Rotary Shines is Friday Night

Rotary Shines will be held on Friday, April 11 at the OuterEdge in Appleton from 6:00-10:00 p.m. 

This year's event will feature a cork pull, silent auction and live auction.  The Live Auction will feature a dinner for 3 couples or 6 people made by Executive Chef Michael Congrove.  Chef Congrove has an excellent work history in high end catering, mainly in the Washington DC area.  Food will be provided.  It will also feature an Entrance 21 Package for 12 guests for Sweet Honey on Tuesday, October 14, 2014.
 

What do you want from Rotary?

Nancy Leipzig, Chair of the Young Professional Task Force, asked members to get together in their Rotary Ambassador teams and discuss what they want from Rotary.  This information can be used to generate ideas on how to bring in new members and bring vitality to the Club.  These ideas will then be brought to the Board of Directors to help in their strategic planning.  Members were asked to think about 5 topic areas:  community engagement, programs, networking/fellowship, fundraising and events or to create their own. After 10 minutes, these ideas were shared:

More socializing and networking at meetings
Educate members about Appleton/community and international volunteer opportunities
Access to other Rotarians
Presentation of personal experiences
Visit businesses of other Rotarians
Flexible meeting times and places
Identify funding sources for programs
More member engagement and interaction
Enjoy educational and community related programs
Love music
Make Rotary topics relevant
Community activities
Membership flexibility
Review dues and compare with other clubs
Club has a good reputation
Coordinate service opportunities
Revisit SAMP
Like Rotary on the Road
Internal presentation by members
More interesting topics by presenters so members can bring guests
Members work as team and care for each other

ROTARY SHINES COMMUNITY SERVICE BENEFICIARY - CATALPA HEALTH

The Community Service Committee received 30 applications from area nonprofits to be the community service beneficiary of Rotary Shines.  They were all compelling and worthwhile requests.  The committee chose to help create a resource library for Catalpa Health because of the collaboration, critical need and the substantial contribution they will be making to the community. 

 

Lisa Kogan-Praska told how Catalpa Health is a center of excellence dedicated to providing seamless, accessible collaborative mental health outpatient services for kids and families in Northeast Wisconsin.  Catalpa is a collaboration of the 3 main health care systems:  Affinity, Children's Hospital and ThedaCare.  Their mission is to help children and families improve their mental health and wellness by better access, coordination of care, collaborations, and prevention, outreach and education.  Some of their milestones include:  over 6,000 patients, over 23,000 visits, almost $3,000,000 in donations toward their $7,000,000 campaign, blended 3 organizations, doubled team to now over 50 employees and numerous community partnerships such as NAMI, PATH, HOST, Parent Connection and Lutheran Social Services.  Since Catalpa needed more timely access to care and there was such a great need, a diverse group of parents/patients, Catalpa clinicians, PCP's and community agencies got together for a 2 day stakeholder event.  They learned that when a child was in crisis or felt in crisis that it took 30 days to get an appointment, urgent care for mental health is needed and there is so much going on for parents that they did not know where to begin.  In April, Catalpa Health Access Redesign will include a more robust call center, crisis calls within 24 hours, intake specialist plan of care, resource library, timely follow-up of care for ongoing treatment and increased capacity by 60% while not increasing operating costs.  Rotary Shines will be helping fund their resource library with over 200 titles for parents/children, workbook titles recommended by providers, printed handouts for families on a wide range of diagnoses, magazine resources, sensory tools, community resource brochures, computers for online resources and a play area for children.  This library will help clients, parents, siblings, educators, providers and the community.  This will also help Catalpa achieve their goals of outreach/prevention, provide materials to educate families, improve access, allow clinical providers to focus more on treatment/diagnosis and it will provide opportunities for further collaboration with community organizations.  Thanks to the Rotary Club of Appleton for providing the funds for this valuable resource. 

 

19th ANNUAL COURTESY AWARDS

The Courtesy Awards are given to recognize sales people and others who work with the public and have provided service above and beyond the call (went the “extra mile” for the Rotarian).  The recipients received a framed Courtesy Awards certificate, a check in the amount of $75.00 and a Rotary pen.   Congratulations to the following Courtesy Award recipients:

 

Gordon Cole

Olive Cellar

Nominated by:  Val Wylie

Roberto Diaz

Radisson Paper Valley Hotel

Nominated by:  Frank Rippl

Eric Moore

Bergstrom Chevrolet Cadillac of Appleton

Nominated by:  Dawn Doberstein

 

Jarod Pullen

Bergstrom Chevrolet Cadillac of Appleton

Nominated by:  Dawn Doberstein

 

Thanks to the Courtesy Awards Committee for putting on this program:  Barbara Kelly (Co-Chair), Mary Harp-Jirschele (Co-Chair), Patti Habeck, Gail Popp, Tim Reich and Tom Simon. 

 

Rotary Club of Appleton Seeking Administrative Assistant

This position provides administrative assistance to the President and the Board of the Rotary Club of Appleton and Appleton Rotary Foundation.  He/she will be responsible for the maintenance of club records, club communications, weekly newsletter, social media, staff support to Club/Foundation committees, invoices and the general finances of the Club and Foundation.  Candidate needs to attend weekly Tuesday noon meetings as well as Club and Foundation Board meetings and take minutes. Much of this work is self directed, requiring substantial organizational skills and a solid foundation of bookkeeping, secretarial and office management skills.  Need to be able to have space in your home/office to accommodate file cabinet, laptop computer, printer/scanner/copier and other materials as required for this position.  This is a part-time (23-28 hour per week).  No benefits included.