July 28, 2016 Comments are off Findlay Rotary
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The visionaries: Young women in Peru learn to see a future for themselves

From the August 2016 issue of The Rotarian
It’s 3 a.m. on a Sunday, and Katheryne Rosa Barazorda Cuellar is up, preparing to work in her mother’s soup stall in the small Peruvian town of Anta, near the Inca capital of Cusco. Smart and seemingly indefatigable, she has a quick smile and infectious laugh.
Rosa is studying to be a chemical engineer, and she has unmistakable talent and drive. She needs them. Poverty, gender bias, and violence darken the lives of many young Peruvian women, including her.
Rosa is lucky, though. Her family supports her. And for the past four years, so has Visionaria…

July 25, 2016 Comments are off Findlay Rotary
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Grant survey shows solid support for new model

More than 6,000 Rotary members in 154 countries reported on their experiences with the new grant model as part of an evaluation during the 2015-16 Rotary year. The results will help us improve the grant process and learn what impact the Foundation’s global grants have on our areas of focus.
Among the key findings:
90 percent of respondents support the grant model; 86 percent see it as an improvement over the former model.
Grant activity and the average grant award continue to increase each year.
Rotary members want more resources to help them apply for grants and design sustainable projects…

July 14, 2016 Comments are off Findlay Rotary
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Committee members named to nominate 2018-19 Rotary president

The following Rotary members will serve on the 2016-17 Nominating Committee for President of Rotary International in 2018-19. The committee is scheduled to meet on 8 August..
Zone 2Kazuhiko Ozawa, Rotary Club of Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
Zone 4 Sudarshan Agarwal, Rotary Club of Delhi, Delhi, India
Zone 6 Noraseth Pathmanand, Rotary Club of Bang Rak, Thailand
Zone 8 John B. Boag, Rotary Club of E-Club of District 9650, New South Wales, Australia
Zone 10 Jackson S.L. Hsieh, Rotary Club of Taipei Sunrise, Taiwan
Zone 12 Elio Cerini, Rotary Club of Milano Duomo, Italy
Zone 14 Ekkehart Pandel,…

July 12, 2016 Comments are off Findlay Rotary
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eBay Live Auctions that benefit Rotary

Each month, eBay, the world’s largest auction website, selects a set of upcoming Live Auction events and donates a portion of all sales proceeds to Rotary. Only U.S. auction sales are eligible. See the schedule of July auctions.

July 5, 2016 Comments are off Findlay Rotary
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Apply to serve on an RI committee

Would you like to contribute to Rotary by serving on a committee? The 10 committees listed below are searching for qualified candidates for openings in 2017-18. Each of these committees works with Rotary leaders to increase efficiency and promote the goals and priorities of our strategic plan.
To be considered for a committee appointment, visit on.rotary.org/committeeapplication2016.
The application deadline is 14 August.
Learn more about the committees and the application process.
Get answers to frequently asked questions.
COMMITTEES WITH OPENINGS FOR 2017-18
Audit
Communications…

June 23, 2016 Comments are off Findlay Rotary
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Member Spotlight: The book on Brad Rubini

From the July 2016 issue of The Rotarian
When Brad Rubini was reading a bedtime story to his seven-year-old daughter, Claire, she asked him why he was reading the words wrong.
“I’m dyslexic, so I thought I was reading the words right,” recalls Rubini, a past president of the Rotary Club of Toledo, Ohio.
After he explained his problem, she began to read to him on most nights instead. “She was a voracious reader and storyteller. She was always telling stories, even when she was a toddler,” he says.
Three years later, while Claire was away at summer camp, she died unexpectedly as a result of a…

June 23, 2016 Comments are off Findlay Rotary
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Health: Survival of the Fitbittest

From the July 2016 issue of The Rotarian
In the seven days from 7 through 13 March, I took precisely 84,250 steps. This amounted to 39.85 miles. I also climbed 288 floors and burned 22,055 calories.
I’m fairly certain that you, gentle readers, could not care less about those statistics. Unless, of course, you’re one of the millions of gentle readers who have joined America’s fitness self-surveillance movement by strapping a tracking device to your wrist. In which case, you are probably pretty darned impressed by my stats.
I should therefore add a few crucial caveats.
Caveat No. 1: That week…

June 23, 2016 Comments are off Findlay Rotary
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John Germ: Champion of Chattanooga

From the July 2016 issue of The Rotarian
Just before John Germ dropped by, Rick Youngblood took a deep breath. “You want to match his energy,” he says, “but he makes it hard to keep up.” Youngblood is the president and CEO of Blood Assurance, a regional blood bank in Chattanooga, Tenn., that Germ helped found in 1972. After his visit with Youngblood, Germ strode between mountains of empty bottles and cans at Chattanooga’s John F. Germ Recycling Center at Orange Grove, which he designed, before he drove to a construction site and popped a cork to dedicate a Miracle League field where special…

June 23, 2016 Comments are off Findlay Rotary
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Cynthia Salim: Former Rotary Scholar makes clothing with a conscience

From the July 2016 issue of The Rotarian
The way Cynthia Salim sees it, the fashion industry doesn’t have much to offer a young, socially conscious woman like her when it comes to work clothes.
“The fashion industry often does ‘sexy’ or ‘fun’ or ‘hip,’ and things that encourage frequent purchases,” the 29-year-old says. “It’s very rare that the design community will design something that will make a young woman look credible and influential as well as timeless.”
Add “and is ethically made” to that list, and it becomes a tall order that Salim became increasingly frustrated trying to fill when…

June 23, 2016 Comments are off Findlay Rotary
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Member Interview: Susan Davis uses social entrepreneurship to fight poverty

From the July 2016 issue of The Rotarian
Susan Davis has devoted the past three decades to using social entrepreneurship and microfinance to address extreme poverty, particularly in Bangladesh. A Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship in the early 1980s allowed her to study international relations at the University of Oxford. A decade ago, she co-founded BRAC USA (previously the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee) to help the world’s poor through self-empowerment. She is co-author, with journalist David Bornstein, of the book Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to…