Last week Search Committee Chair Kent Templien announced our new Executive Director Yolanda Hoffman. Yolanda has 30 years of Rotary experience having organized and served as Rotaract President in District 3860 in the Philippines.  She is currently a member of Suburban Rotary where she has served on the Board of Directors and Chairs the Public Relations Committee.

She is actively involved in District 5650 as Chair of Rotaract and Interact Committees and has served as Health and Hunger Chair.    She has also served on the District Governor selection committee.  

 

Yolanda has extensive administration, business analytics,  and project management experience in her working career.  Yolanda is married to Phil Hoffman and they have three children. Yolanda will be training with Jennifer this month, please make her feel welcome when you see her on Friday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to the Raffle winners and thank you to all our fabulous sponsors and donors for this year's fundraiser.

 

We are now offering 10 punch lunch tickets ($160) and 10 punch meeting-only tickets ($70) for sale at the meetings. Get one and don't worry about having cash or getting out your credit card! For sale at check-in. 

We are looking for more Cashiers to serve on a regular basis. Please contact Anne Fuhrman at (402) 681-8237, if you are interested to help.

An ipad or ipad mini is needed for use by the club for running credit cards.  If you have an old one that you can donate or would like to purchase one for the club, please contact Jennifer.  

at Champions at 11:30-mark your calendar! 

The Rotary Foundation provides matching grants every year for a service project.  For the 2017 - 2018 year, 26 projects were approved for funding.  These include $554 to the Ashland Rotary club, to purchase and install seating / picnic table near the electric car charging station by the City Park.  Also approved are $1,500 for the Beatrice Rotary club to provide materials and assist in building an outdoor classroom for the Beatrice Community Preschool, and $1,500 for the Bellevue Papillion Rotary to support the Magdalene House for women experiencing violence, prostitution and addiction, to maintain the house and purchase items for the residents.  A full list of projects that received grants in our Rotary district (Eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa) can be found here.

 

If you have idea for a project that the Omaha West Rotary club can support, please contact us!  Project proposals need to be developed in the fall and early winter, then go through an approval process in the spring.  Funding is finalized in late May for the upcoming year.