Zone 33-34 October 2016 Newsleer Mid-Atlanc and Southeastern USA, the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, French Guiana and Suriname Help. I have fallen and cannot get up. A few days ago, I came across the below links by accident and cannot remember how it happened. They contained a wealth of information. Please pick me up by sending a Letter to the Editor with instructions - PDG Bill Strickland (D6910) [email protected]. Online Tools Rotary Club Central Brand Center Rotary Showcase Rotary Ideas Learning Center Discussion Groups While you are at, let Bill know what your club or district is doing for Rotary's fourth World Polio Day celebra- tion, on October 24. ROTARY SERVING HUMANITY Zones 33/34 Director 2016-2018 Joe Mulkerrin 100.00 Rating from Charity Navigator Charity Navigator is the naon’s largest and most-ulized evaluator of charies. In its quest to help donors, its team of professional analysts has examined tens of thousands of non-profit financial documents. It has used this knowledge to develop an unbiased, objecve, numbers-based rang system to assess over 7,000 of America’s best-known and some lesser known, but worthy, charies. Specifically, Charity Navigator’s rang system examines two broad areas of a charity’s performance; their Financial Health and their Accountability & Transparency. Its rangs show givers how efficiently it believes a charity will use their support today, how well it has sustained its programs and services over me and their level of commitment to good governance, best pracces and openness with informaon. It provides these rangs so that charitable givers/ social investors can make intelligent giving decisions, and so that the nonprofit sector can improve its performance. The Rotary Foundaon of Rotary Internaonal, enabling Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace, achieved a 100.00 rang from Charity Navigator. This rang was published 09/01/2016 and includes data from FY2014, the most recent 990 received at that me. By PDG Betsy Owen, RPIC Zone 34, D6930
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Zone 33-34
October 2016 Newsletter
Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern USA, the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, French Guiana and Suriname
Help. I have fallen and cannot get up. A few days ago, I came across the below links by accident and cannot
remember how it happened. They contained a wealth of information. Please pick me up by sending a Letter
to the Editor with instructions - PDG Bill Strickland (D6910) [email protected].
Online Tools
Rotary Club Central Brand Center Rotary Showcase Rotary Ideas Learning Center Discussion Groups
While you are at, let Bill know what your club or district is doing for Rotary's fourth World Polio Day celebra-tion, on October 24.
ROTARY SERVING HUMANITY
Zones 33/34 Director 2016-2018
Joe Mulkerrin
100.00 Rating from Charity Navigator Charity Navigator is the nation’s largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities. In its quest to help donors, its team of professional analysts has examined tens of thousands of non-profit financial documents. It has used this knowledge to develop an unbiased, objective, numbers-based rating system to assess over 7,000 of America’s best-known and some lesser known, but worthy, charities. Specifically, Charity Navigator’s rating system examines two broad areas of a charity’s performance; their Financial Health and their Accountability & Transparency. Its ratings show givers how efficiently it believes a charity will use their support today, how well it has sustained its programs and services over time and their level of commitment to good governance, best practices and openness with information. It provides these ratings so that charitable givers/ social investors can make intelligent giving decisions, and so that the nonprofit sector can improve its performance. The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, enabling Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace, achieved a 100.00 rating from Charity Navigator. This rating was published 09/01/2016 and includes data from FY2014, the most recent 990 received at that time.
2017 Polio NID to India Rotary Zones 33&34 Serving Humanity
Why Do You Do That?
I walk into a meeting at a client’s office who happens to be the CEO of this particular company which I do many times
a week in my profession as a contract CFO. As we prepare for the meeting, the normal casualties are exchanged such
as, “How are you?”, “How was your weekend?” My response most times has something to do with Rotary or Rotary
Youth Exchange such as, “I’m great, got to play golf with our exchange student. It was her first time playing golf here
in the U.S.” I see eyebrows raise and their response, “Why do you do that, host exchange students, with your sched-
ule, you must be crazy?”
This is when I smile ear-to-ear and repeat their question back to them, “Why do I do it? I’m so glad you ask, let me tell
you why I do it and why you should consider it too.” I beamed with pride when I explain that Rotary Youth Exchange
students are some of the bravest people I know. I rank them right up there with my law enforcement husband in the
bravery category. To be so young, sometimes between 15-18 years old, to go to a country they may have never been,
a language they may not speak, to live with a family they may not have met yet, go to school that may be so different
than their own, integrate into a community they will live for a year, and volunteer with their local Rotary club(s).
“Don’t you think that is brave?”
“When you put it that way, they are brave, but still why do YOU do it, the hosting that is?” This gives me a great op-
portunity to tell the CEO or executive about Rotary and the mission of Rotary. I share my Rotary stories, my volunteer
work, my passion for peace in the world, and accomplishing this through the power of Rotary and Rotary Youth Ex-
change. Being part of this exchange program allows my husband and I an opportunity to have a son/daughter enter
our lives; mentor the life of a future world, community, and/or business leader; be part of the development of a shy,
scared person to a bold, strong and confident young adult in less than a year; to give a student the chance to experi-
ence our American culture and to be able to experience theirs; the family conversations of cultural differences and
similarities is intriguing; gaining another family across the globe; and developing those relationships in various conti-
nents to attempt to understand world peace through our knowledge of each other and our cultures.
Each time I share the story(ies), I ask the next question, “You seem to want to know more about Rotary and Rotary
needs great people like yourself, would you like to come to my next Rotary club meeting with me?” Just this week, I
got two (2) yeses. For those CEOs not located in my area, I attempt to locate a Rotary club in their area and reach out
to that club to see about this CEO possibly attending their Rotary club.
For me, my Rotary Youth Exchange experience fills the Rotary motto, Service Above Self, and helps me develop strong
potential membership candidates for my local and international Rotary club(s). My question to you is, “Why Do You
NOT Do It?”
For more information about Rotary Youth Exchange, visit www.ryeflorida.org or https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/take-action/empower-leaders/start-exchange
By PDG Terri M. Wescott, ARC, D6930
Editor’s Comments
RID Joe asked for you to tell the rest of the Zone what your District did for the World Polio Day. Please send me a
small write up and a few pictures. I look forward to seeing each of you in Charlotte next week at our Zone Institute.