thanked Ron for how well he manages the 2 budgets, which are tracked each month at board meetings
- Operating = $11,000 for the year. Budgets break even as a non-profit
- Primary revenue is dues, happy/sad, meetings
- Meals are breakeven – we used to get a boost at Colonial Candies because we brought the food. Our meetings at Emma’s is now $8 for the meal to break even
- $430 over budget at the moment
- Almost all of dues go back to District
- All Rotary clubs have special not-for-profit status.
- Donations
- Nashoba Rotary Endowment has 501c3 status, which has its own board (majority not members of club board to show some independence). Club board recommends to charitable endowment board, who approves
- $16,000 available this year to spend, amount always based on fundraising from last year
- $15,000 budgeted to be spent
- Categories for catch all, global, scholarships, district, thanksgiving baskets, hurricane, RYLA, Rise Against Hunger etc
- As a rule, only 75% can be spent to create the endowment to account for lower fundraising years
- Attendance
- Evening meetings generally not well attended
- Mary & Nanci know people are busy and worry about burn out, and appreciated that some members are able to contribute more to events
- Requests from outside
- Balance getting money in to support the organizations who request help from us
- Building Leadership Skills
- RLI – anything we can do to involve members means we are building skills
- We all have the opportunity to learn & grow, which has allowed Mary to feel comfortable taking on the role of President
- Work to Fun Ratio
- Need to have fun! Any ideas please share
- March 6th at Slaters will be fun but will also count as a meeting (March 8th cancelled)
- Discussion about attendance at social vs. meetings – track to acknowledge members involvement
- Ray given a gold star for meeting attendance 😊
- Misc. Discussion
- Do we ever call into question a member who has below 50 or 30%? Our club does not and Nanci is working with those people to re-connect and feel valued.
- Why do people not attend? Mostly job or family related reasons
- Should we start meetings later? That would make it harder for folks who leave at 5:00 and would have to stick around for longer. But something to keep in mind
- Our club is amazing at signing up for activities whereas other Clubs have a problem with filling slots. Mary is so grateful for our efforts!
- Some wonder what is our secret? Mary thinks it’s out heart. We are all here for the same reason to do good and make the world a better place. It’s just who we are.
- Core group who is very motivated and it is infectious – Ray
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