DGs AND DRFCs - CAN WE? CAN WE?

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1 ZONE 28 ROTARY FOUNDATION MAY 2012 NEWSLETTER FOR YOUR INFORMATION This newsletter edited by Zone 28 RRFC Don Goering Districts 5580, 5650, 5950, 5960, 5970, 6000, 6220, 6250, 6270, 6420, 6440, 6450 DGs & DRFCs YES WE CAN 1 Monthly Contribution Chart 2 Thank You Anita Rieder 2 Rotary & ShelterBox Are Now Partners 2 Sights & Sounds Bangkok Convention 3 Sympathy for Passing of DGN John Deir 3 Afghanistan President Receives Polio Medal 3 Polio First Ever World Immunization Week 4 Polio - Rotary Recognizes Nigerian President 5 WHO Removed India From List 5 Polio Resources Available 5 TRF Charitable Gift Annuity 5 TRF Deferred Gift Annuity Regional Rotary Seminar Dates 6 Earn Double Foundation Points 6 Areas of Focus Statement for Future Vision 7 Rotary Peace Centers Spring Conference 7 Future Vision Pilot Operations 8 Info From Trustee Chair Bill Boyd - GSE 8 DGEs Club Goal Forms 9 Your Zone 28 Rotary Foundation Team 10 DGs AND DRFCs - CAN WE? CAN WE? YES WE CAN and THANK YOU! That is the question that each of us must answer between now and June 30, 2012, the end of our year of Rotary Leadership. Can YOU and Your District Leadership meet the Annual Programs Fund goal YOU set in the spring of 2011? Can YOU and Your District Leadership meet the TRF Trustees goal of $100 per Rotarian by June 30, 2012? Can YOU and Your District Leadership meet or exceed the APF giving of the year District Leadership? YES WE CAN! THANK YOU! I urge YOU to review the chart on the following page and put your plan in action. Download and study Your District!s Monthly Contribution report? Contact your clubs with lower than expected giving numbers. Experience has shown that your contacts at this time in the Rotary Year are the real key to meeting the TRF goal. As a general rule, encourage each of Your Clubs to submit their members as well as their club!s TRF donations by June 15, 2012! YES WE CAN! THANK YOU! As a Zone we need $965,652 to meet our collective goal! CAN WE DO IT? Five Districts in Zone 28 are $40 or more below the $100 goal? Will Your District reach the $100 goal? YES WE CAN! THANK YOU! One of the goals for this Rotary year was to reduce the number of clubs that have not supported The Rotary Foundation. Over seventeen percent, yes 17.45% of the 699 clubs in Zone 28 have not yet contributed any amount this Rotary year to The Rotary Foundation Annual Programs Fund. DGs - Have you studied the report you received from RI about non-giving Clubs in Your District? What Clubs are not supporting The Rotary Foundation? Why are there no contributions to The Rotary Foundation? Are they really a Rotary Club? Are the members of those Clubs Rotarians? Will you please work with those Clubs and encourage their members to support The Rotary Foundation? YES WE CAN! AND THANK YOU DGs and DRFCs.

2 2 Numbers based on INTERIM Monthly Contributions Report as of May 6, 2012 #of # of APF APF $$ % APF Goal US$ Per Capita US$ Per Capita PolioPlus $$ Clubs Mbrs. Goals To Date Achieved To Date 65 3,066 $267,149 $171, % $55.80 $81.73 $74, ,152 $186,654 $152, % $70.93 $77.46 $76, ,876 $625,432 $333, % $ $ $34, ,053 $298,595 $268, % $88.01 $96.62 $67, ,860 $172,700 $169, % $59.43 $73.55 $26, ,016 $400,140 $331, % $82.52 $ $48, ,891 $143,385 $135, % $71.76 $88.72 $44, ,092 $293,418 $171, % $55.46 $74.19 $65, ,126 $310,135 $151, % $48.40 $75.07 $50, ,013 $139,935 $91, % $45.26 $74.28 $40, ,467 $307,874 $236, % $95.71 $ $94, ,090 $226,020 $192, % $92.16 $ $50, ,702 $3,371,437 $2,405, % $73.57 $ $673,204 ================================================================ Thank You To Anita Rieder Anita Rieder, Senior Giving Officer for The Rotary Foundation, has journeyed to a new career that started early May. We want to give ANITA - A CIRCLE OF BIG HIGH FIVES AND THANK YOUS for her past five years of service to Rotarians and their efforts to make the world a better place for all humankind. Anita was always willing to go the extra mile in finding answers to questions about The Rotary Foundation. She will be missed! Zone 28 wishes her the very best in her new career in the Twin Cities area. ROTARY AND SHELTERBOX ARE NOW PARTNERS Rotary International and ShelterBox, a grassroots disaster relief organization, signed a Project Partner agreement in March allowing the two organizations to collaborate more closely to provide relief and temporary shelter to survivors of natural disasters. Project Partner is a special status RI gives to groups started or managed by Rotary clubs. The agreement will build on the strengths of both organizations in responding to disasters all over the world. Read more about this project partnership on the RI website. Should you have any questions, please contact!"#$%&!'(%)*+),-&./0$,1&!),2*')-&.3&4,/5,$6#& 4(/%)7&89:;8<<;==>?&#"#$%@#'(%)*+),A,/0$,1@/,5&& BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB& MOTHER!S DAY IS IN HONOR OF THE BEST MOTHER WHO EVER LIVED THE MOTHER OF YOUR HEART. ANNA JARVIS

3 3 IF YOU DID NOT GET TO BANGKOK, GO TO ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FACEBOOK IT!S EXCITDING. HERE IS A PREVIEW OF ONE ARTICLE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS FROM THE HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP POSTED ON MAY 6, 2012 FROM FACEBOOK By Ryan Hyland, RI Editorial staff, reporting from Bangkok, Thailand The House of Friendship is the heart beat of the RI convention. Having covered four conventions, I can safely say this is where you feel the pulse of the event. Entertainment, food, arts and crafts, camaraderie, and service all combine in the House of Friendship, which each year is designed to capture the flavor of the host city while creating an environment that welcomes and embraces all cultures. In Bangkok, the massive hall is lush with thousands of colorful flowers and ferns. Towering structures are wrapped in bamboo and vines. There is even a mini waterfall. No matter where you turn, you!ll find a family or group of Rotarians snapping photos of each other. Rotarians laughing together, hugging each other; discussing each other!s projects in the one of the many project booths. When I entered the hall the first time, I noticed a constant melody of Elvis songs in the background. After a while, I realized it wasn!t the public address system or canned music, but a live Elvis impersonator on center stage working the crowd. Thirty years after his death, and 7,000 miles from his birthplace, his memory lives on, entertaining Rotarians in Bangkok. My second time through the hall, I was greeted by the sound of drums. A Thai procession pounded away on makeshift barrels, producing an awesome effect. DGN JOHN DEIR ROTARY DISTRICT 5960 PASSES AWAY It is with deep sadness that DG 5960 Governor Judy Freund announced the sudden death of Lake Elmo Rotarian John Deir who was to be their District Governor in John recently retired from a thirty-seven year career in education. John passed away suddenly on Sunday, April 1, John touched the lives of so many people in a positive and caring way. He was an amazing father, husband, friend, and educator. John was a Rotarian since Zone 28 Rotarians send their sympathies to John!s Rotary Partner Sandy, their two children, son Tim, daughter Anna and all the Rotarians in District 5960 POLIO CHALLENGE RI PRESIDENT PRESENTS POLIO MEDAL TO AFGHANISTAN PRESIDENT IN KABUL Rotary International President Kalyan Banerjee presented a medal to Afghan President Hamid Karzai on April 2 nd in Kabul, in recognition of Karzai!s support for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, in which Rotary is a spearheading partner. Banerjee is the first RI president to visit Afghanistan. His visit was made possible through the work of Rotary Foundation Trustee Stephen R. Brown and Fary Moini, both members of the Rotary Club of La Jolla Golden Triangle, California, USA, which has carried out numerous successful educational projects in Jalalabad.

4 4 During their 45-minute meeting, Karzai and Banerjee discussed how lessons learned from India!s success might be applied in Afghanistan. Banerjee!s home country of India was removed from the polio-endemic list in February. I encouraged the president to keep up the intensity of the immunization program because, by doing so, they can stop polio as we did in India, Banerjee said. Once it stops, it stops. You don!t know when it will happen, or where the last polio case will be; but one day it will happen if you remain ever vigilant. Karzai vowed his government will continue to support the eradication program and said he personally would help encourage and educate the Afghan public on the importance of reaching all children with the oral polio vaccine. In discussing strategies, Banerjee said Muslim leaders who supported India!s polio immunization campaign could be encouraged to communicate with their Afghan counterparts to explain the importance of immunizations. Indian Rotary members were instrumental in gaining the support of influential clerics to help dispel misconceptions about polio immunizations within some Muslim communities. Banerjee also said both countries could exchange teams of health workers so that Indian vaccinators can share best-practice approaches and learn more about the challenges facing polio eradication in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is one of only three countries where the wild poliovirus has never been stopped. So far in 2012, Afghanistan has reported six new polio cases out of the 52 recorded globally. The country reported 80 cases in The other two endemic countries are Nigeria and Pakistan. Polio infections due to cross-border traffic between Afghanistan and Pakistan are a continuing problem, making bi-national cooperation essential. Pakistan has reported 15 cases this year after posting 198 in This photo features children demonstrating their Purple Pinkies after having received their Polio Vaccine drops. In many countries, the pinkies of children who receive the Polio Vaccine are painted with a purple die to mark them among the group that has been vaccinated. FIRST-EVER WORLD VACCINATION MONTH APRIL ENDED A MONTH WITH 394 MILLION CHILDREN HAVING BEEN VACCINATED AGAINST POLIO, CULMINATING IN THE FIRST-EVER WORLD IMMUNIZATION WEEK FROM APRIL This Information taken from the Polio Eradication Update 4/26/12 =================================================================

5 5 RI RECOGNIZES NIGERIAN PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN By Dan Nixon Rotary International News April 25, 2012 Rotary Foundation Trustee Chair-elect Wilfrid Wilkinson (left) presents Rotary International's Polio Eradication Champion Award to Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. Photo courtesy of the Nigeria PolioPlus Committee Rotary International has recognized Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria, with its Polio Eradication Champion Award for his leadership and dedication to achieving a polio-free world. Wilfrid Wilkinson, incoming chair of The Rotary Foundation Board of Trustees, presented the award to Jonathan on April 23 in a ceremony broadcast live on Nigerian national television. On behalf of Rotary s 1.2 million members worldwide, including nearly 6,000 in Nigeria alone, I would like to express the solidarity of Rotary members in standing firmly beside President Jonathan and the Nigerian people in the polio eradication effort, said Wilkinson. I am honored to recognize the commitment of President Goodluck Jonathan for support of a polio-free Nigeria and a polio-free world. The World Health Organization has officially removed India from the list of polio-endemic countries. Ghulam Nabi Azad, India's minister of Health and Family Welfare, made the announcement at the Polio Summit 2012 in New Delhi on February 25. Polio remains endemic in only three countries: Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Rotarians have played a pivotal role in helping to stop transmission of the wild poliovirus in India Read more. BE PATIENT AND THIS SITE WILL DOWNLOAD! CLUBS AND DISTRICTS CAN ORDER TOOLS & RESOURCES TO HELP WITH POLIO ERADICATION - SHOP.ROTARY.ORG BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB& REMEMBER THE ROTARY FOUNDATION WHAT IS A CHARITABLE GIFT ANNUITY? A charitable gift annuity is a simple contract between you and The Rotary Foundation. In exchange for your irrevocable gift of cash, securities, or other assets, The Rotary Foundation agrees to pay you or 1-2 other annuitants a fixed sum each year for life. The older your designated annuitants are at the time of the gift, the larger the fixed payments The Rotary Foundation can agree to pay. In most cases, part of each payment is tax-free, increasing each payment's aftertax value. Payments may be made annually, semiannually, or quarterly.

6 WHAT IS A DEFERRED GIFT ANNUITY? A deferred gift annuity is a simple contract between you and The Rotary Foundation. In exchange for your irrevocable gift of cash, securities, or other assets, The Rotary Foundation agrees to pay you or 1-2 other annuitants a fixed sum each year for life, with payments starting at least one year after your gift. The older your designated annuitants are at the time of your gift and the longer you defer payments, the greater the fixed payments The Rotary Foundation can agree to pay. In most cases, part of each payment is tax-free, increasing each payment's after-tax value. Payments are usually made annually, semiannually, or quarterly. BENEFITS INCLUDE 1) GENEROUS SUPPORT OF The Rotary Foundation. 2) A CHARITABLE INCOME TAX DEDUCTION 3) PAYMENTS FOR LIFE 4) CAPITAL GAINS TAX SAVINGS 5) 1% DEFERRED GIFT ANNUITY If you have questions concerning the Foundation's gift annuity program, please contact Karena J. Bierman, J.D., Manager of Gift Planning, 1560 Sherman Avenue, Evanston Illinois 60201, (847) , plannedgiving@rotary.org REGIONAL ROTARY SEMINAR DATES SET The Zone Regional Seminar dates have been set and are being planned by RRFC Dick Galitz, current Rotary Coordinator Mary Beth Growney-Selene, and current Rotary Public Image Coordinator Roger Kueter. District leaders should attend the seminars. Districts 5580, 5950, 5960 June 16, 2012 Districts 6220, 6250, 6270 June 23, 2012 Districts 5650, 5970, 6000 July 14, 2012 Districts 6420, 6440, 6450 August 11, 2012 Alexandria, MN Plover, WI Ames, IA Elgin, IL If you need further information, please contact Dick Galitz who will be the RRFC for Zone 28 starting July 1, Dick!s contact information is included with the current Zone 28 Team!s information at the end of this newsletter. REMINDER FOR YOUR DISTRICT ROTARIANS Join Rotary Direct - Earn Double Foundation Recognition Points for Your Recurring Contributions The Rotary Foundation is pleased to announce that double Foundation Recognition Points will be automatically given to Rotarians and friends of Rotary who are enrolled in Rotary!s recurring giving program, Rotary Direct, and make one or more scheduled monthly, quarterly or annual) contributions between April 1 and July 1, 2012.

7 Making a monthly, quarterly or annual gift through Rotary!s secure online system is the most cost-effective and efficient way to support The Rotary Foundation's life-changing grants and activities. ====== AREAS OF FOCUS STATEMENTS OF PURPOSE AND GOALS FOR FUTURE VISION At their March meeting the Trustees approved policy statements for the areas of focus effective July 1, These state, and highlight elements of successful projects. The statements will be posted on the RI web site as soon as possible With respect to the areas of focus policy statements, TRF notes that 1. The goals of Future Vision are to increase efficiency in grant processing and ensure quality of funded projects 2. The content of each policy statement is intended to represent eligible and ineligible activities 3. Eligible activities reflect those that Rotary clubs and districts have most often implemented 4. Project planning is a bottom-up and host club/district-driven process 5. All grant requests must comply with the policy statements related to each area of focus ROTARY PEACE CENTERS BY RRFC PDG Jack K. Best - Rotary Peace Centers Major Gifts Initiative Committee The Rotary Peace Scholars are committed to bring peace and foster conflict resolution in the world! That statement is based on what I witnessed on March 31 st at the Annual Spring Conference presented by the Rotary Peace Fellows of the Duke/UNC Rotary Center. Ali Reza Eshraghi, from Iran, led off the first session: "Bombing Iran or having an Iranian Nuclear Bomb: could there be a Third option?! Ali feels that sanctions will only solidify internal Iranian opposition to external pressure imposed by the West. He also stated that a proactive military strike to wipe out Iran!s nuclear facilities would also congeal Iranian resolve to build a nuclear bomb and perhaps retaliate. His solution: "We need to find another statesperson like Henry Kissinger.! That statesperson will need to determine what Iran and the United States each want from each other, then make it happen peacefully. Eduardo Rodrigues da Costa from Brazil presented the 9 th and final session. He is an economist who had been elected to represent his home area of the Amazon Forest. It represents 40% of the landmass of Brazil, but has perhaps 10% of the population. So, any voice on behalf of the Indigenous Peoples of the Rain Forest has been drowned out by the needs of southern Brazil to utilize the riches and resources to their north. His studies have bolstered his determination to return to Brazil and represent in a much stronger way the peoples of the Amazon Forest. 7

8 Next year!s ten Peace Fellows graduates arrived last August and are in the midst of their studies. Among them is Abu Sufian Hassan from Sudan, who is an advocate for social justice. Abu and I had several brief conversations about the work of Penfield Rotarian Salva Dut and other Lost Boys who are returning home to help bring peace and stability to their new (South Sudan) and former country (Sudan). Like all of his classmates, Abu had already been at work with the Peace Fellow scholarship which allows an opportunity to test some hypotheses and develop strategies that would have immediate effect once their studies have been completed. Abu had been working for the past five years in Darfur with the United Nations Joint Logistics Center to help address issues like land access and the effectiveness of their traditional dispute system. FUTURE VISION PILOT OPERATIONS Applications for packaged grants offered with our strategic partner Mercy Ships are now available online. With these grants, Rotarians will assemble vocational training teams of medical professionals who will perform or assist in life-changing surgeries and provide skills training to local health care professionals. Initial team destinations are Togo and Guinea; additional locations will become available as the ship moves to different ports in West Africa. Find more information on these packaged grants, including how to apply, on the Rotary web site. Packaged grants provide opportunities for Rotary Clubs in pilot districts to work with The Rotary Foundation's strategic partners on predesigned activities. Each project is fully funded by the World Fund and the strategic partner. Approximately four Mercy Ships packaged grants will be awarded, on a first-come, firstserved basis. Because this is a new funding model for the Foundation, a limited number of initial grant offerings will be available with each strategic partner. However, over the course of the pilot, the number of grants will increase, establishing a well-balanced menu of opportunities. These projects and activities will support the areas of focus and can include scholarships, humanitarian projects, and vocational training. Jennifer Berg is the senior coordinator for packaged grants. Contact her with any questions at jennifer.berg@rotary.org. INFO FROM TRUSTEE CHAIR BILL BOYD ABOUT DISTRICT GSE As you know, The Rotary Foundation is undergoing some major changes that will allow Rotarians to make an even greater impact with their educational and humanitarian efforts. In creating the Future Vision Plan, the Foundation Trustees developed a grant model designed to reflect Rotarians! service interests, attract other leading organizations to work with us, and enable us to achieve greater outcomes. The Foundation is currently conducting a three-year pilot of the plan, in which 101 districts are participating. The new grant model will be launched to the entire Rotary world in July The way in which the Foundation supports vocational training will change under the new model. The final year of the Group Study Exchange (GSE) 8

9 9 program will be , but new opportunities available through the Foundation!s district and global grants will give districts greater flexibility in designing vocational training activities and allow the district to customize grant funding to meet its needs. WHAT WILL THIS MEAN FOR ROTARY DISTRICTS? Using a district grant, you can sponsor vocational training activities that cover a wide range of areas. If your district chooses, you can use district grant funds to support activities similar to GSE, focusing on service or vocational training activities. District grants place no restrictions on the number of travelers, the age of travelers, or the length of travel. Your district can also use district grants to send a group of Rotarians to plan a future project. Using global grants, you can support vocational training activities that align with one or more of the six areas of focus. Global grants support vocational training teams that can have a measurable impact on communities in need and provide needed training. Global grants are funded using cash and/or DDF contributions from the grant sponsors and are matched by the World Fund, allowing clubs and districts greater leverage of their contributions. The new grant model has significantly shortened the timeline for planning vocational training activities. Under GSE, your district would have soon begun the application process for travel in Under the new grant model, however, you will begin planning for both district and global grant vocational training activities in If you have questions, please the Contact Center at contact.center@rotary.org. DGEs - YOU MAY SUBMIT YOUR CLUB GOALS FOUR DIFFERENT WAYS As you know, Club Goals are critical to your District!s success each year and to monies made available to your district for humanitarian and educational projects. Please confirm that all of your clubs have signed off on goals. Please ask them to include the following header format in their club goals list to assist us in the goal entry process. Club ID - Club Name APF-SHARE Club Goal - Major Gifts Benefactor Bequest Society - US$ Million Polio Challenge. Then you may submit your clubs! goals to The Rotary Foundation via any of the following methods: Online: Member Access ( apf@rotary.org Fax: Mail: Annual Giving Department, FN510! 1560 Sherman Avenue! Evanston, IL THANK YOU THANK YOU THE WORLD THANKS YOU!

10 10 YOUR ZONE 28 ROTARY FOUNDATION TEAM Foundation Contact Center (866) contact.center@rotary.org Jamie Revord, CFRE Manager of Major Gifts (847) Jamie.Revord@rotary.org Peter Doetschman Planned Giving Officer (847) Peter.Doetschman@rotary.org Clare Monroe Polio Contact (847) clare.monroe@rotary.org Steve Lyons Share System Senior Coordinator (847) steve.lyons@rotary.org RRFC: (Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator) Don Goering H: (515) donaldgski@aol.com F: (515) Primary contact for Districts 5650, 5970, ARRFC: (Ass!t. Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator) Art Davis B: (630) rotaryart@sbcglobal.net H: (630) Primary contact for Districts 6420, 6440, ARRFC: (Ass!t. Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator) Ted Gurzynski tgurzynski@wi.rr.com H: (414) Primary contact for Districts 6220, 6250, 6270 C: (414) ARRFC: (Ass!t. Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator) Sandy Schley H: (952) sandraschley@comcast.net C: (952) Primary contact for Districts 5580, 5950, 5960 F: (952) RFAC: (Regional Foundation Alumni Coordinator) Dick Galitz H: (630) dickgalitz@att.net F: (630) Primary contact for Foundation Alumni questions - All Districts ZCC: (Zone Challenge Coordinator) Jon Stillman H: (651) j.stillman@comcast.net C: (847) Primary contact for PolioPlus questions All Districts &