The Tilton Northfield Book Award Program ( Unlike a Scholarship which can count against a student’s financial awards This award the student may use toward tuition or Books and is paid directly to the student ) was established to benefit students who reside (or resided) in Tilton, Northfield or Sanbornton during Grades 9-12 and are pursuing post-secondary education.
This Program represents the Rotary Club’s commitment to helping families support advanced educational opportunities for their children. This is only one way in which the Tilton Northfield Rotary Club gives back to its surrounding communities. The awards are funded through various Rotary fundraising activities throughout the year, such as our Corn Hole tournament. These awards are made based upon scholastic achievement, participation in extracurricular activities, community service and demonstrated financial need.
The deadline for this application is May 1st, 2023 Please return to your school’s guidance office or mail to T-N Rotary Club, PO Box 679, Tilton, NH 03276
The Tilton Northfield Book Award Program ( Unlike a Scholarship which can count against a student’s financial awards This award the student may use toward tuition or Books and is paid directly to the student ) was established to benefit students who reside (or resided) in Tilton, Northfield or Sanbornton during Grades 9-12 and are pursuing post-secondary education.
This Program represents the Rotary Club’s commitment to helping families support advanced educational opportunities for their children. This is only one way in which the Tilton Northfield Rotary Club gives back to its surrounding communities. The awards are funded through various Rotary fundraising activities throughout the year, such as our Corn Hole tournament. These awards are made based upon scholastic achievement, participation in extracurricular activities, community service and demonstrated financial need.
The deadline for this application is May 1st, 2023 Please return to your school’s guidance office or mail to T-N Rotary Club, PO Box 679, Tilton, NH 03276
If You would like an application, PLEASE EMAIL tiltonnorthfieldrotaryclub@gmail.com or see your guidance counselor at WRHS.
ROTARY RELEASES $34.8 MILLION FOR POLIO IMMUNIZATION ACTIVITIES WORLDWIDE
Female polio health workers providing the polio vaccine during
the National Immunization Days in Kano Northern Nigeria.
Photo Credit: Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Rotary International released an additional $34.8 million in grants to support polio immunization activities in 10 countries, including Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan, the three countries where the disease has never been stopped.
The funds, whose release was announced 20 January, will be used by the World Health Organization and UNICEF for polio immunization and surveillance activities in the 10 countries, as well as to provide technical assistance in several other countries in Africa.
The grants include $8.1 million for Nigeria to support its final push to eradicate the disease. Nigeria experienced a nearly 90 percent reduction in cases in 2014 compared with the previous year, and hasn't registered a new case of polio in the last six months.
"Nigeria has managed an incredible feat," says Dr. Tunji Funsho, Rotary's PolioPlus chair for Nigeria. "However, now we must be more vigilant than ever, as our progress is fragile."
Commitment to polio eradication from all levels of the Nigerian government has proved crucial to the country's recent progress. Disease experts are urging political leaders to maintain this focus as national elections approach next month.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, in which Rotary is a partner, made significant progress against polio in 2014 in most places. More than half of the world's cases in 2013 were the result of outbreaks in previously polio-free countries, largely caused by instability and conflict in countries including Syria, Iraq, and Somalia. The outbreaks appear to have been stopped last year following special vaccination efforts in 11 countries that reached more than 56 million children.
"We are encouraged to see the tangible progress made against this disease in 2014," says Mike McGovern, chair of Rotary's International PolioPlus Committee. "However, until we eliminate polio from its final reservoirs, children everywhere are at risk from this disease. Rotary -- along with our partners -- will work hard to ensure that the world's most vulnerable children are kept safe from polio."
One less promising spot in the polio eradication fight has been Pakistan, which saw an explosive outbreak totaling more than 300 cases in 2014, the most there in more than a decade. As a result, Pakistan accounted for almost 90 percent of the world's cases last year.
Pakistan will receive $1.1 million of the funds that Rotary is releasing to support eradication efforts there. In addition, the grants include $6.7 million in Afghanistan, $7 million in Somalia, $3.3 million in Democratic Republic of Congo, $2.8 million in Niger, $2.5 million in Chad, $1.6 million in Cameroun, $1.1 million in Ethiopia, and $250,000 in Kenya. A total of $321,000 will provide technical assistance in Africa.
To date, Rotary has contributed more than $1.3 billion to fight polio. Through 2018, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will match 2-to-1 every dollar that Rotary commits to polio eradication (up to $35 million a year). In 2014, there were only 350 confirmed polio cases in the world, down from about 350,000 a year when the initiative began in 1988.
SAN FRANCISCO CLUB REVEALS FORMULA FOR GROWTH AND RETENTION OF MEMBERS
Members of the Rotary Club of San Francisco Evening take
a break during a project in Guatemala with Hug it Forward.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Danielle Lallement/Rotary Club
of San Francisco Evening
Members of the Rotary Club of San Francisco Evening meet three times a month at a wine bar after work, share a social outing once a month, and promote all their activities on social media like Meetup and Facebook.
As the first evening club in the city, it has attracted many young professionals from Silicon Valley tech firms whose work schedules keep them from joining a more traditional club that meets for breakfast or lunch. But more than the evening format has helped the club grow by 30 percent since it received its charter in mid-2013.
Danielle Lallement, who was its charter president, says the club has been successful because it accommodates members' preferences.
"The majority of our members are in their 30s and 40s, and their financial and work obligations outside the club are great, so we cater to their needs," she says. "We are extremely flexible with our members, their attendance, their payment options, and expectations."
For example, almost half the members are citizens of countries other than the U.S., so leaders dropped the pledge of allegiance at the beginning of meetings. In addition, members can easily schedule recurring dues payments online, and a PayPal credit card reader is brought to meetings to facilitate dues payment. Early on, members also decided they wanted the last meeting of the month to be a social event. Members have attended the San Francisco Ballet, visited a karaoke bar, played miniature golf, and worked with a golf pro to improve their swings.
Members are asked to attend at least half of all meetings but aren't pressured if they can't, especially if life events like marriage, a baby's arrival, or an increased workload claim more of their time. Club officers frequently use Skype or a conference line to join board meetings they can't attend in person.
SPREADING THE WORD VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
Lallement was a member of the Rotary Club of Sparks, Nevada, before a job change brought her to San Francisco. After discovering that the city lacked an evening club, she formed a core group of other former Rotary members and they began attending networking events to get the word out. They met at the San Francisco Food Bank for their first service project and announced it on Meetup, attracting several new members as a result.
"Depending on the event, we would have at least two new people find us," she says. "Advertising on social media has been a big promoter for us."
In addition to posting its activities on Facebook and Meetup, the club uses Eventbrite to promote and sell tickets to social events. And club members stay connected through Twitter and LinkedIn.
IMPORTANCE OF PROJECTS
Lallement, who is a registered nurse, also knew that service is important, because young people want to "get their hands dirty." With her Nevada club, she had taken part in a de-worming project and a polio immunization trip in Ghana, helped to repair cleft lips in India, and handed out bed nets to fight malaria in Zambia.
The San Francisco Evening club has partnered with the nonprofit Hug It Forward and five other Rotary clubs to mix and pour cement for a high school in Guatemala. The club was also awarded its first district grant last year for a Seed for America project that provided free training in computer programming to students in San Francisco. Other projects closer to home have included cleaning up trails and digging trenches at San Francisco's Mount Sutro and joining with Interact club members to build houses for Habitat for Humanity.
Though the club was the first evening option in the city for Rotary members, it's no longer the only one in the area. Its success has led to the creation of the Rotary Club of Rafael Evening, and two provisional clubs Mid-Peninsula Evening and San Francisco SOMA.
"The idea has really taken off," Lallement says. "There's no reason this can't be done anywhere."
Rotary International is the world's first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
ClubRunner makes it easy to publish your weekly Club eBulletin, and send to all members and friends of the club, by incorporating home page stories and events with the push of a button.
ClubRunner will also include a reminder to each recipient for all registrations and club related commitments including event attendance, volunteering tasks, weekly meeting duty roster, and any responsibilities associated with new membership tasks. The eBulletin will automatically include the club's upcoming speaker program and automatically link content back to the corresponding landing page on the website to make it easier for members and visitors to get more information as well as promote general awareness of your new website.
ClubRunner secures all your private information using the latest security technologies. Hosted in a world class data centre with redundant power, Internet backbones and 24/7 security and monitoring, you can rest assured that your club data is safe and protected. Your members' contact information is secured behind unique logins and passwords. Access to information is also restricted, for example, a member can only view the list of members, but can modify his or her own personal information.
Data on the server is protected by TCP/IP filtering, firewall and anti-virus software that protect against any unauthorized intrusion. Backups of data are made daily and stored off-site.
Your information is kept private and is not shared with any third parties. To review ClubRunner's Privacy Policy, visit www.clubrunner.ca, or look for the link on the footer of every page on ClubRunner's site.
The Tilton Northfield Book Award Program ( Unlike a Scholarship which can count against a student’s financial awards This award the student may use toward tuition or Books and is paid directly to the student ) was established to benefit students who reside (or resided) in Tilton, Northfield or Sanbornton during Grades 9-12 and are pursuing post-secondary education.
This Program represents the Rotary Club’s commitment to helping families support advanced educational opportunities for their children. This is only one way in which the Tilton Northfield Rotary Club gives back to its surrounding communities. The awards are funded through various Rotary fundraising activities throughout the year, such as our Corn Hole tournament. These awards are made based upon scholastic achievement, participation in extracurricular activities, community service and demonstrated financial need.
The deadline for this application is May 1st, 2023 Please return to your school’s guidance office or mail to T-N Rotary Club, PO Box 679, Tilton, NH 03276
The Tilton Northfield Book Award Program ( Unlike a Scholarship which can count against a student’s financial awards This award the student may use toward tuition or Books and is paid directly to the student ) was established to benefit students who reside (or resided) in Tilton, Northfield or Sanbornton during Grades 9-12 and are pursuing post-secondary education.
This Program represents the Rotary Club’s commitment to helping families support advanced educational opportunities for their children. This is only one way in which the Tilton Northfield Rotary Club gives back to its surrounding communities. The awards are funded through various Rotary fundraising activities throughout the year, such as our Corn Hole tournament. These awards are made based upon scholastic achievement, participation in extracurricular activities, community service and demonstrated financial need.
The deadline for this application is May 1st, 2023 Please return to your school’s guidance office or mail to T-N Rotary Club, PO Box 679, Tilton, NH 03276
If You would like an application, PLEASE EMAIL tiltonnorthfieldrotaryclub@gmail.com or see your guidance counselor at WRHS.
ROTARY RELEASES $34.8 MILLION FOR POLIO IMMUNIZATION ACTIVITIES WORLDWIDE
Female polio health workers providing the polio vaccine during
the National Immunization Days in Kano Northern Nigeria.
Photo Credit: Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Rotary International released an additional $34.8 million in grants to support polio immunization activities in 10 countries, including Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan, the three countries where the disease has never been stopped.
The funds, whose release was announced 20 January, will be used by the World Health Organization and UNICEF for polio immunization and surveillance activities in the 10 countries, as well as to provide technical assistance in several other countries in Africa.
The grants include $8.1 million for Nigeria to support its final push to eradicate the disease. Nigeria experienced a nearly 90 percent reduction in cases in 2014 compared with the previous year, and hasn't registered a new case of polio in the last six months.
"Nigeria has managed an incredible feat," says Dr. Tunji Funsho, Rotary's PolioPlus chair for Nigeria. "However, now we must be more vigilant than ever, as our progress is fragile."
Commitment to polio eradication from all levels of the Nigerian government has proved crucial to the country's recent progress. Disease experts are urging political leaders to maintain this focus as national elections approach next month.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, in which Rotary is a partner, made significant progress against polio in 2014 in most places. More than half of the world's cases in 2013 were the result of outbreaks in previously polio-free countries, largely caused by instability and conflict in countries including Syria, Iraq, and Somalia. The outbreaks appear to have been stopped last year following special vaccination efforts in 11 countries that reached more than 56 million children.
"We are encouraged to see the tangible progress made against this disease in 2014," says Mike McGovern, chair of Rotary's International PolioPlus Committee. "However, until we eliminate polio from its final reservoirs, children everywhere are at risk from this disease. Rotary -- along with our partners -- will work hard to ensure that the world's most vulnerable children are kept safe from polio."
One less promising spot in the polio eradication fight has been Pakistan, which saw an explosive outbreak totaling more than 300 cases in 2014, the most there in more than a decade. As a result, Pakistan accounted for almost 90 percent of the world's cases last year.
Pakistan will receive $1.1 million of the funds that Rotary is releasing to support eradication efforts there. In addition, the grants include $6.7 million in Afghanistan, $7 million in Somalia, $3.3 million in Democratic Republic of Congo, $2.8 million in Niger, $2.5 million in Chad, $1.6 million in Cameroun, $1.1 million in Ethiopia, and $250,000 in Kenya. A total of $321,000 will provide technical assistance in Africa.
To date, Rotary has contributed more than $1.3 billion to fight polio. Through 2018, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will match 2-to-1 every dollar that Rotary commits to polio eradication (up to $35 million a year). In 2014, there were only 350 confirmed polio cases in the world, down from about 350,000 a year when the initiative began in 1988.
SAN FRANCISCO CLUB REVEALS FORMULA FOR GROWTH AND RETENTION OF MEMBERS
Members of the Rotary Club of San Francisco Evening take
a break during a project in Guatemala with Hug it Forward.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Danielle Lallement/Rotary Club
of San Francisco Evening
Members of the Rotary Club of San Francisco Evening meet three times a month at a wine bar after work, share a social outing once a month, and promote all their activities on social media like Meetup and Facebook.
As the first evening club in the city, it has attracted many young professionals from Silicon Valley tech firms whose work schedules keep them from joining a more traditional club that meets for breakfast or lunch. But more than the evening format has helped the club grow by 30 percent since it received its charter in mid-2013.
Danielle Lallement, who was its charter president, says the club has been successful because it accommodates members' preferences.
"The majority of our members are in their 30s and 40s, and their financial and work obligations outside the club are great, so we cater to their needs," she says. "We are extremely flexible with our members, their attendance, their payment options, and expectations."
For example, almost half the members are citizens of countries other than the U.S., so leaders dropped the pledge of allegiance at the beginning of meetings. In addition, members can easily schedule recurring dues payments online, and a PayPal credit card reader is brought to meetings to facilitate dues payment. Early on, members also decided they wanted the last meeting of the month to be a social event. Members have attended the San Francisco Ballet, visited a karaoke bar, played miniature golf, and worked with a golf pro to improve their swings.
Members are asked to attend at least half of all meetings but aren't pressured if they can't, especially if life events like marriage, a baby's arrival, or an increased workload claim more of their time. Club officers frequently use Skype or a conference line to join board meetings they can't attend in person.
SPREADING THE WORD VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
Lallement was a member of the Rotary Club of Sparks, Nevada, before a job change brought her to San Francisco. After discovering that the city lacked an evening club, she formed a core group of other former Rotary members and they began attending networking events to get the word out. They met at the San Francisco Food Bank for their first service project and announced it on Meetup, attracting several new members as a result.
"Depending on the event, we would have at least two new people find us," she says. "Advertising on social media has been a big promoter for us."
In addition to posting its activities on Facebook and Meetup, the club uses Eventbrite to promote and sell tickets to social events. And club members stay connected through Twitter and LinkedIn.
IMPORTANCE OF PROJECTS
Lallement, who is a registered nurse, also knew that service is important, because young people want to "get their hands dirty." With her Nevada club, she had taken part in a de-worming project and a polio immunization trip in Ghana, helped to repair cleft lips in India, and handed out bed nets to fight malaria in Zambia.
The San Francisco Evening club has partnered with the nonprofit Hug It Forward and five other Rotary clubs to mix and pour cement for a high school in Guatemala. The club was also awarded its first district grant last year for a Seed for America project that provided free training in computer programming to students in San Francisco. Other projects closer to home have included cleaning up trails and digging trenches at San Francisco's Mount Sutro and joining with Interact club members to build houses for Habitat for Humanity.
Though the club was the first evening option in the city for Rotary members, it's no longer the only one in the area. Its success has led to the creation of the Rotary Club of Rafael Evening, and two provisional clubs Mid-Peninsula Evening and San Francisco SOMA.
"The idea has really taken off," Lallement says. "There's no reason this can't be done anywhere."
Rotary International is the world's first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
ClubRunner makes it easy to publish your weekly Club eBulletin, and send to all members and friends of the club, by incorporating home page stories and events with the push of a button.
ClubRunner will also include a reminder to each recipient for all registrations and club related commitments including event attendance, volunteering tasks, weekly meeting duty roster, and any responsibilities associated with new membership tasks. The eBulletin will automatically include the club's upcoming speaker program and automatically link content back to the corresponding landing page on the website to make it easier for members and visitors to get more information as well as promote general awareness of your new website.
ClubRunner secures all your private information using the latest security technologies. Hosted in a world class data centre with redundant power, Internet backbones and 24/7 security and monitoring, you can rest assured that your club data is safe and protected. Your members' contact information is secured behind unique logins and passwords. Access to information is also restricted, for example, a member can only view the list of members, but can modify his or her own personal information.
Data on the server is protected by TCP/IP filtering, firewall and anti-virus software that protect against any unauthorized intrusion. Backups of data are made daily and stored off-site.
Your information is kept private and is not shared with any third parties. To review ClubRunner's Privacy Policy, visit www.clubrunner.ca, or look for the link on the footer of every page on ClubRunner's site.
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