Rotary Learning Center: https://learn.rotary.org

Rotary Learning Center:  https://learn.rotary.org

Subscribe to “Global Polio Eradication” updates: BigZLumber@Aol.com

What is that Polio Eradication Picture?   It’s a picture of Elvis promoting the March of Dimes to support Polio eradication.  Many celebrities and sports stars have given of  their  time, talents, faces, voices, and donations to the Polio Eradication cause worldwide over the years.                

Zero is the Magic Number!

The three-year Countdown to History starts after the final Wild Polio case. 

Today, we count six weeks since the report of the most recent Wild Polio case.

For Rotary District Leaders (and Influencers) – Know what’s best Polio Eradication “Bang For Your Buck”?  Contributions of your Rotary District Designated Funds (DDF) are matched $.50 to the $1 by The Rotary Foundation’s World Fund and are then matched again $2 to $1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  So, a $10,000 DDF donation becomes $45,000.  That’s an unbeatable deal!  See the DDF donation form here file:///C:/Users/terry/Downloads/ddf_donation_form_rotary_foundation_funds_en.pdf  

Rotary is committed to raise $50 Million (including Rotarian, public, and DDF donations) to be matched by $100M from the Gates Foundation – for each of the next three years – for a total of $450 million for the Global Polio Eradication effort!

• Quote of the Day – “If you don’t like something, change it.  If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” — Maya Angelou, Author & Poe
• The Final Three Endemic Countries  Pakistan     Afghanistan     Nigeria

   Our Goal is Global Polio Eradication!!

Terry Ziegler, Rotary District 5890 Polio Eradication Chair & Zone 21B/27 PHS Coordinator

at-large Rotary Peace Fellow: annually at no cost to Rotary District(s)

“at-large” Peace scholar @ no cost to your Rotary District:  LynKenney4@GMail.com

If you are interested in your Rotary district’s sponsoring a Peace Fellow scholar or if you are interested in applying to become a Rotary Peace Scholar yourself:  contact The Peace Center at Rotary International:  Laureen Pugliese   #847 424-5364 or Laureen.Pugliese@Rotary.org

If your Rotary District is willing to sponsor Peace Fellow(s) at no cost to your district, tell Laureen that your Rotary district is interested in accepting “At large” Rotary Peace Fellow candidate(s).  All-applicants’ deadline is July 1.  They then will send you e-mails (usually late May & June) asking if you will take a particular candidate as each Peace Fellow applicant needs a Rotary District endorsement.  At that time, you start “mentoring” the candidate in preparation for an interview (usually done by Skype) & endorsement by your Rotary District.   All the information you need is online & there are a number of Rotary Webinars (I will send you the links) about how to handle this.  Google:  Rotary Peace Fellow applicant information, & it will call up all sorts of things.  The supplement is full of information.

I need to warn you that this is a LOT of work.  It took me all of May & June working many hours (even with a committee to help) to get through 5 applicants.  They come from all over the world.  Some have never received any help in doing their resume or writing essays.  Some have limited English which is why they have to take the TOEFL or IELTS exam to test their English:  they must have a certain score to be accepted at the Rotary Peace Centers.

Rotary International does an initial screening to see if they have 5 years of work or volunteer work in Peace & Conflict before sending them on.  We in the district really have most of the work to make sure they have all application materials in order & all the district endorsements (for or against) are in by July 1. After you read everything & take the Webinars, contact LynKenney4@GMail.com & she will be glad to discuss & respond to questions you may have.

Shipping Books for Africa to Atlanta, GA, USA: 404-603-8680. End book famine in Africa!

e-mail me w/ any questions about donating books. Let me know how many books, &  I can guide you in the right direction for moving them:  Sldr99MPLS@Yahoo.com or Brad Mattson, Director Of Atlanta Operations, Books For Africa , 3655 Atlanta Ind. Dr., Atlanta, GA 30331  404-603-8680 ATL.    www.BooksForAfrica.org

Help End the Book Famine in Africa!   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPeYHHQWdK0&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygGqW1v2sTk&feature=youtu.be   

Cape Town (So. Africa) Society for the Blind: www.CTSB.com.ZA

Lizelle Van Wyk, Chief Executive Officer, Cape Town Society for the Blind      27 21 448 4302 / 27 79 575 0793 & www.CTSB.Co.ZA      You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream – C S Lewis

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

 

1. Apply for Peace Fellowships:  Rotary.org/en/peace-fellowships & RotaryPeaceCenters@Rotary.org

 

2. 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

 

3. 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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Good news & hope for the future: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/opinion/dalai-lama-behind-our-anxiety-the-fear-of-being-unneeded.html?_r=1&referer=

Good news & hope for the future:  http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/opinion/dalai-lama-behind-our-anxiety-the-fear-of-being-unneeded.html?_r=1&referer=

The Web link explains why I enjoy Rotary:  http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/opinion/dalai-lama-behind-our-anxiety-the-fear-of-being-unneeded.html?_r=1&referer=

Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded   By THE DALAI LAMA and ARTHUR C. BROOKS    November 4, 2016    In many ways, there has never been a better time to be alive. Violence plagues some corners of the world, and too many still live under the grip of tyrannical regimes. And although all the world’s major faiths teach love, compassion and tolerance, unthinkable violence is being perpetrated in the name of religion.

And yet, fewer among us are poor, fewer are hungry, fewer children are dying, and more men and women can read than ever before. In many countries, recognition of women’s and minority rights is now the norm. There is still much work to do, of course, but there is hope and there is progress.   How strange, then, to see such anger and great discontent in some of the world’s richest nations. In the United States, Britain and across the European Continent, people are convulsed with political frustration and anxiety about the future. Refugees and migrants clamor for the chance to live in these safe, prosperous countries, but those who already live in those promised lands report great uneasiness about their own futures that seems to border on hopelessness.

Why?   A small hint comes from interesting research about how people thrive. In one shocking experiment, researchers found that senior citizens who didn’t feel useful to others were nearly three times as likely to die prematurely as those who did feel useful. This speaks to a broader human truth: We all need to be needed.

Being “needed” does not entail selfish pride or unhealthy attachment to the worldly esteem of others. Rather, it consists of a natural human hunger to serve our fellow men and women. As the 13th-century Buddhist sages taught, “If one lights a fire for others, it will also brighten one’s own way.”

Virtually all the world’s major religions teach that diligent work in the service of others is our highest nature and thus lies at the center of a happy life. Scientific surveys and studies confirm shared tenets of our faiths. Americans who prioritize doing good for others are almost twice as likely to say they are very happy about their lives. In Germany, people who seek to serve society are five times likelier to say they are very happy than those who do not view service as important. Selflessness and joy are intertwined. The more we are one with the rest of humanity, the better we feel.

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.

Click-daily Websites

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 the8M 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 everytime 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).   Make Breedlove among the top-rated food & shelter nonprofits in the US: http://greatnonprofits.org/reviews/breedlove-foods-inc  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  

3 Rotary resources for your / your club’s use: Membership tips, D5840 training dates & Rotary Community Corps “why” & “how-to” documents

Three Rotary resources for your &/or your club’s use:

1. Updated version of Encyclopedia of Rotary Membership Resources: https://indd.adobe.com/view/07b0b841-37af-477a-a5d8-f515a46b11ba  Discover your favorite idea & share Rotary with a friend who might be actively looking for a relevant way to be of service.

 

2. Attachment with Rotary D5840 2016 & beyond … training & celebratory dates, locations; intended audiences & pre-registration Website:  Rotary5840.org Please pre-register, participate & get a double-dose of Rotary inspiration with its can-do resources!  [Not in D5840?  Adapt the document for your respective events.]

 

3. Rotary Community Corps’ on-line video from yesterday’s Webinar:  https://vimeo.com/160914857 & yesterday’s RCC PowerPoint presentation:  http://www.slideshare.net/Rotary_International/rotary-community-corps-community-solutions-for-community-challenges-60233848 Find out how to engage additional organizations in furtherance of your Rotary service projects.  I’ll gladly e-share with you, upon request, all five documents – from yesterday’s inspiring, creative, interactive RCC-focused Webinar.  My biggest “ah-ha” was “why” & “how” to mobilize RCC on behalf of your Rotary Foundation-funded global grants.  And inspiring information about a RCC of Colorado adults who are developmentally challenged — & how they have become engaged, self-confident, community spokespersons & volunteers — as members of RCC.  Let me know which documents you would like me to e-forward to you:  [a]  Rotary Community Corps:  Why & How-To documents; [b] RCC informational brochure; [c] RCC PowerPoint presentation; [d] RCC sample Bylaws & Constitution; & [e] RCC fill-in-the-blanks Organization form.

American Assoc. of Univ. Women: http://HillCountry-TX.AAUW.Net

The American Association of University Women advances equity for women & girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy & research.

American Association of University Women, AAUW Hill Country Branch:   http://HillCountry-TX.AAUW.Net        For map to meeting location:  select “AAUW Hill Country Branch” from the top menu bar & then scroll downward for map to Kroc Center.

President Pamela J. Haylock, PhD, RN, FAAN; Oncology Care Consultant, Educator; 18954 State Highway 16 North; Medina, TX 78055; 830-589-7380; 830-928-2989 & FloFan1975@Indian-Creek.Net

Treasurer Anita Crane:  CraneA@KTC.com

Comuzzie@Schreiner.edu; CWichman95@GMail.com; SwansonCarole@GMail.com;

End human trafficking:  one voice, one mission:  BLUE CAMPAIGN:  1-888-373-7888 or Text INFO or HELP to BeFree(233733) 170+ languages.  To report suspected human trafficking to law enforcement:  1-866-347-2423 or cal 9-1-1- in an emergency.  Be alert, strong & free:  Did someone take away your ID or documents?  Is someone forcing you to work for them to pay off a debt?  Is someone forcing you to work or have sex against your will?  Is someone threatening or hurting you or your family?  Are you under 18 & getting paid for having sex?  Ask for help.  You have rights in the US regardless of your immigration status.

Lubbock branch contact about AAUW Mother-Daughter Program endowment:  Shelby Russell:  CalSeeBo@ICloud.com

AAUW National contacts serve as points of contact.

• Membership: Claudia Richards:  RichardsC@AAUW.org & 202.728.7614
• C/U Outreach: Kristin Lang:  LangK@AAUW.org & 202.728.3308
• Student Groups: Paige Robnett:  RobnettP@AAUW.org & 202.785.7737
• Grassroots Advocacy: Elizabeth Holden:  HoldenK@AAUW.org & 202.785.7763
• Assoc. Field Director: Katie Simon:  SimonK@AAUW.org & 202.785.7786
• Development: Jenn Barton:  Bartonj@AAUW.org & 202.728.7631
• Branch Relations: BranchRelations@AAUW.org
• General Questions or Information: Connect@AAUW.org

former AAUW employee is still available Melodía Gutiérrez:  801.918.6832 & MellowDia1@GMail.com

The next round of AAUW Action Fund voter guides is available now on the Action Fund website. We’ll be sending Action Network blasts to subscribers in the relevant Congressional Districts but need your help promoting these guides to branch members and beyond.      Want more information about how to best put our voter guides to use? Be sure to register for our September 28^th skills training on voter education!       Elizabeth Holden    Grassroots Advocacy Manager    American Association of University Women (AAUW)    202.785.7763 | www.aauw.org

Past Lubbock, TX, AAUW Pres. Lane Powell’s new book:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/593394884/lane-powells-parenting-secret

Texas Public Health Assoc.: prospective Rotary global grant partners via www.MatchingGrants.org

TX Public Health Assoc.:  debra.flores@ttuhsc.edu; adrianne.harrel@ttuhsc.edu; curtizia.alexander@gmail.com; alnjohnson@gmail.com; alvinbwms@gmail.com; acaitibowman@gmail.com; ahph23@gmail.com; anna.espinoza@unthsc.edu; ajturner21@gmail.com; ashlyn.dempster@go.tarleton.edu; billy.philips@ttuhsc.edu; martincm22@aol.com; cheryl30hed@yahoo.com; christina.smith@ttuhsc.edu; coleman.johnson@ttuhsc.edu; kellstedt@sph.tamhsc.edu; debra.reed@ttu.edu; denise.h.lopez@ttuhsc.edu; takiyah1908@gmail.com; ejholmes630@gmail.com; faith.foreman@houstontx.gov; frances.quintero@ttuhsc.edu; janhavi.mallaiah@unthsc.edu; jeff.carr@ttuhsc.edu; jbaysmith@earthlink.net; theis@livemail.uthscsa.edu; kaylee.andringa@ttuhsc.edu; kfall08@yahoo.com; kristi.roberts@uthct.edu; leilani.dodgen@unthsc.edu; ennadawkins@hlkn.tamu.edu; ljquashie@gmail.com; mm0975@my.unthsc.edu; mory@tamu.edu; drmissy2011@gmail.com; michelle.lee@unthsc.edu; miguel.carrasco@ttuhsc.edu; rachelgf@gmail.com; robin@rhtwo.com; rea@inclusiveinsights.com; skachur@hcphes.org; sarah.looten@ttuhsc.edu; sarah.mckinney@dentoncounty.com; sahebert@pvamu.edu; sgrubbs@twu.edu; douglas.coyle48@gmail.com; teb0097@live.unthsc.edu; Teresa.wagner@unthsc.edu; tiffany.smith2@houstontx.gov;

The Rotary Foundation’s http://www.MatchingGrants.org & the Texas Public Health Association!  Prospective Rotary global-grant collaborative partners.  www.TexasPHA.org & TXPHA@Aol.com & Terri S. Pali, Exec. Dir., TPHA; P.O. Box 201540; Austin, TX  78720-1540; 512-336-2520

Texas & all public-health folks are likely partners for Rotary global grants — serving as:

Subject-matter experts for Vocational Training Teams 

Trained & experience public / health professionals to help with humanitarian projects

&

prospective $30+K master’s-level scholarship recipients (or faculty, staff or administrators with master’s-level students) in one of The Rotary Foundation’s six areas of focus — that sound like Public Health 101:

1.   Maternal & child health

2.  Disease control & prevention

3.  Clean water & sanitation

4.  Literacy & education

5.  Economic & community development &

6.  Peace & conflict resolution.

 

“Suffragette:” movie about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement

Take your friends, your mom/grandmom, your cousins, work colleagues, your sisters and daughters,     The movie Suffragette is must-see material!     Whether you choose to vote or not, you need to know the history of the women that allowed us to have that choice!

Showing now:   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3077214/  [The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.]   And bring your husbands, brothers, boyfriends and lovers — a part of history that WE are part of!

Patriots among us: OSS, aka, CIA’s third-string catcher named “Moe Berg”

Patriots among us:

When baseball greats Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig went on tour in baseball-crazy Japan in 1934, some fans wondered why a third-string catcher named Moe Berg was included.       Although he played with 5 major league teams from 1923 to 1939, he was a very mediocre ball player.  But, he was regarded as the brainiest ballplayer of all time if you look at his complete record.      In fact Casey Stengel once said:  “That is the strangest man ever to play baseball.”  When all the baseball stars went to Japan, Moe Berg went along & many people wondered why he was on the team.

Why was he with the great Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth & other stars?  The answer was simple:  Moe Berg was a United States spy working undercover with the OSS, forerunner to the CIA.     Moe spoke 15 languages – including Japanese.  Moe Berg had two loves in his amazing life:  baseball & spying.

In Tokyo, garbed in a kimono, Berg took flowers to the daughter of an American diplomat being treated in St. Luke’s Hospital – the tallest building in the Japanese capital.      He never delivered the flowers.  Instead, the ball-player ascended to the hospital roof & filmed key features: the harbor, military installations, railway yards, etc.       Eight years later, Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle studied catcher Moe Berg’s films in planning his spectacular raid on Tokyo.

Berg’s father, Bernard Berg, a pharmacist in Newark, New Jersey, taught his son Hebrew & Yiddish.  Moe, against his father’s wishes, began playing baseball on the street at age four.     His father disapproved & never once watched his son play.  In Barringer High School, Moe learned Latin, Greek & French.     Moe also read at least 10 newspapers every day.

He graduated Magna cum Laude from Princeton – having added Spanish, Italian, German & Sanskrit to his linguistic quiver.      During further studies at the Sorbonne, in Paris & at Columbia Law School, he picked up Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Arabic, Portuguese & Hungarian – 15 languages in all, plus some regional dialects.  And, while playing baseball for Princeton University, Moe Berg would describe plays in Latin or Sanskrit.

During World War II, he was parachuted into Yugoslavia to assess the value to the war effort of the two groups of partisans there.       He reported back that Marshall Tito’s forces were widely supported by the people & Winston Churchill ordered all-out support for the Yugoslav underground fighter, rather than Mihajlovic’s Serbians.

The parachute jump at age 41 undoubtedly was a challenge. But there was more to come in that same year.     Berg penetrated German-held Norway, met with members of the underground & located a secret, heavy-water plant – part of the Nazis’ effort to build an atomic bomb.

His information guided the Royal Air Force in a bombing raid to destroy the plant.  The RAF destroyed the Norwegian heavy-water plant targeted by Moe Berg.      There still remained the question of how far had the Nazis progressed in the race to build the first atomic bomb.  If the Nazis were successful, they would win the war.

Berg (under the code name “Remus”) was sent to Switzerland to hear leading German physicist Werner Heisenberg, a Nobel Laureate, lecture & to determine whether the Nazis were close to building an atomic bomb.       Posing as a Swiss graduate student, Moe managed to slip past the SS guards at the auditorium.  The spy carried in his pocket a pistol & a cyanide pill.

If the German indicated that the Nazis were close to building an atomic bomb, Berg was to shoot him & then swallow the cyanide pill.    Moe, sitting in the front row, determined that the Germans were nowhere near their goal, so he complimented Heisenberg on his speech & walked him back to his hotel.

Moe Berg’s report was distributed to Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt & key figures in the team developing our atomic bomb.  Roosevelt responded: “Give my regards to the catcher.”

Most of Germany’s leading physicists had been Jewish & had fled the Nazis mainly to Britain & to the United States.     After the war, Moe Berg was awarded the Medal of Freedom, America’s highest honor for a civilian in wartime.  But Berg refused to accept it because he couldn’t tell people about his exploits.

After his death, his sister accepted the Medal, & today it hangs in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.

March 2,1902—–May 29, 1972  Presidential Medal of Freedom (the highest award to be awarded to civilians during wartime)    Moe Berg’s baseball card is the only card on display at the CIA Headquarters in Washington, DC.

NEW World Trade Center, NY, video shows a spirit of resilience & inspiration that transcends ill will — reminds me of Rotary: www.Rotary.org

Ask Alice.White@TTU.edu to e-forward you The NEW World Trade Center, NY video with its spirit of resilience, reverence, heart-rending remembrance, courage, service above self, creativity, positive focus, vision, action, love & inspiration … transcending ill will & overcoming win-lose actions.  The spirit of the video reminds me of the spirit of Rotary International (details, below).

Also, a short, one-act musical about 9/ll for National Public Radio with a very personal perspective of the tragedy:  www.prx.org/pieces/20755-taken-how-will-they-be-remembered-by-charles-mos/floating_piece by Charles Moster (CharlesAlbertMoster@GMail.com) Moster Law Firm  Charles A. Moster, Esq.  Senior Partner  4920 S. Loop 289, Suite 102, Lubbock, Texas 79414  806.778.6486; also:  112 S.W. 8th Avenue  Eagle Centre  Suite 301  Amarillo, Texas 79191  806.350.5256

If you like the resilience, inspiration & transcendent energy of the video, if you have a calling for service with others, if your heart opens with joy when you read Rotary’s Four-Way Test (below) & if your Life’s legacy includes goodwill, friendship & peace … then YOU MIGHT BE A ROTARIAN!  Feel free to visit Rotary Web sites, below, to find out how to get involved with Rotary’s inspiring service projects, dynamic social events & uplifting speaker meetings.

For me, the outcomes displayed in the NEW World Trade Center video remind me of Rotary’s values, activities, vision & members:

• Four-Way Test:  of the things we think, say or do:  Is it the TRUTH?  Is it FAIR to all concerned?  Will it building GOOD WILL & BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?   Will it be BENEFICIAL TO ALL CONCERNED?
• Focus to help folks like you to JOIN LEADERS, EXCHANGE IDEAS & TAKE ACTION!  …  to bring together leaders who step forward, who take on important issues for local communities everywhere; to connect business & community leaders who discover & celebrate diverse perspectives to create positive change in our communities; &
• Made up of people around the world, working together to clean the environment, end crippling polio, improve our communities & accomplish many extraordinary things every single day.
• Echoing the aspirational words of the late John Denver’s song It’s about Time [via the following excerpts & paraphrasings]:  There’s a full moon over India, & Gandhi lives again   Who’s to say you have to lose for someone else to win   In the eyes of all the people the look is much the same   For the first is just the last one when you play a deadly game      It’s about time we realize it we’re all in this together   It’s about time we find out it’s all of us or none   It’s about time we start to face it we can’t make it here all alone   There’s a man who is my brother, I just don’t know his name   But I know his home& family because I know we feel the same   And it hurts me when he’s hungry & when his children cry   I too am a father & that little one is mine     It’s about time we begin to turn the world around   It’s about time we start to make it the dream we’ve always known   It’s about time, it’s about changes, & it’s about time   It’s about peace & it’s about plenty & it’s about time   It’s about you & me [& Rotary!] together & it’s about time

I encourage you to

Locate & connect with a Rotary Club near you (&/or e-Clubs anywhere in the world):  www.Rotary.org/ClubLocator  Meet friendly, can-do, philanthropic, service-focused Rotarians, who might be interested in your global & local service projects.  Who knows?!  You might be interested in Rotary’s global & local service projects, so feel free to ask the Rotarians about The Rotary Foundation’s global grants for humanitarian projects, vocational training teams & scholarships — related to [1] clean water & sanitation; [2] women & children’s health; [3] disease control & prevention; [4] literacy & education; [5] economic & community development; and [6] peace & conflict resolution:  www.MatchingGrants.org if you want to personally connect with Rotarians &/or their global projects … & to invite Rotarians to get engaged with global projects you believe in.

Apply for or tell others to apply for educational grants & scholarships for non-Rotarian students, faculty, staff, administrators, colleagues, neighbors, friends:  https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/apply-grants & Grants@Rotary.org

 Ask a Rotary club or district to sponsor a Peace Scholarship or $30K master’s-level scholarship (in 1 of the 6 areas of focus:  water & sanitation; maternal & child health; literacy & education; economic & community development; peace & conflict resolution; disease control & prevention) – that you, students, faculty, staff, administrators, friends, family, colleagues or neighbors might want to apply for.

 Figure out how Rotary can accelerate the fulfilment of your Life’s calling:  your Life legacy of doing good in the world – via its on-going endeavors!  Examples:  Doing Good: Intro = http://vimeo.com/34051471     Doing Good: Supporting Education = http://vimeo.com/33737948     Doing Good: Growing Local Economies = http://vimeo.com/33736218     Doing Good: Fighting Disease = http://vimeo.com/33735961     Doing Good: Providing Clean Water = http://vimeo.com/33735494     Doing Good: Saving Mothers & Children = http://vimeo.com/33690570     Doing Good: Promoting Peace = http://vimeo.com/33671034     Order Doing Good in the World DVD online:  http://shop.rotary.org/Doing-Good-World-DVD/dp/B0043N0762

Invest in The Rotary Foundation’s vision of a better world (by enabling Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill & peace through the improvement of health, the support of education & the alleviation of poverty).  The Rotary Foundation; 14280 Collections Center Drive; Chicago, IL  60693 or www.Rotary.org/contribute or 1-866-976-8279.  TRF = A+ from the American Institute of Philanthropy; top rating of four stars from Charity Navigator & full accreditation from the Wise Giving Alliance of the Better Business Bureau, based on the previous year’s result; only 3% of TRF expenditures went to administrative expenses & 5% to fund-raising  TRF directed 92% of its spending to programs, far exceeding the benchmark of 65% that independent charity-rating services view as a measure of high efficiency.  My philanthropic experiences are summarized in Luke 6:38:  Give, & it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down & shaken together & running over … same measure to you.”