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"The Friendly Breakfast Club"
Newsletter


March 3, 2021


Meetings

March is Water and Sanitation Month

3/5 Beverly Ferguson, Senior Director, Community Affairs, Georgia Pacific Foundation ... via Zoom
3/12 Gregory C Dozier, Commissioner , Technical College System of Georgia ... in Person or Via Zoom
3/19 No Friday Meeting - instead consider joining us for Thursday Thursday live!
3/26 To be announced ... in Person and Via Zoom

Our Rotary Family
BIRTHDAYS

3/7 Jackie Cuthbert
3/8 Louise Barden
3/8 Dabney Daniel
3/8 Ken Levy
3/9 Pat McMahon
3/12 Pavittar Safir
3/16 Amber Saunders
3/20 Anne Glenn
3/22 John Mills

WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

3/13 Laura Kann (23)
3/19 Jennie Springer (13)
3/25 Patti Bunker (21)

Rotary Online

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ROTARY CLUB OF
Dunwoody


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LEADERSHIP

President Ardy Bastien
President-Elect Carter Stout
Immediate PP Cathie Brumfield
Treasurer Josh Podczervinski
Secretary Jennifer Bowler
Foundation Jennie Stipick
Membership Darrin Vanderpan

In This Bulletin ...

Read about our speaker this Friday - just follow the Zoom link - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86202979419. Then take a minute or two to get this week's scoop on:

  • This Saturday's inside and outside service opportunities - and more you can consider doing at the Community Assistance Center (CAC)
  • Our bakers' support for the troops through cookies for USO lunch boxes
  • Learning opportunities ... on the topic of human trafficking and diversity, equity and inclusion
  • What our RI President thinks about our End Polio efforts

This Week's Speaker
Beverly Ferguson, Senior Director, Community Affairs, Georgia Pacific Foundation ... on Zoom

Join us this Friday to welcome Beverly Ferguson, Senior Director of Community Affairs at the Georgia Pacific Foundation. You can attend  via Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86202979419

Bev joined Georgia-Pacific (GP) in 2017 and manages a $5M portfolio of GP Foundation’s philanthropic investments and initiatives focused on four strategic areas (Four E’s): Education, Entrepreneurship, Environment and Enrichment of Community. She is directly responsible for managing all education and enrichment grant applications, investments and initiatives for the Georgia-Pacific Foundation and Georgia-Pacific LLC. She serves as relationship manager for all local and national external nonprofit partnerships that fall within the education and community enrichment focus areas.
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Service Opportunities
Serve Inside or Outside This Saturday, March 6

Choose your preferred place to serve this Saturday ...

  • Inside at the Community Assistance Center (CAC) food pantry from 9 am to noon ... we'll help stock shelves, process food donations and generally get the pantry ready for next week's shoppers. All COVID safety provisions are followed. Let Jennifer Bowler know if you plan to join us.
  • Outside at Bounds Gardens for an hour or two sprucing up the traffic island across from the Dunwoody library. Chief Gardener Fred Bounds will be happy to see you there.

And, the CAC says it has many opportunities in the Thrift and Food Pantry - including food delivery to home bound clients once a week, virtually interviewing clients for financial assistance to help with utilities and rent, and virtually logging CAC's phone messages. And there are some temporary needs at the Dunwoody Food Pantry on Thursdays (3/11, 3/17, and 3/25) from 8:30AM to 1:30PM helping clients with food distribution. If you would like to learn more information about these activities, please contact Nolan Feintuch at volunteers@ourcac.org.

Thank You!
Thanks to Our USO Bakers

A BIG THANK YOU to Les Woulfin, Griff and Dottie Ransom, Louise and Ron Barden for making the special cookies for our military personnel. Your cookies will make our box lunches very special and much appreciated by our service people. On each bag of cookies and box lunch we will place a label from RCD.  All of the cookies received except for one was labeled with the baker's name. We thank all RCD bakers for their contributions.

Learning Opportunities
Atlanta Rotary Council on Human Trafficking; Training Sessions by Street Grace

There are several opportunities to learn more about human trafficking and ways to protect our children. Consider joining:

  • The Atlanta Rotary Council Against Human Trafficking on Zoom later this month (March 26 at 9 am) to hear from Sarah Richardson with Wellspring Living.  You can reach the meeting at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87414738102?pwd=cnBzNWZyYU8xbjM1K2RrMkhCcDBOdz09
  • Sex trafficking 101 training by Street Grace - Tuesday, March 9 at 6:30 pm... helping individuals learn how to recognize, report and respond to potential cases of human exploitation - register here
  • Street Grace for a discussion about Keeping Kids Safe in a Digital Age - Tuesday, March 16 at noon - register here

Learning Opportunities
A Follow-Up on Last Week's Video

Last week, we shared part a video clip from Chicago Rotarian Xavier Ramey's presentation to the Rotary International Convention in Toronto in 2018. You can view the entire presentation at https://youtu.be/XvKGk_QGXXs

Xavier will also be part of Rotary International's Infinite Possibilities Series: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in its March 26 session: Investing in Equity. Register NOW 

The Rotary Foundation at Work
Making a Difference by Eliminating Polio

Rotary International President Holger Knaack shares why it is more important than ever to support PolioPlus, Rotary's polio eradication program, and what lessons it can offer to the #COVID19 pandemic response. Read more: https://on.rotary.org/3dNFaBq
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