Like every year, let us celebrate our year by attending our annual District Conference from April 22 to 24, 2022.  We will kick off the District Conference with lunch on Friday, April 22, 2022, at the Blackhawk Museum in Danville, California.  After lunch, we will welcome our District’s Paul Harris Society members, Major Donors, and Triple Crown honorees for a Special VIP Reception at the Museum.  After lunch, the Conference will transfer to the San Ramon Marriott Hotel nearby where we will open our House of Friendship.  You are free to stop by and see booths with club and district projects and purchase Rotary merchandise at the vendor booths.

 

On Friday evening, we will have a collaborative fundraising effort between our District, the Wheelchair Foundation, and the Ana and Vlade Divac Humanitarian Organization to raise funds to support the establishment of the Mohanji Peace Center in Serbia and to ship one container of 280 wheelchairs there.  “A Pathway to Peace” fundraiser will offer a VIP reception, live and silent auctions featuring National Basketball Association (NBA) Hall of Famer in Vlade Divac, former Los Angeles and Sacramento Kings star with other NBA Celebrities.

 

We will rise to breakfast Saturday morning, April 23, 2022, hearing from our local primary news anchor at NBC-owned KNTV in the San Francisco Bay Area in Raj Mathai, who is an honorary Rotarian with the Rotary Club of Los Altos.  A twelve-time Emmy award winner and our country’s first Indian sportscaster, he will entertain us with his past interviews with high-profile newsmakers.  We will be inspired by our own District Rotarian Rick King and our Rotarian friend from Taipei, Taiwan, Gary C. K. Huang with their Rotary Stories when they led our organization when they were Rotary International President.  In the evening, we will have dinner honoring the current Club Presidents and past Club Presidents in our District.  We will be entertained by the Interactors who will display their talent and compete for prizes. 

 

We will open our conference on Sunday morning, April 24, 2022, when we pay tribute to our District Rotarians who have left us this Rotary year.  We will close the conference with live in-person Richard D. King Speech Contest contestants vying for awards and first, second, and third place prizes. 

 

Hello District 5170 Rotarians:  

 

I would like to introduce a new Membership Incentive Award for the Clubs called Attract & Inspire Membership – Award (AIM Award). The goal of this Award is to incentivize clubs for coming up with a list of “Qualified” Prospective members that might possibly be inducted into a Rotary Club.   

 

Please work with your Area Membership Coordinators to help complete the Application form. You can find the contact information for your Area Membership Coordinators HERE    

 

The Public Image team’s Co-op Pilot PI Program has been well received, reviewed and the committee has accepted 13 Club grant applications!

 

The energy and response have been tremendous. Each clubs’ goal is to increase MEMBERSHIP with the support of public image tactics by reaching the public and raise visibility. 

 

The 2021 District 5170 Marketing Co-op Grant Program is designed to help these Clubs project the best Public Image possible to attract new members and improve local

community awareness.

 

"What is Vocational Avenue of Service?" I've often said this and heard this from members and non-members. This year, the committee is creating resources for committee chairs and their teams to better understand what opportunities there are and how to make change happen. By redesigning and populating the District Vocational webpage with resources, it is our goal to give structure and inspire our membership. In addition,