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D7980 Council of Presidents held in New Haven Yesterday

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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.

 

Council of Presidents held in Stratford Connecticut on 10/3/2013

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We held the Annual Council of Presidents (CoP) at the Oronoque Country Club in Stratford CT this past Thursday in front of  a crowd of about 65 people. 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.

The CoP event, which has historically been run as an all day Saturday event, was held for 3 hours on a weeknight last week. Our continuing shift away Saturday events was well received by sitting President’s and Assistant Governors.

We covered the following topics:

  • Revamping the Club Awards
  • Upcoming Club Foundation Program (‘All Boots on the Ground‘)
  • Leadership Succession Readiness & Preparing for PETS by DGE Mukund Nori
  • Membership Retention by Brad Howard
  • Public Image – Is the Public Facing image that your club is putting out matching the desire to attract younger members?
  • Fundraising – creative and successful events being held by Clubs around our District

We were incredibly fortunate to have Brad Howard come in from California to address our crowd on the importance of Membership Retention through Engagement. It was also a special treat to have Rev. Mark Kiyimba, Unitarian Universalist minister from Kampala, Uganda join us as a visiting Rotarian.

With 3 months under our Leadership belts we will still have a lot to do in our Clubs and the District over the next 9 months so that we can hand them off to our successors in better condition than when we arrived.

Photos: Thank you to Laima Nori for contributing many of the photos above.

District 7980 Events Today @ Oronoque Country Club

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A big double header of Club & District leadership events at the Oronoque Country Club in Stratford CT today as we hold two important events:

1) College of Governors Leadership Luncheon (12 – 1:30pm)

2) Council of Presidents Leadership Seminar (5:30 – 8:30pm)

We have arranged to have Brad Howard, RI’s expert on Membership, as a featured speaker for both of these events. We thought it best to bring in the big membership gun from Rotary International given our Districtwide focus on membership this year. Besides being the big brain in membership, Brad is an informative and engaging speaker. We are honored and excited to have him join us.

I hope to see all Governor’s at the lunch meeting and all Club Presidents at the Dinner. It will be well worth the time and the small fee.

Rick Bassett, DG

Council of Presidents is Thursday Oct 3rd in Stratford, CT

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2013-14 Rotary D7980 Club Presidents

2013-14 Rotary D7980 Club Presidents

Rotary District D7980 will hold it’s Annual Council of Presidents (CoP) this Thursday evening at The Oronoque Country Club @ 385 Oronoque Ln  Stratford, CT,  this event will run from 5:30pm – 8:30pm.

This event is designed for current Club Presidents to learn and share ‘best practices’ while networking with other Presidents and District Leaders.

We have arranged to have Brad Howard, RI’s expert on Membership, as a featured speaker this evening. PDG Brad has been all over the world studying and speaking on the membership challenges that Rotary Clubs face. Besides being a very engaging speaker, Brad is the principal architect of Rotary’s North American Membership plan.

We will run facilitated discussions on fundraising and the way that the District recognizes clubs for their significant achievements (as this entire approach is being revamped).

It is critically important for all clubs to be represented at the The Council of Presidents event.

The List of Registered Attendees can be viewed by clicking here

We are requesting that clubs send their Immediate Past President if the Current President isn’t available. 

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