• Create an event flyer
   
• Upload the flyer onto:
  --your club's website
  --your club's social media pages
   
• Send the flyer to your local print and online newspapers
   
• Remember to send your flyer to the District Team to promote through our Send Us Your Story form or email us at rotaryd7910@gmail.com. 
  
  We will promote your event on the District website, calendar, newsletter and social media.

TIP 1: Flyers should be saved as PDFs (for print publishing) or JPEGs (for online publishing)

For print or paper publishing, save the flyer as a PDF.  For online or digital publishing, save the flyer as a JPEG.
To convert a DOC file to a PDF or JPEG use File/Export/File Type (PDF or JPEG). 

TIP 2: Select High Resolution

Whenever possible, save your images as high resolution, so that they will appear as high-quality, crisp images.

On September 30, District 7910 held its second District Rotaract Zoom Meeting since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic last winter. This was the first meeting since colleges resumed their Fall 2020 schedule.

In many parts of the world, Rotary is a very prestigious institution that you must be invited to join and, as you know, costs a lot to belong to - especially, in developing countries. The result is that, in much of the world, Rotary is something to aspire to.  While at the Rotary International Convention in Seoul, South Korea, I discovered the Rotary Community Corps concept. A Rotary Community Corps is a way for members of the local community to participate in Rotary without membership costs. It's also a way for aspiring Rotarians to show their commitment to service above self.

We need your ideas to create the best RYLA ever. Yes, things are different now. The young people of District 7910 - our future leaders - need us more than ever. They need us to encourage and coach them, and to share our passion for service and our knowledge of all things Rotary. In the spirit of the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, in this time of COVID-19, we will mentor with compassion and creativity, we will put our diverse heads and hearts together to innovate to create opportunities for learning and connections. 

All children need a bed to sleep in. That is the mission of Sleep in Heavenly Peace, a national non-profit that works to build thousands of beds for children so that no child anywhere across the nation will be sleeping on the floor. Getting thousands of children off the floor was the goal of SHP’s Build Day on September 26, called “Bunks Across America 2020,” during which local chapters built as many beds as possible on this one day. That may be 20 or more beds being built per chapter, and together across the nation with all the other chapters combined efforts, it amounted to thousands of beds being built in one single day.

Members of the Rotary Club of Nashoba Valley have been delivering masks to organizations in the Bolton, Lancaster and Stow area, including public-safety offices and nursing homes, as part of the Rotary Million Mask Challenge Tour. Several hundred masks have been delivered with plans to deliver at least another 500 more. More masks will ship in early October. If you or your organization needs masks, contact info@nashobarotary.org.

District 7910 has formed a Social Equity Task Force. This group will address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion within our clubs and our communities.

Invest one hour of your time on Wednesday, September 16 starting at 5:30 p.m. and it could dramatically change your Rotary club’s membership trajectory. Take part in a fast-paced, interactive session with Don Wilson, renowned sales educator, featured TedX speaker, and author of What’s Your Woobie? – Simple Strategies on Your Uncomfortable Path to New Opportunities.

Binish Desai (shown on the right) began working on an eco-friendly brick made out of recycling and waste, when he was 11. The former Rotary Youth Exchange student, inventor, and entrepreneur credits Rotary with giving him the support to pursue his dreams. Now he’s giving back through a new Rotary club.

The Rotary Club of Westborough has awarded scholarships to five local seniors. The scholarship program recognizes students who are contributing to the Rotary vision of a world where people unite and take action, creating lasting change in our communities and across the globe.

As the newly inducted president of the Rotary Club of Westborough, I am dedicated to “strengthening the club’s mission of providing service to others in our town." As such, we are reaching out to the community for suggestions to help with local projects that serve Westborough and the Worcester County community.

Your parents told you to be nice to people. Guess what? They were right. Here’s why. Doing good doesn’t only benefit other people. It helps us, too.

Your parents told you to be nice to people. Guess what? They were right. Here’s why. Doing good doesn’t only benefit other people. It helps us, too.

Greetings, fellow Rotarians and Rotaractors!I am so honored to serve as your president this year. We have important work ahead of us at Rotary, and we are going to have a lot of fun as we do it.

Last year, we launched our five-year Action Plan to build a stronger future for Rotary. We are working to increase our impact, expand our reach, enhance participant engagement, and increase our ability to adapt. The last several months have shown that we — as Rotarians and Rotaractors — can realize these goals as we forge a new path for the future.

You are invited to attend the Sturbridge Rotary Club’s Zoom program, 5 PM, Tuesday August 4^th, when Professor Patrick  Kirst will give us the scoop about movie music scoring. Zoom details below.

In Rotary year 2000-2001, Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar Patrick Kirst from Germany was host-counseled by the Sturbridge Rotary Club, while he studied at Boston’s Berklee College of Music.  He studied further at New York City University until “9/11” impacted him deeply; he lived just 10 blocks from Ground Zero!  He subsequently continued studies at the University of Southern California in LA, under distinguished composers such as Academy Award nominee David Raksin, Golden Globe nominee Christopher Young, Jack Smalley and Grammy Award winner Joe Harnell. 

• Celebrating accomplishments and acknowledging service. 
• Installation of the District Governor, Assistant Governors, and more
• Celebration of all Club Presidents for Rotary year 2020-2021 
• Looking forward to the year ahead, when Rotary opens new opportunities for all.
• Sharing fellowship. 
• Fun surprises.  

You are invited to join 2019-2020 District Governor Pam Anastasi and 2020-2021 District Governor Diana Nestorova for an evening of celebration, and be part of history in the making. Come join us in #District7910's first-ever - and hopefully our last - Online Celebration.

We are moving forward from our experiences with “Rotary Connects the World” into our new year, as we take action to create lasting change by “Rotary Opening Opportunities”. Invite your family to celebrate and support our #Rotarians and leaders of District7910.

By Melanie Petrucci, Senior Community Reporter, Community Advocate

On a recent Saturday morning, nearly two dozen young members of the Northborough Rotary’s Interact Club gathered at the Northborough Police Headquarters to pack lunches that were to be delivered to a Worcester shelter later that day.

Interact clubs are youth-based Rotary International sponsored organizations affiliated with local Rotary clubs that bring together young people ages 12-18, who are committed to service above self while having fun and learning valuable leadership skills.

We are rapidly approaching the end of the year for our Rotary Foundation Annual Fund contributions.

 

I know that many of you intend to make a gift and have a consistent history of contributing annually, but perhaps you just haven’t gotten around to it yet! The end of this Rotary year is right around the corner, and I urge you to consider making a gift to The Rotary Foundation’s Annual Fund.

District 7910 is pleased to announce that O'Mara Taylor of Wayland is the recipient of the $35,00 2019 David & Eleanor Morley Endowed Global Grant Scholarship.  Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Framingham, O'Mara is a graduate of Vassar College. She plans to spend the 2019-2020 academic year in graduate studies at the Saïd Business School of Oxford University. Her Rotary Area of Focus is Maternal & Child Health. 

The answer to the question of how early Rotarians consumed Rotary is pretty easy. It was through our traditional clubs centered around a meal and back then it was typically lunch or dinner. The advent of breakfast clubs was a bold experiment to widen our appeal to those who could not fit into what then was our typical model of delivery, how we were consumed. 

My own early exposure to Rotary was through my Dad’s Rotary Club. It was a large lunch club. Consum-er patterns were different then. I remember listening to baseball games on the radio with my Dad. Now, while many still attend games or watch on TV, a large segment of sports enthusiasts of all types consume sports via social media, on highlights shows, or streaming over the internet. Back then TV was three major networks and some UHF channels, now it’s hundreds of channels and numerous ways to view offerings from TV’s to computers to handheld devices.

In 2011, Kiran Singh Sirah turned 35 — “halfway through our life’s journey,” he says, citing Dante’s Divine Comedy. The UK native had been living in Edinburgh and Glasgow for a decade, working on a variety of cultural endeavors. “I felt I had done everything I needed to do and learn in Scotland. It was time to take my experiences and move them to the next level.” 

That’s when Sirah heard about the Rotary Peace Fellowship. Since the program began in 2002, more than 1,200 peace fellows have received fully funded scholarships to study at one of six peace centers at universities around the world. With help from Rotarians in Scotland, Sirah eventually landed one of those scholarships and headed to North Carolina, where he earned a master’s degree in folklore studies and a graduate certificate in international peace and conflict resolution. 

or the past few years, Rotary International has been promoting Reconnect Week as a time to remind Rotary clubs of the value of reaching out and “reconnecting” with alumni of Rotary programs like Interact, Rotaract, scholarships, Rotary Peace Fellowships, youth exchange and other regional programs. But celebrating alumni and making them feel welcome to your club is something you can and should do year-round. Alumni of Rotary make great leaders and innovators and may possess the skills you need for your next service project.

So in that spirit, we collected five events that impressed us during this year’s Reconnect Week in October to encourage you to think of ways you can reconnect with alumni in the new year.

1. District 7020 Alumni Association – Video Conference

District Alumni Chair William Inniss of Cayman Islands has made it a tradition with his district’s alumni association to hold an annual video conference for Reconnect Week. Since his district is made of many islands, travel between them is more difficult for in-person meetings, so this is simply the best way to keep up. During the meeting, members of the alumni association discuss their past experiences and decide how best to partner with local Rotary clubs.

2. Northern Illinois Rotary Alumni Association – Networking Event

Members of the Northern Illinois Rotary Alumni Association, Rotaract Club of Chicago, and Rotarians in the greater Chicago region came together for an evening of networking at One Rotary Center in

• Achieve a net gain of 1 member
• Maintain or improve your club’s retention of current and new members:
  • Improve your club’s retention rate by 1 percentage point or  
  • If your club’s retention rate was 90 percent or more in 2017-18, maintain it
• Achieve a net gain in female members
• Have at least 60 percent of club members report their birth dates through My Rotary
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• Engaging New members quickly to increase satisfaction and reduce retention issues;
• Organizing meetings that are informative and fun, to re-engage established members;
• Breaking the common 80/20 ratio “Amount of Work Done” / “% of Total Membership”;
• Building a pipeline of more informed members and potential Club leaders.