Halifax Harbourside Rotary Club Assembly Notes 11/01/12

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Halifax Harbourside Rotary ClubAssembly
Notes11/01/12
Service above Self
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Criteria for a Signature Local Project

• Hands-on
• HRM or less
• We take lead then add partners or group effort
  with other local clubs
• Volunteer driven partners only (no paid
  fundraisers)
• 3 ish year window
• Disadvantaged community focus St.PA area?
• Young women and/or youth focus
• Rotary naming/awareness building
• Needs assessment/RFP ? clear measureable need

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Local Club Suggestions for Collaborative Projects

• Dart East Metro Paul Harris Gala Night
  community recipients PR tool
• Dart RFP Municipal Election Event ?
• Hfx Rotary Float in parades
• Hfx Accessible Park
• Hfx Harbourside Bullying
• Hfx NW Spring Cleanup Day
• BridgeCAT Centre for Arts and Tech H.S.

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PALS Partners Assisting Local Schools

• We catalyst to get it going
• Ongoing project
• Get businesses involved (e.g., Irving, Aliant)
• Companies provide staff to give time to school to
  participate as mentor, or with breakfasts, clubs,
  reading etc. 80 volunteer hours/week 500
  volunteers in 7 schools
• Demonstrated results in St. John
• Full-time Coordinator in St. John would come to
  speak to us
• Link to Ships Start Here
• Not sure about Rotary branding opportunity

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Youth Exchange for Disadvantaged Student

• Send young person who will come back as an
  influencer
• Sponsor them
• Significant preparation involved
• Need to ensure supports in place
• Look at smaller projects to prep them in advance

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Extra Curricular Activity for Young Women

• Junior high level foundation
• Club for girls extra-curricular activity
• Self-esteem, field trips, etc.
• Also women for same development self-esteem,
  GED, entrepreneurship etc. and then they take
  over clubs self-sustaining
• Dont forget young men who have not had role
  models

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Bullying

• Provincial discussion under way
• No one owns the problem
• Education needs
• Victim support self-esteem etc. (bullies too)

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Family Services

• Annual event - Juke Box Mania fundraiser for
  FSA music trivia game in teams
• Pizza or sit down dinner up to 300 players
• FSA needs help to stage the event
• FSA can make from 10-50K
• Need help from volunteers to do it

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Canadian Learning Bond

• Families that qualify for low income child-tax
  credit (35k)
• 500 into RESP for child and 100/yr to 2k all
  government
• Child born after 2003
• Most families that qualify for this, dont get
  financial advice or know about it or know how to
  complete forms
• Clarke go to families to tell them about it and
  help them complete paperwork
• Rotary Scholarship for additional schooling

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National Youth in Crisis Program

• Yoga self-esteem, calm

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Next Steps

• Girls, PALS, bullying
• All interrelated build A PROGRAM that addresses
  them all life-changing
• Taking ideas from them all and create a Rotary
  Signature Program
• Catalyst get others involved, partners other
  clubs, corporations
• Lay out details from start to finish, resources,
  skills advance commitments honest
  expectations
• Young members take on piece of bigger program
• Bonnie filter and consolidate ? proposal
• Speakers PALS etc.