November 21st, 6pm Crystal Gardens 16703 Fort Street
Event tickets are $75 USD per person. Or you can buy a table of 8 for you and fellow members and friends for $700 USD. With the additional one hundred dollars this special table of 8 is considered a sponsor table. Click here to buy tickets
Our Keynote Speaker for the event
David LaMotte
David LaMotte is a songwriter, speaker and author. In 2004, David and his wife Deanna founded PEG Partners, a non-profit organization that supports mentoring, education, and artistic expression in Guatemala. He is also a consultant on Peace and Justice for the North Carolina Council of Churches, and served as Clerk the AFSC Nobel Peace Prize Nominating Task Group. As a result of his work with schools in Guatemala, he was named a “Madison World Changer” by his undergraduate alma mater, James Madison University, and was awarded an E-chievement Award by the syndicated radio show E-town. He is also the creator of Let’s Be Neighbors, a banner campaign based on a sign he hung on his house, and rooted in the idea that we seldom reject each other into making more compassionate decisions. Let’s Be Neighbors banners and signs are now hanging on homes, businesses and faith communities across the United States, including a large one on Abraham Lincoln’s church in Springfield, Illinois. LaMotte suspended his music career for two years, beginning in 2008, to pursue his other primary vocation by accepting a Rotary World Peace Fellowship to study International Relations, Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. As part of that study, he also spent time in rural Andhra Pradesh, India working with a Gandhian development organization.
District 6400 – Building The Rotary Foundation’s Future
More than one hundred years ago, Rotarians took bold action to ensure the success and empowerment of generations of Rotarians still to come — they established The Rotary Foundation to secure a better future. The Rotary Foundation created the Endowment in 1982 to give future generations of Rotarians the additional resources they need to design and implement sustainable projects year after year. While a gift to the Annual Fund helps people live better lives today, gifts to Rotary’s Endowment support the same life-changing programs forever.
District Governor Nick Krayacich and Rotary Foundation Trustee Jennifer encourage District 6400 Rotarians in helping to build the future of our Foundation and asking you to consider a gift that will help to create lasting change in our world.
Today, we work to achieve the ambitious goal of OUR Rotary Foundation’s endowment reaching 2.025 billion by June 30, 2025. In doing so, we will extend our impact far into the future, ensuring Rotarians can continue to promote peace, fight disease, save mothers and children, provide clean water, support education, grow local economies and protect the environment. The generosity of D6400 Rotarians can bring us to our goal.
We are currently seeking dedicated donors to make a new $10,000 bequest commitment – or – increase their bequest by $10,000 or more to The Rotary Foundation to reach a comprehensive $1 Million goal (Polio Plus, Annual Fund and Endowment gifts). While this effort highlights the impact of giving to the endowment, any gift designation will count toward our goal. Please take a look at this inspiring Video. Your legacy is Rotary’s promise. We personally invite you to consider being one of these donors by making a transformative gift to The Rotary Foundation so we can celebrate you and ALL generous donors to TRF at our Legacy Dinner on November 21, 2024.
By joining this special group of donors, your gift will help build a permanent source of support for Rotary’s programs and projects, allowing current and future Rotarians to address the most pressing needs of their time. You can also create a Named Endowed Fund with a gift or commitment of $25,000 or more, which allows you to direct your support to a specific area of focus or program of your choice. For example, a $25,000 gift can generate $1,000 in annual earnings that will continue the level of support that has been important to you during your lifetime, forever.
Legacy gifts brochure……Click here
Below are two links to this message, where you will find two sample codicil’s that can be used (1 US and 1 Canadian). However, we do recommend consulting your own legal counsel.
