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Fun RCPC Board Meeting! Great people focused on Making a Difference!
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Join us for our September Service Project Opportunity
Benefiting the North Texas Food Bank!
RCPC NTFB Peanut Butter Drive!
Every September during Hunger Action Month, the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) creates awareness about food insecurity, and hosts the Peanut Butter Drive which collects a shelf-stable, kid-friendly protein for our hungry neighbors. The goal for the 2021 drive is 300,000 pounds of peanut butter physically and virtually.
1. Donatedirectly to theVirtual Peanut Butter Drivewhere every dollar is equal to one pound of peanut butter (16oz jar).
Clickhereto donate! It's fun and easy from your phone, tablet, computer, etc.
2. Bringany 16 ounce plastic jar (no glass jars) of any brand peanut butter to a Friday meeting startingFriday, August 27 through Friday, September 24th)
(Nut butters are also accepted.)
3. Take a picture in front of our club's red carpet banner with your peanut butter donation and encourage others to donate.
Postthe picture on your social media using the following hashtags.
Tag NTFB in your posts:
Twitter: @ntfb
Facebook: @North Texas Food Bank
Instagram: @northtexasfoodbank
LinkedIn: @North Texas Food Bank
Hashtags:
#NTFB
#PeanutButterDrive
#FightHunger
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RCPC's collaborative partner, Agape Clinic, was featured in an article on the front page of the Dallas Morning News.
Below please find information from Diana Kao and Trisha Cunningham about NTFB's announcement!
First, I wanted to express our genuine thanks for the attached impact that the Rotary Club of Park Cities has had in our community. Thank you for your continued partnership!
On Monday, September 13 we announced a historic new initiative that we are launching called, Nourish NorthTexas. Our CEO, Trisha Cunningham, members of our Board of Directors, and other key leaders have exciting plans to significantly step up our battle on food insecurity and create lasting change in the community.
•RCPC Members: We want to congratulate and support those who are college bound.
Send name of student, school/city, major, class and relation to RCPC member to Elaine Allen at elainekallen4@gmail.com to be published in The Hub.
•Friday Afternoons, 3:00 to 5:00 pm- Bonton Farms
Volunteers are needed to help sort and pack Meal Bags. If you can help any Friday, please text or email our fellow PCR member Stephanie Bohan: stephanie@bontonfarms.org or 214-989-3513. Bonton Farms, 6915 Bexar Street.
•Sunday, December 5, 2021, 2:00 pm at Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre: Potter Rose Performance Hall
RCPC Goes to see A Christmas Carol. Brimming with joyful songs, magical spirits and holiday cheer, Dallas Theater Center’s A Christmas Carol boldly reimagines Dickens’ classic tale of joy,redemption and the spirit of Christmas.
• Call the Box Office to Receive the Discount and Purchase Your Tickets: 214-522-8499 Tickets are selling quickly! Buy your tickets soon to secure your seats!
• Discount Code: ACCRCPC (20% off adult single tickets in any section) (Youth tickets are 50% off adult single tickets)
• Click Here to Register So We Know Who Is Attending!
VP Jeff Sheehan reports, "here is a picture of the second $5,000 donation the Texas Irish Cycling Team, through our team’s foundation, has presented to Bonton Farms. Scott Carson, our cycling team’s leader, and I met with Stephanie last week. We are hoping to contribute further to Bonton Farms through the Texas Irish Foundation and our team’s partners as this fits right into our team’s wheelhouse of community support…….Collaborative Partnerships!
Your donation makes a difference to those who need our help most.
EREY: Every Rotarian Every Year contribute $100 or more to THE Rotary Foundation
The mission of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues. Our 35,000+ clubs work together to:
Promote peace
Fight disease (including but not limited to the Global Eradication of Polio Initiative)
Provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
Save mothers and children
Support education
Grow local economies
Service Above Self is the principal motto of Rotary because it best conveys the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service
From Jeff McNaughton, President-Elect of RCPC and President of the RCPC Foundation - 2021-22
The Rotary Club of Park Cities' Communities Fund was originally sponsored in the 1960’s by the Rotary Club of Park Cities (“RCPC”) for the purpose of providing an enduring legal entity through which members and friends of the Rotary Club of Park Cities might make donations for the good of mankind and the Dallas community. The fund continues to this day to consider internal and external grant requests submitted on the RCPC Foundation online grant portal found on the club website.
The grant request approved at our May 2021 meeting includes:
• $4000 grant for scholarships for Hillcrest High School graduating seniors
The Executive Team denied the following two grant requests:
Children First
Family Compass
The Executive Team voted to roll over the remaining $7,152.81 available grant monies until the 2021-22 fiscal year, which starts on July 1, 2021.
According to the Fund’s Policies and Procedures dated November 8, 2011, Section 11. Tenure; Removal Non-Ex Officio members of the Executive Committee serve four year terms. The Executive Team recommended to the RCPC Board that Daniel Drabinski replace Cleve Clinton as a Non-Ex Officio member of the Executive Committee. The RCPC Board unanimously approved his nomination. His term will be held from 2021-2025.
The fund balance as of May 11, 2021 was $1,847,218.00 (almost $400K higher than this time last year). The Communities Foundation of Texas has done an incredible job managing the fund. The amount available each year for grants is derived from an average over 16 quarters (4 years), then, 4.5% of that amount is the amount available for distribution the following year.
Our Sgt. at Arms Kyle Marmillion, reported that the RCPC Foundation fund donations thru 4-30-21 totals $62,822.10 from 89 donors!
To the Foundation Fund: $6,422.10 from 37 donors
To the Bonton Clinic: $56,400.00 from 52 donors
Your contributions make an incredible difference in the amount we are able to distribute to worthy local organizations. Please consider making a contribution today. https://portal.cftexas.org/donate-park-cities-rotary
