Members Area
INCLUDES: Quick Downloads | Inviting A Guest | Inviting A Speaker | Invitation Boilerplate | Program Ideas
Quick Downloads
Need A Makeup?
- Rotary E-Clubs [eclub_list.pdf]
- District 5100: Clubs
Thinking About Becoming A Rotarian?
Ready To Make Your Foundation Donation?
- Download a form to make your Paul Harris contribution by check or credit card.
- Visit the www.rotary.org contribution page for more options.
Would You Like To Partner With Our Club On A Service Project?
Inviting A Guest
Of course, you can invite a guest-potential member or not-to any of our meetings! You are responsible for their meal ($10).
If your guest is a potential member, their first meal will be paid by the club. Please use the quick downloads above to give them the Expectations of Membership and a Membership Application.
Inviting A Speaker
- Think about a topic that would be interesting or a speaker you think is dynamic. Below are some ideas to help you choose a speaker for your assigned program date. Don’t hesitate to schedule your speaker weeks and even months in advance. The best speakers’ time books up early.
- Invite them to present to the club. Do you need help writing a letter or email to invite a speaker? You’ll find a template below.
- PLEASE REMEMBER that your program is 30 minutes long, including Q&A. If your speaker needs less than 30 minutes, you should schedule multiple speakers to fill the time.
- Upon confirmation, send the speaker the Club Fact Sheet and notify the Club President. It’s important that your speaker have an idea what they’re getting themselves into. Download the Club Fact Sheet and email or print it for your speaker as it will help them prepare for visiting.
- Touch base with your speaker a week before their presentation to re-confirm.
- Show up at 7:00 the morning of the presentation to greet your speaker, help them set up materials and introduce them to club members.
- Be prepared to introduce your speaker in a manner that honors their time speaking to the club.
Boilerplate text for inviting a speaker
Hello _______________,
Our Rotary club is interested in hearing about [name of project/program/etc]. Would you be interested in speaking at one of our weekly Tuesday meetings in Long Beach?
I am securing a speaker for our meeting on [date] and hope that this would be a good time for you to join us. If you’d like to talk to us about [name of project/program/etc], but this date is inconvenient, please let me know of a Tuesday (or two) that might work for you and I’ll gladly do my best to accommodate your schedule.
We’ll happily buy you breakfast, which begins at 7:30 am at the 42nd Street Café in Seaview. We ask that you arrive 15-20 minutes early so we can set up anything you may need for your presentation, which should run about 30 minutes, including Q & A time.
The meeting concludes at 8:30 am.
I hope you’ll seriously consider this opportunity to share with our club. Please don’t hesitate to contact me personally if I can answer any questions.
Sincerely,
Program Topic Ideas
ROTARY
During the Rotary year, ten of the twelve months have assigned Rotary subjects.
- July: Literacy
- August: Membership and extension
- September: New generations
- October: Vocational Service
- November: The Rotary Foundation
- December: The family of Rotary
- January: Rotary awareness
- February: Word understanding
- April: The Rotary Magazine
- June: Rotary fellowship
- How about March and May? Suggestions:
- March: Rotary’s medical outreach
- May: Rotaract, Interact, Ryla
COMMUNITY SERVICE
- The neighborhood associations
- Local police, fire and emergency service
- Transportation, streets and highways
- Gangs and graffiti: what can be done?
- Feature a local business quarterly
- Local self-help: area cleanup, immunization
- Christmas in April
- Good Turn Day
- Neighborhood surveys
- Community celebrations
- Community Town Meetings
- Community development, PDC, the chamber
- The summer festivals
- Community history
- Historical Society
- Foster Parenting
OUR STATES, OUR NATION
- Ports
- Oregon, Washington fish and game
- The state parks system
- The national economy
- Our foreign policy, Our future in a world economy
THE POLITICAL ARENA
- Report from the mayor
- Members of the City Council
- Members of the County Commission
- Members of the State Legislature
- Local issues, present both sides
- Key state measures, present both sides
- Candidate’s forum, Town Hall format
- Political presentations, invite all candidates
- National issues, present both sides
EDUCATION
- Report from your public schools
- Grays Harbor, Clatsop Colleges
- School vouchers, good or bad
- Charter schools, home schooling
- School success stories
- School problems and solutions
- Professional skills training
- Head Start
CULTURE AND THE ARTS
- The changing face of the Pacific Northwest:
- Immigration in America
- The Washington Historical Society
- Black History Month
- Religions of the world
- The Native American world
HEALTH
- Keeping yourself healthy, the annual physical
- What do men need to watch?
- What do women need to watch?
- Blood pressure and cholesterol
- The rising cost of health care: can anything be done?
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
- Rotary youth exchange
- Short-term exchange
- Rotary friendship exchanges
- World community service
- How to learn a new language
- I want to go on a NID (Nat’l Immunization Day)
- Ambassadoral Scholar’s Report
- Peace and conflict resolution scholarships
- Polio Plus update
SELF IMPROVEMENT
- Do I need a will and an estate plan?
- I want to go back to school. I want to finish my degree
- I want to learn a foreign language
- Personal finance, planning for retirement
- Health maintenance management
- Changing careers, how and why
- Mid-life crisis
- Lifelong learning
- Travel, where, why and how
- A learning experience; the district assembly and the district conference
- An even bigger experience, the international Rotary Convention
HUMOR
- Have you read a good book lately?
- Movie reviews
- How to be a good storyteller
- How to tell a joke or joke telling day