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Philanthropic Subjects
From the Mission Valley Rotary Club 4/1/08
Ms. Kathleen Tucker, Vice President
of KidsTalk Foundation, Inc. contact: kathleen@kidstalk.org phone 858-442-6601
From the La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club 4/1/08
Bill Bodry is an excellent speaker,
a member of La Mesa Sunrise Rotary, and very active in the
community.
From the La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club 2/1/08
SCORE San Diego, Counselors to
Americas Small Business is a partnership with the United States
Small Business Administration.
SCORE San Diego has eighty volunteer counselors whose backgrounds are business owners and business management. The San Diego chapter of SCORE is one of the most active in the country having given free counseling to hundreds of small business owners in the San Diego and Imperial Counties. In addition SCORE San Diego presents over two hundred business workshops a year covering over thirty five business subjects and has a FREE business library as part of their website. SCORE San Diego has a Speakers Bureau represented by the SCORE Counselors. To learn more visit www.score-sandiego.org. Contact; Barry Graceman b.graceman@att.net 858-551-8435
From the Rancho Sante Fe Rotary Club 1/15/08
Burl Jordan
Water For Sudan c/o Rancho Santa Fe Rotary Club P.O. Box 246 Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067 (760) 644-6990 Drilling water wells in Southern Sudan to provide clean and fresh drinking water so inhabitants can return to their homes after a 20 year civil war. Presently only contaminated water is available in most cases over 4 hours walk away from each village. www.waterforsudan.org
From the Mission Valley Rotary Club 1/1/08
I heartily recommend one of the best
speakers I have ever met in my 11 years as Program Director of
the Mission Valley Rotary Club.
Sharon Ross is the Community Outreach Manager for Lifesharing, the organ donor organization for San Diego and Imperial counties. She is very personable, even humorous, and most informative about this life saving organization, a division of UCSD Medical Center. She is a former Rotarian, past President of La Mesa Sunrise and a Governor's Rep for PDG Pat Crowell. Her phone number is 619-521-1983, email ssross@ucsd.edu Mailing address is 3465 Camino del Rio So., Ste 410 San Diego 92108
From the La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club 8/1/07
Chris Rutgers, Executive Director,
From the Mission Valley Rotary Club: 2/15/07
Scott Silverman, Exec. Dir. and founder of Second Chance, a non
profit charitable organization committed to breaking the cycle of
unemployment, poverty and homelessness in San Diego. A dedicated
individual who fought many obstacles in his endeavor to help those
individuals who don't know how to help themselves. An excellent
speaker and a member of club 33.
From the Downtown Club 33: 1/1/07
Scott H. Silverman (Executive Director/Founder) From the Mesa Sunrise Club: 1/1/07
"Youth Community Service for Peace"
From the Poway Club: 11/15/06
"L.E.A.P.S. and Bounds
From the Del Mar Club: 8/15/06
Captain Paul Steffens is spreading the word about the 4,500 San
Diego Military Families served each month thru free social
services thru the Armed Services YMCA. CAPT Steffens has briefed
Coronado, Del Mar and Golden Triangle Rotaries in 2006 about new
military policies, such as Individual Augmentation, and multiple
deployments that are severely impacting Military families. He is
happy to inform the community about these issues. Please contact
him at 858 751-5755 or at paul@asymcasd to learn more.
From the Poway Club: 5/15/06
San Diego County Crime Stoppers is starting a new
public information campaign. Crime Stoppers are available to speak
at Rotary meetings. Speakers can speak from 5-20 minutes about the
work of Crime Stoppers. All speakers are experienced presenters and
are prepared to talk about some of the cases Crime Stoppers has
solved in the past and some still working on. Audiences have found
these presentations to be informative and entertaining.Crime
Stoppers has been working in San Diego since 1984. It is a
citizen-run, nonprofit that operates an anonymous crime tip line,
provides rewards for positive tips, and works with the media to
publicize unsolved felony crime to get tips from the public. In the
past 22 years, tips from Crime Stoppers have help law enforcement
solve nearly 3,500 crimes in San Diego.
From the Downtown Breakfast Club: 12/1/05
"Compelling" presentation. 858-442-4600 suresh.pol@gmail.com or suresh@poweroflove.org Suresh is a former Gateway Computer executive who gave it up 5 years ago to co-found the Power of Love Foundation, a community based model to fight the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Spell-binding. We are coordinating a matching grant to purchase medicne for the children. Suresh has created a model in conjuction with MIT which includes team based care groups and $25,000 local clinics.
From the Mission Valley Club: 10/1/05 Rudy Sovinee Regional Recruiter, San Diego County, for the Peace Corps He is an excellent speaker, personable and has served with the Peace Corps in Ghana, West Africa from 1970-73. He has spoken to over 176,000 students in 25 states and 3 countries and has met hundreds of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. He founded a non-profit school program in an effort, as Rudy puts it "to bring the world back home". Contact: 800-910-5437 rsovinee@1wow.org
From the District Office: 10/1/05 Dr. Marilyn Powers and Steve Viglione. "The I AM Foundation" An international organization that gifts books and music to children and adults worldwide. The foundation receives books and music from authors and musicians of all kinds. We then gift them to the world. To date we have distributed over 328,000 products worldwide. Whenever we speak at Rotary Clubs, we speak of our mission which is gifting books. Each attendee receives our “book of the month.” Contact:
Steve Viglione
From the La Mesa Sunrise Club:
4/1/05
Contact Joe at: 619-889-9243
From the Ramona Club:
3/15/05
From the Mission Bay Club: 1/31/05 "San Diego County Kids to
Camp Program" or "Is My Child Ready for Camp?"
From the Poway Club: 1/15/05 "ACLU against the Boy Scouts and the City of San Diego" Merrilee A. Boyack, Attorney at Law,
Spokeswoman for the San Diego-Imperial Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
From the San Diego North Club: 12/15/04
Tonia Sargent
Wife of Injured Marine
760-430-2015
Lack of support for families of injured
returning Marines
From the Poway Club: 11/1/04 "Thousand Smiles Foundation" has been making a difference in the lives of children in Mexico and Costa Rica since 1985. TS provides free surgery for cleft lip and palate deformities, facial repairs and dental services for underprivileged families. Professional services, medical supplies, administration and food are provided by Rotarians and concerned citizens' donations. Volunteers include surgeons, dentists, ENT doctors, nurses, lab techs and many lay Rotary members and friends. Clinics are held 4 times a year in Ensenada, Mexico. We have a video presentation both in Spanish and English that tells
the TS story. TS Board members have spoken to several 5340 clubs: SD
North, Poway, Fallbrook, Bonsall, Mid City, and National city to name
a few. Please call Kim Muslusky to arrange for a TS board member to
speak at your club or group. Contact: Call Kim Muslusky
(858-693-7380), Dr. Terry Tanaka (619-420-8697), or Bob
Chalfa(619-470-2885), to get a speaker.
From the South East San Diego Club: 9/15/04
"Mentorship program for At-Risk Youth"
From the Poway Club: 8/15/04 Sharon Ross from "Lifesharing"
a community-based, federally designated, non-profit
organization that is responsible for organ and tissue recovery services in the
San Diego and Imperial Counties. They present programs to educate Rotarians on
the life-saving and life-enhancing benefits of organ and tissue donation. The
information on the organization is:
From the La Mesa Club: 8/15/04
Jim Jackson, Jr. President/CEO From the Uptown San Diego Sunrise Club: 7/31/04
Linda Bounds from L.E.A.P.S. & BOUNDS
From the La Mesa Noon Club: 7/31/04 Azim Khamisa from "The Tarik Khamisa Foundation" Azim's son was killed by an 14 year old gang member in a SD neigborhood. Tarik is his son's name. Tarik was delivering a pizza (he was set-up by the gang) and when he refused to surrender the pizza, an 18 yr old gang leader told the 14 year old to shoot him and he did. Azim and the shooters father have teamed together to form a Foundation for Human Rights in Tariks name. They have a great story and Azim has written a book on the subject of Violence in Youth in our Society. Contact them at www.azimkhamisa.com and www.tkf.com
From the Coronado Club: 3/15/04:
Greg Scott, from Challenged America. They have a number
of other speakers available to speak about their program. Challenged
America sponsored a crew of sailors who recently completed the
TransPac (transpacific sailboat race from LA to Hawaii). The only
completely able person aboard was the skipper. The rest all had some
disabilities, including blindness.
From the El Camino Real Club: 2/15/04:
Melanie Bernhardt, Executive Director & Kathleen Kranenburg,
Service Dog Trainer from Spoke N’ Paws Assistance Dogs. From the Downtown Club: 2/15/04:
Scott H. Silverman from San Diego Second Chance
505 16th Street, San Diego, CA 92101
From the La Mesa Sunrise Club: 2/2/04:
These gentlemen (Rotarians) have spoken to several clubs and were
presenters at the District Peace Dialogue on November 19, 2003. They are both
active participants on the ongoing district Dialogue on Peace Committee.
From the Uptown San Diego Sunrise Club: 1/19/04 Classic for Kids™ is dedicated to the promotion and preservation of classical music and the arts through affordable, accessible and educational concerts designed for children.
Susan Wayo -
Classics For Kids
Salvation Army
Kroc Performing Arts Center
6845 University
Ave
San Diego CA
92115
888.531.4844
Photocharity is dedicated to raising funds and awareness for charitable organizations who empower youth to make better choices. This is accomplished through music, photography, and other fundraising events.
Jeffrey Sitcov - Photocharity
From the La Jolla Golden Triangle Club: 12/8/03 Ken Barrat, Outreach Coordinator. "The Quaker Bolivia Link" is a non-sectarian organization which funds and administers development projects in the Andes of Bolivia. It was founded in 1995 by a group of British Quakers who had visited Bolivia and were deeply affected by the poverty they had encountered. Phone: 619.275.2924 or email:contactus@qbl.org
From the San Diego Downtown Breakfast Club: 12/8/03
JOCM
Joe Ciokon, USN (Ret.)
From the La Jolla Golden Triangle Club: 11/4/03 "The status of our community’s poverty stricken elderly and what Senior Community Centers is doing to solve the growing crisis." Paul Downey, from the Senior Community Centers. Paul is an excellent speaker who talks passionately on this subject. He is the former press secretary to Maureen O’Connor and is a member of Club 33. Contact him at: 525 14th Street, San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: 619-235-6572 x 301
From
the Escondido Main Club: 10/1/03
"The new American Red Cross in San Diego" Veronica (Ronne) Froman Chief Executive Officer.
American Red Cross, San
Diego-Imperial Counties chapter 3650 Fifth Avenue San Diego, CA 92103 Ronne is a retired Navy
real admiral, formerly the "Navy Mayor of San Diego," and was the
Chief Business Officer of the San Diego Unified School District before
taking on the CEO job at the American Red Cross chapter this summer.
She has refocused the organization on its core mission of disaster
preparedness and emergency services and is working to restore
credibility and public trust in the American Red Cross. Excellent
speaker!! Recommend it to any Rotary audience. (She's a member of Club
33 as well).
From the Poway Rotary Club: Marno Miller San Diego Blood Bank Contact: mmiler@bloodbank.org
Doris Hopp North County Wheelchair Sports Kida in wheel chair playing sports Basketball, Over the Line, Soccer, Ruby, Tennis Boys and Girls ages 6 to 21 Contact # 858-513-0302 Cell# 858-395-6102
Mr Ross Porter American Lung Association "A Breath of Fresh Air" Contact # 619-297-3901 x110 Fax # 619-297-8402
Keith Hammond San Diego Rescue Mission "A New Home for Hope" Homeless, Men, Women and Battered Women and Children Contact 619-687-3720x12
From the La Mesa Rotary Club: Jill Houska from the San
Diego Foundation spoke to our club today, La Mesa Sunrise Rotary and she was
great. The foundation is a wonderful resource for all clubs to know about.
Available resources through the San Diego Foundation and what it can offer as a
way for clubs to use their services to run club foundations. She is also a
Rotarian from the downtown club. Information follows: Jill Houska, The San Diego
Foundation, 1420 Kettner Blcd. Suite 500 San Diego, CA 92101, 619/235-2300 From the Shadowridge (Vista) Club: "North County Solutions for Change" Dal Williams or Mary Regan
We provide homeless children and their
families with a healthy and safe place to live, while transitioning
into permanent housing, sustainable employment, and independent
living. "The lives of children in Baja's orphanages and shelters." Ken Amstutz, Founder and Kevin Diamond, Vice President Genesis Expeditions/Diez, A.C. Address: 3047 Marquette Street, San Diego, CA 92106 Phone: 619.275.7072 kevind@genesisexpeditions.org Kathy Garrett
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