What recommendations do you have for working with Rotary and other service clubs?
Brett Cease
3862 Posts
In Rotary & Service Club training, action team lead Karen Kendrick-Hands shares some key takeaways about working with service organizations.

What advice do you have for other CCL leaders working with Rotary and other service organizations?
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James Tolbert
293 Posts
Respect the Rotary boundaries - the club will not consider endorsing our policy - don't ask them.
Instead, speak with respect about what they are doing, and share what you are doing. And ask for people in the audience to connect with you if they are willing to help.
Also, consider highlighting two individuals in the intro for your talk:
1. Marshall Saunders who founded CCL is a Rotarian.
2. Barry Rassin, President of the Rotary International for 2018-2019 has spoken out on climate change like in THIS page. He is from the Bahamas and has said, “my country is going to be gone in 50 years, along with most of the islands in the Caribbean and coastal cities and low-lying areas all over the world.”
We have made four Rotary Presentations. Our CCL Chapter likes to have several people make this presentation, and we have lots of good slides, pictures and handouts. This increases the interest, understanding and audience participation.

Our presentation consists of 4 parts:
  1. Who is CCL - 4 minutes
  2. Some Science (What are all these scientists so upset about?) - 4 minutes
  3. The business friendly Carbon Fee & Dividend - 4 minutes
  4. Q & A - 10 minutes
Timing - These groups are usually tightly scheduled lunch or breakfast meetings. If we have been brief during 1, 2 & 3, then comes the best part, Q&A. If we can leave about 10 minutes for Q&A, we go into details based on the questions.  Yes, we would like to have more time, but we go with what we get.
Ray Trono
5 Posts
Use the Rotary's 4 way test and relate each point to an aspect of Carbon Fee and Dividend and our Energy Innovation and Carbon Fee legislation.
It is also a good idea to get there 30 minutes early to talk with the Rotarians before the program happens, connections do often occur.
Bring some small bills, the Rotary meetings have a part when people put some money in the hat and tell what they are thankful for or there is a raffle to support one of the chapters causes.
Have a time line and stick to it.
Our favorite part of the entire presentation is the q and a.  Use the powerpoint/presentation to skim the surface of the issues, but wait till the end to tie it together during the questions and answers.
If you want them to fill out constituent letters tell them at the beginning of the presentation and have the forms on the table.  If you wait till the end, few will write them bc they are in hurry to leave.
Good Luck!!
Ray
Susan Adams
112 Posts
These are great tips, thanks for sharing!

Here's a brilliant way of talking about climate change to the Rotary from Katharine Hayhoe (start at minute 44): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lzWpMfYIuM).

And also the Community also has some great resources for Rotary and Service Organization Outreach.

If anyone else has any thoughts, please share!
T Todd Elvins
3006 Posts
(cross posting)

As you may know by now, the April 2019 issue of the Rotary Club magazine features climate change on the cover. It includes articles about why climate change is a Rotary Club effort and about CCL's work on climate change. This is a good time for CCL Conservatives to reach out to Rotary Clubs in your area. RCs are not political, but might like to hear about CCL's work. You can order copies of the magazine to display at Farmers Markets and other events, for just $1/copy plus postage. I ordered 20 copies for just $37.95 incl postage. If interested contact Mandy Saittis at 847.866.3341 or Mandy.Saittis@rotary.org
We just spoke at our local Rotary club and brought a CCL sign-up sheet and print-outs of the one-pager about the bill. (https://static.smallworldlabs.com/cclobby/content/resources/factsheet/energy-innovation-act-fact-sheet-color.pdf) One of the club members mentioned that we should have put copies of the bill info on each table. I don't know whether every club would allow you to do that but it may be worth asking your sponsor if you could put info about your talk on each table. 
I have a presentation upcoming to a local Rotary Club here in Maryland and am wondering if it's possible to get a copy of your slide deck?

Cliff Strawitch
Ellicott City, Maryland
David Cain
537 Posts
Hi Cliff,

Here are some Rotary presentations and related sources that might be helpful.  I've selected them from the broad inventory of presentation examples and resources that you can access from the Presenters & Schedulers web page on Community. The first three links are to the master copies.  You can access and modify these decks by downloading them onto your computer.  Do this by opening the file and selecting 'FILE' from the menu bar at upper left.  From the menu pick 'Download As . . ' and select PowerPoint from the list.  This will start the download onto your computer.  Look for the downloaded file in your 'Downloads' folder.  From there you can modify and customize to your heart's content. . . . You can also consult a pdf file in folder that shows how to do this.
Alternatively, you can go to ‘FILE’ and select Make a Copy to download the entire decks, or just selected slides onto your Google drive.  From there you can use Google Slides application to customize and build out your deck.

Hope this helps.

-- Dave Cain
Dave,

Thanks very much and these will be very helpful.

Cliff Strawitch
CCL Howard County, Maryland

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