Global Grant Scholarship, valued at $30,000 USD

Each year Rotary District 6330 selects one student to receive a Global Grant Scholarship, valued at $30,000 USD, to fund one year graduate-level study at a university outside of Canada or the United States in 2021-2022, leading to a career in one of Rotary’s seven areas of focus.

Interested applicants should

1. Go to the Rotary District 6330 web site https://rotary6330.org/sitepage/global-grant-scholarship

and download: • Global Grants Scholar Application • Rotary Foundation Global Grant Scholarships – Terms and Conditions

Rotary Celebrates 50 years of Youth Exchange!

Did you miss RI Past President Barry Rasin on our District Zoom Call?

Here is the link to the District Zoom Webinar that was held yesterday, September 1^st, 2020 with our special guest RI Past President Barry Rasin. He talks about how Rotary responded during and after Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas.

https://youtu.be/hlPsFTx8HDg

September 1^st marks the 1 year anniversary of Hurricane Dorian hitting the Bahamas. Here is a Documentary that was only completed on August 30, 2020 so it is fresh and well done, here is the link;

https://youtu.be/Inaukxoye8E

Please consider a donation to the Rotary Foundation to help support this and other important projects; https://my.rotary.org/en/donate

Nominations for District Governor for 2023-24

WANTED – Nominations for District Governor
for 2023-24

Each year we call upon our Clubs to explore with the members of their Club the exciting opportunity to serve as District Governor.

District 6330 selects a District Governor by Nominating Committee.

Nominations for District Governor to serve during the Rotary year 2023-2024 are now being accepted until October 31^st 2020.

Members in good standing who are willing and able to serve as District Governor and have served as Club President are eligible to be nominated. Qualifications and responsibilities of the Governor-Nominee can be found in the 2019 Manual of Procedure Article 16.010 Qualifications of a Governor Nominee.

African Region declared free of wild poliovirus

Posted by Ryan Hyland

Rotary and its GPEI partners celebrate a monumental achievement, say global eradication of wild polio is possible with the continued dedication and persistence of Rotarians

The World Health Organization (WHO) on 25 August announced that transmission of the wild poliovirus has officially been stopped in all 47 countries of its African region. This is a historic and vital step toward global eradication of polio, which is Rotary’s top priority.

Creatures of Habit

The twisted and radical thoughts of a Rotary membership specialist.

For a number of years, successive Rotary International leaders have been calling for disruption. Well, now we have it. COVID-19 clearly wasn't what they had in mind, but I'd suggest it will act as the biggest peacetime disruptor Rotary has ever seen.

I recently received a phone call out of the blue from a Rotary friend interstate. I won't name him here, but he is a fellow maverick and out-of-the-box thinker with an impressive record of membership development across a number of clubs, and a fellow new club initiator. He rang me to ask if I had any thoughts on how COVID-19 would affect Rotary's membership. My initial response was that I hadn't really had time to think about it. I've recently had a change in career path and Rotary has fallen a rung or two on my list of priorities.

The District Website is getting a Makeover!

The changes will help make the website more user-friendly and easier to navigate. Over the next few months, you will notice changes to the menus, layout, and format of the website and subpages. Please be patient as we work through completing these. If you have suggestions for changes you'd like to see, please let us know by contacting d6330@gmail.com.

Come take a look!

https://www.rotary6330.org

Shelterbox's September Newsletter

20 YEARS OF CHALLENGES: ShelterBox Adapts to Overcome

ShelterBox is not new to working in challenging situations. Flexibility and adaptation are inherent to the way we work with communities after disaster all over the world. Flexibility is important to ensure that communities receive the tools that they need to foster self-recovery. Adaptation fuels innovation as we monitor how aid is used and can be improved upon to better support those using it.

“We are flexible. We know that some of the families we help will be impatient to rebuild and strengthen their homes, while others don’t have the capacity or opportunity to start doing this straight away. Creating a home is a process that takes time and we support families to continue on that journey.”
- Dave Ray, ShelterBox Operations Coordinator

Looking for New Fund Raising Ideas?

If your looking for new Fund Raising Ideas, have a look at our NEW IDEAS PAGE!

Some of the suggestions we have and if you have a great idea you would like to share with other clubs all the better! Feel free to share them here!

Make sure you check out the Google spreadsheet at the bottom of the page with 30 more fundraising ideas for you!

https://www.rotary6330.org/page/fund-raising-ideas

Polio and Covid-19

PolioPlus Responding to the Covid-19 Challenge

Rotary's worldwide Polio Plus program has not only nearly eradicated the disease, it has created an infrastructure which is now being utilized to fight Covid-19. Read what Mike McGovern, Chair of the Rotary International PolioPlus Committee and John Germ, Past Rotary International President and Chair of the Polio Countdown to History Committee report about Rotary's Covid-19 response.

Learning Centre

Finding yourself with extra time on your hands? Why not brush up on your Rotary knowledge and skills from the comfort and safety of your own home.

Check it out at https://my.rotary.org/en/learning-reference

Stories, not stats, attract people to Rotary

(from Rotary Voices - May 29, 2019) - By Joe Otin, governor-elect of Rotary District 9212 (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan)

I gravitate naturally to statistics despite the negative feelings some people have about them. I think that information is the fuel that our world runs on and without it our systems will sputter, stall, and shut down. That is because statistics are significant in decision making.

When I joined the Rotary Club of Nairobi East, Kenya, 19 years ago, I was told that good Rotarians were defined by the regularity of their attendance, the frequency of their gifts to The Rotary Foundation, and most importantly by their ability to introduce new members to the club.

But that is not what attracts people to Rotary ... to learn more - Read the rest of this post

Council on Legislation

The Council On Legislation (COL) is held once every three years with the 2019 cycle recently concluded in Chicago, Illinois from April 14 through April 18, 2019. 116 proposed enactments plus one RI board proposed position statement were presented, 47 were adopted, 55 were rejected and 15 were withdrawn. Of the 47 pieces of adopted legislation 6 items were of direct consequence to clubs.

Weekly Polio Update; Africa Down!

Polio This Week 15 September, 2020

Welcome New Members to Rotary Basics

Are you unsure where to start with your new member orientation? Have members learn more about Rotary and even test their knowledge with the new Rotary Basics course in the Learning Center. They’ll read about Rotarians from around the world, learn about our values and causes, and deepen their understanding of Rotary through this interactive course.

The Rotary Basics course was designed for new Rotarians, but it’s also a great refresher for other members — and even nonmembers — who want to know more about Rotary.

To take the class, use the link above. Anyone who isn’t signed in to My Rotary will be prompted to do so before going to the Learning Center.

Jennifer E. Jones makes history, becomes first woman named Rotary president-nominee

Jennifer Jones, of the Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland, Ontario, Canada, is the selection of the Nominating Committee for President of Rotary International for 2022-23.

Clubs made to order

These clubs keep things fresh with new ideas and new members.

The world stopped. They didn’t

These 10 workers put service above self when it counted most

Rotarian Tunji Funsho named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the world

TIME 100 recognized Funsho for his instrumental leadership and work with Rotary members and partners to achieve the eradication of wild polio in the African region.

Nigerian physician Dr. Tunji Funsho named one of TIME’s Most Influential People in the world