Invoices were sent this week to members for their yearly dues. You can pay your dues online on the membership page. If you need to setup a payment plan please shoot an e-mail to info@jaxrotaract.org.
This Thursday’s meeting (July 23) will feature Darby L. Stubberfield as our guest speaker. Darby currently serves as the Director of Development for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida. Formerly, she served as the Director of Development and Operations for the Cathedral Foundation, a local non-profit organization for seniors.
She brings over fifteen (15) years of experience in the non-profit industry and ten (10) years of experience in the development field to her position at the Boys & Girls Clubs. She received her Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Jacksonville University in 2004 and obtained the professional designation as a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) in 2005. Stubberfield is a Past President and current Board member of the Florida First Coast Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and served as the Chair for their National Philanthropy Day Event in 2004. She is a member of the Jacksonville Community Council, Inc. (JCCI) Forward and a former member of the Community Advisory Board of WJCT Channel 7. In 2005, she was recognized as one of Jacksonville Business Journal’s Up & Comers.
After Darby speaks Lauren Groff will be provide our member craft talk.
Thursday April 23 is our bi-monthly membership meeting. Our guest speaker for the evening is Bonnie Barnes, Executive Director of North Florida Land Trust. She is a former business owner in Jacksonville, FL for 14 years in advertising, marketing and public relations, and now uses those talents to help northeast Florida conserve critical undeveloped lands in seven counties.
Bonnie is a graduate of Harvard’s Executive Leadership program and a recent MBA graduate of Jacksonville University. Bonnie is a Leadership Jacksonville alumni and is in this year’s Regional Leadership Academy. Last year, she was chosen to be a participant in a year-long national Environmental Leadership program out of Washington, DC and recently completed that course.
In 2000, she was “Small Business Leader of the Year” for the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce. Bonnie serves as Secretary to Theatre Jacksonville Board and is an Advisor for Keiser University.
Our craft talk will be presented by Rotaract member Adrian Delaney.
The 2009 Black Tie and Blue Jeans Gala was held Saturday at the downtown library. A $21,000 check was presented to Developmental Learning Center Nurse & Learn.
Don’t forget our membership meeting is this Thursday at the Haskell Building on Riverside Avenue. Our guest speaker will be Tax Collector Mike Hogan.
View photos from the 2009 Black Tie and Blue Jeans Gala
Jerry Spinks will be speaking at our membership meeting on Thursday, March 12. Mr. Spinks is currently the president of the Jacksonville Historic Society and has been involved with the Merrill House Restoration Committee, moving and restoring the St. Nicholas train station and moving and restoring the Gray’s Hotel at New Berlin.
Mr. Spinks is also actively involved with the Jacksonville Maritime Museum Society, Jacksonville council of the Navy League, Riverside Avondale Preservation, Riverside Fine Arts association and the West Jacksonville Rotary Club.
In addition to Mr. Spink’s many current services he has previously served on the Jacksonville Downtown Historic Preservation taskforce, the Jacksonville HIstoric Preservation Commission and the Ribault Clubhouse Restoration taskforce.
At our membership meeting Thursday evening (2/26) we distributed tickets for members to sell. If you didn’t get your tickets or need more to sell please let Kevin Basarab know sending him an e-mail to kbasarab@gmail.com. You can pick up tickets and/or flyers at The Florida Times-Union building at One Riverside Avenue during workdays or arrange to meet somewhere else around town. Send an e-mail and get your tickets.
If you do not have tickets yet you can still sell. Tickets are available here at jaxrotaract.org and can be charged via Credit Card.
At our membership meeting tonight (Thursday, 2/26) we will be distributing Gala tickets for members to sell to Rotary Clubs and individuals. During the meeting our guest speaker will be Lucretia Miller – Duval County Public Schools Teacher of the Year 2008. Stick around after and attend dinner at Five Guys Burgers in Five Points and help raise money for our Black Tie, Blue Jeans Gala. Mention DLC or Rotaract at Five Guys anytime between 4-10 and Five Guys will contribute money towards the Gala and DLC.
We look forward to seeing you at the membership meeting and dinner at Five Guys afterwards. For more information e-mail info@jaxrotaract.org.
Our next membership meeting on Thursday, February 26 will feature Lucretia Miller – Duval County Public Schools Teacher of the Year 2008. She has been an educator for eight years in Duval County, and is the Media Specialist at Chaffee Trail Elementary School.
Her expertise are incorporating technology into lessons by developing electronic resources for use in the classroom. She has thoroughly enriched her students educational experience by designing a library website with links and information, of which she has received awards for her world-wide recognition of the website.
In her words:
“To be the heart and hub of the school, the school community and stakeholders must view the school media center as vital – where there are an abundance of current, quality resources to teach each of the standards, interesting literature for students to escape into, a welcoming environment in which to think, absorb and learn and a qualified school library media specialist to tie it all together and be the catalyst for higher-level thinking and increased student achievement. I am proud to say that this reflects the school library at Chaffee Trail” (Miller 1)
We have our membership meeting tonight (Thursday, 2/12) at the Haskell Building downtown at 6 p.m. As always anyone is welcome to attend. Our speaker for the night will be Chrissy Congro,talking about our upcoming Black Tie, Blue Jeans Gala.
We will be attending the JU-UNF game at the Veterans Memorial Arena after the meeting in place of dinner. Admission is $5 per person. We hope to see you there. See below for complete agenda.
Craft Talk – Blythe Duckworth
Officer and Committee Chairperson Reports
Community Service
February – Silent Auction Item collection
Club Service
JU vs. UNF basketball game (Tickets are $5)
Beaches Rotaract Valentine’s Day Singles Mixer
Five Guys Burgers charity night for DLC
Disco Roller Skating Party
Treasurer Update
Guest Speaker – Chrissy Congro, Gala Chair
Good and Welfare
Adjournment
Motto: “Service above self. He profits most, who serves best.”
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Welcome to the new jaxrotaract.org. Our new site features all the things you’ve come to expect from the Rotaract Club of Florida’s First Coast’s web site but in a cleaner style that should be easier for you to read and easier for us to update.
Some of the newest features of the site is our new calendar functionality that uses Google Calendar. You can subscribe to the calendar in your Google accounts and then sync it to your Outlook or other popular calendaring programs (iCal format | XML | HTML).
In addition we have harnessed the power of Flickr to host our photos. This will allow you to easily browse through our photos from our various events and become our contact on Flickr. You could also join the Jacksonville Rotaract group and upload photos from our events.
For prospective members the application has been updated so that you can now type your application directly in the PDF file and either e-mail it to us directly or print and bring with you to one of our meetings. Speaking of meetings they take place the second and fourth Thursday of each month at the Haskell Building downtown. (map)
We hope you enjoy our new site and look forward to hearing your comments and seeing you at our meetings. Send us your feedback in the contact form, leave a comment below or join us for our next meeting.
