- Rotary District 5970 Membership Mini-Grant Challenge is underway. Read more in the September newsletter
- Register here for the Virtual District Conference April 30-May 1. This video will get you in to mood - listen!
- Buy a duck for the "Duck Pluck" to be held on May 1 during the District Conference here.
- Attend a Grant Management Seminar, either March 27 or during the District Conference on May 1
- The District Auction is online this year. Click on this link to view the items. The auction will open for bidding on April 23 and bidding will end on May 7.
BUY A DUCK AND SAVE THE WORLD!
This year’s “Duck Pluck” will take place on May 1, 2021, virtually. The winning ducks will be plucked out of PDG Michelle Bell’s hot tub during the District Conference! Purchase ducks for $5 each by mailing a check payable to The Rotary Foundation to John Wasta 221 Kent Court NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402, or purchase ducks on line here. (Credit card fees apply)
District 5970 is seeking candidates for District Governor to serve during the 2024-2025 Rotary Year. The district governor serves in an official role as an officer of Rotary International and is charged with leading D-5970 during their term.
Qualifications include:
- Must have served a term as President of a Rotary Club
- Completed 7 years of Rotary membership prior to taking office
- Be a current member in good standing
- Good leadership skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with others
- Public speaking ability and the desire to promote the good work of Rotary on a local and international level
We hope you, or a Rotarian you know, will consider this leadership position for our District! Refer someone you think is qualified, to this information.
The Rotary Zone 28 Institute is a gathering of Club and District Leaders , in Houston on September 9-12, to share, to learn and become better equipped as Leaders. We welcome all "Future Leaders" to apply to join the Institute with their expenses paid by our District.
Please make this opportunity known to everyone who meets the following criteria:
- Is a Rotarian, Rotaractor, or Rotary alumni living within District 5970 and interested in assuming a future leadership role in Rotary; and
- Is able to attend the Zone Training Institute in Houston, September 9 - 12, 2021.
Application:
Each applicant should complete the Application Form (below) and submit it by email to Suellen Kolbet at des@district5970.org on or before June 30, 2021. (Each applicant must also submit a short video presentation as described in the application form).
VIDEO CHALLENGE – BEGAN: 01.01.2021, ENDS: 31.03.2021
As Rotarians, Rotaractors and Interactors, you are no stranger to working to make the world a better place together with likeminded people.
Now we are facing a brand new set of challenges, helping fix the environment and the future for us all.
Rotary International has risen to that challenge by declaring a new seventh Area Of Focus – “Protecting the Environment”
But how?
In ESRAG – The Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group – we are working together to provide a platform for the Rotary family around the world to get engaged.
Our challenge is to create a video, ideally seventy seconds long (but no more than 100 seconds), where you show us an environmental project you are working with, have worked with, or are planning to work with.
Publish that video to this site (www.ifixtheplanet.org), and when that is done, look around and see what your fellow Rotarians are doing.
Then vote for the videos you like best.
Challenge your club members to do the same. Challenge everyone!
The more votes we get, the more people see and get inspired from our films, the more we will all help fix the planet with this competition.
In three months time, a representative jury of the Rotary family will select a group of winners from the top voted.
See District Governor Lowell Stoolman's April Newsletter here.
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Dear Rotarians,
By now, every Rotarian in our District should know this fact:
A portion of the dollars you give to The Rotary Foundation comes back to our District to be used by
your club for grant projects in your community.
Because this is so important to the core of what we do in Rotary, this newsletter will focus on our District giving. We had our first Grant Management Seminar last Saturday to train club members in applying for district grants. We encourage your club to apply for a grant, for the reason listed above. Where else can you give to a charity’s annual fund, and get a return on that gift? Only The Rotary Foundation.
Read more in the Foundation First Newsletter here:
- There is one more opportunity for Grant Management Training during the District Conference (virtual and free!)
- Final results are in for the Rotary Rush
- How are you coming on meeting your Foundation Giving goals
- Update from ShelterBox
- Polio Eradication continues to be a top priority for the Rotary Foundation
Yours in Rotary,
Don Meyer
District 5970 Foundation Chair
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nternational is launching a campaign called, “Countdown to History.” Goals were set and pledges were made, the and we can’t do it without you, as Rotarians. We are asking for Rotarians across District 5970 to give a minimum of $40 to End Polio Now. This will get our District to the goal set by Rotary International.A New Polio Banner is available for Club Events! See it here. Contact foundationchair@district5970.com to borrow it!
Holger Knaack
President 2020-21
President 2020-21
April 2021
This year, we celebrate Earth Day on 22 April with a new sense of purpose. The environment is now an area of focus for Rotary. Solutions for all great tasks always start with you and me, and there is much we as individuals can do simply by changing our behavior: Cutting down on our use of plastic and using energy wisely are just two examples. But now we have the opportunity to do more together.
Jennifer E. Jones, a member of the Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland, Ontario, Canada, has been nominated to become Rotary International’s president for 2022-23, a groundbreaking selection that will make her the first woman to hold that office in the organization’s 115-year history.
Jones will officially become president-nominee on 1 October if no other candidates challenge her.
Read more here.
RI President-Elect Shekhar Mehta theme for 2021-22 - "Serve to Change Lives"
