Rotary Super Bowl Food Drive Pointers

POINTERS FOR WORKING THE 2010 SUPER BOWL FOOD DRIVE

• Wear your Rotary name tag

• Before you start, introduce yourself to the manager in charge

• Pick up the flyers to pass out to their customers at the courtesy desk or from the team you replace if you are the second shift.

Each store has a specific location where they want you to pass out flyers. Hopefully this is where the customer enters the store at the main entrance.

When passing out the flyers:

• Remember the food collected is for the food pantry only.
• Strongly encourage all to contribute $5 to help fill a bag of groceries.
• You will have a container for the money that you need to watch and be responsible for. It is attached to the sign.
• All groceries will be collected in grocery carts. At the end of your shift we ask you to bag (hopefully paper) the groceries filling the bags about 2/3 full. Leave the bags of food in grocery cart.
• Please do not leave your shift until the replacement shows up.
• If you have the last shift, in addition to bagging the groceries, you need to ask the store to secure the money collected.

Thanks for your help in making this project a success!

Notes for Food Drive Project Chairs

Notes for 2010 Food Drive

Friday, February 5 & Saturday February 6

Contact store managers in October to get event on their calendar.

District will make initial contact with the pantries (for the Omaha market) that are participating and arrange a central dropping point for all clubs to deliver their collected food on Saturday after the event is completed. Omaha market only

Dates for the drive will be Friday, February 5, and Saturday, February 6th.

Suggest your club only staff each day during the peak shopping times. Our suggestion is Friday, 2 p.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Must have a minimum of 2 Rotarians per store. Rotarians will be passing out flyers inside the main entrance. Grocery carts with flyers attached to the front of the carts will be placed where the customers will have access to the carts after they check out with their groceries.

Two weeks before the event, announce to the club that you will be collecting cash donations from the club at your meeting the week of the food drive. We are asking the public to donate $5 or more, so hopefully your club will demonstrate their generosity with your collection.

Give a copy of the Friday/Saturday schedule to the manager of the store. Get the managers o.k. to use grocery carts to collect the can goods. Also ask the store to allow us to store the carts Friday night and secure the money in their safe Friday night.

Use 22 by 28 signs explaining the event. If approved by the manager, locate the sign after the check-out area, right before the customer exits the store. Grocery cart collecting can goods will be located adjacent to the sign. Try to set up the displays by Tuesday for the drive that will be starting Friday and Saturday. Attached to each sign is a plastic container with a slot for the money donated. At the beginning of the collection on Friday and Saturday, $5 bills are placed in the container to indicate what the containers are for. For the Omaha market, district will provide the signs and try to help locate sign holders. For the Omaha market, district will also print out flyers for Rotarians to distribute to customers as they come into the store. The flyer gives some excellent talking points for the Rotarians to approach the customer. Quantity of flyers for each store is still being discussed.

Need to have strong participation from the club. Each store needs to be staffed with a minimum of two Rotarians per shift. Two- hour shifts is recommended for staffing the event.

Saturday afternoon, each club needs to make arrangements to pick up all groceries and collected money at the stores and deliver to one central site (to be determined). The food will be distributed to the charities from that central site.

Each club is responsible for counting the money collected during the food drive. It is requested that the money be deposited to the club’s bank account and then write a check to Rotary District 5650. The District will then equally divide the money to all participating charities.

For the Omaha market, the district coordinator will work closely with the newspaper, radio, and television to assure great press coverage.

Have a person check the stores before the shifts start to make sure volunteers showed up, signs and carts are in place, adequate flyers are available, and Rotarians are aggressive in their approach.

Successful Dental Mission

Rotarians from Dist 5650 participated in the recently concluded Dental Mission organized by the Nebraska Mission of Mercy. The mission took place at the La Vista-Papillon High School, Nebraska, on July 10-11, 2009. It served more than 1500 patients. Rotary clubs made monetary donations to support the mission and several Rotarians volunteered serving in different capacities, i.e. registering the patients, assisting Dentists, managing the parking lot, managing the patients in long lines, and assisting child care whose parents are getting dental services. Health & Hunger Dist. Chair Yolanda Hoffman was at the event and was able to document some hours of the mission. Below are the pictures and video clips:

After triage, patients are waiting here for their turn to see a dentist.

Dr. Hanck, assisted by Rotarian John Meng-Frecker, doing Triage.

Health & Hunger Chair Yolanda Hoffman with Dr. Hanck taken during the first shift on July 11, 2009

Rotarian John Meng-Frecker of Southwest Omaha Rotary Club w/ Dr. Hanck during the morning shift on July 11, 2009

Below are video clips of Dr. Hanck, a volunteer dentist from Colorado, talks about his experience as part of the Dental Team, and Rotarian Rick Braasch shares his experience as non-dental volunteer.

Dr. Hanck, volunteer dentist from Colorado

Rotarian Rick Braasch, Southwest Omaha Rotary Club

NOTE: This blog post will be updated with more information, pictures, and video clips as they come.

DG Rich Rowland's Message to the Clubs as He Begins His Term as Governor

What a year! This past Rotary year is one we should all look on with a great deal of pride! Rotary continues to make giant strides with the efforts to eradicate Polio from this earth. With the new Gates Foundation matching gift and several Government Grants we have nearly $850,000,000 available to fight the last throws of this terrible disease. Polio Eradication continues to be our first priority and we will beat it!

Sharon Wherry and her entire 5650 team finished with a sprint across the Rotary 2008-09 year. With Sharon's dedication, and the help of all 2500 Rotarians in District 5650, we added new a new club, raised monies for countless great causes in our communities, and made Dreams Real for many children across the Heartland and around the world.

It is with a great deal of pride that I look forward to helping our clubs in District 5650 continue to grow and have fun offering the hand of help and compassion to those that are not as blessed as each one of us. I look forward to visiting each club in the District and hearing about the wonderful projects that have been continued, or chosen, for 2009-10.

John Kenny, our RI President for 2009-10, reminds us that "Rotary is about helping others. We are the fortunate ones. And to those that much is given, much is expected." Truly, The Future of Rotary is in Your Hands!

Volunteers Needed for Dental Mission

Volunteers Needed for Nebraska Dental Association’s Annual Nebraska Mission of Mercy
Dental and non-dental professionals required to make the event successful
Area Rotary Clubs Are Seeking to Provide 200 Volunteers!!

July 10-11 2009, the Nebraska Dental Association (NDA) will once again host its annual Nebraska Mission of Mercy. Organizers anticipate they will provide free dental care to nearly 2,000 men, women and children during the two-day event.

The organization is currently in need of volunteers – the key to the event’s success. Dental professionals (including general dentists, specialists, assistants, hygienists and office workers) are needed, in addition to non-dental volunteers that will help with paperwork, serve food, usher patients, translate and direct parking/traffic. Volunteers will be asked to help with either 6 a.m. - noon or noon – 6 p.m. shifts. The event will be held at Papillion-La Vista South High School (10799 Highway 370 in Papillion, Nebraska).

“We predict we will provide nearly $1 million in free dental services through Nebraska Mission of Mercy,” said Dr. Brett Thomsen, one of the event’s co-chairs. “We can’t do it without the help of volunteers and we encourage everyone to donate their time and expertise. It is truly a rewarding event.”

To volunteer, non-dental professionals should register at www.daviddeford.com/nmom

Any questions about volunteering or the event in general can be directed to David DeFord at http://aa.mc567.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=david@daviddeford.com or (402) 895-0609 or to Yolanda Hoffman, District 5650 Health and Hunger Chair, ypmhoffman@gmail.com. You can also contact Dr. Cassandra Pietrok at (402) 330-2243 or Dr. Brett Thomsen at (402) 393-1992.

On Behalf of DGE Rich Rowland, and 2009-10 Health and Hunger Chair, Yolanda Hoffman -
THANK YOU!

Erin K. Oberhauser, Executive Director
Rotary, District 5650
17010 K StreetOmaha, NE 68135
402.677.1883
fax 697-4404
http://aa.mc567.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=exec@rotarydistrict5650.org

Committee Purpose and Goals

Purpose:
Encourage clubs to work with schools and community groups, to raise awareness about and develop programs that address health and hunger issues. Support projects and programs that effectively address health and nutrition issues of mothers, infants, and children. Support projects and programs that promote a safe blood supply.

Goals:
Promote activities that raise awareness about elder health and nutrition. Promote health and hunger education programs that address basic nutrition, polio, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, diarrheal diseases, respiratory diseases, natal health, hygiene and sanitation.

Rotary International Health and Hunger

Health and Hunger

Health and hunger issues affect the entire world, particularly children. The statistics are staggering:

• About 2.3 million children under age 15 are living with HIV.
• Malaria kills more than a million people each year, most of whom are children.
• Over half a million women die of pregnancy-related complications annually.
• About 852 million people are currently malnourished.
• More than 25,000 people, including many children, die of hunger each day.
• An estimated 10.1 million children die before their fifth birthday.

Under these circumstances, families are robbed of loved ones, and communities lose valuable resources, weakening their economies and impeding development. Yet many of these health and hunger problems could be prevented through quality health care, affordable medicine, safe drinking water, and proper sanitation facilities.

The Health and Hunger Resource Group supports Rotary club and district efforts to improve health in their communities, especially among children and mothers. It encourages projects that improve nutrition, reduce vulnerability to preventable and treatable diseases, and increase access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

Source: http://www.rotary.org/en/AboutUs/RotaryLeadership/RIPresident/Pages/HealthandHunger.aspx

Yolanda Hoffman appointed as Dist. 5650 Chair, Committee on Health & Hunger

DGE Rich Rowland recently appointed Yolanda Hoffman as Dist. 5650 Chair for the Committee on Health and Hunger. Yolanda is currently the President-Elect of Southwest Omaha Rotary Club. She attended the District Team Leadership Training organized by DGE Rich in Ashland, Nebraska on March 7, 2009.

Yolanda is currently organizing the committee by appointing a committee co-chair and committee members from the 46 clubs within the district. She plans to hold a committee planning workshop before her term begins in July 2009.