THE ROTARY CLUB OF CUPERTINO 2011-2012 ANNUAL REPORT Photo Be the Best in Your Community... You are Cupertino Rotary!
SERVICE ABOVE SELF Sources of Charitabe Funds The funds that the cub uses for our charitabe projects come from a variety of sources. Some events, such as the Fa Festiva, Crab Feed, and Gof Tournament, generate revenue from the attendees above and beyond the costs. More importanty, these events, and our Eastern Eegance dinner count on significant contributions from our Corporate and individua sponsors. We coud not achieve most of our good work without this support. A third source of funds is the donations from Cupertino Rotarians to The Rotary Foundation. Some of this money is used to fund goba projects such as poio eradication and Internationa schoarships, but much comes back to the cub as matching funding for our own internationa projects. The ast source of funds is the distribution from our Endowment Foundation. SOURCES $256,755 Fa Festiva $ 33,940 Crab Feed $ 12,720 Gof Cassic $ 77,049 Goba Eegance $ 44,115 Internationa Funds $ 23,656 TRF Campaign $ 58,075 Stapes Grant & Partners $ 7,200 TOTAL FUNDS RAISED $256,755 Vounteer Hours Spent As significant as the doars raised, is the amount of time spent by Cupertino Rotarians to accompish our goas. Whether the time is spent organizing and operating our fund-raising programs, doing handson Community and Youth projects, or traveing to distant countries to visit our Internationa projects, the time commitment of our Rotarians is a testament to their dedication to the Rotary motto of Service Above Sef. Uses of Charitabe Funds Of money we raised, 100 percent goes to charitabe causes. As mentioned, some goes to The Rotary Foundation for internationa programs. The remaining monies are used for a wide variety of Internationa, Community, Youth, and Vocationa service projects. See the breakdown of projects beow. CHARITABLE GIVING $247,757 Gof Tournament Beneficiary $ 25,000 Community Service $ 26,351 Vocationa Service $ 14,927 Teacher Suppy Grants $ 7,200 Youth Services $ 11,549 West Vaey Van $ 18,000 Int. Service Expend $ 51,966 Int. Service Commit $ 74,911 TRF Match $ 25,058 TOTAL CHARITABLE GIVING $247,757.2.
Message from our President Larry Dean Be the Best in your Community! That s the motto of the 195 members Cupertino Rotary, part of Rotary Internationa with over 1.3 miion in over 200 countries throughout the word. Our members strive to make a difference in our community s ife. The funds we raise are important to our core outreach projects, but more than that, there is a hands-on component in each project we do. This past year, Cupertino Rotary raised over $250,000 and depoyed those funds throughout Cupertino and the word. It is estimated our members vounteered over 7000 hours in just one year on 75 different projects working to make our community a better pace. The combination of time, taent and treasure works. Our members are ike you: they broady refect the diversity of our community who come to Cupertino for the wonderfu schoos, cimate, business opportunities and peope. Members come from a sectors and age groups of the community: they are the eaders of our oca and corporate businesses, schoos, city staff and our non-profit community organizations. They incude individuas sti in the heart of their careers, community vounteers and organizers, aong with many retirees who have had distinguished business and professiona careers. Our members do good and have fun. We treasure our friendships - Feowship is a major tenet of Rotary. Many socia events are hed during the year, such as our Chii Cook-off, Hawaiian night and food/wine pairing. Our members have formed affinity groups around common interests, such as gof, wine tasting, cooking, a book cub and much more. If you re intersted in more membership information, pease contact us at www.cupertinorotary.org A the best to you in Rotary, Larry Dean President 2011-12 President Eect Hsing Kung Become a cornerstone of the Cupertino Community: That is my goa for this Rotary year. We are aready we on our way to achieving this goa, but we can do even more by continuing to buid community bridges with a members of the community. In addition to the ongoing programs, I have severa initiatives that I hope to accompish this year. First of a, it has been five years since we ast did a strategic panning process, so we wi be updating our strategic pan. As with any organization, we need to review our current programs, organization, and operating environment to assure that we position ourseves in the best way to deiver Service Above Sef in our oca community and around the word. Secondy, as education has aways been a passion of mine, I have put together a team who wi initiate severa programs in partnership with our oca schoos incuding Cupertino Union Schoo District, the Fremont Union High Schoo District, and De Anza Coege. Finay, one key eement of Cupertino Rotary is to have fun whie doing good, so we continue to add opportunities for our members to get together for both socia activities and other team buiding efforts. I ook forward to making Cupertino Rotary the cornerstone of the Cupertino Community. Hsing Kung President 2012-2013.3.
AVENUES OF SERVICE COMMUNITY SERVICE Service Above Sef, one of Rotary s most cherished axioms is ceary demonstrated through Community Service. This year, our cub provided the buk of funding to purchase a $25K van for our partner, West Vaey Community Services. More than 1,000 hours of vounteer work hours and over $25,000 were devoted to projects that made seniors homes safer; deivered turkey and trimmings to more than 400 community residents; designed and buit a garden to hep eementary schoo students earn about sustainabe and eco-friendy produce; recognized outstanding artists and writers; and renovated two group homes for those with specia needs. In partnership with Stapes and oca PTA organizations, Rotary wi provide each teacher at Faria, Lincon, Stevens Creek and Garden Gate Schoos neary $100/ea for needed suppies to start this schoo year. Additionay, Rotarians utiized their skis as pumpkin carvers, barbeque griers, painters, buiders, panters and cheer-givers to make sure that our oca community benefited. We supported young peope and seniors, the disabed and the disadvantaged, and the hungry and the homeess. Our projects ifted the spirits of others, buit bridges to higher quaity of ives and showcased Rotary s commitment to buiding communities through service. YOUTH SERVICE Buiding confidence, sef-esteem, and eadership skis is fostered through the programs of Youth Service. The high-schoo students, caed Interactors, are mentored through Rotary Advisors. They raise money and do projects of their own design. A dozen juniors attended the Rotary Youth Leadership Academy (RYLA) Camp, a proven program for instiing the attributes of tomorrow s eaders today. Sponsorship of an inbound exchange student who attended Monta Vista High Schoo enriched many ives. Cupertino Rotary aso sponsors Gir Scout and Boy Scout troops, another path to eadership for our youth. We are proud to provide six schoarships of $1,500 to deserving DeAnza Coege students this year. Events such as our Kid s Fishing, Kid s Shopping Day and Dr. Seuss Reading Day connect our Rotarians with the younger chidren of our community-brightening their days, and buiding their skis. These annua programs deight Rotarians as we..4.
AVENUES OF SERVICE VOCATIONAL SERVICE The Vocationa Service Committee produced and deivered a Job Search Support Group that inspired, encouraged, instructed, and took action towards finding empoyment for over 192 peope. The weeky support group kept many from iving in despair by motivating them towards new opportunities to recreate their ives. Over 50% of the participants were successfu in finding jobs, thanks to our Chairs, Jim Gibson and Chuck Devine and other Rotarians who took the time to instruct, share and network with the group. Through our Vocationa Service activities, we aso granted funds to 16 teachers to et them add technoogy, fund fied trips and purchase software to inspire Cupertino high schoo students to expore our ever changing word. INTERNATIONAL SERVICE One of the strengths of Rotary is its wordwide scope. It operates in over 200 countries and territories around the word. The Rotary Cub of Cupertino partners with a wide variety of organizations to deiver services to those in need around the word. Here are just a few exampes: The Shin Shin Educationa Foundation is a Bay Area based, non-profit organization that heps construct, remode and rebuid primary schoos in the remote, rura and despondent regions of China. 325 schoos in 25 provinces or municipaities have been renovated so far. They are a strategic partner that we have worked with on severa projects incuding schoo suppies, computers, and ibrary books and equipment in ocations throughout China. Pratham, which means first in Sanskrit, was founded in the sums of Mumbai in 1994 with UNICEF support. Today, Pratham s direct urban programs, incuding pre-schoos, community ibraries and remedia earning programs reach hundreds of thousands of chidren every year. The Sankara Eye Foundation is a nonprofit organization with a mission of Vision 20/20 by the year 2020 to eiminate curabe bindness in India. Recenty, Cupertino Rotary concuded severa grants for buses for the Sankara rura outreach program..5.
FUND DEVELOPMENT Our Goba Eegance dinner has emerged as the premier fundraising event for Cupertino Rotary s Internationa endeavors around the word. It is a cassic exampe of partnering with oca and wordwide non-profits, such as the Shin-Shin Educationa Foundation, Pratham USA and the Sankara Eye Foundation to foster ife-changing projects around the word. The Cupertino Fa Festiva is Cupertino s premier Community Festiva, an annua fundraiser hed in partnership with the City of Cupertino and the Word Journa, the Bay Area s argest Chinese anguage newspaper. It is a fun and educationa event for the whoe famiy A the crab you can eat and more was in evidence at the annua Crab Feed night at St. Joseph s Parish Ha. This event is a ro up your seeves and induge for a great cause, our Youth Services programs. This year s major beneficiary of our Gof Cassic was the Hospice of the Vaey s Paiative Care Cinic. Cupertino Rotary Partners Cupertino Rotary works with a wide variety of organizations to deiver services to our community. - Cupertino Chamber of Commerce - Cupertino Union Schoo District - Foothi-DeAnza Coege District - Fremont Union High Schoo District - Live Oak Adut Day Services - Organization of Specia Needs Famiies - Sankara Eye Foundation - Shin Shin Educationa Foundation - VIA Rehabiitation Services Faith in Action Rotating Homeess Sheter - West Vaey Community Services The Northwest Y - Rebuiding Together- Quota Cub of Cupertino and many more. Thank you to a of our Corporate Sponsors....6.
CLUB HIGHLIGHTS Last year s fundraising and distribution of funds was at an a time high for the cub. We donated a van to the West Vaey Community Services by a three to one match with Seagate and Saratoga Rotary, both of whom were new sponsors this year! Our gof tournament beneficiary was Hospice of the Vaey, which went to fund the Paiative Care Program. We aso had many socias and evening meetings to shake things up a bit, so to speak. MEMBERSHIP 2011-2012 was another great year for Membership in Cupertino Rotary. We added 22 new members a record for one year. With 182 members. We are the third argest cub in our District 5170. More than that, our new members have immediatey woven themseves into the fabric of the Cub, choosing committees, causes and projects which appea to them and their experiences. We re peased to say that our membership is aso refecting the rich ethnic fabric of our Community, which fosters understanding and goodwi in new and exciting ways. Our work in the greater community and around the word is enhanced as a resut. In our Community, our Rotary District 5170 and throughout Rotary Internationa the Rotary Cub of Cupertino is truy seen as eading the way in Service Above Sef. PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Our programs are varied and attract a wide spectrum of very taented and recognized professionas to our meetings. Speakers range from poitica anaysts to renowned authors, sports authorities, economic speciaists to just fun entertainment and everything in-between. We strive for a baance of types of programs and speakers that appea to our diverse membership. Featured is a sma samping of great speakers, Dr. Larry Gerston, District Attorney Jeff Rosen, Sheriff Laurie Smith, Hon. Rod Diridon, and John Swensson, CMO of USIIC. Dr. Larry Gerston Sheriff Laurie Smith John Swensson.7.
CREF & The Legacy Society Board of Directors 2011-2012 The Endowment was conceived in 1991 as a means to aow Rotary to continue to be a vauabe contributor to oca needs in case there was some disruption to more traditiona fund raising efforts. The Endowment provides an avenue unto which oca phianthropy can be encouraged and channeed. It is a separate entity from both the Rotary Cub of Cupertino and Rotary Internationa. Its 501(C)(3) status affords individuas, famiies, trusts, foundations and corporations the abiity to contribute to charitabe causes and reaize tax benefits from such contributions. President 2011-2012 LARRY DEAN Chief Financia Office MELONIE BROPHY President Eect Nominee HSING KUNG Past President BEVERLY LENIHAN Director 2009-2012 DARRYL STOW Director 2011-2014 SAVITA VAIDHYANATHAN Director-Fund Deveopment 2011-2012 MARC HABERMAN Director 2010-2013 ROBERT HARRISON Director 2011-2014 COLLEEN HUDGEN President, CREF 2011-2012 RICHARD LOWENTHAL Secretary MARJ MANCUSO Director 2011-2012 MAHESH NIHALANI Director 2010-2013 HUNG WEI P.O. Box 637 Cupertino,CA 95015 T 408-920-2224 www.cupertinorotary.org The future of Rotary! To earn more about how The Rotary Cub of Cupertino is invoved in our community and our word, visit the Cub s website at: www.cupertinorotary.org We meet every Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. at Quinan Community Center, 10185 North Steing Road, Cupertino, CA. Pease join us as our guest.