In this holiday season

we wish you joy and peace

in the coming year

 

Terry Curran, District Governor

Alexander Falk, District Governor Elect

Lori Karas, District Governor Nominee

Tom Hankard, District Governor Nominee Designate

This a great opportunity to engage or re-engage your interact advisors and students.  The project is simple.  I am having one of the clubs put through a District Managed Grant for $6,000, which the District is funding. We are going to use Kiva as a microfinance platform, because we've already had great experience with it both with some Rotarians in our district using it, as well as the Marblehead Interact Club using it successfully for many years. We plan to create separate accounts on Kiva for each Interact Club that wants to participate. The accounts will be set up in the Rotary Club's name but you should provide the Interact Club with the login information and let your Interactors decide which projects to fund.  As the loans are repaid over time the funds go back into your account and are available to be re-loaned.

 

Rotary Clubs need to apply by December 30th to participate in this program. There is an online application here and clubs and interactors should watch the MicroFinance YouTube video on our District Website or by clicking here.

 

Once we know how many Rotary/Interact Clubs will be participating we will divide the grant money equally and set up the accounts.

 

 

The Lynnfield Rotary Interact Club is up and running this year, rejuvenated by the energy of Lynnfield High School Interact Officers Sophia Calle, Abigail Travers, Isabela George, Harrison Grasso and their peers. In November, Lynnfield Interact sponsored a donation drive for Veterans in collaboration with Operation Troop Support!  Boxes of warm socks and writing supplies were collected and donated to troops overseas.  Also in November, Interact Members organized a group of their peers to help stuff SWAG bags for the annual Lynnfield Rotary 5K Turkey Trot road race. Also for the race, Interact members were stationed along key points across the course to keep runners on track!  Finally, and most impressive, they came up with their own club fundraiser.  They sold raffle tickets for Holiday Gift Baskets at the annual Thanksgiving Day football game, at the Turkey Trot, and at the Annual Tree Lighting on the Common netting $290 for their club!  They have been seen out and about serving Lynnfield this fall.

 

We can't wait to see what their next service project is! 

Belle Isle Rotary Club has submitted a District Managed Grant to support campers from East Boston to Camp Rotary.

 

For those Clubs without Interact Clubs (or even for Clubs with Interacts), please consider supporting the District Managed Grant from Belle Isle Rotary Club.  It will support 10 students from the Salesian Boys & Girls Club in East Boston to go to Camp Rotary for a week this summer. This experience will make a lasting impact on these children, who otherwise will never experience summer camp.  It will also support Camp Rotary as it enters its 100th year. 

 

Donations to support this can be sent to Belle Isle Rotary c/o Tom Hankard, 14 Edgehill Road, Winthrop, MA 02152. Please add Camp Rotary to the memo line.

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.

 

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.

 

If you want some guidelines on creating stories, please read more!