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Today’s meeting:
Miranda Phillips and Nancy Jacobson, Co-leaders of Citizens' Climate Lobby, Finger Lakes Chapter
“A National Climate Policy with Bipartisan Local Support”
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Newsletter Reporter: Loralyn Light | Photos: Mike Brown | Editor: Ted Schiele Last Wednesday around 3:30 in the afternoon, I was on a call with a colleague when my wife Chris came running in with a determined look on her face and blurted out, have I seen what is going on in Washington? I had seen a headline flash on my phone, something about Mike Pence being rushed out, but it was quickly pushed aside by the fast moving Covid vaccine information I was trying to sort through. My colleague and I paused our meeting to look at the videos that had overtaken our phones. We were horrified. I will not take time here to sort through the emotions I have been sorting through in the days since, other than to acknowledge that we are all struggling in our own way with the events of 1/6/21, which are now the backdrop to this accounting of our meeting just a couple of hours earlier. It was the sixth day of January, and while you may have been expecting 12 Drummers Drumming, instead we were treated to Heidi’s bell a-ringing, and President Geoff Dunn in a pear tree — along with 64 Rotarians and friends at our first meeting of twenty twenty-one! Rotary traditions have no problem crossing the Gregorian line into the new year, and so it was with President Geoff’s successful Zoomification of the Four-Way Test, for which he chooses a different quartet each week. Last week it was Loralyn Light, Gertrude Noden, Teri Tarshus, and Heidi Goldstein.  Harlin McEwen began his Thought for The Day by wishing everyone a Happy New Year, and expressing his wish that during the year we will see an end to the coronavirus pandemic, leading to a much more pleasant year than the one that just ended. Harlin then focused his remarks on the County-City collaboration for “Reimagining Public Safety.” Harlin urged everyone to engage in the process, which has been a series of Zoom forums that took place during the latter part of last year. You can watch archived recordings of the forums and town halls on the Tompkins County YouTube channel. Click here for the full playlist. Click here for the Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative web page on the Tompkins County site.
President Geoff introduced guest Karl Graham, Chief of Community Development at Alternatives Federal Credit Union. Geoff noted that he and Karl have known each other for many years, and joked about the graying of “whatever it is under our chins!” Karl spoke later in the meeting about the AFCU program that is one of the beneficiaries of the 2021 Dozen Dinner Draw.  We also welcomed visiting Rotarians Kathryn Mapes from the Lansing Ithaca Club and Cindy Kain, District Governor Nominee Designate (District 7170) and member of the Owego Club. Geoff gave a special welcome to our still-relatively-new members Stamie Despo and Chris Cain, and to our treasure, Beverly Baker, who is continuing her recovery from back surgery. “Happy New Year to you all. Thank you so much for all that everyone has done for me,” Beverly replied. “You are a blessing!”
The first meeting of the month took Joanne Lamoureux by surprise such that she only had time to pull together the list of January birthdays. Jack Roscoe sang Happy Birthday. January Club anniversaries will be announced at today’s meeting.
President Geoff drew our attention to two events listed in January’s District Newsletter. On January 18th at 7:00 p.m., a multi-district discussion will explore diversity, equity, and inclusion through the experiences of six panelists. They will share how their identity has impacted their lived experience in America and in Rotary. Register for this event at: http://bit.ly/MembershipDEI. The second event is January 27th, 7-9 p.m. Past Rotary International Trustee Carolyn Jones will present her talk titled “Racism, Social Justice, and Rotary,” followed by Q&A.  In her Dozen Dinner Draw (DDD) update last week, lead coordinator Juliet Gibbs reported that 95 of the 300 ticket max had been sold. A couple of days later, in her Jan. 8 email to membership she noted that we had reached 33% of our goal. We have one month left before the books are closed on this important fundraiser, so please buy your ticket(s) for yourself, for someone special, or for a whole team of special someones! “Tickets are the perfect gift for the heroes in our lives and our community,” Juliet suggested in her email (an awesome idea!)
You can read all about the raffle and request tickets at rotarydozendinnerdraw.org or by emailing Rotarian Ray Brisson at brisson.ray@gmail.com. A promotional video about the fundraiser is available here.  One of the designated recipients of DDD funds is the Alternatives Impact AFCU Small Business COVID-19 Relief Fund. ACFU Chief of Community Development Karl Graham spoke for a few minutes about the program, which mostly supports micro businesses, women, and people of color with funding and skills to become better businesspeople. Contact Karl for more information at kgraham@alternatives.org.
 June Losurdo kicked off her 6-month term as the Happy Dollar maestro by introducing her official MacKenzie-Childs collection vessel. Its inaugural run was a great success in drawing in a good number of Happy Dollars.
 January program chair Marshall McCormick introduced Valentina Roldan, Senior Advisor for JumpScale. Valentina is a social entrepreneur, visual and movement artist, and a transpersonal coach. After earning a degree in Managerial Economics from Bentley University, she returned home to Ecuador to support her family’s flower farm business, Roses & Roses, as CEO. Valentina now lives in Homer with her husband and child.
 JumpScale is a New York company that was formed about 2 years ago. The company specifically recognizes that entrepreneurs and investors sacrifice themselves for their cause. Valentina described them as “impact martyrs.”
A lack of holistic wellness in organizations leads to stress, burnout, financial burden, and even failure. JumpScale has a cure: investment in holistic wellness. It pays off, with up to 5x return on investment for each dollar spent on organizational wellness, according to Valentina. The company looks at 5 different zones to boost portfolio wellbeing: individual, team, organization, partnership, and ecosystem. JumpScale’s research has identified 50+ protective factors for wellbeing that can transform investing, philanthropy, and leadership. The company’s evaluation detects early warning signs of issues that reduce organizational effectiveness and increase risk, then they coordinate practitioners to treat the challenges that will lead to the highest return. JumpScale provides continuous monitoring and evaluation to track increases in impact and risk reduction over time. Valentina said the most important or the first to address are equity and inclusion, and communication of mission from the top to everyone in the organization. This is paramount, she said, it really affects trust level.
Visiting Rotarians: Kathryn Mapes from the Lansing Ithaca Club and Cindy Kain, District Governor Nominee Designate (District 7170) and member of the Owego Club.
Workers:
• Thought for the Day, Harlin McEwen
• Introductions, Rotary hosts introduced their guests
Zoom Manager: Angela Sullivan
Bulletin Reporter: Loralyn Light
Photographer: Mike Brown
Bulletin Editor: Ted Schiele
Club Service Facilitators, Beverly Baker & June Losurdo
Sunshine Chair, Kellyann O’Mara
January 13, 2021
Miranda Phillips and Nancy Jacobson, Co-leaders of Citizens' Climate Lobby, Finger Lakes Chapter “A National Climate Policy with Bipartisan Local Support”
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