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Elmbrook (Brookfield)
We Rise & Shine
We meet Fridays at 7:00 AM
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1800 Highland Drive
Elm Grove, WI  53122
United States
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Upcoming Events
Elmbrook Rotary Straightshooters (Handgun)
Fletcher Arms
Oct 17, 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
 
ERC & Foundation BoD Meeting
Brookfield Library
Nov 20, 2019
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
 
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Speakers
Oct 18, 2019
ElmBrook Rotary's Peace Initative
Oct 25, 2019 7:00 AM
3rd ERC Businessperson of the Year Award
Nov 01, 2019 7:00 AM
Storytelling - Its not just for kids
Nov 08, 2019 7:00 AM
El Aguacate School project in Guatemala
Nov 15, 2019 7:00 AM
MLG Capital Visit (former location of Brennan's Cheese, Etc.)
Nov 22, 2019 7:00 AM
Type II Diabetes and You
Nov 29, 2019
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Dec 13, 2019 7:00 AM
Exploring Your Giving Options
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Rotary announces US$100 million to eradicate polioEVANSTON, Ill. (June 10, 2019) — Rotary is giving US$100 million in grants to support the global effort to end polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that once paralyzed

 

6 humanitarians honored for their work with refugeesSix humanitarians who are members of the family of Rotary are being honored as People of Action: Connectors Beyond Borders during the 2019 

 

We’re doing so much more than eradicating polio.

 

Rotary Foundation receives highest rating from Charity Navigator for 12th consecutive

 

Nigeria reaches crucial polio

 
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World Polio Day
World Polio Day is celebrated on October 24. World Polio Day was established by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. Use of this inactivated poliovirus vaccine and subsequent widespread use of the oral poliovirus vaccine, developed by Albert Sabin, led to the establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
 
 
 
Polio is a disease caused by a virus that affects the nervous system and is mainly spread by person-to-person contact. Polio can also be spread by drinking water or other drinks or eating raw or undercooked food that are contaminated with the feces of an infected person.
 

In 1988, the Forty-first World Health Assembly adopted a resolution for the worldwide eradication of polio. It marked the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), spearheaded by national governments, WHO, Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), UNICEF, and later joined by additional key partners including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. This followed the certification of the eradication of smallpox in 1980, progress during the 1980s towards elimination of the poliovirus in the Americas, and Rotary International’s commitment to raise funds to protect all children from the disease.

Overall, since the GPEI was launched, the number of cases has fallen by over 99%. More than 18 million people are able to walk today, who would otherwise have been paralyzed. An estimated 1.5 million childhood deaths have been prevented through the systematic administration of vitamin A during polio immunization activities.

Currently there remain only two countries with endemic polio, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
 
Mark your calendar to tune in for Rotary International’s World Polio Day Online Global Update on Thursday, October 24, streamed on Facebook in multiple time zones and languages around the world. This year’s program will highlight the heroes of polio eradication, with stories from polio-endemic and recently impacted areas. Tune in at:  https://endpol.io/wpdev
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LAUNCH Needs Our Help
The LAUNCH program at Elmbrook schools is still in need of mentors with business experience to assist students with their LAUNCH projects! Over 400 students and only 35 mentors to this point. LAUNCH is hoping to reach 70 mentors.
 
Please consider spending one hour, or one hour a week, for as many weeks as you feel comfortable with, helping the Students at LAUNCH as they develop their LAUNCH projects.
 
Click "Read more . . . " to discover the needs.
 
The basic responsibility is to attend a session and spend time with a team of 3 to 5 LAUNCH students who are developing a response to a problem posed to them by an area business. Once you hear their description of the problem and their thoughts on solving it, you can make observations based on your business experience or provide direction on resources they might find helpful.
 
If you or your spouse or even a friend or neighbor have interest in assisting in this venture, please click on the link below to activate a "LAUNCH ENGAGEMENT FORM" The various business strands in the program are described and what areas of expertise the program are desired. It takes less than five minutes to review and complete the form. After completing, just click "SUBMIT." Within a week someone from LAUNCH will be in touch with you and advise on the next steps, locations, etc.
 
 
The business strands that LAUNCH now has are Manufacturing, Teaching, Engineering, Analytics, Hospitality, IT, Healthcare, and Media. Anyone who has experience in these fields can provide wonderful insights to these high school juniors and seniors about these fields. Once again, one hour or one hour a week can make a big difference.
 
LAUNCH sends out an updated quarterly newsletter describing the program, the business partners, and programs they have developed. If you care to receive this newsletter, please contact Dan Roads at danroads21@gmail.com. He will send you the most current newsletter and add you to the mailing list for future mailings. For privacy purposes, no one's name or email address will be provided to LAUNCH without your permission.
 
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ERC Visits Froedtert Simulation Center
On Friday morning, October 11, Elmbrook Rotary conducted an off-site meeting in the Simulation Center at Froedtert & The Medical Center of Wisconsin.  Dr. Jon Gould, Chief, Division of General Surgery, and other staff members provided an overview and tour of the two-year-old Simulation Center.
 
 

 

 

The Simulation Center at Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin provides an environment for team-based, hands-on training for faculty and staff to work closely with each other as one cohesive care team. This 10,200-SF unit is designed to foster collaboration and excellence using innovative training methods and teaching tools to increase safety, and ultimately, deliver better care to the community.

The center consists of a large skills lab and four simulation settings that mimic typical healthcare environments such as a patient room, operating room, ICU patient room and trauma bay. In these settings, a variety of simulated hospital cases can take place, including birth simulation, surgeries, trauma, emergency medical procedures, and general care.

Simulation-based training accelerates the learning of critical processes, thinking skills, communication, and teamwork in a safe learning environment. The overall design reinforces Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin’s brand, which is medical excellence delivered in a sophisticated yet accessible environment that inspires staff to perform at their highest and deliver exceptional patient outcomes.

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October Birthdays & Anniversaries
 
 
Please join the Elmbrook Rotary Club in celebrating our esteemed member Birthdays and Anniversaries in October.
 
 
“October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.” — Hal Borland
 
Happy Birthday! Wishing a wonderful year of good health, happiness, and success to our members:
 
 
  • Gary Gilmore
  • Mike Groth
  • Paul Langer
  • Gordy Miller
  • Moeser, Erik
  • Noaman Sharief
  • Don Waterman
 
ERC also recognizes the following membership anniversaries:
 
 
  • Mike Groth, 1 year
  • Anita Steindorf, 3 years
  • Tom Curl, 13 years
  • Gordy Miller, 15 years
  • Alice Lambie, 26 years
  • John Allen, 36 years
  • Mark Bruce, 36 years
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October is Economic and Community Development Month
This month also includes the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on the 17th and World Polio Day on the 24th of October.
 
Rotary supports investments in people to create measurable and enduring economic improvement in their lives and communities.
 
The Rotary Foundation enables Rotarians to invest in people by creating sustainable, measurable, and long term economic improvements in their communities and livelihoods by:
  • Building the capacity of entrepreneurs, community leaders, local organizations, and community networks to support economic development in impoverished communities;
  • Developing opportunities for productive work;
  • Reducing poverty in under-served areas; and
  • Supporting studies for career-minded professionals related to economic and community development.
Elmbrook Rotarians Travel to Guatemala in November
Mark and Evonne Zalewski, together with Larry Winkelhake and his wife Jean Guzetta, will represent Elmbrook Rotary Club in Antigua, Guatemala, at the high school graduation of their sponsored students (Monica Rivera & Carlos de Leon, respectively). They will also visit our own club student (Sergio Cuc), who is finishing 11th grade.
 
         
 
 
 
This graduation trip encompasses five days of learning about Common Hope’s programs, diving deeper into Guatemalan culture, and of course attending the graduation ceremony to see their sponsored students receive their diplomas.
 
Mark and Evonne began sponsoring Monica Esquivel Rivera six plus years ago as an outgrowth of their first Vision Team experience in 2013. Having visited her several times, they have steadily tracked her progress and are very proud of her. She will graduate into the field of teaching and hopes to be a doctor someday.
 
Larry and Jean attended the graduation of our club student, Juan Pablo Martinez Ramirez, in 2018. During that week met Carlos de Leon, who is majoring in Accountancy and IT.  They became his sponsor and will see him graduate, as well as spend time with his family, during the visit.
 
ERC’s club student this year, Sergio Cuc, is finishing 11th grade and will graduate in November 2020 in the field of automobile mechanics.
 
Anyone interested in representing Elmbrook Rotarians at that event should contact Erik Moeser. We have had representation from the club every year since 2014. It is a display of amazing volunteerism in action and is so very meaningful to the graduates as they begin an adult life that is quite different from those who do not have the advantages of an affiliation with Common Hope.
 
The graduation trips, Vision Teams, and club student sponsorships are a project of the ERC International Committee in the broad field of literacy, helping Common Hope create environments to allow school attendance rather than the more common practice of field labor (that occurs from sometimes an alarmingly early age). The results, per a University of Chicago study, are palpable and measurable.
 
Just a reminder: Anyone can sponsor or “half sponsor” a Guatemalan student through Common Hope.
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Online ERC & ERF Payments/Donations
It is now possible for members of Elmbrook Rotary Club (ERC) to make online payments and donations both to ERC and to the Elmbrook Rotary Foundation (ERF).
 
Two separate commercial merchant accounts have been activated which intend to keep transactions separated between ERC and ERF.
 
To make payments to ERC, simply follow the link provided in one's individual club account (and quarterly statements). A surcharge of 5% is billed to one's club account when utilizing a credit card or debit card.
 
To make donations or payments to ERF, simply click the "Donate" or "Donate Now" button that can be found on multiple pages on the ERC web site. Or, one can click the URL link that will be provided in ERF invoices to club members. Please ensure that donations or payments intended for the ERF account are not made to the ERC account. The opposite is also true. And, please remember that not all payments to the Foundation [a 501(c)(3) entity] are tax-deductible. IRS rules and policies must be followed.
 
 
Finally, one can always use the old-fashioned (and least expensive) way of payment/donation with an individual check or bank check via "Bill Pay" at one's bank.
ERC on Twitter
Did you know that Elmbrook Rotary Club has a Twitter account? It's true! Become a "Follower" (@ElmbrookRotary).
 
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What Is Elmbrook Rotary Club?
What is Elmbrook Rotary Club? What do we do? Who are we?
 
 
 
Watch our promotion video to learn about us. If accessing via our weekly eBulletin, click here to watch.
RI Presidential Theme for 2019-2020
A new Rotary year began on July 1. The Rotary International Presidential Theme for 2019-2020 is "Rotary Connects the World."
 
 
Mark Daniel Maloney (Rotary Club of Decatur, Alabama, USA) is RI President for 2019-2020 and believes that connection is at the heart of the Rotary experience. “(Rotary) allows us to connect with each other, in deep and meaningful ways, across our differences,” Maloney says. “It connects us to people we would never otherwise have met, who are more like us than we ever could have known. It connects us to our communities, to professional opportunities, and to the people who need our help.”
 
Rotarians in RI District 3350 (Thailand) have produced an interesting song & video that connects the 2019-2020 Presidential Theme with the work and impact of Rotary worldwide. Click here or on the image below to view and hear the production. It is only 3 min. 29 sec. in length.
 
At ELMBROOK ROTARY - We Rise & Shine!
 
When we say "WE RISE & SHINE” to others, it means:
  • WE RISE to meet early every Friday.
  • WE RISE to the occasion by helping those in need.
  • WE RISE to make a difference in our community and the world.
     
  • WE SHINE by living the Rotary 4-way Test.
  • WE SHINE by staying positive and encouraging others.
  • WE SHINE by lighting the way for service above self in Brookfield, Elm Grove, and beyond.
The tagline appears on our Coffee Mugs, on our Web site, on club emails, and on other communications going out. Try using the tagline the next time you’re talking to someone about Elmbrook Rotary or Rotary in general. In fact, consider purchasing an Elmbrook Rotary Coffee Mug for $7.
What Is Rotary?
How do others perceive Rotary and what we do?
 
Enjoy this humorous video about what Rotary really is. Click me to view!
 
Filmed in 2017 in the Fargo-Moorhead area (North Dakota Minnesota border region), where there are five Rotary Clubs. Video was supported by Rotary District 5580.