- Weekly Club Meetings on Zoom
- January 8th, 2021 on Zoom
On January 8th’s meeting on Zoom, we updated the Club Matters after the Board Meeting
on January 7th, 2021.
1) Finance update
IPP Linda updated the following:
-Our bank accounts:
Tangerin: $84,356
Welfare : $758
Current: $12,062
2) Fundraising Committee update
- A fundraising activity -2021 Montreal Chinese New Year Charity Concert was proposed by President Susan and was voted in favor by the Board as follows:
- The Co-organizer of the Concert will be Montreal Chinese Culture and Arts Foundation(MCCAF) ,
- Title sponsor: National Bank of Canada ($5000)
- Organization to receive the fund from this fundraising:
Beijing Han Fu Er Charity Foundation for Mental Disabled Children
- Date: Feb.12-28
- Donation online through: CanadaHelps. Fellow Members were requested to participate
by donating minimum $20 to this fundraising activity.
- Editing fee of the video to be paid from the $5000 sponsorship from MCCAF which
is $500.
In addition to the fund from the Concert fundraising, the Board voted to donate $2000
to Beijing Han Fu Er Charity Foundation.
-The Shea Butter products sale was postponed to January 31st ,2021
3) Membership Committee update
Membership Chair Michel updated our membership situation. We had two members who became inactive from Jan.2021. They are Karen Bedard and Carlo Ballerini.
However, we found a new candidate Mrs. Liyin Mo who would like to become our new member. DGN Michel did the interview with her and found out that she was qualified to become our member. Mrs. Liyin Mo was sponsored by President Susan. The board voted to accept Mrs. Liyin Mo as our new member starting January 2021.
4) Local Project update
Organization chosen to receive our Christmas Silent Auction funds was:
Montreal Children Hospital Foundation- the Pediatric Emergency Mental Health Fund.
5) International Committee update
- PP Amina updated that the International Committee was still collecting information to properly complete the application for the Global Grant.
- Beirut donation: $2200 ($2000 from our Club + $200 from President Susan ) to be sent to the District’s selected Club for the Beirut project.
6) Environmental Committee
As requested by DG Hadi, our Club decided to set up the Environmental Committee. President Nominee James Zadralek accepted to be the Chair of the Committee. The Committee was calling for members involvement.
7) Bilingual proposal from PP Amina
The Board has discussed about the Bilingual proposal from PP Amina and decided that we should keep the registration in English but keep our mind open for Bilingual.
2. January 15th, 2021 Club Meeting on Zoom
At this meeting, DG Peter Verbeck of District 6990 spoke on Rotarian-People of Action.
DGN Michel introduced our Speaker and welcomed our new member Mrs. LiYin Mo.
DG Peter has served as President of the Rotary Club of Key Biscayne, was District Membership Chair, and Zone 34 Covid-19 Foundation Sub Chair. Peter is a Major Rotary International Donor, member of the Bequest Society and District Rotarian of the Year 2017-2018. He is also a member of the Rotary International Haiti Handwash Committee. In District 6990, Peter works with the five Rotary Clubs in Grand Bahama who are still recovering from Hurricane Dorian. He has participated in 2 Polio National Immunization trips to India.
DG Peter had a wonderful speech. Himself was an good example of People of Action as we could see from his presentation he had been to so many countries to help people in need. Peter travels twice a year to Africa with projects that include Global Grants for building schools, water, sanitation, disease prevention and economic development projects. He proposed Four Priorities as follows:
- Increase our impact
- Expand our reach, rotarians, young people, family members and friends
- Enhance participate engagement
- Increase our ability to adopt
Founding President Santoso thanked him on behalf of the Club. He said that his Speech was really very inspiring and we were touched by his Action. He set a good example of Rotarian-People of Action and we should all learn from him. PP Santoso invited him to come back to speak to us again at his convenient time.
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
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