Madison Rotary will have its Holiday Party and 50/50 raffle drawing on Thursday, December 13, 2018, 12 noon, held in Buttenheim Hall at the Madison Area YMCA, 111 Kings Road, Madison. Rotarians, please bring your sold and unsold raffle ticket to this coming Thursday's club meeting. (December 6th) . The committee is in the final process of reconciling all of the tickets - every ticket must be accounted. If you have any questions, contact Jen Pinto at jenniferlynnpinto@gmail.com
Welcome Brian Davis as the newest member of Madison Rotary. Brian lives in Madison - he is a pilot for Solarius Corporation and mostly flies business charters. He is interest in providing service for others. A quote from his membership application is "it is not about me, it is about we". His interest in the club include technology, working with youth, leadership development and community service projects. Thank you Brian for being a part of Rotary. Carmela Moeller is his club sponsor. For more information regarding participating in Madison Rotary, contact Barry Kroll at barrykroll@aol.com
Madison Rotary kicked off its annual membership drive on November 1st at its Club Assembly meeting. The goal is to increase the number of members from 84 to 100. The more Rotarians in the Club the more things we can accomplish is serving the community locally and globally. The strategy is to ask each member to identify/select one or two individuals as member prospects and invite them to participate and join in Club activities. Members can select individual(s) from the Club prospect list or identify a new prospect. Support materials will be distributed on a regular basis to support your efforts. Below is a video with the 5 most commons reasons people say "NO" to becoming involved. The information may help you overcome their concerns. The following members need to identify/select a prospect to cultivate. Adamczyk, Boles, Budd, Cesaro, Cooney, Coviello, Dalena, DeGennaro, Derossa, Dunn, Fastiggi, Foster, Freaney, Greene, Haralampoudis, Harootunian, Havens, Hoover, Horn, Iossa, Kerkeslager, Kopenski, Launchi, Mann, Marchese, McConnell, Meek, Minardi, Morozoff, Odell, M, Odell, W, Pancirov, Powell, Rabasca, Richter, Rosania, Rowe, Selen, Umana, Zimmerman
The annual Madison Holiday Parade was held on Thursday,, November 23rd. 16 Madison Rotarians braved the record low temperatures to help protect Santa's sleigh. It was estimated that 2000 parents and children came out to welcome Santa to town.
For the 11th consecutive year, The Rotary Foundation has received the highest rating — four stars — from Charity Navigator, an independent evaluator of charities in the U.S. Click read more for additional information.
Rotary District 7475, Madison Rotary Foundation and numerous other Rotary Clubs have a goal of packaging 250,000 meals on Saturday, March 9, 2019 form 9 am to 4 pm. Hunger is a very real problem for many people in our community and we are dedicated to making a difference by distributing all of the meals locally. 130,000 meals were packaged in 2017, 160,000 were packaged in 2018 and we are excited about achieving the goal of 250,000 in 2019. Ellsworth Havens, program chair, said "we are grateful to have such a supportive community and sponsors to make a program like this happen". We are in the process of securing donations from individuals, sponsors and corporations for this year's program. The cost per meal is approximately 25 cents. A contribution of $10.00 equals 40 meals; $100.00 equals 400 meals, $1,000 equals 4,000 meals. It will take 800 onsite volunteer on March 9th to make this happen. Volunteer registration start January 15, 2019. Click the DONATE or VOLUNTEER button on the left to Donate or Volunteer.
Madison just completed its annual Dictionary Project, distributing dictionaries to all 3rd Graders in Madison Schools. A total of 232 students in twelve 3rd grade classes received their personalized copy of the Dictionary/Gazetteer distributed by Madison Rotarians. Click Read More for additional details.
The Rotary Club of Madison has an enthusiastic and engaged network of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to serve humanity in our local and global communities. We have 88 members and are inviting like-minded individuals to join our successful and vibrant club. President Michel Belt encourages you to come learn about Rotary by attending any one of our three weekly meetings as our guest. You have your choice of two weekly meetings: Thursdays, 7:47 am breakfast at the YMCA, 12:15 pm lunch at the Madison Hotel. To learn more, join or visit a Rotary meeting - contact Barry Kroll, at barrykroll@aol.com or 973-476-2772.
It’s that time again! Time for the annual Gift of Life Super Bowl raffle! Each year at this time, our district’s Gift of Life committee sells raffle tickets to raise funds for this great project by selling chances on a trip to the Super Bowl. This year, the Super Bowl will be played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA on February 3, 2019. The tickets are $20 each and the Super Bowl package is worth $10,000! Drawing will be held on January 11, 2019. All sold tickets stubs and checks should be returned to Jim Allison
Do you shop on Amazon? The Rotary Global Rewards program has made an arrangement that Amazon will contribute 6% of total purchases to Rotary International for those individuals who logon to Amazon through the Rotary portal. Additionally there are hundreds of additional discounts on things like car rentals, hotel accommodations, major stores, etc - Click Read More for details
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