Our club has several great upcoming events you don’t want to miss:

·     The May 20^th Community Forum on polio eradication has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for the fall.

June 5^th, President Elect Liz Taylor is planning a Burgers 'n Blues event with silent auction to benefit our 2013 Community Grants Program.  The event will take place at at the Winnetka Community House, with entertainment provided by Fernando Jones of Blues Kids of America.

The Rotary Club of Winnetka-Northfield is pleased to announce that The Rotary Foundation is now accepting applications for the world-competitive Rotary Peace Fellowship. The fellowship provides academic and practical training to prepare scholars for leadership roles in solving conflicts around the world. 

Up to 110 fellows are selected every year to earn either a master’s degree or a professional development certificate in peace and conflict studies. Fellows study at one of six Rotary Peace Centers at leading universities in Australia, England, Japan, Sweden, the United States, and Thailand. Watch as several Peace Fellows discuss the program and their work.

Former Ambassadorial Scholar Hannah Warren of Rockford addressed our club today and told of the fair trade social enterprise she has created in India.  Hannah met and befriended these highly talented weavers living a life of extreme poverty.  Moved to help them leverage their talents to lift themselves out of poverty, Hannah has created, with the help of many Rotary Clubs throughout the US and in India, a weavers coop social enterprise.

Our club has pledged $5,000 toward a $200,000 Rotary Matching Grant program.  Our contribution will be matched by other local clubs, our Rotary District and The Rotary Foundation, increasing our gift to more than $25,000.  You can contribute through our club's charitable foundation by clicking here.

Take a look at this video about the project recently produced by Rotary International.

A panel of distinguished guests attended our July 7 meeting to discuss their first hand accounts of how The Rotary Foundation changes lives for the better.  The panel included a former Ambassadorial Scholar, a former Rotary Peace Scholar and the leader of an international humanitarian matching grant project in Guatemala.

The meeting also introduced a new giving program for club members to use to support The Rotary Foundation- TRF Direct.

Watch videos of the program by clicking "More."

(Read President Kristen's Installation Address to the club) 

Glencoe resident and entrepreneur Kristen Jasinski was installed as the 87th president of the Rotary Club of Winnetka-Northfield during a celebratory picnic in the gardens of the Winnetka Community House Thursday evening.  The event, attended by more than 70 Rotarians and friends of Rotary, included tasty bar-b-que, a concert by cellist/rapper MC Kato and a silent auction benefiting the club’s community grants program.  The ceremony completed shortly before the storm blew in, chasing the concert inside.

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