[Rotary] Fwd: Visit the refreshed Rotary.org today

[J Gary Hopper]

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From: John F. Germ <rl.bio at rotary.org>
Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 7:23 AM
Subject: Visit the refreshed Rotary.org today
To: jghopper at gmail.com


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John F. Germ
President, 2016-17
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john.germ at rotary.org

Dear fellow Rotarians,

For many, Rotary.org
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is an introduction to the great work that you and your fellow club members
do to improve lives around the world. It’s meant to create an emotional
connection that inspires potential members, donors, and partners to get
involved. The latest changes to the public pages of the website (which are
the pages accessed prior to signing in to My Rotary) do that and more.
Visit Rotary.org
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to see all the improvements. The next phase of this project begins soon,
which is when we will begin working on updating My Rotary. Work has already
begun on Rotary Club Central. Next Rotary year, we will begin working on
the club and district administration pages.

How are initiatives and projects like this possible? One way we will
continue to provide you with the tools and resources you need to tell
Rotary’s story is through the upcoming dues increase. The 2016 Council on
Legislation voted to increase per capita dues by $4 per year beginning in
July 2017. More information is available here
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.

One resource I hope you have been putting to good use is our membership
leads program
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This project directs prospective members to you to help grow your clubs.
Since 2015, the membership leads program has grown by 400%. Each week,
Rotary hears from 800 to 1,000 people from all over the world who have
expressed an interest in joining.

But in the last six months, only 34% of the membership leads were followed
up on by districts and only 20% of those leads were assigned to clubs. In
addition to a lost opportunity for qualified new members in Rotary clubs,
leaving these inquiries unanswered could result in a negative public image
for our organization. I encourage you all to check to see if your district
has any outstanding leads. If you do, I urge you to follow up on them
promptly.

As we enter 2017, my goal for all of you is that you look back on this
Rotary year and have the satisfaction of knowing that there are people in
the world whose lives have been made better because of work you were a part
of. Thank you for all that you do—and continue to do—to help all of Rotary
achieve that goal: Doing Good in the World, through *Rotary Serving
Humanity*.

Sincerely,

John F. Germ
Rotary International President, 2016-17

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Gary "Hoop" Hopper
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