MILESTONES

✤  Increased member participation and engagement with more hands-on volunteer opportunities and committee leadership

✤  Increased both overall number of women members AND members under age 40

✤  75% weekly attendance at luncheon meetings

✤  Established the Austin Rotary Club Foundation's Bequest Society

✤  Received prestigious Presidential Citation Award from Rotary International

MEMBERSHIP

•  30 New Members

•  Increased female members to 28% of total membership

•  Increased members under 40 to 14% of total membership

•  2 Successful Recruitment Events

CLUB PROGRAMS

✤  48 Excellent Programs, including 6 Member Showcase Programs

✤  95 Members Attended on Average

✤  12 MasterMind Group Meetings

✤  24 Breakfast Cluster Events

✤  8 Wine Parties/Events

ANNUAL ASK

✤  2017-18 Total $153,613

ARCF Projects

ARCF Corpus

TRF

Polio Plus

$3,325 $48,416

$21,803

$80,069 (including $64,000 in new named scholarship funds)

Projects: Rise Against Hunger

1 DAY

+ over 80 VOLUNTEERS

22,000 Meals $7,700

*Program formerly named Stop Hunger Now

Projects: Early Act First Knight

✤  Students learned character traits and the Four Way Test

✤  Recognized 400 students for outstanding character traits with medallions

✤  180 teachers and faculty involved in the program

✤  Over 600 parents/families from Dawson and Pecan Springs Elementary Schools recognized

✤  8 Rotary committee members

✤  Two service clubs of 12-20 students doing local and international projects

✤  215 Rotary members impacted

✤  Improved quality teaching time for teachers and students

$8,800

Projects: Partners in Education

Fulmore Library Project ✤  50 Books signed by speakers and donated to school library

Mentors of Fulmore ✤  6 Rotary member mentors for students

Spanish Books for Books for Me Program $2,400

Projects: Operation Vacation

✤  Ft. Hood Military Families: 12

✤  Lifetime Number Served: 171

✤  Program active for over 12 years

✤  Community partner in-kind donations: $15,000-$20,000

✤  Soldier & family get a weekend of R&R in Austin sponsored by our partners

✤  Public awareness of thanking soldiers for their service

$1,400

Community Partners

Austin Hotel Lodging Association – Greater Austin Restaurant Association –

County Line Restaurants – Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau – Killeen Rotary – Toyota Killeen

Projects: Camp Enterprise

✤  Taught 80 High School Students from 25 high schools how to start a business

✤  Engaged 45 Rotarians in educating youth

✤  Fostered successful graduates who create companies and jobs for our economy

$23,000

Interact Clubs: Paragon Prep & Fulmore Middle School

✤  15-20 middle school students in each club

✤  2 staff members

✤  8 Rotarians

✤  Completed a local & global service project

✤  Learned Four Way Test

✤  Regular monthly meetings / speakers

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS

✤  14 Scholarships Awarded, including 1 for Automotive Technology

✤  1 Nursing Program Scholarship

✤  1 Pharmacy Scholarship

✤  21 Rotarians engaged on committee

✤  Total Awarded:

$58,000

$59,200

Projects: Helping Hand Home

✤  Cluster Meeting Hosted

✤  Splash Day Event

✤  Holiday Party and Gifts

✤  Engaged Over 40 Members

$5,750

Projects: Pints for Polio

✤  Held annual event to raise awareness and funds for Rotary International’s Polio Plus program

✤  Engaged approximately 50 Rotarian and community members

$2,135 raised

Projects: Literacy

✤  Books Distributed: 50,000

✤  School Children Book Giveaway: 2,000

✤  Members Engaged: 100

✤  Partner Club Members: 30 ✤  Literacy Teacher Support

(Pecan Springs/Dawson)

✤  Literacy Partner with BookSpring

✤  Sponsor of Day Care “Read to Me” Program

✤  Sponsor of Literacy Luncheon

✤  Supported “Books for Me”

✤  Supported books for clinic distribution

✤  Collected gently used books

$7,750

GLOBAL SERVICE

✤  Cleft Palate Surgery in San Salvador

✤  Bangalore Literacy Project

✤  Mosquito Nets in Sudan

✤  Iraqi Children Foundation

✤  Global Scholar, Loren Hamilton

✤  Peace Fellow, Samira Faharani

✤  Group Youth Exchange

Projects: Iraqi Children Foundation

✤  Provide Hope Bus to children

✤  Dental exams provided to orphans

✤  Advocates for orphaned children

$3,000

Global Service Group Youth Exchange

Collaboration with Rotary Club of Melville (Perth) Australia 5 Students Sent to Australia 5 Students Received to Austin/Georgetown (Funded by Students Participating)

Global Service Peace Fellowships

Each year, Rotary International selects up to 100 professionals from around the world to receive fellowships to study at one of our peace centers. Our Peace Fellowships committee is dedicated to promoting this effort and finding quality candidates.

RI Peace Fellowship Awarded to: Samira Faharani

Funded by The Rotary Foundation and supported by TRF contributions. Map provided by https://www.rotarianactiongroupforpeace.org/

2018. Annual Report Committee. Austin, Texas, US. www.rotary-austin.org

Rotary Club of Austin Austin, Texas

Annual Impact Report

www.Rotary-Austin.org