Our speaker this week will be Janice Fulkerson. She was our District Governor a few years ago and is a member of the Meridian Rotary Club. She is actively involved in the District Peace building campaign. Come learn about becoming a Rotary Peacebuilder Club.
Boise Metro Rotary is doing some strategic planning this spring. We're going to develop a multi-year Rotary Action Plan to help our club grow and adapt, and to increase the impact of our service. As a member, we need your help!
First of all, please help us gather data. This first step is very important whether you intend to come to the in-person planning session or not. Here is a link to our Action Planning Club Survey. We’d like to see as many members as possible complete the survey.
Secondly, you are cordially invited to join the strategic planning session. It will be Saturday, March 7 at 11:30 at the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce. We will have Scott Learned as our facilitator, and lunch is provided. (We’ll begin after the Greenbelt Cleanup, so you can do both!) Expect us to wrap up around 3:30.
Rotarians, let’s chart a course together that leads to a vibrant, diverse, impactful club!
A few of us volunteered on Saturday afternoon to help Interfaith Sanctuary get ready for residents ( they should start arriving on Thursday). We worked the assembly line to make up backpacks. Each resident will get a new set of PJs and some basic toiletries. After we completed our assigned task, Nathan Smith the Director of Operations gave us the cook's tour. Wow, this place is amazing! Initially, they'll host 205 residents and will provide a variety of services. Look forward to our group assisting in the kitchen sometime.
Its time to update our club bylaws. We need to establish procedures and responsibilities for the use of electronic payment systems like Venmo and debit cards. Last time we updated our bylaws, such conveniences didn't even exist!
Watch your email for the proposed Constitution and Bylaws. We'll vote on it at our meeting on the 24th.
For the next two weeks we're doing a Youth Clothing Drive for our friend Emmanuel in Kumasi, Ghana. He's indicated that his "agents", the disadvantaged women who collect discarded plastic for his recycling business, are always in need of clothing for their young children. We have arranged for shipment of a box of clothing we might collect.
District 5400 is accepting applications for Rotary Foundation District Grants for next year! We have $60,245 to distribute to clubs in the 2026-27 cycle. The deadline for application is June 1, 2026. A few things to remember:
The instructions will walk you through the process and they provide more information regarding grant parameters and limitations! Please take the time to read them.
The Rotary Foundation amount available to us for 2026-27 district grants is determined by contributions made by our Rotarians to Annual Fund-SHARE in 2023-24, and it is about $7,000 more than we had to distribute last year.
Yours in Rotary,
Ines Crespo
D5400 TRF District Grants Subcommittee Chair 2026-27
Lots of happy dollars this week ....we finally got some snow!......Rotary Minute was about a Thailand Rotary club collecting medical equipment for Cambodia.....Random Act of Kindness Week featured thank you notes we put in Little Libraries....interesting to learn the history of Neighborworks....Paint the Town and Rake Up Boise are theirs, started 40 years ago!.....
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Its time to update our club bylaws. We need to establish procedures and responsibilities for the use of electronic payment systems like Venmo and debit cards. Last time we updated our bylaws, such conveniences didn't even exist!
