| Club Name | Marikina Central | | Country | Philippines | District | 3800 | | Region | Asia | | Membership Element(s) | organizing new clubs, organizing new clubs | | Issues | Despite already having 8 clubs within the city, RC Marikina Central felt that there was still room for another one. | | Strategies | The city has been growing fast as a preferred middle income residential area. The influx of new residents created a vacuum for them by contacting an initial group of 10 potential Rotarians. | | Results | We were able to require them to increase to 26 chartering Rotarians which is now called the Rotary club of River City Marikina. | | Contact | DG Fabio ""Fabie"" J. Enriquez | Email | | | Phone | | Fax | | | Website | |
| Club Name | James City County / Rotary Club of Williamsburg | | Country | USA | District | 7600 | | Region | USA:Eastern:New England | | Membership Element(s) | organizing new clubs, organizing new clubs | | Issues | In January of thie year, the leadership of the James City County and Willliamsburg Rotary Clubs discovered that each had been taking steps to explore chartering a new club in the region. | | Strategies | We though it made sense to combine our resources and our efforts to achieve a common purpose for the good of Rotary. We informed district governor of our intentions and held a meeting in early February with representatives of both clubs, plus members of the current and incoming district leadership. Since then, we have moved very quickly to identify new member prospects, potential club leaders, and a venue ideally suited to the needs of a new club. Thus far, more than 30 individuals have expressed interest in the new club. We convened the first meeting of the member prospects on April 18. Meetings of the new clubs have been scheduled for every other week until May 30, at which point the meetings will be held weekly. Our aim in these early meetings has been to allow prospective members to get to know one another, to educate them about Rotary, and to convey the rewards and responsibilities of being a Rotarian. | | Results | We currently have approximately 20 serious members prospects and we are extremely pleased with both the quality and gender balance represented in the group. This has been, and continues to be, a shared initiative by our two clubs, with our presidents and presidents-elect taking turns running the meetings of the new club. We hope to have commitments from enough members to apply for a club charter before July 1, 2007. | | Contact | Richard Gillem / Jon Nystrom | Email | | | Phone | | Fax | | | Website | |
| Club Name | Antalya | | Country | Turkey | District | 2430 | | Region | | | Membership Element(s) | organizing new clubs, organizing new clubs | | Issues | Rotary club of Antalya was scarcely faced with any host of difficulties during the creation of the new Rotary club of Falez. | | Strategies | Vocations modified according to the economic profile of Antalya province and the classification done. During the organization of new Rotary club nominee members and the special representatives of Governor meet in conference many times. Selected the founder president was the sensitive topic during the meetings and the operation continue with the founder president's cooperation. Time management was very important during the creation of the new Rotary club. The Rotary club of Falez is the 9th Rotary club in Antalya province founded in a very short time period. Legal procured completed on 13 March 2007. Club's total membership is 33; and 7 are women. During the organization of the new club, District Governor provoked our club and during ever step of operation gave us moral support. District Governor will honor a foundation ball of Rotary Club of Falez with their presence on 2 April 2007. | | Results | The Rotary club of Antalya managed to organize a new Rotary Club in a very short time period because our club members social affairs are strong. Social consensus is very important to improve the Rotarian philosophy. The mission took only one month. | | Contact | Salih Peker | Email | | | Phone | | Fax | | | Website | |
| Club Name | Leesburg | | Country | USA | District | 7610 | | Region | USA:Eastern:New England | | Membership Element(s) | organizing new clubs, organizing new clubs | | Issues | Organizing a new club very very far away. | | Strategies | In July 2006, under the leadership of President Bob Noe, the Rotary Club of Leesburg hosted a Russian delegation sponsored by the National Peace Foundation. The delegation was made up of Russian women leaders from both the private and the public sectors. One of the visitors was the Vice Mayor of the City of Angorsk, Siberia. During her story she metioned that she would like to start a Rotary Club in Angorsk. Some months later, during ""Good News"", one of our Club members donated $5 to send President Bob Noe to Siberia in February"". Although it started as a joke, it quickly gathered steam and before long members were contributing to the ""Siberia Fund"" each week. By the end of the year we had raised over $900 in individual contributions. Bob Noe accepted the ""challenge"" with characteristic gusto, and began a rather time consuming investigation to determine the feasibility of our sponsoring a new Club in Siberia. He contacted Gayle Kopper of Alaska, the District Governor for Angorsk. She put him in touch with the PDG Vladimir Danskoy in Siberia, who became his main contact over the next year. As a result of much planning and complicated negotiations, the Rotary club of Leesburg is not the co-sponsor of two new Siberian Clubs: one headed by PDG Danskoy and the other headed by our old friend the Vice Mayor of Angorsk. | | Results | Bob will leave for Angorsk (via Beijing) on May 22. He plans to spend three full days in Angorsk workin with the and advising the leaders of the two clubs. Bob insists on paying for all his own traveling expenses. The $1000 donated by individual Members and another $1000 donated by the Club has been used to purchase banners, gavels, bells, and badges for the two new Clubs. It is very exciting for our Club to be involved with such a venture, and we all very grateful to Bob for enabling us to ""build good will and better friendships"" with the people of Siberia. | | Contact | Carole Maloney | Email | | | Phone | | Fax | | | Website | |
| Club Name | Kaohsiung New Town | | Country | Taiwan | District | 3510 | | Region | | | Membership Element(s) | organizing new clubs, organizing new clubs | | Issues | | | Strategies | New club. New hope. Thanks for everything D.G. Steve. | | Results | | | Contact | Ling Jung-Tsung | Email | | | Phone | | Fax | | | Website | |
| Club Name | Nidadavole | | Country | India | District | 3020 | | Region | | | Membership Element(s) | organizing new clubs, organizing new clubs | | Issues | | | Strategies | We, members of the Nidadavole Rotary Club engaged in all activities and motivated the co-Rotarians and get the public attentive towards our club programmes. We organize every activity with our sincere efforts. Through this, the public as well as philonthropists and Service organisers came forward. We have taken as a challenge to introduce a New Club in our fold in the Rotary Year 2007-08. So the public in the Kovvur Town appealed us to form a new club. Kovvuru is a leading Agricultural and Business Center. The town has also a big industries. It is economically rich town. So with the initiation of the public and with the support of our members we moved ahead of other clubs incorporating New Clubs. It shows our endeavor for extension and strengthening our Rotary Activities in the Rotary International District 3020. | | Results | | | Contact | Sadanand Pandalenem | Email | | | Phone | | Fax | | | Website | |
| Club Name | Casa Grande Daybreak | | Country | USA | District | 5500 | | Region | USA:Western:Mountain | | Membership Element(s) | organizing new clubs, organizing new clubs | | Issues | Simple invitation to hand prospects to develop required number of members to charter. Reverse side either had Rotary statistics plus the Rotary description that stated. "Rotary membership offers professional networking while engaged in projects and programs that enrich local and international communities" or Four Way Test. | | Strategies | Used existing membership development strategy presented along with a District Rotarian's membership program as part of a PowerPoint presentation. | | Results | After four months stuck at only having nineteen members, a prospect showed up to visit who had been handed the card. The visitor became the twentieth member to allow the Club to send in for charter. | | Contact | Jay McCall | Email | jmccall415@msn.com | | Phone | 520-887-7847 | Fax | 520-690-0619 | | Website | |
| Club Name | Hakodate | | Country | Japan | District | 2510 | | Region | | | Membership Element(s) | organizing new clubs, organizing new clubs | | Issues | | | Strategies | In 2005-2006, sponsored by the RC of Hakodate, a new club, Hakodate Central, was established in Group 10 within RI District 2510. The nation-wide administrative reforms to merge municipalities presented us with the opportunity to establish the new club and extend rotary in the are that became adjacent to the club locality, but has no club. The establishment of the new club was also blessed with the legislation adopted in 2001 COL, in which the territorial limits were amended to locality, allowing overlapping existence of Rotary Clubs in the same area. | | Results | RC of Hakodate Central has 29 charter members, and as of 4 April, the membership increased by 12, making the number of club members a total of 40. | | Contact | Koichi Takeda | Email | | | Phone | | Fax | | | Website | |
| Club Name | Lakhimpur-Central | | Country | India | District | 3120 | | Region | | | Membership Element(s) | organizing new clubs, organizing new clubs | | Issues | | | Strategies | Why we selected a remote and rural area? During screening in club health camps we observed that majority of peoples came from rural areas. Some time the patients were from 100 Km away! Since our district is biggest in state, we start to think to reach near the patients of rural area via a new club. We make a survey of the district, meet peoples of different localities, talked them about service t the people, mode of entertainment of the area, looked for good peoples for selecting a rural town for new club. After a long survey and discussion we finally selected Singhai town distt. Lakhimpur Kheri for new Rotary Club. This town was situated near Nepal international border and in rural area. The literacy rate was low and health services were poor. After selecting four good and influenced persons, we told them about Rotary, invite them inour meeting and share our purpose with them. The major problemw as this that the area was undeveloped, annual income was low and people don't want to expend their money for poor. To solve this problem, we organized a free cataract eye surgery camp in that area and a free handicap camp in which we distributed hearing aids, tricycles, wheelchairs, and crutches to handicaps. We make a great advertisement for camps and invite Mayor, Sub Divisional Magistrate and all the reputed and influencial people of the area. In the first camp they saw that the four reputed persons of their area and all the Rotarians from Lakhimpur are doing work for the poor of their area. But when organized handicap camp they offer ehtir help to us after a little hesitation. After camps a meeting was organized in Singhai and we put the motto of Rotary in front of them. Result was fantastic. A new club was ready for birth with the motto to share their best for poor and needy. In this project more than 70% of our club members participated and the total cost was Rs. 50,000/- | | Results | | | Contact | Sanjeev Poddar | Email | | | Phone | | Fax | | | Website | |
| Club Name | N/A | | Country | USA | District | 5950 | | Region | USA:Central:Upper Great Lakes | | Membership Element(s) | organizing new clubs, organizing new clubs | | Issues | N/A | | Strategies | Considerations for organizing new clubs: 1. Is there a nearby community or section of your community that could support a Rotary club? 2. Is there a need for a breakfast club (if you are a noontime club) in your community – or visa versa? 3. Are there enough clubs in the community to represent the total population or scope of the business/industrial community? 4. Does the community have clubs that accommodate varying schedules? 5. Do you have strong support for a new club? 6. Do you have enough potential charter members? 7. Is there adequate financial and administrative support for a new club? 8. Do the charter members have the ability and capacity to effectively operate a new club?
| | Results | N/A | | Contact | Rod Shilkrot | Email | RShilkrot@aaaminneapolis.com | | Phone | | Fax | | | Website | |
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