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
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1. Getting Started Take responsibility to make it happen in your club – Start with your passion Water, literacy, health, etc.--or Region + Needs – Get.
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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?
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
• 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.
Lending
Literacy etc.
CommunityNeeds
Slow, Reduce:• “1 of” Projects• Donor-dependency• Supply- or Grant-driven
Think, Identify & Use:• Community Solutions• Empowerment• Use alternatives with• Local materials, jobs,