RI President 2015-16 KR RAVINDRAN

RAVINDRAN ACCEPTS 2015-16 ROTARY PRESIDENCY

K.R. "Ravi" Ravindran, a member of the Rotary Club of Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka, was elected the 2015-16 RI president, telling the audience he accepts "this life-time opportunity with great humility."

Ravindran acknowledges that Rotary is at a momentous period in its history.

"The great battle we waged against the insidious poliovirus is slowly but surely drawing to its finite end, and we are continuing to reach out to thousands with our humanitarian services," he said. "But let us continue to be vigilant; let us not lull ourselves into complacency for we know our membership lingers and languishes."

He encouraged Rotary members to communicate better and take advantage of the resources available to make Rotary's brand "shine brighter and louder, especially outside this organization," he said.

Closing out the fourth plenary session, attendees were treated to a preview of the 2015 Rotary Convention in São Paulo, Brazil. The Host Organization Committee shared a taste of Brazilian culture, including a traditional dance routine and a video invitation from Mayor Fernando Haddad.

Membership Data

Dear Rotary club officers:

 

Update their membership data no later than 1 June in advance of the July semiannual report (SAR). 

 

Updating methods and deadlines

• Through your My Rotary account (this option is available to club presidents, secretaries, treasurers, membership and Rotary Foundation chairs, and executive secretaries and directors) by 1 June
• Through your local database, if you have a member data integration provider, by 1 June
• Manually, emailing your updates to data@rotary.org by 15 May

 

Steps to complete

• Terminate members who have left the club, and add any new members.
• Provide an email and mailing address for each current member.
• Designate current and future club officers, and provide or update email and mailing addresses for both, current and future, officers.
• Update or provide a permanent club mailing address and a permanent club email address.
• Indicate whether you wish to receive your report electronically (e-SAR), check the box. Note: If you have provided club officers’ email addresses, you will automatically receive the e-SAR.

Set your Goals

Dear Presidents

As club president-elect, you will lead your club in establishing annual goals that support your strategic plan. The Planning Guide for Effective Rotary Clubs (appendix 2 of President’s Manual) will help you assess your club’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks in order to set annual goals.

Responsibilities

As president-elect, you have these goal-setting responsibilities:

• Developing or assessing your club’s strategic plan in support of your vision

• Establishing annual goals that coincide with your club’s long-range goals

• Ensuring that an action plan has been developed for each goal

• Attending PETS and the district assembly to further develop your goals with your team

As president, you have these goal-setting responsibilities:

• Implementing and regularly evaluating your club’s goals

• Motivating club members to accomplish the goals.

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Club President’s Manual 13 Planning for your year

Semiannual report (SAR)

Dear Rotary club officers:

In advance of the July semi-annual report (SAR), we’re reminding clubs to update their membership data no later than 1 June.

 To review your club’s information, go to www.rotary.org/myrotary and sign in to your My Rotary account. Then go to the Club Administration page in the Manage section.

 Updating methods and deadlines

• ·   Through your My Rotary account (this option is available to club presidents, secretaries, treasurers, membership and Rotary Foundation chairs, and executive secretaries and directors) by 1 June
• ·     Through your local database, if you have a member data integration provider, by 1 June
• ·     Manually, emailing your updates to data@rotary.org by 15 May

 Steps to complete

• ·      Terminate members who have left the club, and add any new members.
• ·      Provide an email and mailing address for each current member.
• ·      Designate current and future club officers, and provide or update email and mailing          addresses for both, current and future, officers.
• ·   Update or provide a permanent club mailing address and a permanent club email address.
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•      Indicate whether you wish to receive your report electronically (e-SAR), check the box. Note: If you have provided club officers’ email addresses, you will automatically receive the e-SAR.

 Improved billing in 2015

Starting with 1 January, clubs will receive a one-page document that clearly states the amount due. This invoice is calculated on the membership numbers filed by that club secretary – through Rotary.org, email, or mail – by 1 January and 1 July.

Reasons to Join Rotary Now

Connect

In an increasingly complex world, Rotary provides one of the most basic human needs: the need for friendship and fellowship. It is one of two reasons why Rotary began in 1905.

Learn

Each week at Rotary there is a program designed to keep one informed about what is going on in the community, nation and world. Each meeting provides an opportunity to listen to different speakers and a variety of timely topics.

Give

This is perhaps the best reason for becoming a Rotarian: the chance to do something for somebody else; to sense the self-fulfillment that comes in the process; and the return of that satisfaction to one’s own life. It is richly rewarding.

Fun

Rotary is fun, a lot of fun. Each meeting is fun. The club projects are fun. Social activities are fun. The service is fun.

SUPPORT ROTARY

I WANT TO SUPPORT ROTARY

ANNUAL FUND AND SHARE

Your support to the Annual Fund is crucial to sustain the thousands of projects that are being conducted in your community and around the world. 

 Through the generosity of people like you, our work has made a difference in the lives of millions around the world. Your gift to The Rotary Foundation allows us to improve communities by promoting peace, preventing disease, bolstering economic development, and providing clean water and sanitation.

Learn More:  https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/annual-fund-and-share