<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Everyone,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">This is Fire Relief information from our District Governor Bob Rogers. If you will be donating as he has suggested to the overhead fund, please bring your $10 check to the next meeting on December 7th. If you want to donate to the actual relief fund, you can write a separate check and we can send those together to our District.</div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Thank you,</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>Donna Schuler</div><div>Strategic Management Consulting</div><div>President, Mendocino Rotary Club</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Rogers Bob</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mailservice@directory-online.com">mailservice@directory-online.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 12:02 AM<br>Subject: Important Info on Fire Relief Fund<br>To: <a href="mailto:schuler.donna@gmail.com">schuler.donna@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
Dear Donna,<br>
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This message is being sent to all District 5130 Presidents and Treasurers.<br>
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As you all know, we have been soliciting donations for the District 5130 Fire Relief Fund, and telling folks that 100% of their donations will go to their intended purpose...helping the fire survivors re-establish their lives, homes and businesses. So how do we cover the overhead? We've decided to model this after the method that LARCA (Lake County Area Rotary Club Association) used during their fires of the last two years, which was asking each Rotarian in their 4 clubs to donate $20 to cover their Fire Relief Funds overhead cost, so they could assure donors that 100% of their monies was going to the fire survivors.<br>
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We are now asking Rotarians throughout the District to do the same...only we are requesting a donation of only $10 per Rotarian due to economy of scale. <br>
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Right now, thanks to LARCA, the District is utlilizing their 501(c)3 non-profit status for the District's Fire Relief Fund, but we are in the process of filing for our own 501(c)3, which we will call the District 5130 Disaster Relief Fund. When we receive that status, we will roll over the donated fire relief funds from the LARCA 501(c)3 to the District's. We are forming our own 501(c)3 so that when the next disaster strikes us, whether it be a wildfire, earthquake or tsunami, the District will be in an immediate position to accept donations and distribute funds as rapidly as possible.<br>
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The "Overhead Funds" will be kept in a separate Distirct account. If there are any "Overhead" funds left over from your $10 donations, they will be kept in a separate account for that same purpose (covering overhead) when the next disaster strikes.<br>
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When you collect the funds and are ready to send them in, please make the check payable to "Rotary District 5130", and in the memo section put "D5130 FRF Overhead", and mail to:<br>
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Barbara Barney<br>
District 5130 Treasurer<br>
P.O. Box 1535<br>
Sebastopol, CA 95473<br>
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Thank you for all you have done these last 40 days, housing evacuees, those who lost their homes, donating to the fund, and in general, showing overall support for our brothers and sisters, both within Rotary and without as well. I am proud to be a part of this great District.<br>
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Yours in Rotary Service,<br>
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Bob<br>
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DG5130<br>
2017-18<br>
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