Direct Relief: Working Toward Health Equity Since 1948
Meeting for the week of April 12, 2021 - April 18, 2021
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Direct Relief: Working Toward Health Equity Since 1948
Speaker: Dean Axelrod
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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!
Rotary members and The Rotary Foundation play a unique role in disaster recovery and rebuilding efforts. When disaster strikes, Rotarians around the world come together as people of action to help those in need.
To support communities in their rebuilding efforts, consider making a contribution to The Rotary Foundation’s Disaster Response Fund — any amount you are comfortable with. This gifts are counted toward Annual Fund club recognition including 100% Paul Harris Fellow, 100% Foundation Giving, and Every Rotarian, Every Year.
Thank you for being here, and have a wonderful week!
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 !
Tax Time!!
A nervous taxpayer was unhappily conversing with the IRS Tax auditor who had come to review his records.
At one point the auditor exclaimed, ''Mr. Carelton, we feel it is a great privilege to be allowed to live and work in the USA. As a citizen you have an obligation to pay taxes, and we expect you to eagerly pay them with a smile.''
''Thank goodness,'' returned Mr. Carelton, with a giant grin on his face, ''I thought you were going to want me to pay with cash.''
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
How can you not watch something that has this as the start to the description? "Traditional time-lapses are constrained by the idea that there is a single universal clock. In the spirit of Einstein's relativity theory, layer-lapses assign distinct clocks to any number of objects or regions in a scene. Each of these clocks may start at any point in time, and tick at any rate. The result is a visual time dilation effect known as layer-lapse." #whoa
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.
The Malecon (waterfront) in Havana is a favorite spot for early morning fishermen. I cropped this photo to a panorama and converted it to sepia for a strong visual impact. Photo Tip: It is always good to have an odd number of things in your photo for balance.
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.
It's Green Garlic Time Again!!
Several years ago (2016) I recorded a 12 minute video for our eClub on the wonders of green garlic, also known as spring garlic. This is the same thing that grows into the hard white heads of many "paper" covered bulbs, but in the very early stage. Right now is when they are the smallest heads, and ALL is edible or usable in one way or another.
I slice and freeze it freshly cut, dry and powder the tops when they are more fibrous into "green garlic dust", roast the heads when they are larger later in the six-to-eight week season and freeze for later use, and even freeze the little roots for use in veggie stocks. Later in the season, generally mid-May, you may be able to find garlic scapes, the top of the plant on the thick stem that may or may not have blossomed. It's all usable, too! Available at most local Farmers Markets. Enjoy!!
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
Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! The section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
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 in the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
The weather is typical Texas springtime weather. In the course of a three-mile walk, I was sweating in the sun, had my jacket zipped up from the wind and then comfortable.
Program: Direct Relief: Working Toward Health Equity Since 1948
Speaker: Dean Axelrod
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!
Diseases don’t discriminate between rich and poor, but structural inequities mean people who are low-income or affected by other social vulnerability factors feel the impact harder, wherever they live. Learn how Direct Relief, the first charity accredited as a wholesale distributor of prescription medicines in all 50 U.S. states and territories, and a trusted charitable partner in more than 100 countries, is using its global reach to help address health care inequities throughout the U.S. and in low-resource communities around the world.
The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic has again highlighted the severe inequities that exist in the U.S. among persons of different races, as persons of color have experienced disproportionately higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and death from the virus. Such striking, tragic disparities in the current health crisis are among the current-day effects of history that, beginning with slavery, included overtly racist practices, policies, and traditions that require continued recognition and focused attention to address. Dean Axelrod is Associate Director for Partnerships and Philanthropy at Direct Relief. He earned MBA and law degrees from the University of Arizona, and a BA in English from Boston University.
Dean is the immediate past president of the Rotary Club of Santa Barbara and serves on the club’s Board. Dean has been actively involved in the Santa Barbara community with Partners In Education, Women’s Economic Ventures, Santa Barbara Open Streets, Anti-Defamation League, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, and as a coach for the Dos Pueblos High School mock trial team. Dean and his family moved from Tucson Arizona to Santa Barbara in 2013 to establish a branch office for the financial services firm Edward Jones. Before moving to California, he was a senior manager for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the District of Arizona, he practiced law and provided small business consulting services. Members and guests, please welcome Dean Axelrod!
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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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