Anthem: Alan Meredith
Toast: Danny Cassidy
Land Acknowledgement: President Danny Cassidy
Attendance: 11, no guests.
Speaker: President Danny Cassidy gave us a comprehensive presentation on
The Rotary Foundation.
President Danny showed a short video on the Rotary Foundation. Another district put the video together, but it provides a comprehensive overview of how the foundation works. A must-see for members.
https://youtu.be/gpD0tgweWzA?si=xDdyNZvieeeMv_CY
•Welcome to District 7070’s Rotary Foundation Grant information for the 2025-26 Rotary year.
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•Every Rotary and Rotaract Club that wants to participate in the Rotary Foundation’s grants program (Global and District Grants) must be qualified. This is a requirement by the Rotary Foundation. The District provides the qualification training. The qualification is yearly.
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•To become qualified, a Club in District 7070 must
•have at least two of its members complete the District training, and the Club President and President Elect must sign and submit an MOU -Memorandum of Understanding – to the District.
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•District 7070 offers two ways for Clubs to meet the two-member training requirement:
•Rotarians, who didn’t attend the November workshop, can instead take the online two-module training and related quizzes.
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•Qualified Clubs will be displayed on the Districts website.
•The deadline for submitting District Grant Applications is May 31, 2025.
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•Once a District Grant project is completed, the Applying Club must submit a Final Report. A template is available in the left-hand column.
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•Similarly, a list of Qualified Clubs is available in the left-hand column.
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•For Global Grant applications, please go to the Grant Center at www.rotary.org International, and Host Partners must be qualified. A completed DDF Request form must be submitted to the District if you want any DDF for your Global Grant project.
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•The District will receive less DDF for the 2025-26 Rotary year, as donations to the Annual Fund of the Rotary Foundation were significantly lower during the pandemic. Therefore, the District may have to make difficult DDF allocation decisions so that valuable DDF can be shared among many worthy causes.
Arthur Retnakaran thanked President Danny for his insightful presentation.
Announcements President Danny – Foundation Walk on Sunday, September 28th in
Woodbridge. Volunteers are needed.
Danny showed a screen during the meeting depicting our current numbers on ticket sales and sponsor agreement:
Basil Dias – Last Sunday would have been on our departed beloved member
Peter Masson’s 90th Birthday, and this week, our fellow Rotarian Arthur
Retnakaran is celebrating his 91st birthday.
Basil Dias – Thanked the club for the beautiful sympathy card, Frank Allison
sent him on behalf of the club for the passing of his ex-wife.
SERGEANT AT ARMS – Suresh Agarwal
No fines, just Happy Bucks.
Suresh Agarwal – His son was assigned to a major case that which his law firm was
retained to defend a billionaire in a lawsuit.
Barry Smith – For Arthur’s 91st birthday.
Basil Dias – So happy, he told us a joke.
Gerd Wengler – (1) Dorothy and he went to the Neil Young concert at the
The exhibition ground, and they thoroughly enjoyed it despite the heavy downpour
of rain. (2) He hammered his left thumb while changing the burner on his
barbecue.
The exhibition ground, and they thoroughly enjoyed it despite the heavy downpour
of rain. (2) He hammered his left thumb while changing the burner on his
barbecue.
Danny Cassidy – Told a funny story about his niece when she became a lawyer
and practicing her first case on him.
With nothing further to report for the good of Rotary, President Danny then closed the meeting.
