A New Generation of Women who are Transforming Global Health and Science
Meeting for the week of August 09, 2021 - August 15, 2021
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: A New Generation of Women who are Transforming Global Health and Science
Speaker: Charlie Ruth Castro
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from our Club President.
Brett Sham
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.
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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 !
Golfing Disaster!
The golfer sliced a ball into a field of chickens, striking one of the hens and killing it instantly. He was understandably upset and sought out the farmer.
“I’m sorry,” he said, “my terrible tee-shot hit one of your hens and killed it. Can I replace the hen?”
“I don’t know about that,” replied the farmer, mulling it over. “How many eggs a day do you lay?”
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
There are any number of ways a video might inspire you. My guess is that for our members and guests, it'll be inspiring to watch a video about people who were challenged to take an expensive piece of important medical equipment, and replicate it, but at a miniscule fraction of the cost and without the need for electricity. Members and guests, meet the "paperfuge."
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 Kenai River in Alaska is the best salmon fishing river I know. During our float trip, we must have caught 50 fish of various types from King Salmon, Sock-eye, Dolly Varden, and Rainbow trout. This composite time lapse photo of the stars over the river was taken the night before our float trip.
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.
How do they make it?!?
Fireworks! Should have run this a month ago...
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.
Anonymous? made a Other Amount donation.
Rotary programs online give me hope during COVID-19, demonstrating how our fellowship works to make all lives better, on a global scale, no matter what obstacles we face. Please make my donation to RESV Club operations.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
It has been a hot week. Other than the heat, all is well.
Program: A New Generation of Women who are Transforming Global Health and Science
Speaker: Charlie Ruth Castro
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!
Women have the ad-honorem title of "medical directors" of our homes. We make 80% of all purchase and use decisions. And we are the primary decision-makers in healthcare.
And yet women are still heavily underrepresented in health and science leadership. We represent 70% of the healthcare workforce globally, but we only hold 13% of the industry leadership chairs. In general, there is less gender diversity at the top executive level, where dominant male perceptions and associated biases take root.
The lack of women leaders in the industry represents a great loss of information and talent from whom we have direct and intimate knowledge of the weak points of the industry.
But Charlie declares herself an admirer of the brave ones who take this as fuel and take advantage of the sparks of change, generating innovative, sustainable, and scalable solutions. In this talk, she will show why more women need to take global health and science leadership, what women are doing well, and where improvement can happen.
Charlie Ruth is a social innovator recognized by the United Nations and Rotary International for her outstanding work empowering thousands of Latin American girls and women, as well as a TED speaker, lawyer, writer, and expert in the development of global communities around innovation and the human rights of girls and women.
She has been the Alumni Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society at Harvard University since 2015. Executive Director of Ms. Powerful Inc (US) and founder of the Women With Rights Foundation (www.MujeresConDerechos.org), one of the most influential social movements in the field of gender empowerment in the Americas region, Charlie brings insights and possibilities to us today.
Members and guests, please welcome Charlie Ruth!
Learn more
https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlieruth/
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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