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| RI President's Citation : 2008-09 |
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DEAR CLUB PRESIDENTS
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| Dear Club Presidents, |
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As we embark together on our year as Rotary leaders, I ask for your support in marking 2009-10 a very successful and fulfilling Rotary year. One of my main objectives is to remind Rotarians of their personal responsibility to rotary and its ideals, as exemplified by our theme: The future of Rotary Is in Your Hands. |
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We have some ready resources to help us undertake this responsibility. Our roadmap to the future of Rotary is the Rotary International Strategic Plan 2007-10. The plan is made up of seven priorities that Rotarians worldwide determined to be the most important concerns for Rotary in the years ahead. This year, I am asking your club to put the plan into action and, by working together, to ensure that we achieve our goals. |
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This year’s Presidential Citation program provides a menu of challenging activities related to the first six priorities of the strategic plan. As you will see, these activities also offer opportunities to address each of the four Avenues of Service, as well as my emphasis in the areas of health and hunger, literacy, and water. By focusing your efforts within the framework of RI’s strategic plan, your club will also help rotary succeed in addressing the plan’s seventh and final priority – to fully implement the strategic planning progress to ensure continuity as an organization. |
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To qualify for a citation, your club should complete the membership goal and an activity from three of the six categories as described in this brochure (three activities in total) between 1 July 2009 and 31 March 2010. The scope of the activities should be in proportion to the number of members in your club and their abilities, interests, and skills. Once your club has met this challenge, complete the certification from and submit it to your district Governor by 31 March 2010. Governors must submit a list of all Rotary, Rotaract & Interact clubs that qualify for the citation to RI World HQs by 15 Apr. 2010. |
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I encourage you to use this citation program as your guide for 2009-10. Consider which projects your club will undertake, and work to address real needs in a cooperative, sustainable, and responsible manner. I am confident that by working together in 2009-10 through the strategic plan, we will challenges that lie ahead. |
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| The Future of Rotary Is in Your Hands. |
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| Yours very truly, |
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| John Kenny |
| President, Rotary International, 2009-10. |
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RECOGNITION FOR DISTRICT GOVERNORS
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District Governors will receive special recognition if 50 percent or more of the clubs in their districts earn the Presidential Citation. |
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| 2009-10 Rotract and Interact Presidential Citation |
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Rotaract and Interact clubs are integral to Rotary’s future and are encouraged to participate in the 2009-10 Presidential Citation program. To qualify for the citation, Rotaract and Interact clubs must complete at least two activities overall from any of the categories or participate significantly in at least two activities of their sponsor club. The sponsoring Rotary club must sign the Rotaract and Interact Presidential Citation Certification From and submit it to the district governor by 31 March 2010. The governor’s list of certified clubs must be received at RI World Headquarters by 15 April 2010.
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CITATION CRITERIA FOR CLUBS
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| Membership goal (required) : |
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Achieve growth through a net increase of at least one member by 31 March 2010. (The club’s membership as of 31 March 2010 must be greater than its membership as of 1 July 2009.) |
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MENU OF ACTIVITIES
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The following six categories reflect the priorities of the RI Strategic Plan 2007-10. To qualify for the 2009-10 Presidential Citation, clubs must undertake and complete and activity from three of these categories (three activities in total) between 1 July 2009 and 31 March 2010. |
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Eradicate polio |
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Through Rotary’s fundraising challenge, we can finish this crucial job and keep our promise to the world. |
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Organise a major fundraising initiative in your community to support polio eradication. |
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Make a club contribution to the polio fundraising challenge of at least $1,000. |
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Advance the recognition and public image of Rotary |
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To attract new members awnd cooperation from other organization, we should promote our local and global service activities to the media and to our communities. |
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Undertake a significant public relations campaign in your community to share the story of what Rotary is and does. |
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Place at least one Humanity in Motion public service announcement in a print publication, on a radio or television program, or on a billboard. |
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Gain media coverage of a club event or project in your community. |
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Increase Rotary’s capacity to provide service |
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Rotary clubs are encouraged to continue their efforts to address water, health and hunger, and literacy issues by volunteering more time, talent, and enthusiasm along the four Avenues of Service. |
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Conduct a community needs assessment, and uses it to establish a community service project that will involve at least 50 percent of the club’s members in active service. |
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Sponsor a Rotary Community Corps of Non-Rotarians, and complete a joint project with the RCC members. |
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Conduct a service project with an international partner, either as the project host or as the sponsor. (Clubs may use Rotary’s Project LINK database to find a partner.) |
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Carry out a service project recommended by one of the RI resource group for health and hunger, literacy, and water, or cooperate on a project with a reputable organization that specializes in one of these areas of service. |
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Expand membership globally in both numbers and quality |
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Everything that Rotary hopes to accomplish depends on its members, and each of us is responsible for bringing in qualified new members. |
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Have a least 20 percent of club members each bring a potential candidate for membership as a guest to a club meeting. |
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Recruit at least on RI or Rotary Foundation program alumnus/alumna age 35 or younger into membership. (Rotary Foundation and RI program alumni include former Ambassadorial Scholars, Group Study Exchange team members, Rotary world Peace Fellows, and former Youth Exchange students, Rotaractors, and Interactors.) |
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Increase the diversity of your club’s membership by recruiting at least two new members who belong to a demographic group (profession, age, religion, ethnicity, etc.) that is underrepresented in the club. |
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Recruit at least two new members who have experience in community, vocational, or international service work, as part of the required net increase of at least one member by 31 March 2010. |
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Emphasize Rotary’s unique vocational service commitment |
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By demonstrating our strong commitment to high ethical standards in our professional lives, we can provide a model for our colleagues, our employees, and our customers and distinguish Rotary from other service and humanitarian organizations. |
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Start or support a youth mentorship program in your club, and have at least 10 percent of the club’s members personally mentor a young person in vocational skill and business ethics. |
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Start or support a career counseling and development program in you club, and invite participants from the community to attend. |
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Have at least 10 percent of the club’s members actively participate and help participants improve their vocational skills and compete in the job market. |
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Have at least one club member register as a Rotary Volunteer and use Rotary’s Project LINK database to locate an appropriate project. |
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Optimize leadership talents within RI |
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Strong leaders are essential to Rotary’s future, and each of us should strive to be better leaders in our clubs, our professions, and our communities. |
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Create a leadership development program that at least 5 percent of club members complete. The RI publication Leadership Development: Your Guide to Starting a Program (250) offers suggestions. |
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Cultivate leadership opportunities for youth by having at least 5 percent of club members sponsor a participant in a Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) event or sponsor or host a Youth Exchange student, Ambassadorial Scholar, or Rotary World Peace Fellow. |
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| District Governor Citation : 2008-09 |
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GOVERNOR'S GOLDEN CITATION
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Net membership Growth 9% |
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Bringing 5% New Women Members / rotaracter / Foundation Alumni / Spouse (Total) |
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Sponsoring One New Rotary Club |
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60% Attendance at District Conference |
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Completing Thalesemia Awareness / Blood Donation / Adopting School / Save Girl Child / Adopting Girl Child for Higher Education Service Project |
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TRF Contribution 30 US $ per Member |
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Achieving 100% target for END POLIO NOW DONATION COUPON |
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Achieving 4 out of 7 |
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GOVERNOR'S CITATION
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Net Membership Growth 9% |
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Bringing 5% New Women Members / Rotaracter / Foundation Alumni / Spouse (Total) |
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Sponsoring One New Rotary Club |
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60% Attendance at District Conference |
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Completing Thalesemia Awareness / Blood Donation / Adopting School / Save Girl Child / Adopting Girl Child for Higher Education Service Project |
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TRF Contribution 30 US $ per Member |
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Achieving 100% target for END POLIO NOW DONATION COUPON |
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Achieving 3 out of 7 |
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Due date 15th May, 2010 |
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Those who achieve before 15th December, 2009 will be felicitated at District Conference. |
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