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Rotary International District 6450, Inc.

These are Rotary's seven Areas of Focus

Rotarians are dedicated to causes that improve lives, increase understanding among the people of the world,
grow peace, create a better world, and end diseases such as polio forever.

Rotarians:

Promote Peace
Fight Disease
Provide Clean Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
Save Mothers and Children
Support Education
Grow Local Economies
Protect Our Environment

Learn more here.

Join Our Pledge to Support

Operation Pollination

District 6450 is a proud supporter of Operation Pollination. The District has pledged to take action to support pollinators in our area, and to encourage others to do so as well. We encourage every Rotary, Rotaract, Interact and Early Act Club in our District to sign the Operation Pollination Pledge, Plan a project, and get others in your community involved.

Read our Operation Pollination - District Resolution

Sign our Operation Pollination - Pollination Pledge

Special Rotary Invitation to Participate in the (virtual)
3rd Annual International Conference and Expo for
Water and Waste Management

Rotarian Prakash Tata has arranged for a very generous discount for any Rotarian registering for the conference, reducing the fee from $100 to just $20. Follow directions below.

This conference will have many professional from the United States and India, with several tracks of interest. Visit the web page for more information. The Conference runs February 24 to 26, 2021.

Go to www.waterandwastemanagement.org

Go to Registration Form

Registrant to Fill in the necessary information

Put WWMDist6450 (Coupon code)

The 100.00 registration fee will drop to $20.00.

Pay the amount by a credit card.

Great Lakes Watershed Cleanup

Save a day for us - help cleanup our lakefront shoreline - mark your calendars for Saturday, April 24, 2021.

There are over 14 Districts (about 20,000 Rotarians, their families, community members) nowcommitted to participate (including Rotary Districts in Canadian Provinces from Quebec to Manitoba border, and in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, New York, and more).

You don't have to be a Rotarian to join in this work. Non-Rotarian individuals and community groups are welcome to participate. Share ideas and meet like-minded Rotarians. Help our environment.

Your Club (Rotary, Rotaract, or Interact) can plan its own event, or join with others,

Stay tuned - soon you will hear more ... how Rotary leaders and public figures are promoting this great (lakes) service project.

District Conference 2021 will be virtual.
Save the dates, please:

Thursday, June 3 - 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Friday, June 4 - 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Saturday, June 5 - 8:15 to 11:00 am

Cost: FREE!

Thursday:
"Telling our Stories"
Highlights of our Club and District projects in 2020-21
Early Childhood Education
iPads for Nursing Homes and Hospitals
Simple Schools Global Grants
Environmental Projects
COVID Relief Projects
Rotaract and Interact Projects

Friday:
"Awards Night"
Club Awards
Individual Awards
Featured Speaker
Optional Afterhours Social Event

Saturday:
District Annual Meeting
Memorial Service
Highlights of our Rotary Day of Wellness and Service
Featured Speaker: Rotary International Director Elect and Past District Governor, Nick Scott on "The Future of Rotary"

Rotary Day of Wellness and Service

We want to make our District Conference a shared experience, despite the fact it will be mostly virtual.

To get us out, active and together, we are encouraging every Club, by itself or working with other Clubs, to plan either a wellness or a service event for Saturday, May 22nd.

It has been a stressful year year, thanks to COVID, and the idea of this day is to do something for us (wellness) or for others (service) in a safe, socially-distant manner. Rotaractors, Interactors, family members and other non-Rotarians can be invited to join. During the virtual part of the District Conference, we will share your photos and video clips of the many activities that take place that weekend.

Examples of wellness activities – Club members walking together in a park or
along Lake Michigan, a group outdoor yoga or meditation activity, or a group bike ride.

Examples of service activities – an Operation Pollination project, a park clean-up
project, or working with a food pantry to distribute food.

The goal is to have hundreds of our Rotarians, Rotaractors, Interactors, and friends of Rotary active on the same day – Saturday, May 22. (Activities can also be scheduled for the following day, Sunday, May 23.)

To encourage participation, we are offering $100 per Club (including Rotaract and Interact clubs) to pay for any costs associated with your activity that weekend. Clubs are encouraged to collaborate. Please provide DG Chuck with the details of your event (time, place, description, contact person) by March 31, 2021, so we can publish a list of the activities being offered.

Rotary Day of Wellness and Service

Check out our Panel Discussion on Early Childhood Education and Community Assessments

Hear our expert panel discuss why early childhood development is so important, how their programs improve outcomes for children, how COVID is impacting education and development, learn how we can address inequities in our communities through these programs, and how Rotarians/Rotary Clubs can make a lasting difference in the lives of many.

Go here to view or click on the image below.

Jennifer Jones Selected to Serve as Rotary President in 2022-23!

Jennifer E. Jones, a member of the Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland, Ontario, Canada, has been nominated to become Rotary International’s President for 2022-23, a selection that will make her the first woman to hold that office in the organization’s 115-year history.

A current Rotary Foundation trustee, Jones has been a member since 1997 and has served Rotary as vice president, director, training leader, committee chair, moderator, and district governor.

Read more: https://on.rotary.org/2DDj58H

Rotary adopts Supporting the Environment
as the Seventh Area of Focus!

The Rotary Foundation Trustees and Rotary International Board of Directors have both unanimously approved adding a new area of focus: Supporting the Environment.

More than $18 million in Foundation global grant funding has been allocated to environment-related projects over the past five years. Creating a distinct area of focus to support the environment will give Rotary members even more ways to bring about positive change in the world and increase our impact.

Supporting the Environment becomes Rotary's seventh area of focus, which are categories of service activities supported by global grants. It joins peacebuilding and conflict prevention; disease prevention and treatment; water, sanitation, and hygiene; maternal and child health; basic education and literacy; and community economic development.

Grant applications for projects will be accepted beginning on July 1, 2021. Gifts and commitments from Rotarians and others will be sought to provide global grant support for the new area of focus.

A message on Rotary and Social Justice
from DGE Chuck Corrigan

Social Justice and Rotary

Calendar of Events

Post your club event on the district calendar by emailing news@rotary6450.net.

Check out the District Calendar for club events, there's something going on somewhere almost weekly.

Click on Date for Full Details. See District Events & Calendar For All Annual Activities and Meetings.

CONTACT THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT TEAM

Rotary International District 6450, Inc.

400 E. Randolph St., #2305
Chicago, IL 60601

Office@rotary6450.org