Club Announcements​

• Charitable Donations. Rotary Club of North Jackson President Tom Parry announced on August 26, 2015, that the club will make $1,500.00 donations to each of the following charities:
  • Jackson Zoo
  • MS Food Network
  • Blair Batson Children's Hospital
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Central MS
  • Brain Injury Association of MS
  • CARA Animal Shelter
  • Habitat for Humanity Mississippi Capital Area
  • Magnolia Speech School
  • Mustard Seed
  • Salvation Army
• Meeting Changes.
  • No meeting September 8. The Country Club of Jackson will be closed in observance of Labor Day.
  • Fall Fling November 3.  The Country Club of Jackson will be unavailable due to the Sanderson Farms PGA Golf Tournament. The location of the Fall Fling will be announced at a later date.
  • No Meeting November 10. The Country Club of Jackson will be unavailable due to the Sanderson Farms PGA Golf Tournament.

• Billy Brumfield House. The Rotary Club of North Jackson is serving supper once a month at The Billy Brumfield House, a Stewpot Community Services ministry. Our club serves on the 1^st  Tuesday of each month.  Interested members need to meet @ Baker Donelson located at the corner of Meadowbrook and the I-55 North Frontage Road @ 5:15 and then travel together to Billy Brumfield. Also, if you are interested in sponsoring a month, the est. cost is $180 for the food. Mike Dawkins Iis project chair and can be reached @  601-351-2428 or mdawkins@bakerdonelson.com. The group for September is already full. They will be going on September 8, a day when our club is not meeting.
• Between the Lions. It is time to sign up for our Between the Lions outreach program, We read weekly October - May to pre-Kindergarteners at William Walton Elementary School on Bailey Ave. Please consider signing up to read this coming year.  It is a wonderful experience! The children are truly information sponges and very willing learners.  Contact Clinton Smith  (601) 668-2366 for more information. 
• Member Care Committee reminder: For anyone who needs assistance getting to a meeting, please call Luther Munford at (601) 985-4418.
   
• Thinking of Proposing a New Member? 
• First, discuss with Classification Committee (Paul Miller or Julian Carroll). They will provide a membership application, check classification availability, and discuss occupational qualifications. 
  
   

           email  - pomiller3@gmail.com

           Phone - 601-956-2223

   
  • Paul Miller
  • Julian Carroll 

    email - juliancarroll@comcast.net

     

    Phone - 601-981-3886

    Rotary Membership Occupational Qualifications

    An applicant should be one of the following:

    ·         A corporate officer

    ·         A Professional (Attorney, CPA, Physician. Engineer, Architect, etc)

    ·         A Proprietor

    ·         An Agent of a reputable company

    ·        A Manager or Supervisor of a department or section of a  business

•  Rotarians, don't forget to like the club's Facebook page to stay up to date on the latest happenings. Search us out at Rotary Club of North Jackson or click the link: 

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  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rotary-Club-of-North-Jackson/355077474586010

• This week’s Rotary Foundation Thought is from R. I. 2015-2016 President Ravindran about working smarter.

PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE

K.R. "RAVI" RAVINDRAN

PRESIDENT 2015-16

September 2015

There was once a strong young man who was offered a job as a woodcutter. He set about his task with energy: The first week, he turned 18 trees into firewood. The second week, he worked just as hard, but was surprised to find he had chopped only 11 trees. The third week, despite working nonstop from morning till night, the number was six, and he went despairingly to the foreman to offer his resignation. "I am losing my strength. I can no longer cut as many trees as I once could."

The foreman looked at the young man, who seemed to him in fine health. "Have you thought of sharpening your ax?" he asked.

"Sharpen my ax? Who has time to sharpen an ax?" the young man asked indignantly. "I have been too busy chopping wood!"

When we aren't making the kind of progress we feel we should be making, the natural response is to redouble our efforts. Sometimes, though, the better response is not to work harder, but to work smarter. Look at your tools. Analyze your processes. Are you directing your resources in the most effective ways? Or are you pouring all your strength into chopping wood with a dull ax?

For the last 20 years, we have relentlessly beaten the drum of membership in Rotary. We set goals and launch campaigns, all focused on bringing in more and more members. And yet, our overall numbers remain the same.

It is time to sharpen our tools. Instead of focusing on the question, "How can we bring more members into Rotary?" we should be asking ourselves, "How can we add more value to Rotary membership, so that more will join and fewer will leave?"

One way we are doing that is with the new Rotary Global Rewards program, which launched in July. This innovative program allows Rotarians to connect with, and receive discounts and concessions from, businesses and service providers around the world. Individual Rotarians may submit their own business to be included alongside those with which Rotary has already negotiated relationships; the most appropriate offers will be added to the listings. We have also created the option of allowing businesses to return a percentage of their profit on each transaction to our Rotary Foundation, and several companies have already been locked into this part of the scheme. Each month we will update the list with additional offers that we may receive. I urge all of you to try it out by signing up on My Rotary at Rotary.org now. The more Rotarians participate, the stronger, and more beneficial, the program will be.

Much more than another loyalty program, Rotary Global Rewards is a new way to benefit from being a Rotarian, and being part of the Rotary network. It is another way to combine business and service. And it is yet another way to add value to Rotary membership. We cannot forget that our potential members will be asking themselves, "What's in it for me?" We need to demonstrate the value of Rotary by showing that becoming a Rotarian will enrich their lives, as it has ours.

“Service above self; they profit most who serve best."

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