Across Rotary Pacific, Rotary Community Groups are meeting to map out their strategies for success.
Since the start of July, representatives from the clubs in each Rotary Community Group (RCG) – usually club presidents and presidents-elect – have attended workshops to get to know each other, learn about their clubs’ strengths and challenges, and discover ways they can collaborate to achieve more than they could on their own.
Your club’s RCG is its peer support network. Make sure your club participates in its RCG so it can harness the power of collaboration to boost its vitality and appeal, increase its community impact, grow its public profile, and enhance its ability to adapt to changing social needs.
Read on to learn about some of the ways RCGs have already begun planning for success.
Shared projects to supercharge your impact
At their workshops, each RCG has begun developing shared projects its clubs can pursue together to make a substantial community impact while also increasing their public profile, engaging existing club members, and enticing new members to join.
For example, RCG Northern Tasmania in District 9830 has created a project to reduce illiteracy levels in their community. Alarmingly, Tasmania has the highest rate of functional illiteracy in Australia, with approximately 50 per cent of working age Tasmanians lacking the reading skills they need to get by in daily life.
“Make sure your club participates in its RCG so it can harness the power of collaboration to boost its vitality and appeal, increase its community impact, grow its public profile, and enhance its ability to adapt to changing social needs.”
To supercharge the development of literacy skills among children, clubs in the RCG are pairing with their local primary schools to set up Rotary Reading Clubs, which will meet once a week. One club in the RCG that doesn’t have a local primary school will run adult literacy classes instead.
Over the two-year life of this project, RCG Northern Tasmania is determined to substantially reduce illiteracy rates so every member of their community has the chance to live and grow as successfully functioning members of society.
Communication is key!
RCGs are also exploring solutions to share information easily and efficiently.
For instance, RCG Frankston and Mornington Peninsula now has its own section on the District 9815 website, allowing clubs in the RCG to post about their projects and events. This makes it easy for clubs to share important updates and identify opportunities to work together, while also reducing the number of emails that need to be sent between clubs.
Celebrate your RCG’s unique identity
RCGs have been coming up with group names that reflect their unique identity. Here are some great examples:
- First Light (District 9930)
- Bridges to Beaches (District 9675)
- Goldfields (District 9780)
- Wheatbelt (District 9423)
- North Central (District 9800)
- Bayside (District 9815)
- Top of the South (District 9999)
This is your RCG’s chance to tell the world who you are – get creative!
MAIN PICTURE: At their workshop, the clubs in RCG Wheatbelt – located in Western Australia – decided to work together on a synchronised tree planting project.