Doll of Hope Service Project

Doll of Hope Service Project
Making Dolls for Refugees Worldwide

Monday, January 27, 2014

Worthwhile projects from Sunnyvale Welcome Center for our club to consider

Ellie Goldberg and staff from the Sunnyvale Welcome Center has given us this list of worthwhile and much needed service projects for our club to consider. Excited to talk about these projects at our next business meeting!

To contact Ellie directly: EllieG@aau-slc.org or 801-590-9746

1.       Projects that need funding:
a.       We are in need of an Interpreting Fund. Although English is the official language of the center as we help build the language capacities of our students and families, we need funding to pay interpreters.  Activities in which we need interpreters and translators include our bi-monthly partnership with the Mobile Health Clinic, home visits with families, parent engagement nights, tobacco prevention activities, and outreach for all new and existing programs.  Interpreters and translators cost $25/hour. 
We calculate that for the Mobile Health Clinic interpreting, we will need 2-3 interpreters for 6 hours in February, April, June, August, October, and December totaling between $1800-$2700.  Is assisting families receiving free basic health care something the club would want to support?
2.       Item drives:
a.       A lot of our kids need shoes and boots appropriate for the winter. We currently have lots of kids wearing flip flops and sandals in the cold weather. I connected with a girl who works at a shoe store who could measure the kids and then Rotary could do a drive for the shoes.
b.      We are in need of a new whiteboard in the back classroom. We were so pleased to receive the wet erase board from your club (through U of U surplus), however, over the past year, it has literally ‘eaten’ every marker we’ve used on it. We would really benefit from having a dry erase board (used or new) instead of a wet erase that tends to be not-user friendly.
c.       We are always using our school supplies and could use a drive for crayons, pencils, erasers, markers, glue, kid scissors, rulers, flashcards, workbooks/coloring books, educational movies, construction paper, notebooks, binders, etc.
d.      Youth incentives:  each day, we give the youth incentives for good behavior, good grades, helping each other and the teachers, etc. We could use things like small gift cards ($5), chapstick, lotion, earbuds (they have them at the dollar store!), small toys, baseball caps, colored pens, etc.
3.       Hands-on service:
a.       Schedule a project a month till the end of 2014: The third Thursday of the month would be good for us. We can come up with ideas monthly, based on whether or not you are also doing a drive or what your needs are for the month. 
b.      We do need babysitters for our upcoming Financial Literacy class with the Somali Community. Starting February 21, we will need babysitters every Friday from 6-7pm (for 8 weeks). We provide materials, snacks, supplies, toys, etc.  We would need the babysitters to fill out a volunteer application/background check if they haven’t done this already.
c.        We need people to drive families to Parent Teacher Conferences at Roosevelt, Granite Park Jr. High, and Cottonwood High School the week of February 10th. (Days TBA, times from 4-7pm). We require that drivers provide us with their driver’s license, car insurance so we can make a copy for the file and waive liability. 

d.      We love to take the kids on field trips and could use assistance getting the kids to Jazz Games, U of U sports activities, and other recreational activities that your club could sponsor.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

ROTARY CLUB OF MILLCREEK - OFF TO A GREAT 2014

Meeting notes:  January 16, 2014

Attendees:  Chris Casper
Sam Casper - guest
Miriam Barth
Kris Sardaky - guest
Bill Kille
Chas Boynton
Ladd Tanner
Judy Zone
Frank Lily
Danny Schoenfeld
Christine Helfrich - guest
Marty Gelman
Laurie Summers
Margereta Vlasic
Gina Coleman
Susan Marks
Jenny Ferguson
Marlin Clark
Sonia Woodbury
Stephanie Chard
Ellie Goldebry - guest

19 members attended with three guests

Three Topics:

SAM CASPER gave a readout and presentation on his humanitarian trip to Guatemala.  Great presentation and photos.  Our club helped sponsor his trip and should be proud of helping to create a lifelong humanitarian

MARLIN CLARK gave an awesome read out on who he is, what he does, and shared some funny stories about being African-American in Utah.  He shared photos of his very loved family, information about his career as Dean of Students at SLCC, and other insight into his personality and inters test.  Nice update.  We can't wait to have a social at his southern plantation

ELLIE GOLDBERG gave updates on Sunnyvale Community Center and what RCMC has done to help as well as shared opportunities to volunteer.  We are very proud of this project and our success to date.

JENNY FERGUSON MADE US AWARE OF OUR SOCIAL MEETING FOR JANUARY..

JOIN US FOR DINNER AND DRINKS ON JANUARY 30 AT STELLA'S ON 900 EAST AND 4291 SOUTH

FINALLY, DUES ARE DUE - PLEASE PAY NOW!!!

Meeting Notes - January 9, 2014

Attendees: Danny, Frank, Andrea, Dayna, Gina, Laurie, Bill, Marty, Chas, Miriam, Ladd, Marlin, Shannon, Sonja - 14 members

Welcome

Nominating Committee: 
1. Frank
2. Bill
3. Laurie
4. Susan

Meeting Schedule 1-16 Business, Other dates TBA

Announcements

1. Miriam got Married
2. District grant was submitted, but not the correct information was included. Will have to submit next year for the water grant, however we do have enough to cover for 1 well for this year.

Membership Spotlight

1. Dayna-Speech Language Therapist

Ladd presented a Fireside regarding an introduction to Rotary its history and what it is about. Talked about the four way test

Service Project is schedule for Jan 14 at Sunnyvale. Snow activities

Social Committee Survey was presented

A thank you letter from Granite Education Foundation was read.