Rotary District 7980 Council of Presidents (CoP) was held at the Graduate Club in New Haven on Saturday Oct 18th by District Governor Mukund Nori and event Chair Ann Brignola.
The Council of Presidents program is designed for Rotary Club Presidents to interact with District Leaders and other Club Presidents on issues which may affect their clubs and to get exposed to creative ideas that are being deployed in other Rotary Clubs.
Agenda for the event covered the following topics:
- District 7980 Updates
- Membership Best Practices
- Global Grants
- District Grants
- Boots On the Ground Program
- Secrets to Club Presidency
- Breakouts with Area Governors
- Entering Club Goals on MyRotary
- Using Club Runner
and a moving keynote talk by North Branford Rotarian Ed Pikaart on his experience in Kenya with the Peace Corps.
Other speakers included: Mukund Nori, Phoebe Leask, Lynda Hammond, Chip Marsh, Kim Navetta, Tony Riggio and yours truly. While Rick Benson wasn’t in physical attendance, enough identity confusion still exists that many attendees thought he was there.
It was a good event with attendance a little on the light side as it is always a challenge getting people to attend to attend Saturday events when the weather is nice.