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Service Director
2021-2022
Rick Vosila
Report
28 July 2021
Reflecting on our new Strategic Plan – 2021 to 2024,
this year we want to focus our Community Service efforts on:
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Building a strong and sustainable
finance base – so we have the financial
capacity to deliver service programs with impact
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Developing a powerful
fundraising engine – so we can feed and
build upon that financial base, to make a meaningful difference; and
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Establishing ourselves as a pillar
of service leadership in our community –
so the communities that we serve know we are there for them
We have already identified a number of
meaningful and impactful projects we’d like to run with this year. They’re
described briefly below, and some ideas are still forming:
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St Paul’s
Church Burwood – Parish Pantry
We have established a good service relationship already with Father James of
St Paul’s Burwood, and have assisted with the Parish Pantry initiative.
There is more to do, sadly, as the needs of the homeless and needy are
increasing in this area. The Parish Pantry needs a cool room to store
perishable food items, and we’re going to help them get it! We need to raise
$6,000.00 to plug the funding gap they currently have. We’re initially
looking for local business donations to make up that shortfall and provide
this essential service. We hope we can do this quickly. Any suggestions of
willing businesses, please let me know.
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Mental Health
Research – Australian Rotary Health
You will all know that we have been solid supporters of Australian Rotary
Health over the years, and this year will be no different. We want to
support mental health research in a meaningful way again and are on the
lookout for impactful ideas. If you have a great idea for what we can do,
please let me know. Remember… think BIG.
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Online
Fundraising Initiatives – Humanitarian Project Support
With the unpredictable nature of lockdowns and community movement
restrictions we’re facing in this new COVID-impacted world, we need to get
creative regarding our fundraising. I’m not sure we’ll have much opportunity
for large physical fundraising events (gala balls, dinners, etc.). So, we’ll
be looking to leverage online fundraising approaches to meet these needs. We
particularly want to effectively support meaningful humanitarian projects.
Stay tuned for more on this later, and again all ideas and suggestions are
welcome.
Thanks in anticipation to you all as we
look to live our new vision:
“…
to be a leading Rotary Club in our District, delivering high-impact service
projects to those most in need in the communities we serve."
Regards,
Rick Vosila
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