1. Successful Service Project Strategies
Presenter needs to enter their name and club - Welcome to Successful Service Project Strategies.  I hope you share our excitement about doing service projects, and how you can make the world a little bit better.  As we go through the presentation we will give you an opportunity and to hear from you about some of your ideas.
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2. Want to do a project?
You can make a difference...

3. Benefits are right up front
Builds goodwill
Provides service
Fulfillment
Fun & friendships
Involvement
Recognition for your clubs
The Wrap

4. It Starts with an Idea: Local Projects
Food kitchens
Reading centers
Restore playgrounds
Remodel spaces
Ask the audience for some of their ideas – eg, debris removal, install smoke alarms and safety items, scholarships, Take notes of novel ideas. Probably have time for 3 -4 people to share some ideas.  Depends on if they are long-winded.

5. Picture dictionaries provided to third graders
Local - Example
Picture dictionaries provided to third graders
Examples of local projects

6. Local - Example
Examples of local projects

7. It Starts with an Idea: International Projects
Medical clinic in Haiti
Schools and community
center Chacala, Mexico
Guatemala – Hospital de la Familia
Water and sanitation Los Puentes, Honduras
Projects come in all sizes and shapes. They can be small, local one- time events, or local on-going long term projects, or life changing, eye- opening international projects. nternational ideas. Haiti - in a minute you will see their video on the project from Fairfield-Suisun where they served 300 patients in 4 days. Berkeley club has gone back to same region in Mexico, building schools, computer labs and community centers across 12 years.  5 projects.  Planning stages for the next one in 2018.
Honduras project is scheduled for Spring 2018 as well.

8. International Projects
Photo of the Chapala Mexico schools

9. International - Example
Kenya Smiles
Three districts
Dental care and education
Backpacks to 5,000 children
Kenya Smiles

10. International - Example
High School rehab and community buildings
Berkeley, Paradise and LaPenita Mexico
26 Clubs, 5 Districts
Total $160,000
Global Grant
Hands-on
Details on the Mexico project,  Huge involvement both financially but also Rotarians from US, Mexico and Canada help with hands-on

11. What makes a good project?
Compelling need
Serves the broader community
Community participation and support
Sustainable – keeps on giving
Recognition
Compelling need means you’ll have fulfillment and feel rewarded for your efforts. Community participation brings in more support (money and supplies) and resources (people with skills you may not have). Recognition is in it for your club and Rotary as an important organization

12. Nuts and Bolts of Successful Project Strategies
Vision
Needs assessment
Action plan and budgeting
Grant support & partners
Sustainability
Engagement and participation
Outline of the presentation for today.
Vision - is the project in alignment with the vision of your club, to address poverty or medical care or youth and education?
We will go through some of the steps - assessment of needs, action plan etc.  Don’t forget to plan for sustainability (follow-up) and most important of all is the engagement and participation.  Don’t do this all by yourself - include others in all the steps.

13. Whose needs are we meeting anyway?
Needs assessment
Ask questions
Talk to recipients
Review the history
Fact checking – fake news?
There is an aspect of due diligence that needs to be done before money and effort are expended. Whose needs are we meeting anyway? Who’s needs are you addressing anyway? Due diligence that needs to be done before money and effort are expended.
Calling things fake news is all rage right now, but are you checking on the story?  Maybe it isn’t all that it seems.

14. Lessons Learned
Examples
$100,000 youth center renovation – but property leased NOT OWNED by city
Community College two-year scholarships for students in need (but alas, not prepared for college.)
Think of these as lessons learned. The first was discovered in the planning process and led to disappointment but did not have significant financial impact. The second example will lead to better community college programs in the future. Think of these as lessons learned.  

15. Develop the Action Plan
Engage members
Budget
Time line
Assign roles and tasks
Find tools and supplies
Have fun!
Ask audience what they have done to engage members?  Remind them even things as simple as a project in two weeks on Saturday needs a timeline.  By when do people need to sign up?  Who will call the site to make sure the tools will be available?  Send out a reminder to the people who signed up with last minute details.  Will you need to bring your videographer or photographer to record the event?

16. Create a budget Find funding Partner with other Clubs or groups
Fundraising
Apply for Grants – District or Global
Depending on the scope of the project, it may not need a grant at all. However, grants are available so don’t ignore that possibility.

17. Involve business and community leaders
Find Partnerships
Involve business and community leaders
Coordinate with other organizations
Don’t forget Interact and Rotaract
Partners - can be other clubs, other non-projects, your city government, youth in your town

18. Details at Grants BIG PICTURE
content/uploads/ District Grant-Policy-2.pdf

19. How do you ensure a project is sustainable?
Question
How do you ensure a project is sustainable?
Build alliances with the community
Stay in touch
Don’t build and walk away!
Sustainability.  Very top line.  

20. Successful Strategies for Service Projects
And it has to be FUN!

21. Thank you!
Questions?