D5010 Committee Chair Reports

September 2024

Lori Draper D5010 Membership Chair

Lori will be presenting as a part of our Zoom educational series and she is excited to share her message. Her presentation will be recorded and available to use as a club presentation (if your speaker cancels or you need to fill a slot). She reports that we have new members in many of our clubs with five prospects coming from the Rotary International Candidate Leads. Lori will be presenting to the AGs and club presidents on the new online “Membership Action Plan” area that gives each club information on how to grow their club, goal setting and the statistics on their progress.

Jess Gutzwiler D5010 DISC Chair

Jess is leading a new area for D5010-District International Service Chair (DISC). This has been a part of the Rotary Foundation for a few years, but D5010 is just getting started with this. We are grateful she is taking this on and learning more about the role. We will learn more about this from her in coming months.

PDG Diane Fejes D5010 Endowment/Major Gifts Subcommittee Chair

Diane is working hard on behalf of our district to educate and advocate on the areas of giving to the Rotary Foundation through endowments and other major gifts. She is also stepping up to help other districts with this education and advocacy at the Zone level. She will be reaching out the AGs and club presidents answering questions and sharing information this year.

Cathleen Lewis D5010 District Grants Coordinator

Cathleen let us know that Rotary International is late with awarding this year’s block grants to all Rotary districts. It’s not just Alaska that hasn’t received the awarded funding. She is very impressed by the number of clubs that are working together in the coming year, to do very important and impressive projects. Currently, she is working with clubs to close last year’s grants and hopes this will be a smooth process.

PDG Ted Trueblood D5010 Foundation Paul Harris Society Coordinator, District COL Rep.

Ted let us know that we have 79 members of the Paul Harris Society but have 150 eligible. He hopes to reach out to those eligible to increase our numbers in the PH Society. Currently, Rotary has 33,214 Paul Harris Society members worldwide. As for the Council on Legislation (COL), he will be sharing the 44 proposed changes so that our members can review and make comments. Ted represents our one vote on these proposed changes when the council meets next April.

Kim Erickson D5010 Foundation Polio Plus Committee Chair

Kim reminds us that World Polio Day is October 24th. If anyone would like to join the Polio Plus Society (pledging to give $100 a year) they will get a great D5010 long sleeve shirt and Polio Plus pin. Please reach out to her for the sign-up sheet. kim.erickson@greatlandlaser.com

Bernie Griffard D5010 District Learning Facilitators

Bernie reviewed the online Zoom courses that the district will be offering this year. A flier has already gone out on the dates and times of these presentations. We will introduce our “Rotary 101” which is a bundle of courses from the Learning Center that would help our members learn2 more about Rotary and grow as Rotarians. There will be great incentives to be a part of our Rotary 101 learning program.