1. getting started take responsibility to make it happen in your club – start with your passion...
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1. Getting Started
Take responsibility to make it happen in your club– Start with your passion
Water, literacy, health, etc.--or Region + Needs– Get club President & Board Support– Get a WCS line item budget commitment– Recruit committee members– Learn, study; develop experience & skills
2. Do Some Basic Homework
Read about Humanitarian Service on www.Rotary.org and D5100WCS.org including:
Guide to Matching Grants (form 141en at www.Rotary.org/RIdocuments) http://bit.ly/I7Nh7s
Study the booklets, forms, spreadsheets & checklist on our District 5100 website– D5100WCS.org
Imagine you lived in the village … how would you assess, prioritize & begin to meet needs?
3. Attend Our Project Exchanges/Workshops
District Level: Every 3rd Wednesday at the District Office in Wilsonville– 4:00-5:30 PM– Ask to be on Pmail list
[email protected] [email protected] (after June 30)
Attend a successful club’s International Service committee meeting– List available on our website
4. Finding a Project--1
Team up with a project underway with another club in our district– $500 to $5,000– Come to our monthly exchanges, read pmail, notes– Call clubs … collaborate
Find available projects: D5100WCS.org, MatchingGrants.org, ProjectLink and Wasrag.org– Homework & due diligence is always required
4. Finding a Project--2
Use existing connections & relationships:– Y.E. & G.S.E.– Friendship Exchange– Personal travel, International Business
Project Fairs – in person or electronic Partners in Service RAGM.org … Wasrag.org … other RAGs
5. What do we mean Sustainable?
• Deliverable/benefit lasts indefinitely; for a lifetime– TRF Definition: Sustainability is the capacity for
maintaining outcomes long‐term to serve the ongoing need of a community after grant funds have been expended.
• Essential elements of sustainability:– technical solution, issues– social & cultural factors– financial & business-like elements– empowerment & community self-sufficiency
• some examples …
Key concept
in Upcoming
Vision
Needs Assist Sustainability
Community
Development
Personal
Sustainability
Water-
Sanit-Hyg.
Lending
Literacy etc.
CommunityNeeds
Slow, Reduce:• “1 of” Projects• Donor-dependency• Supply- or Grant-driven
Think, Identify & Use:• Community Solutions• Empowerment• Use alternatives with• Local materials, jobs,
manufacture, skills• Vision & Path to Future• Monitor, Measure• Evaluate & Learn
6. Other Elements of Successful Project
• Appeals to Hearts & Head (greatly improves human condition)
• Reliable long-term partner (reputation, checklist)
• Community & members volunteerism, commitment
• Meets Area of Focus, Terms & Conditions• Fiscally sound, with stewardship process• Optimizes use of $$ (aka “bang for buck”)
6. Other Elements of Success (cont’d)
• Measurable Outcome – Evaluate it• Repeatable, Growable, Generalizeable• Adopt-a-village, -area, -watershed, -country• Add-in features (WaSH > stoves; School >
literacy, compost>crops, microlending>enterprise)– follow community lead on needs, priorities
• Plan to visit, to share, to promote ... to celebrate ... and repeat. Be infectious!
7. Resources:
• RI Communities In Action booklet 605a & RI Community Assessment Tools 605c
• Rotary.org – Future Vision materials, training– FV Resources page http://bit.ly/Il8sgP
• Vocation Training Teams (VTT) can support International & Vocational service
• TRF Performance Enhancement Program– Wasrag other RAGs and Areas of Focus
8. Have Fun!
It’s not only the end product of the project, and all the good it may do …
Also about the process and friendships you build along the way.
Collaborate - do more than you could ever do on your own!
