Music: Inspiring Connection and Philanthropy in One East Bay Community
Meeting for the week of November 08, 2021 - November 14, 2021
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Music: Inspiring Connection and Philanthropy in One East Bay Community
Speaker: Eugenie Hsu and Jen Gripman
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from our Club President.
Hi everyone,
Welcome members and guests to the first November meeting of the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley.
November is Rotary Foundation Month on the Rotary calendar. The Rotary Foundation was started in 1917 by then Rotary International President Arch Klumph “for the purpose of doing good in the world”. Since its inception, the Foundation has gone on to spend more than $4 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects around the world, transforming millions of lives.
The Rotary Foundation is only able to achieve this impact through the generosity of Rotarians, such as yourselves, that support the Foundation with donations and charitable contributions. As our club members have contributed to the Foundation in past years, so then our club has been able to benefit by receiving funds back from the Foundation in the form of District Grants. We have put the money from these grants towards many of our club’s projects in past years, including Laptops for Good, to help the communities that we serve. Our club has also received a Global Grant for our Soda Education Project in Ethiopia which again is only possible through the generosity of Rotarians supporting the Foundation.
The club’s Foundation and Programs Committees have worked hard to arrange some great presenters for this month, so you will have the opportunity to learn more about The Rotary Foundation and its projects and impact as you hear from them. If they leave you inspired, then I encourage you to donate to The Rotary Foundation, which you can do via the link below, which will enable the Foundation and Rotarians to continue to do good in the world as they Serve to Change Lives.
https://my.rotary.org/en/donate
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.
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 Fortune Cookies
After finishing their Chinese food, a couple cracked open their fortune cookies.
One read, “Be quiet for a little while.”
The other read, “Talk while you have a chance.”
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
It's powerful to watch someone take an instrument and use it in ways unexpected. In this video by Hawaiian ukulele musician Kalei Gamiao, you'll see him play a piece called "Mach 4", and it can remind us that sometimes the way to capture attention is to veer from what is expected.
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.
One of my favorite photography sites is NASA's APOD (Astronomy Photo of the Day). Here is a photo by John Kraus that I love for its symmetry and reflection. "Lucy" was launched to probe the Solar System. It was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a Atlas V rocket.
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.
The Alternative Limb Project
I saw a short clip of this artist's work (https://9gag.com/gag/aoMGKxw)and knew I would find a longer video with more of the story. 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.
Program: Music: Inspiring Connection and Philanthropy in One East Bay Community
Speaker: Eugenie Hsu and Jen Gripman
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!
Our speakers this week will share the stories behind two different events that have centered community and charitable giving in their small East Bay town. With the common threads of music, connection, and philanthropy, Cobrachella and Covidchella could be an inspiration to any community.
Jen Gripman lives in El Cerrito, California, but has been entrenched in the Albany community as both a teacher and a parent. In both roles, Jen is an educator who has spent countless hours dreaming of ways to get and keep kids engaged in school and the community. She is her school district's biggest cheerleader for ed tech integration and equitable learning environments. Outside of work, she enjoys acquiring every kind of succulent that she can find, escaping to Yosemite as often as possible while her other travel plans are on hold, constantly striving to up her Goodreads book goal, and learning to play the mandolin. The last year and a half has provided her with the opportunity to create community in ways that she never imagined.
Eugenie Hsu is a resident of Albany, California, where she has lived for sixteen years with her husband and two teen kids. She is a clinical psychologist by profession, recently retired from Kaiser Permanente after 27 years, and now maintains a small private practice, specializing in treating survivors of trauma. She also devotes time to her pet causes (performing arts and brain tumor advocacy) as a volunteer board member on two non-profit organizations. Outside of her family life, professional work, and volunteer board work, Eugenie enjoys writing, music performance, and podcast production. Creativity, creative problem solving, and "fun herding" have always been an important part of her life and now that she is retired from Kaiser, Eugenie aspires to apply her creative energies to exploring additional art media including cinematography and music composition.
Members and guests, please welcome Eugenie Hsu and Jen Gripman!
To learn more about COVIDchella, go to:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AlbanyCOVIDchella/
Here is the the TV appearance where Eugenie got to give the "giant check" to the food bank:
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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