The Pursuit of Prosp(a)rity for Generational Generosity
Meeting for the week of February 08, 2021 - February 14, 2021
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: The Pursuit of Prosp(a)rity for Generational Generosity
Speaker: Briana Franklin
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from our Club President.
Welcome, everyone, to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Can you imagine living in a world where everyone measures their actions via the Four-Way Test? A world where trust, respect for one another, sharing, relationships, fairness, and providing beneficial services, serve as the compass for success. Rotarians can imagine such a world. The Four-Way Test established a space to lead the members of over 35,000+ clubs to improve their communities, promote economic attainment, realize the improvement of education, repress institutional racism, implement clean water and sanitation, endorse the diversity of ideas, and remain at the forefront of world health. Our club, with your help and the help of those before us, will continue to make a difference in our community, in ourselves and in the communities of other countries across the globe.
This week, we’ll hear from Briana Franklin, a writer, entrepreneur and creative of many trades doing work through her latest initiative, The Prosp(a)rity Project, which she developed as a means for equipping young Black girls and women with the tools necessary for achieving personal, professional and financial success.
Don't forget to let us know you were here and also leave a comment at the Disqus section at the bottom of the page letting us know what you think. This club is loaded with people who love sharing ideas, and we look forward to sharing yours!
Yours in Rotary service,
Raquel D’Garay-Juncal
President, Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley
president@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Guests, we are happy to have you join us this week!
As we see it, our flexibility as an online, asynchronous club allows a special type of service to Rotarians around the world: we make it easier for anyone to strive for and maintain 100% attendance. That keeps you engaged with Rotary's events and ideas, and provides a moment of inspiration for devoting your creativity, talents, and resources to good causes.
You are certainly not required to pay anything in order to attend our meetings. However, if you would like to make a small contribution to our service efforts, you are welcome to do so in our secure Happy Dollars section down the page. This could be what you normally pay at your own club's meetings for lunch, for example. Any amount is welcome, but first and foremost, we're happy you've joined us, and hope you will share with others who we are and what we do to help inspire Service Above Self.
And don't forget to fill out our attendance form so you get an email you can pass on to your club's secretary!
The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Weekly Funny with Shags.
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Steven "Shags" Shagrin !
The Frustrating Game of Golf
A golfer is playing a round of golf with his buddies. On the sixth hole, a hole over water, he proceeds to flub nine balls into the water. Frustrated over his poor golfing ability, he heaves his golf clubs into the water and begins to walk off the course.
Then all of a sudden he turns around and jumps back in the lake, his buddies apparently thinking he is going to retrieve his clubs. When he comes out of the water he doesn't have his clubs and again begins to walk off the course.
Then one of his buddies asks, "Why did you jump into the lake?"
And he said, "I had to, I left my car keys in the bag."
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
This week, we'll celebrate Valentine's Day by showing some love for what Rotary has done in the world. This video is about what your Rotary Foundation donation has helped make happen in Haiti for expectant mothers.
World of Rotary
Every week we will focus on a particular story that tells of our organization and the work of Rotarians in the world.
Through a Rotarian's Lens
Sometimes a photo can capture an amazing moment. In this section Member Keith Marsh shares his incredible photography!
If you'd like to submit a photo for this section please contact Keith.
I took this photo of the Milky Way during my second trip to Cuba on a Rotary water project (H2Open Doors). The location was on the southeast coast near Guantanamo Bay. I had to get up at 3 AM and hike 1/4 mile through the jungle to get to this remote beach that I had found the day before. The biggest challenge was to compose and focus the image in complete darkness. Then back through the jungle to get on a 5 am bus to Havana. With a major delay, the trip took 24 hours on some less than ideal roads.
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and aims to teach our members and guests something new, fun, and useful! If you have any ideas on a fun trick or skill you'd like to share please contact Shags.
Valentine's Day is Coming! Kiss Kiss!!
Well, with that title, what can I share today? Not something new, but SOMETHING OLD!! So old that yours truly remembers hearing it as a toddler! This video popped up on my YouTube recommendations list -- a great set by The Chordettes, a female vocal group from 1946-1963 (I was born in '56). One of the original members of the group was replaced by someone from my hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, Lynn Hargate Evans. A New York Times article about her passing noted: "In 1953 Ms Evans, as she was known at the time, was a caseworker for the Red Cross and sang with an amateur barbershop quartet in Youngstown, Ohio.
One day the Chordettes came through town for a performance, and Ms Evans had a chance to sit in. The members of the group were so impressed with her voice that when the time came to replace one of the original Chordettes, Dorothy Schwartz, who was leaving to have a child, Ms Evans was asked to audition for the spot. She won it. “She sang so beautifully and expressively, very clear,” Marjorie Needham Latzko, another Chordette and a close friend of Ms Evans’s, said in a phone interview. “You could understand every word.”
" They had many hits on the radio way back when, but their two biggest are what most of us "old critters" remember: "Lollipop" & "Mr Sandman" Here's a video of a very young Dick Clark and The Chordettes. Lynn is the lead singer but appears 2nd from the left in line. The connection to Valentine's Day and the title will be clear at the end of the first song. And notice how the audience dressed up for the show! Enjoy, and have great earworms this week!!
Service Report
Tell us about service you’ve done recently in your community.
Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
On the first meeting of every month, we feature service reports from club members for the previous month. Thanks for your service everyone!
Club Announcements
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Service Project Information
Club members, if you are participating or have previously participated in a service project as part of our club, could you please complete the following form:
https://forms.gle/jxfpHHiKBv7P5YXy5
Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! This section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
Past Events:
Upcoming Events:
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
District 5170 Events
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
More events coming soon! All events are open to guests, unless otherwise mentioned. Feel free to join us! If you ever have questions, please email inquiries@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Happy Dollars: Do Good by Sharing Something Good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)
Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated on the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
It was in the forties when I woke up. This afternoon the skies were blue, the weather was in the high 60s F. Beautiful day. Please apply my gift to Polio Plus.
Program: The Pursuit of Prosp(a)rity for Generational Generosity
Speaker: Briana Franklin
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others.
The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley seeks to explore perspectives on service from across the world. The views of the speakers in our programs are their own, and unless stated otherwise, are not necessarily reflective of the views of our eClub nor Rotary International.
If you have an idea for a cool speaker, please feel free to reach out to them directly or submit THIS FORM so our Program Committee can contact them!
Briana “Bri” Franklin is a businesswoman and philanthropist on a mission to eradicate the $1.6T+ student debt crisis. Upon graduating with a whopping $115,000 in student loans, she experienced the challenges of grappling with the exorbitant monthly payments which were further escalated through lack of success in securing well-paying, full-time work and ultimately, having to abandon her previous entrepreneurial pursuits. Through The Prosp(a)rity Project, she takes immense pride in crafting the solution that will provide Black girls/women in the U.S. with the resources to achieve higher rates of success all the while putting an end to the threat of student debt.
The Prosp(a)rity Project is a Silicon Valley-based, nationally serving nonprofit empowering Black girls/women in the U.S. with tools for financial, professional/entrepreneurial and holistic wellbeing. Through their Economic Empowerment Initiative (EEI), they are going about this mission by providing our Prosperettes (beneficiaries) with 100% student debt relief and access to ongoing financial coaching/career guidance as means for setting a new precedent of widespread generational wealth that translates into abundant generosity.
Learn more at:
Website: https://theprosparityproject.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-prosparity-project
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theprosparityproject/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theprosparityproject
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prosparityproj
Upcoming Program Recording Schedule
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
Our online video conference room link for these recordings is always http://zoom.siliconvalleyrotary.com/. You are welcome to join us! Please note the timezone listed for all recordings is US Pacific Time (San Francisco, California, USA).
If you can’t join the live recording, please send your questions for an upcoming speaker to programs@siliconvalleyrotary.com.
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