WCS Workshops Coming Up!!!
Join us in Nanaimo on Oct 27 OR in Tacoma on Nov 17.
 

Nanaimo, BC – Sat, October 27, 2007 8:30 am St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Hall Nanaimo, BC

Tacoma, WA Sat. November 17, 2007 8:30 am Landmark Temple Theatre Tacoma, Washington

Learn how to get your club involved in World Community Service (WCS). Learn from colleagues how to organize your clubs to better find and support strong and exciting projects. Find out how to tap Rotary Matching Grants for WCS projects, thus multiplying your club funds. Sharpen your techniques for managing international projects and partnering with foreign host club partners. Who should attend? Any interested Rotarian, Club WCS Chair persons, International Service or Service Directors, WCS Committee Members and Project Managers. All club officers should find these sessions useful. Past attendees have relished meeting fellow enthusiasts in other Rotary clubs and developing useful exchanges and collaborative arrangements. Download the flyer below inviting you and your club colleagues. Print off copies and take to your next Rotary meeting; invite some buddies to join you. Register in advance and indicate how you would like to participate. Contact Bill Feyrer (Canada) and/or Brent Olson (US) for more program details. To obtain more information or volunteer for presentations, please contact: Brent Olson (US) at brentolson@seanet.com or 206-780-5103 or Bill Feyrer (Canada) at bill.feyrer@shaw.ca or 250-595-1905 To register for the Nanaimo Conference please send an email to: Craig Clarke 250 390-4090 DrCraigClarke@shaw.ca To register for the Tacoma Conference please register by completing the form below and sending it to Beverly Vincent, Tacoma #8 Executive Director, via fax (253 473 7838) or email (wcsregistration@comcast.net). You are encouraged to register by Monday, November 12. Registration is $30, which covers materials and meals. Questions? Call Beverly at 253 473 7723 or Tacoma Conference Registration Form or Invitation to World Community Service Workshops

All District 5020 Rotary Clubs; Special Appeal to All Canadian Clubs

Anti-Malaria Project in Tanzania: Matching Grant participants sought; Canadian Government through CRCID also to match.

You and your Rotary Club are being invited to participate in Rotary Matching Grant(s), that will provide for 100,000 insecticide-treated mosquito nets distributed by Rotarians in Tanzania to vulnerable populations. In addition to the normal matches of Club contributions by your Rotary District and the Rotary Foundation, the Canadian Government, through the Canadian Rotary Collaborative on International Development (CRCID). has pledged US$165,000 of the anticipated US$534,600 proposed project.

For more information, Anti-Malaria Project in Tanzania

Documents of interest

World Community Service Best Practices,
"Fostering Support for World Community Service Activities at the Club Level" 

Bainbridge Uganda Water Project

or Effective WCS Committee Management Rev 4.1.06

or Effective Project Management Rev 4.1.06