1. Getting Started

1. Getting Started

Take responsibility to make it happen in your club– Start with your passion

Water, literacy, health, etc.--or Region + Needs– Get club President & Board Support– Get a WCS line item budget commitment– Recruit committee members– Learn, study; develop experience & skills

2. Do Some Basic Homework

Read about Humanitarian Service on www.Rotary.org and D5100WCS.org including:

Guide to Matching Grants (form 141en at www.Rotary.org/RIdocuments) http://bit.ly/I7Nh7s

Study the booklets, forms, spreadsheets & checklist on our District 5100 website– D5100WCS.org

Imagine you lived in the village … how would you assess, prioritize & begin to meet needs?

3. Attend Our Project Exchanges/Workshops

District Level: Every 3rd Wednesday at the District Office in Wilsonville– 4:00-5:30 PM– Ask to be on Pmail list

[email protected] [email protected] (after June 30)

Attend a successful club’s International Service committee meeting– List available on our website

4. Finding a Project--1

Team up with a project underway with another club in our district– $500 to $5,000– Come to our monthly exchanges, read pmail, notes– Call clubs … collaborate

Find available projects: D5100WCS.org, MatchingGrants.org, ProjectLink and Wasrag.org– Homework & due diligence is always required

4. Finding a Project--2

Use existing connections & relationships:– Y.E. & G.S.E.– Friendship Exchange– Personal travel, International Business

Project Fairs – in person or electronic Partners in Service RAGM.org … Wasrag.org … other RAGs

5. What do we mean Sustainable?

• Deliverable/benefit lasts indefinitely; for a lifetime– TRF Definition: Sustainability is the capacity for

maintaining outcomes long‐term to serve the ongoing need of a community after grant funds have been expended.

• Essential elements of sustainability:– technical solution, issues– social & cultural factors– financial & business-like elements– empowerment & community self-sufficiency

• some examples …

Key concept

in Upcoming

Vision

Needs Assist Sustainability

Community

Development

Personal

Sustainability

Water-Sanit-Hyg.

LendingLiteracy

etc.

Slow, Reduce:• “1 of” Projects• Donor-dependency• Supply- or Grant-driven

Think, Identify & Use:• Community Solutions• Empowerment• Use alternatives with• Local materials, jobs,

manufacture, skills• Vision & Path to Future• Monitor, Measure• Evaluate & Learn

6. Other Elements of Successful Project

• Appeals to Hearts & Head (greatly improves human condition)

• Reliable long-term partner (reputation, checklist)

• Community & members volunteerism, commitment

• Meets Area of Focus, Terms & Conditions• Fiscally sound, with stewardship process• Optimizes use of $$ (aka “bang for buck”)

6. Other Elements of Success (cont’d)

• Measurable Outcome – Evaluate it• Repeatable, Growable, Generalizeable• Adopt-a-village, -area, -watershed, -country• Add-in features (WaSH > stoves; School >

literacy, compost>crops, microlending>enterprise)– follow community lead on needs, priorities

• Plan to visit, to share, to promote ... to celebrate ... and repeat. Be infectious!

7. Resources:

• RI Communities In Action booklet 605a & RI Community Assessment Tools 605c

• Rotary.org – Future Vision materials, training– FV Resources page http://bit.ly/Il8sgP

• Vocation Training Teams (VTT) can support International & Vocational service

• TRF Performance Enhancement Program– Wasrag other RAGs and Areas of Focus

8. Have Fun!

It’s not only the end product of the project, and all the good it may do …

Also about the process and friendships you build along the way.

Collaborate - do more than you could ever do on your own!

Ron [email protected]

www.D5100WCS.ORG

Thank You!

Stew [email protected]