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Hurricane: how to help beloved pets, how to donate food & money to help our Houston-area families: humans, canines, felines & more: www.Friends4Life.org/how-to-help/donate/
Houston-area animal rescue groups that need your financial support
Friends For Life: www.Friends4Life.org & Facebook: look for Friends For Life Animal Rescue and Adoption Organization, Houston. Check out all the animals they are caring for at the George R. Brown Convention Center—a new model for people/animal rescue during emergencies
Montgomery County Animal Shelter: https://www.mcaspets.org/mcaspetsblog Facebook – look for Montgomery County Animal Shelter Texas. These folks, along with Best Friends, are taking in the animals from Houston shelters throughout the affected areas.
Forgotten Dogs of the 5th Ward Project: http://ForgottenDogs.com Taking care of stray animals affected by Harvey. Their Facebook feed is also posted on this website.
DISASTER AID! http://www.DisasterAidUSA.com: Disaster Aid USA is Rotarian-operated project & 501c3 non-profit charity, incorporated in the District of Columbia. As a club project, its clubs goals & objectives are to promote & create awareness, raise funds & provide financial support for its primary mission: To provide immediate disaster relief & humanitarian aid at home, here in the US & worldwide to those victims suffering from the effects of disasters natural or man-made while using Rotary’s guiding principles & according to its Rotary Four -Way Test, while adhering to United Nation & Sphere Standards.
LODGING available! Is there anyone or couple you know who needs place to stay a couple weeks or whatever? Have guest house. Live out in country 23 miles out of Post / NW Texas near Lubbock. Also have RV hookup. Rotarian Dave Tyler: DTyler@Caprock-Spur.com Alice.White@TTU.edu or 830-990-8101 has lodging in Fredericksburg, TX (south central TX) for up to six adults &/or children – not for cat-allergic folks, sorry.
PETS! in the Houston area: KKimmey@TheWorkKs.com in Fredericksburg, TX (south central TX) will be taking pet supplies as close as possible to Houston. Also, you may donate: www.Friends4Life.org/how-to-help/donate/
- People can go to FFL’s Facebook page (Friends For Life Animal Rescue and Adoption Organization) to see FFL in action at the GR Brown Convention Center
- Below is list of items needed per FFL:
- Kennels and carriers of all sizes
- Cat food and dog food
- Collars and leashes
- Cat and dog beds
FOOD! excellent, high-performance, food-bank for the world: www.Breedlove.org accepting “Harvey” donations (on their front page) to provide food to Houston-area refugees. I was a Breedlove board member for 6 yrs. in Lubbock).
MONEY! Additional, reputable donation sites
| from Carol Holmes, Rotary District 5840 Governor / south central Texas: San Antonio area Information on Disaster Relief: … where anyone & everyone may donate funds to Houston, Rockport, other locations. These are the Rotary Districts & their contacts:
Rotary District 5930: partnered with McAllen North Rotary Fund – a 501(c)3 to set up an Emergency Relief Fund. Send checks to McAllen North Rotary Fund and mail to Rotary D 5930, McAllen North Rotary Club, 501 N. Nolana, McAllen, TX. Contact: DG Betty Ramirez-Lara, cell: 956-683-5706; BettyLaraRotary@GMail.com (Rockport / South TX / hurricane’s bull’s-eye area)
Rotary District 5910: Send checks to Rotary District 5910 Charitable Foundation, c/o Bobbie Applegate, 985 IH-10N, Suite 111, Beaumont, TX 77706. Contact: DG Rhonda Herrington, cell: 903-724-8515; Rhonda.Herrington@Yahoo.com (Palestine / NE TX area)
Rotary District 5890: Send checks to Rotary District 5890 Charities, Inc., c/o Jackie Barmore, 3525 Preston Ave., Pasadena, TX 77505. Contact: DG Bill Palko, cell: 713-582-7235, William.Palko@Amegybank. (Houston / hurricane’s bull’s-eye area)
Rotary District 5840: 501(c)3 Send checks to Rotary District 5840 Foundation (Disaster Fund), Attn: Bobbe Barnes, Treasurer, P. O. Box 13, Boerne, TX 78006. Contact DG Carol Holmes, cell: 281-923-6111; Holmes.CF688@GMail.com (San Antonio, Hill Country / south-central TX Area). … Continue to keep all the people who have been impacted with this hurricane in your prayers, as we still have a long way to go. http://www.DisasterAidUSA.com: Disaster Aid USA is Rotarian-operated project & 501c3 non-profit charity, incorporated in the District of Columbia. As a club project, its clubs goals & objectives are to promote & create awareness, raise funds & provide financial support for its primary mission: To provide immediate disaster relief & humanitarian aid at home, here in the US & worldwide to those victims suffering from the effects of disasters natural or man-made while using Rotary’s guiding principles & according to its Rotary Four -Way Test, while adhering to United Nation & Sphere Standards. Also: www.RedCross.org; www.SalvationArmyUSA.org Although less visible, the Salvation Army is providing massive assistance to evacuees as well. |
8-29-’17: Red Cross reports 17,000 evacuees in TX shelters. The Houston Convention Center holds 9,000 of them. All Houston area animal shelters are full. 45 shelters are open in the Houston area, with two more large ones opening soon. The Dallas Convention Center opened today for 5,000 evacuees. – National Guard assistance is increasing from 3,500 troops to 10,000 soon. Assistance from all military branches in surrounding states will total 20,000 to 30,000 troops, plus vehicles and equipment. Two of the nation’s largest oil refineries are not operating. Others are affected. Rainfall from Harvey at 49+ total inches is a new U.S. all-time record. Several days of this to go.
Inspiring Websites from “The Passion Test” by Attwood & Attwood
Take what you like & leave the rest (copy & paste into your browser, if any links, below, don’t instantly connect to the your chosen Website; or use “Google” to find most up-to-date links):
http://www.ThePassionTest.com & to take the Passion Test: www.PassionTestOnLine.com & to access the e-book: www.ThePassionTest.com/fromsadtoglad or become a certified Passion Test facilitator: www.ThePassionTest.com/cert
I participated in two “Money & You” 3-day, intensive experiences & highly recommend the wisdom, focus & power of the dynamic learning: www.ThePassionTest.com/moneyandyou;
Additional resources for your consideration: www.ThePassionTest.com/perfectcustomers; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/detinytraining; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/jamesray; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/jimbunch; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/creatingpower; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/eker; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/alexm; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/emi; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/aaron; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/onecoach; www.ThePassionTest.com/bni; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/pierce; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/successu; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/wildlywealthy; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/healingcode; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/stephenco; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/sunildas; www.ThePassionTest.com/amazon; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/marsvenus; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/hendricks; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/teens; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/supercamp; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/selfgrowth; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/scc; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/lefkoe; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/coachville; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/doinglife
from “Passion Test” contributor-authors: www.JanetAttwood.com; http://www.StayinInLove.com; http://www.EnlightenedAlliances.com
Read interviews of folks, whose remarks are included in “The Passion Test” book:
http://www.DebbieFord.com; http://www.BestYearOfYourLife.com; http://www.RichardPaulEvans.com; http://www.TheChristmasBoxHouse.org; http://www.CoveyLink.com; http://www.Abraham.com; http://www.MarciShimoff.com; http://www.HappyForNoReason.com; http://www.ISTPP.org; http://www.TM.org; http://www.PermanentPeace.org; http://www.Hagelin.org
More resources: www.ThePassionTest.com/thework; http://www.PassionTest.com/sedona; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/centerpointe; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/canfield; http://www.ThePassionTest.com/bustingloose;
Clickable ideas to get folks to visit your Website daily!
Get folks to visit your favorite Website(s) daily!
brainstorm about getting folks to visit your favorite Website(s) daily! Maybe a PAWS– &/or Forging Futures-related &/or HCUC &/or Oktoberfest Kraut Run &n/or Women2Women &/or HC Crisis Council Websites’ brainstorm for your, Mike’s & others’ consideration: How about having a “daily click” kind of way to draw folks to PAWS’ & others’ Website? — that simultaneously teaches me something &/or gives me opportunities to donate. Here are Websites I’ve faithfully clicked daily for decades (I assume they’re legitimate). The Websites are conveniently on the front page of my beloved blog www.AliceWhite.WordPress.com:
While you are providing your service to people & places wherever you work, worship, volunteer, learn, play &/or thrive, please remember to
Click daily to support worthy causes: www.FreeKibble.com Automatically donate pet food whenever you take informative quizzes on both, color-coded dog & cat portals. www.AnimalRescueSite.com Pay for food & care for some of the 8M companion animals relinquished to US shelters annually. www.TheHungerSite.com 100% of fees from Web site sponsorships goes to hunger relief: 1.1 cups of food to the hungry every time you click. Another way to donate food: www.FreeRice.com; www.TheLiteracySite.com Click to provide books for children: 1+M free books since 2004. Choose even more causes you believe in: www.ClickToGive.com (e.g., animal care, feed the poor, stop child abuse, shelter homeless, fight cancer: all monies created by your clicking is sent directly from the advertising network to the listed charity. Give to causes when you shop: www.GreaterGood.org Support causes you care about at no cost to you. www.GiftsThatGiveMore.com Provides charity royalty of 5% to 30% paid on every item purchased from online stores with 4,500+ products. www.GlobalGirlFriend.com: Purchase eco-friendly apparel & accessories hand-made by women & communities in need).
Hmmm, maybe our Rotary club &/or district could create their own daily-clickable Websites: e.g., Rotarians, click daily for almost-instant e-training: www.Rotary.org/en/Members/Training/ForAllRotarians & the deep value of transcendent purpose: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc&sns=em & gain inspiration from an unstoppable, successful farmer who automatically overcomes physical challenges: https://www.youtube.com/embed/H9S3n_tILKo The Rotary Foundation had a limited-time-only, clickable photo of Arch Klumph, founded of TRF – where I could click a little square of his Website photo & thereby donate a minimum of $100 to TRF while simultaneously making the donation in honor / in memory of someone: what fun!
And / or model a clickable Website that I spoke about during my Rotary Talk About remarks last Thur.: via the Weblink, I could easily donate to the cause, donate 5% more to cover operating costs, donate 10% more to support the Website; e-tell my honoree (FBG Morning Rotary Pres. Sarah) that I’d donated in her honor. It was so easy that I just kept-a-clicking & donating: exhilarating (helping a great cause & seeing how the ease of the process kept me donating more & more).
Money — financial aid — for college
Individuals & organizations that may have scholarship &/or grant money &/or paid internships or jobs – to help with college expenses. And if you’re thinking, “What do I do & say if someone contacts me?” then feel free to e-mail (Alice.White@TTU.edu) &/or call 830-990-8101 … to brainstorm-for-fun about additional tips that may effectively guide you in being an even more powerful advocate for yourself.
In the meantime, there are some proactive steps that you may want to consider doing right now:
- EVERY YEAR, Oct. 1: You’ll need to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, to apply for federal and state grants, loans & work-study programs. Yes, every 1: complete the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid): https://studentaid.ed.gov/about/announcements/fafsa-changes & https://studentaid.ed.gov/about
- Contact community foundations in your geographical area (e.g., Austin Community Foundation & San Antonio Area Foundation) & local service organizations (Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis clubs) & find out their deadlines (& if there’s still time to apply for scholarships, then offer to e-send all of your academic information & scholarship application & inquire when & how to apply for scholarships & grants – to help you fund your college expenses … & when would be a convenient day, date & time for you to call her/ him/or the assistant in person);
- Contact the college / university where you have been accepted — to get the names, e-addresses, phone #s & Website addresses of folks who have the following kinds of job roles:
- Director of Financial Aid (& proactively e-send all of your academic information & scholarship application & inquire when & how to apply for scholarships, grants & work-study opportunities – to help you fund your college expenses … & when would be a convenient day, date & time for you to call her/him/or the assistant in person);
- Director of Work-Study Program: proactively e-send all of your academic information & scholarship application & inquire when & how to apply for on- or off-campus jobs during college …– to help you fund your college expenses … & when would be a convenient day, date & time for you to call her/him/or the assistant in person
- Assistant(s) in the College of _____ – or whatever your university calls its respective college that houses the academic courses for your chosen area of study (& proactively e-send all of your academic information & scholarship application & inquire when & how to apply for scholarships, grants & work-study opportunities – to help you fund your college expenses); – to help you fund your college expenses … & when would be a convenient day, date & time for you to call her/him/or the assistant in person
- Assistant(s) in the Department of _____ – or whatever your chosen college of university calls its respective college that houses the academic courses for your chosen area of study (& proactively e-send all of your academic information & scholarship application & inquire when & how to apply for scholarships, grants & work-study opportunities – to help you fund your college expenses); – to help you fund your college expenses … & when would be a convenient day, date & time for you to call her/him/or the assistant in person
- Director of the Career Center to inquire about job &/or paid internship opportunities for current students – especially opportunities with local professionals in your chosen area of study (& proactively e-send all of your academic information & scholarship application & inquire when & how to apply for scholarships, grants & work-study opportunities – to help you fund your college expenses); – to help you fund your college expenses … & when would be a convenient day, date & time for you to call her/him/or the assistant in person
- Sponsor &/or Pres. of the Student Government / Student Council organization – that oversees all student organizations & on- & off-campus activities (& proactively e-send all of your academic information & scholarship application & inquire when & how to apply for scholarships, grants & work-study opportunities – to help you fund your college expenses); – to help you fund your college expenses … & when would be a convenient day, date & time for you to call her/him/or the assistant in person
Bottom line: there are probably money & jobs “out there … somewhere for YOU” — to help with your college expenses … if you’re willing to politely & steadfastly pester others to help you find the money you need. And as you can probably infer from the system (above), after you get your own basic steps done the first time … it’s simply a matter of replicating your steps & personalizing your message a bit … for the next resource-person on the list.
Wichita (KS) Community Foundation
Wichita (KS) Community Foundation: www.WichitaCF.org & James Woods, Director of Donor Services, 316-264-4880, JWoods@WichitaCF.org
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5- & 6-figure grants, money for college/university, peace fellowships & more: https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/areas-focus & www.Rotary.org/en/peace-fellowships
- Apply for Peace Fellowships: Rotary.org/en/peace-fellowships & RotaryPeaceCenters@Rotary.org
- Find out about $30K master’s-degree-level, scholarships for advanced study in one of Rotary’s six areas of focus:* https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/areas-focus
- Learn more about Rotary’s 5- & 6-figure global grants … endless opportunities for service-, community- & faith-based & internationally focused folks; also for life-long students; current, former & retired faculty, staff, researchers & administrators at universities, colleges, experts throughout public health** & economic-development fields, too: https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/areas-focus
*Rotary’s six areas of focus for global grants: [1] fighting disease, [2] providing clean water, [3] saving mothers & children, [4] supporting education, [5] promoting peace & [6] growing local economies — via [a] humanitarian grants, [b] vocational training teams** & [c] scholarships. Rotary’s six areas of focus build international relationships, improve lives & create a better world to support peace efforts & end polio forever.
** Public health, healthcare experts &/or researchers, economic-development & other subject-matter-experts are needed by Rotarians & their community partners – for the planning & implementation of The Rotary Foundation’s five- & six-figure global grants.
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Libraries face drastic cuts!! How you can help libraries get funded.
Libraries face drastic cuts!! Please help!! The White House budget that was released yesterday calls for eliminating the Institute of Museum & Library Services(IMLS), the only federal agency charged with providing support to the nation’s hundreds of thousands of libraries and museums. ALA and United for Libraries need your help to ensure that IMLS is saved, because without libraries our community members especially our kids will not have the resources and support they need to succeed in school and prepare for college, careers, and life. Scroll to the bottom of this email for a quick explanation of IMLS. Here’s what you can do right now:
Call your representatives and senators – you can find them here: http://www.ala.org/offices/wo Tell Them: Hello, my name is ____________________. As a voter and as a member/supporter of the American Library Association, I’m calling to ask the Senator/Representative to oppose the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which the White House budget is proposing to do. Libraries help our nation’s children, students, and adults from all walks of life succeed in school and prepare for college careers and life. Without libraries, our nation will not have a trained workforce or productive citizens. Libraries depend on funding from IMLS in order to provide the services and resources students and adults depend on for learning, especially those from low-income families. Please take action to ensure that IMLS is not eliminated and gets the funding it needs to help our nation’s people. Through IMLS, every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. territories receive funding to support their state’s libraries and museums. In FY14 the total funding IMLS distributed to states and territories was $154,800,000 which was shared among our nation’s 16,500 public libraries. [IF YOU LIKE, SHARE A BRIEF EXAMPLE OF HOW YOUR LIBRARY HELPS Community – kids, teens, adults]. Thank you for your time.
Email your representatives and senators – you can find them here: http://www.ala.org/offices/wo Sample Email: Dear Madam/Sir,
As one of your constituents as a member/supporter of the American Library Association, I am writing to ask that you oppose the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which the White House budget is proposing to do. Libraries help our nation’s children, students, and adults from all walks of life succeed in school and prepare for college careers and life. Without libraries, our nation will not have a trained workforce or productive citizens. Libraries depend on funding from IMLS in order to provide the services and resources students and adults depend on for learning, especially those from low-income families. Please take action to ensure that IMLS is not eliminated and gets the funding it needs to help our nation’s people. Through IMLS, every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. territories receive funding to support their state’s libraries and museums. In FY14 the total funding IMLS distributed to states and territories was $154,800,000 which was shared among our nation’s 16,500 public libraries. [IF YOU LIKE, SHARE A BRIEF EXAMPLE OF HOW YOUR LIBRARY HELPS community – kids, teens, adults]. Thank you for your time.
In addition to calling or emailing, share on Social Media and help us spread the word: Sample Tweet [INSERT YOUR REP’S TWITTER HANDLE] Americans depend on libraries to succeed in school & prep for jobs. Say no to cutting the Institute of Museum & Library Services
- Here are the Twitter handles for US Senators and Representatives
Please forward this email to your friends, family members, neighbors, co-workers, and others and ask them to take 5 minutes to make a difference for libraries!
Don’t know much about IMLS? Here’s a quick overview: through IMLS, every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. territories receive funding to support their state’s libraries and museums. In FY14 the total funding IMLS distributed to states and territories was $154,800,000. In addition, IMLS offers competitive grant opportunities that individual libraries and museums can apply for. In FY14 they awarded 594 grants (from 1,299 applications) totaling more than $54,700,000. Visit the IMLS site to see how much funding your state receives from them.
The messaging above was developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association and their executive director, Beth Yoke. Many, many thanks for their quick and articulate response to this crisis in the making for libraries!
Thank you, Beth Beth Nawalinski Deputy Executive Director United for Libraries The Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations A division of the American Library Association 859 W. Lancaster Ave, Unit 2-1 Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 800-545-2433, ext 2161
bnawalinski@ala.org www.ala.org/united
Hill Country University Center’s opportunitie$
The Hill Country University Center in Fredericksburg, Texas Mary.Little@HCUCenter.org;
1-’18: Doss School Administrator Gwen Stockbridge: GStockbridge@Doss.TxEd.Net through Jane Woellhof, Gillespie County Country Schools
Forging bright, prosperous Futures for youth, families, enterprises & communities throughout the Hill Country
Proactively & effectively attracting, maximizing & leveraging enterprise-opportunities & revenue streams that provide ever-increasing financial support for the HCUC
Inspiring academic, career-development, community enrichment
Ensuring in perpetuity a solid financial foundation for operational needs
Leveraging assets for mutually beneficial opportunities
Overview In 2001 Texas Tech University came to the Texas Hill Country, an area that represented the largest underserved population in the State of Texas for higher education. Hill Country-area leaders & the City of Fredericksburg had harbored a strong desire for higher education. They have supported the higher-education effort to the extent possible — including utilization of city land where the community-funded Hill Country University Center resides. In the early HCUC years, the State of Texas provided a special line item that supported, in part, TTU campuses in Fredericksburg & Marble Falls.
Personal Perspectives People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. THEREFORE consider an on-going, friend-making, in-person strategy: offer to treat folks to a cup of coffee & to hear their ideas for 15 min. max.
to show communities that the HCUC cares about them / values them — by visiting sites within each community in the HCUC geographical service area at least semi-annually & hosting a speed-networking luncheon semi-annually in selected communities – in order to
Get acquainted with formal & informal leaders through each community:
Proactively discover new friends & their opinions & perspectives about each town’s goals, needs & assets
Generously offer HCUC resources that may help communities achieve their goals & update the offers & opportunities based on input from new friends throughout HCUC service area
How to get started
Design a one-page, two-sided, full-color, card-stock document with handy, helpful resources
Challenge readers to help themselves to the resources in terms of wherever they work, worship, volunteer, learn, play or thrive: i.e., in all dimensions of their lives
- Include Kim’s photo, contact information & her offers to speak at trainings, meetings, seminars (city council, leadership programs, parents or faith-based gatherings; graduations, celebrations; career days; weekly or monthly meetings of local Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis, Optimists, Zonta, etc. organizations)
- Suggest HCUC as everyone’s “home base” for reunions, celebrations, memorials, learning, training; providing their services as a trainer or facilitator
- Include the half-dozen HCUC endowments at the Community Foundation
- Coordinate photo opportunities when HCUC / CF grants / HCUC scholarships are awarded &/or include a special-invitation reception for honorees prior to HCUC May graduation ceremonies
- Include Workforce Commission contact information! Why? Help with resume-writing, interview skills, MONEY for certain income-level students going into high-priority technical / career areas
- Include Community Foundation contact information: to relieve school districts from having to be responsible for time-consuming Booster Club accounting requirements; to provide consultancy services if families want to memorialize or honor a deceased student, teacher, beloved staff member, etc.
- Suggest rental of HCUC room(s): for family school or family reunions, school or memorial events, weddings? Photo opportunities for brides-to-be, graduations; etc. business-training or retreat site
- Invite schools’ counselors to nominate 3 sophomores & 3 juniors to complete for 15 slots – to serve as ushers, greeters & helpers during all TX Tech graduation ceremonies (or OLLI events or Rotary or community events or Career Fairs, etc. at the HCUC, etc.)
- Invite student, teacher, staff & administrators’ organizations to submit to HCUC opportunities to purchase advertising space in yearbooks, student newspapers, graduation fliers, co-sponsor “Best wishes photos in local newspapers – of all graduating seniors at each high school; booster-club publications, Parent Teacher Association / parents’ groups, local Chamber of Commerce, etc.
Take along HCUC- &/or TTU- &/or CTC-branded mementos for folks willing to meet with you – find out how many more items they would like to have for students, colleagues, family, etc.
Visit FBG Convention & Visitors Bureau & get their feedback about your handout, mementos, how to improve 10-min. visit, handout; whether you could get HCUC information included in all incoming conferences’ & conventions’ goodie-bags
Schools & school districts within the geographical area: get how-to advice from EricW@FISD.org
Whom to visit first; why, when & how to network with administrative personnel, housekeepers, bus drivers; willing, positive counselors, teachers, staff – for 10 min. maximum during their regular meetings? One-on-one as their & your time allow. What HCUC can offer to schools, school districts: TTU resources, CTC resources – including Phi Theta Kappa honor society connections; meaningful connections with Rotary’s youth programs & other service clubs (that can provide volunteers, donors, judges, advocates, prospective school-board members, Reality Check kits @$500 per school for on-going use; etc.) Offer to hang each school’s banner within HCUC Hall of Fame (within snack-bar area on main floor or upstairs?) Office-supply closets, volunteers for on-going &/or special events. Get HCUC onto Pokeman GO & other geo-caching games – to find their school banner within HCUC, etc. Find out from TX Tech Athletics what HCUC can legally offer to schools (given NCAA rules): posters, banners, visits by the Masked Ride & horse, cheer squad, mascot(s), pom squad; drill team, etc. — & if such visits can happen, then pleasepleaseplease remind all TX Tech athletes to tell young students that the athletes are TX Tech students, what their academic majors are, what their professional & career plans are – otherwise, the young student will be clueless that the athletes are also STUDENTS who do well in class & aspire to their own careers (not just the NFL) after athletics
Create exciting festivals &/or fun contests, recruit volunteer judges & award HCUC- / CTCD- & TTU-branded prizes to winners (invite parents, grandparents, families to the awards ceremony)
Answer two questions on the CTCD &/or TTU applications Design a front page for HCUC Web site Write an essay about the meaning of Rotary’s 4-Way Test Envision their life-long success as a family legacy Student art to display throughout HCUC
Come to college today! Invite folks to volunteer at HCUC (to boost their resume; job, college & scholarship applications) & suggest various kinds of duties: tours, welcome, guides to the appropriate room; set up & run Reality Check experiential-learning exercises (for 5th graders & older – including adults) at area schools or during visits to HCUC; etc.
Create & prepare thank-you goodie bags for area schools’ bus drivers, counselors, teachers, staff members, parents, cooks, housekeepers
Add others’ resources to your ever-growing HCUC list of resources
Routinely ask for other school districts’ or organizations’ top three points of pride & their top three most unusual resources (e.g., FISD tiny houses; robotics competition, dual credit with mileage reimbursement; “soft skills” successes; etc.)
Your perpetual-motion, friend-making Strategy
IF you like the person you just met with, ask them for two or three of their most-admired, most-trusted colleagues … & their contact information … for you to visit next – to share your resources & to learn from their wisdom. Ask if you may say that your new friend had referred you to them.
Where to visit in each town?
Leaders / superintendents of public & private schools / school districts & get their “next step” recommendations about which school(s) & which personnel to briefly meet with
Law enforcement: they would love for HCUC to sponsor police-academy training! They know which local youth organizations & faith-based sites are effective with youth
Three top non-profits in town that work with youth or adults aspiring to better themselves Three top faith-based organizations in town Public libraries, tourism & chambers of commerce organizations
On-going friend-making & friend-keeping habits
Clip-&-mail positive information from local newspaper(s) to schools – whenever they & their students are mentioned positively
Compare the strategies (above) to ideas that a 15-min. chat with Ernie Loeffler or Tim Lemert or Penny McBride might offer to you – about creating perpetual, abundant revenue streams for HCUC
Meet with The Masters
Janie.Ramirez@TTU.edu to ask her about Project Future, Back-to-School Fiesta, P-16 Council, Raiders Rojos National Alumni Association, grant$ received
Dr. Caroline Eidson & Lisa Fielder about College Forward strategies & successes
Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution: Artificial Intelligence, the Exponential Age!
insights at the beginning of 2017: Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution: Artificial Intelligence, the Exponential Age! Interesting predictions … the past & the future.
a meaningful review: In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees & sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared, & they went bankrupt.
What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 years. Most people won’t see it coming.
Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on film again? Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore ‘s law: a disappointment for a time, before it became way superior & became mainstream in only a few short years.
It will now happen again with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous & electric cars, education, 3-dimensional printing, agriculture & jobs.
Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution. Welcome to the Exponential Age .
Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.
Uber is just a software tool, they don’t own any cars & are now the biggest taxi company in the world.
AirBnB is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don’t own any properties.
Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go-player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.
In the US, young lawyers already don’t get jobs. Because of IBM’s Watson, you can get legal advice (so far, for more or less basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans.
So if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain.
IBM’s Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, it’s 4 times more accurate than human nurses.
Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.
Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars will appear for the public. Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted. You don’t want to own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, & it will show up at your location & drive you to your destination. You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance & can be productive while riding.
Our kids will never get a driver’s licence & will never own a car.
It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% fewer cars for that. We can transform former parking spaces into parks.
1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide. We now have one accident every 60,000 miles (100,000 km), with autonomous driving that will drop to 1 accident in 6 million miles (10 million km). That will save a million lives each year.
Most car companies will probably become bankrupt. Traditional car companies try the evolutionary approach & just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach & build a computer on wheels.
Many engineers from Volkswagen & Audi are completely terrified of Tesla.
Insurance companies will have massive trouble because without accidents, the insurance will become 100x cheaper. Their car-insurance business model will disappear.
Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will move further away to live in a more beautiful neighborhood.
Electric cars will become mainstream about 2020. Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity.
Electricity will become incredibly cheap & clean: Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning impact.
Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. Energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations, but that can’t last. Technology will take care of that strategy.
With cheap electricity comes cheap & abundant water. Desalination of salt water now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter (@$.025). We don’t have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water. Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as s/he wants, for nearly no cost.
Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There are companies who will build a medical device (called the “Tricorder” from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample & you breath into it.
It then analyses 54 bio-markers that will identify nearly any disease. It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have access to world-class medical analysis, nearly for free — Good by, medical establishment.
3-dimensional printing: The price of the cheapest 3-D printer came down from $18,000 to $400 within 10 years. In the same time, it became 100 times faster. All major shoe companies have already started 3D printing shoes
Some spare airplane parts are already 3-D printed in remote airports. The space station now has a printer that eliminates the need for the large amount of spare parts they used to have in the past.
At the end of this year, new smart phones will have 3-D scanning possibilities. You can then 3-D scan your feet & print your perfect shoe at home.
In China , they already 3-D printed & built a complete 6-story office building. By 2027, 10% of everything that’s being produced will be 3-D printed.
Business opportunities: If you think of a niche you want to go in, first ask yourself: “In the future, do I think we will have that?” & if the answer is “Yes,” then how can you make that happen sooner?
If it doesn’t work with your phone, forget the idea. And any idea designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st century.
Work : 70-80% of jobs will disappear in the next 20 years. There will be a lot of new jobs, but it is not clear if there will be enough new jobs in such a short time. This will require a re-think on wealth distribution.
Agriculture: There will be a $100 agricultural robot in the future. Farmers in 3rd world countries can then become managers of their field instead of working all day on their fields.
Aeroponics will need much less water. The first Petri dish produced veal, is now available & will be cheaper than cow produced veal in 2018. Right now, 30% of all agricultural surfaces is used for cows. Imagine if we don’t need that space anymore.
There are several start-ups that will bring insect protein to the market shortly. It contains more protein than meat. It will be labelled as “alternative protein source” (because most people still reject the idea of eating insects).
There is a computer application / app called “moodies” which can already tell in which mood you’re in. By 2020 there will be apps that can tell by your facial expressions whether you are lying. Imagine a political debate where it’s being displayed when they’re telling the truth & when they’re not.
Sisterhood for Good in FBG & KVL, TX through the Community Foundation of the TX Hill Country
https://www.facebook.com/Sisterhood-for-Good-Fredericksburg
Jayne@CommunityFoundation.Net; GDS@HillCountryLaw.Net; LizBAlt@Verizon.Net; DoubleM71@HotMail.com; RexAnnHill@GMail.com; Sharon.Joseph@LPL.com; Pat@BeeCreek.Net; MomBarn73@GMail.com; KQGuenther@GMail.com;
Janet Smiljanic janetmcdonalds@gmail.com; Sandi McCready sangar941@hctc.net; Liz Wunderlich wunderlc@hctc.net; Sherry Freeman ssf@beecreek.net; mlwhite@cameron-brooks.com;
Mr. Austin Dickson, Executive Director, The Community Foundation Texas Hill Country / TCFTHC; P.O. Box 212; Fredericksburg, TX 78624-0212; 241 Earl Garrett St.; Kerrville, TX 78028 & P.O. Box 291354; Kerrville, TX 78029-1354; 830-896-8811; Austin@CommunityFoundation.Net
Financial literacy: www.JumpStart.org & www.JStart.org for reading-related literacy
Financial literacy: www.JumpStart.org
http://www.JStart.org for reading-related literacy; 308 Congress St., 6th Floor; Boston, MA 02210 & RFTR@JStart.org
Showcase your Rotary-exhibit location at all your events! via an inflatable Rotary Wheel at your community events
Order an inflatable Rotary Wheel in order to showcase Rotary & your Rotary-exhibit location at all your events: via a highly visible, inflatable Rotary wheel: http://scherba.mybigcommerce.com/rotary/ — customizable for neighboring Rotary clubs’ use (via inexpensive velcro name plate for each side of the inflatable Rotary wheel).
Why order & display an inflatable Rotary wheel at your Rotary exhibits; community-wide, Rotary-sponsored &/or other special events? Through the on-going use of a highly visible Rotary wheel, your Rotary club may be increasing the visibility of Rotary & of Rotary’s worthwhile service projects & thus, attracting service-minded new members, increasing your club’s financial $pon$or$hip$ & therefore doing even more good in the world.
Brilliant: the inflatable Rotary Wheel is a fund-raising program of a Rotary club! What a savvy way to combine service, fund-raising, attraction / retention of members & public image. I wonder what kinds of products & services that every Rotary club might be able to provide … thus, doing even more good in the world through money for & from The Rotary Foundation & their Rotary club foundation.
Public health, universities, colleges & Rotary global grants
Universities, colleges, public health & Rotary global grants: connecting public health folks with the 5- & 6-figure global grants offered by The Rotary Foundation: https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/areas-focus Rotary’s six areas of focus for global grants: fighting disease, providing clean water, saving mothers & children, supporting education, promoting peace & growing local economies — via humanitarian grants, vocational training teams & scholarships. Public health folks are the subject-matter-experts who are needed by Rotarians & their community partners.
Rotary is dedicated to six areas of focus to build international relationships, improve lives & create a better world to support our peace efforts & end polio forever.
Assistance for needy families in the Fredericksburg, TX (south-central TX area)
Imagine a place where hungry kids are fed, elderly men & women receive care
& attention, abuse victims find refuge & families in need are empowered
through financial support & counseling. It’s possible in our Gillespie County Community! Hill Country Community Needs Council 830-997-9576 Info@NeedsCouncil.org & http://www.NeedsCouncil.org
Deliver items to the Needs Council Office, 1904 N. Llano, by the 7th of each ensuing month. 9a-5p
How you can be part of this mission each month:
October: Collect/Donate Stuffed Animals for Children of families escaping abuse
November: Collect/Donate small heaters with safety tip over switch for warmth
December: Adopt families and donate gifts during the holidays
January: Collect/Donate blankets for warmth
February: Visit and deliver care baskets to seniors
March: Collect/Donate food for the: Food for Kids Program
April: Collect/Donate Household and laundry supplies
May: Collect/Donate children’s books
June: Collect/Donate school supplies
July: Collect/Donate backpacks
August: Collect/Donate health & beauty products
September: Collect/Donate Coats
The Hill Country Community Needs Council offers the following services in Gillespie County:
• Case Management / Financial Assistance
• Counseling & Family Violence Support
• Food 4 Kids
• Help a Senior (HAS)
• Medical Transportation
• Angel Tree & Christmas Families
• School Supplies
The Needs Council relies on donations from the local community to serve the 3,000 men, women and children in Gillespie County who seek assistance each year.
Abundant Resources for You! 