As a part of this year's One by One Membership Initiative, introduced at our District Installation, all Rotarians have pledged, during the next Rotary year, to invite one person to a Rotary meeting, event, or service project.

 

The goal is to increase your club's net membership by one member. If every club in our District increases membership by one net member, we will have the most growth in decades.

One way to grow our membership is by enhancing our relationships with or finding new partners for our clubs to work with. When we find new ways to serve our community, our impact as an organization increases, and our community recognition grows.

 

Rotary has put out some great tips on inspiring partners to work with us. Take a moment to read and talk about it at your next club meeting!  10 Tips to Inspire Partners to Work with you on a Service Initiative.

We have 2 tickets each for the following 8 Red Sox games at Fenway Park to give away to raise money for our Rotary Foundation:

The seats are located in row 1 of the Aura Club (formerly Home Plate Pavilion Club) and have some of the best views in the ballpark (see photo on the left). The face value of these tickets is $235 per seat.

 

To participate in this fundraiser you need to submit a bid in which you commit to donate at least $400 to the Annual Fund SHARE (for both tickets together). The higher your bid, the more likely you are going to get the tickets. Please reach out to DRFC Alexander Falk via email before July 31 with a list of your preferred dates and your bid commitment.

 

Now is the perfect time to brush up on your Rotary knowledge base at the Learning Center.  The Learning Center has seen a lot of activity in the last two months of the year. Members from 49% of clubs visit the Learning Center! That's a 9% increase compared to what was shared in May.  Is your club in the 51% that have not visited The Learning Center?

 

What do you do when looking for answers to questions about all things Rotary?  Well, you are in luck.  Rotary International’s Learning Center offers many online courses/modules with information about all aspects of Rotary.

 

 All these courses are E-Learning.  They consist of videos that you can review from the convenience of your computer.  Catalog areas include:  About Rotary; Club & District Leadership; Membership; Professional Development; Public Image; Service; The Rotary Foundation.  Special shoutout to new courses on Public Speaking created in partnership with Toastmasters.  Check it out.  You will be glad you did.

 

 The Learning Center can be found here.  You will need to login with your My Rotary login.  If you do not already have one, you can follow the prompts to register.  If you have questions, please reach out to Tim Kelley.

The Rotary Club of Newburyport is proud to announce our 2024 college scholarship recipients!  We provide $15,000 in scholarships annually to local graduating seniors. Each student receives $5,000.

 

The club is greatly impressed with the following three outstanding scholarship recipients. Anna Romano from Triton received the Norman Russell Memorial Scholarship and will be attending Assumption University. The George A. Cashman Community Service Scholarship was presented to Simone Chabot from Newburyport who will be attending Providence College.  Jeremy Barry from Newburyport received the Norman Russell Memorial Scholarship and will be attending the College of William and Mary. We look forward to hearing about their future accomplishments. 

 

Pictured left to right are Salisbury Chief of Police and scholarship committee member Tom Fowler, scholarship recipients Simone Chabot, Jeremy Barry, and Anna Romano, Newburyport Public Schools Superintendent Sean Gallagher, scholarship committee member Susan Viccaro, and scholarship committee member Guillermo Molina.

Has your club recently hosted an event or project or are you planning something in the near future that you would like to share with your fellow District 7930 Rotarians?

 

The weekly eBulletin depends on the content provided by clubs, so please submit your stories and we will publish them on the district website and in the next eBulletin. Stories that showcase your club or event should be submitted via the website portal at this link.  Your club's successes and events can give inspiration to other Rotarians.

 

The deadline for submitting items for the weekly District 7930 eBulletin is Friday morning in order to be included in the following Monday's edition.  If the eBulletin being prepared is getting to be too long and the story submitted is not time-sensitive, we may choose to delay including it until the following week.

 

For some guidelines on creating stories, please read more!