Self Reliance, Not Dependence
Meeting for the week of July 13 - July 19, 2020
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Self Reliance, Not Dependence
Speaker: Jon Kaufman
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from Vice President Cecelia:
Vice President Cecelia
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 Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
Yang Youping proudly serves Yunnan cuisine at his restaurant in Beijing. Yunnan is a province in southwestern China known for fare like pounded potatoes. They look a lot like mashed potatoes, but pounded potatoes have got a unique stretch to them. Yang guides us through the peel, steam and pound process that goes into making this delicious dish.
World of Rotary
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 street scene photo in Fes, Morocco in 2017. The scooter in the foreground and the old man walking in the background along a diagonal makes a strong monochromatic composition.
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and Rushton Hurley 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 Rushton or Shags.
Tornado Omelette Master - Korean Street Food
I don't like eating eggs, though I will use them in recipes. But egg and egg-based dishes are a NO-THANKS for me, including what's shared here. However, it looked so amazing (both the take-away and the plated versions) that I thought I would share it here! If you try it, please report back!
Coffee With a Rotarian
A natural part of Rotary is the networking and the fellowship you get out of meeting other Rotarians. Coffee With a Rotarian is a monthly program of our club where we match participating club members for one-on-one virtual (or in some cases in person) coffee meetings, so they can learn more about each other. This program is organized by member Tzviatko Chiderov.
This week we have Caleb from Grants Pass, OR, USA reporting on a chat with Andrew from Oakland, CA, USA
My first CWR! I'm really glad we do this as a club. I figured I was going to enjoy visiting with Andrew, but it was much more fun than I imagined. We talked about ourselves, about Rotary, and a few other things. I asked: "What was it that drew you to Rotary? What has kept you in Rotary?" (I hope I get this right) Andrew was a Rotaractor, then was a member of a Rotary Club, then left Rotary for a while, but came back because of the diversity of membership (from all over the world), the relationships based in service, and flexibility provided by an e-club.
We encourage all club members to participate in Coffee With a Rotarian. You can sign up here!
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!
Stabile, Sandy: Contacted potential members from the RI Membership Referral Program
Club Announcements
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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.
Monique Ziesenhenne made a $25 donation.
Thanks for the nice birthday greeting! Donation to Club General Fund, please.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
We have been visited by the Saharan dust cloud. Jazzy is happy. Please apply my gift to Polio Plus.
Gabriela Lopez made a Other Amount donation.
Please allocate to PolioPlus Fund. Hoping to kick start the rotary year with a contribution! I’m grateful for finding a club that I can attend meetings from wherever I am!
Selected Comments
Every week at the bottom of our meetings, there is a comments section for members and guests to tell us what they enjoyed about the meeting or to ask questions to the speaker. We select a few comments every week from last week’s meeting to be featured during this week’s meeting.
Here are the comments selected from last week’s meeting.
Imad Ghoummid said:
Anil, Maxi, and Rushton, on your birthdays I wish for you that whatever you want most in life it comes to you just the way you imagined it or better. Happy birthday!
As for The Free Literacy Program, It's a great opportunity for children to learn by themselves and to learn how learn and to seek the information without the support of adults. With this program, they learn English. It's just the first step. The experience will inspire them and they will learn other subjects online.
Mark Dohn said:
Congratulations Raquel and thank you for your first recording as president! Happy birthday to Rushton, Anil and Maxi! Thank you Monique for a great profile piece and I’m glad you are getting some quality time with Midnight and in the backyard. Great food tricks this week too. I plan on using the lemon trick immediately. Thank you Heather for the opportunity to learn more about the free reading program. It looks amazing!
Angelica Marotta said:
Great to learn about the Free Literacy Program! Such an important initiative to help students in need around the world. Love the picture of San Francisco on July 4th! It must have been hard to capture this atmosphere.
Be sure to leave a comment at the end of this week’s meeting after you watch the program below, and perhaps you’ll see your comment featured next week!
Program: Self Reliance, Not Dependence
Speaker: Jon Kaufman
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others. Special thanks to member Roger Plested for leading our club's Programs Committee in finding us amazing speakers each week.
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!
Jon Kaufman, project director of H2OpenDoors, wants to challenge fellow Rotarians to focus on enhancing human dignity and independence with our Rotary projects. Jon joined Rotary eight years ago to disrupt the way safe water was being provided by NGOs to the poor. H2OpenDoors has installed 33 water purification plants in 11 countries, each providing 10,000 people with a half gallon of purified water every day. Jon is a major donor to TRF and is focused on making villages self-reliant rather than dependent. He chronicles the adventures of bringing over 500 Rotarians and friends on these adventures in a best selling book, Long Walk on a Dry Road. Members and guests, please welcome Jon Kaufman!
Additional Resources
Learn more about Jon's work at: www.H2OpenDoors.org
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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