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Rotary of Templeton Newsletter
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January 15, 2009

Susan Needleman-Brown, our club’s Membership Director, presented our program last meeting on “Membership.” Susan has a “litany” of professional and Rotary experience including Past President, Group 11 Representative, Foundation Deputy Director, and Assistant Governor for Groups 10 and 11, to name a few.
Susan encouraged us and challenged us to “Share Rotary if you Care about Rotary.”
Statistically, “80% of Rotary club members never sponsor a new member.”
She had a variety of handouts and helpful information to promote and provide us “tools” for recruitment and retention of members. These included: “Ideas to Encourage Membership Growth”; Ten Steps toward Growth, A Checklist for Building Stronger Clubs”; “20 Answers to the Question: Why Join Rotary?”
If you were not at the meeting and would like some of this information please contact Susan. Membership is really the heartbeat of any organization and it is not any different in Rotary. We need “each one to reach one!” Let’s move up and forward, not down and out!
The Rotary Foundation has established the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund for U.S. Rotarians who want to donate toward recovery efforts after a powerful earthquake rocked Haiti on 12 January.
The Haitian Red Cross is estimating that more than 50,000 people are dead and millions more injured after the quake, the impoverished nation’s strongest in 200 years, crumbled government buildings, hospitals, schools, and shantytowns. Most of the capital, Port-au-Prince, is in ruins. Read more...
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