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Valley Verde - Teaching Eastside Residents How to Grow Vegetables
May 12, 2016
Valley Verde provides low-income families with gardening and nutrition classes and all the materials to start growing organic vegetables at their own homes at no cost. Valley Verde provides each family:
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Reading Partners
May 19, 2016
Taryn is the South Bay Volunteer Coordinator for Reading Partners, serving with the organization through Americorps. She works primarily at the organization's 8 school sites in East San Jose, but also recruits volunteer tutors and does community outreach across the Silicon Valley. She is an avid reader and is passionate about promoting literacy and volunteerism. Literacy is the foundation of all successful learning. Without reading, students do not have the skills they need to be successful in their academic careers, and their life options are limited. In this presentation, Taryn will give an overview of the literacy landscape in the Silicon Valley and introduce Reading Partners, a literacy invention nonprofit looking to unlock the potential of elementary students that struggle with reading. She will also explain the integral role that community volunteers play within the organization. |
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Santa Clara Valley Water District Postponed - Meeting will be Things Rotary
May 26, 2016
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Step Up Silicon Valley Community Action Poverty Simulation
Jun. 02, 2016
Bio: Angela Silveira is the program coordinator for Step Up Silicon Valley, Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County. A graduate from San Jose State University with a BA in Graphic Design and a Minor in Portuguese, she is an integral part of her Portuguese Community, volunteering her Graphic Design skills and promoting the importance of her heritage to the upcoming generations. Previously working in the technology sector, Angela valued her volunteer experience as something she wanted to move into a career – to become a part of something that can make a change. As the Program Coordinator for Step Up, she works with the community partners on Step Up’s quest to reduce poverty and increase economic opportunities for all. Step Up Silicon Valley is a social innovation network focused on reducing poverty in Santa Clara County through convening, advocating for policy changes, and incubating innovative solutions to help people move out of poverty. Community Action Poverty Simulation: Silicon Valley is one of the most affluent areas in the United States, yet poverty runs deeper than one may think. According to the Supplemental Poverty Measure, nearly 1 in 5 in Santa Clara County cannot afford basic necessities each month without financial assistance. Each year, Step Up Silicon Valley engages about 1000 people to action in our movement to reduce poverty in Santa Clara County. The Community Action Poverty Simulation is an engagement tool that raises awareness and deepens understanding of how poverty affects families and individuals in our community. Participants learn how families struggle to make ends meet with only $2000/month and work together to overcome unforeseen economic obstacles along the way. This experience goes beyond role-play as participants hear from those who share their own stories of day-to-day challenges as all attendees reflect on the experience together. This core convening strategy intends to educate and engage our community members toward action. |
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Polio and Its Effect on Families
Jun. 09, 2016
Craig’s mom had polio and was confined to an iron lung for 13 years from 1949 to 1962. He is going to share his recollections and insights about his mother’s struggles and acceptance of her condition. Craig is a graduate of Bellarmine, Santa Clara and Hastings Law School. He is a trial lawyer, mediator, and law professor in San Jose and has an active law practice in San Jose. |
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CasaQ, a Hispanic Lifestyle
Jun. 16, 2016
Ms. Tenes founded Marketing Maniacs, Inc., in 1998, an award winning Silicon Valley public relations and marketing firm and in 2005 CasaQ, a Hispanic Lifestyle Company. Since 2003 Ms. Tenes has been a regular contributor on television as a Latino Lifestyle expert discussing history, foods, and traditions of Mexico, Spain and other Latin-American countries. Known for her micro-history lessons and quick wit she became a favorite guest sharing recipes, entertaining tips and more with the television audience. |
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Shop with a Cop
Jul. 14, 2016
Darrell Cortez is a retired Police Officer with the San Jose Police Dept. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Shop with a Cop Foundation of Silicon Valley ( SWACSV). SWACSV is an all volunteer non-profit with an 8 member board .The mission of SWACSV is to provide charitable relief for children in traumatic crisis due to the loss of a parent from domestic violence and other tragedies and away from the home. They also advocate for reading literacy for elementary school students 3rd to 6th grade with a "readers are leaders" reading campaign at Santee Elementary School in East San Jose. It is a program that helps close the achievement gap for at -risk, low income students. Each year, the high performing students engaged in the reading program "earn" their way to a Holiday shopping spree at Target. Each child is accompanied with a uniformed police officer to shop for Christmas gifts for themselves and family members. This event brings families and police officers together in a positive setting to build trust between the police and the community. |
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Peace Scholar Applicant
Jul. 21, 2016
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“My Two and Half Years Behind Barbed Wire”
Jul. 28, 2016
Yukio was born in San Francisco, has a background in Manufacturing Engineering and Human Resources. He currently resides in Morgan Hill, married, with three children, and five grandchildren. His Bucket List: "Present My 2 1/2 Years Behind Barbed Wire During WWII"
Yukio Shimomura will be sharing his family’s experience during the 40s when WWII started and how Executive Order 9066 affected his family. Leaving San Francisco and entering the incarceration camps in South San Francisco and in Delta, Utah, he will describe what his parents, his older brothers and Yukio went through, the lifestyle in the camp, the dynamics in the camp, the significant ironies. He will discuss how the family left the camp and where they settled. |
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Economics
Aug. 04, 2016
Michael Kevane is Associate Professor of the Economics Department at Santa Clara University. He is past President of the Sudan Studies Association, and co-director of Friends of African Village Libraries. Recent research focuses on how libraries promote reading, with articles published in Libri, World Libraries and Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France. He is co-editor of Kordofan Invaded: Peripheral Incorporation and Social Transformation in Islamic Africa (Brill, 1998) and author of Women and Development in Africa: How Gender Works (Lynne Rienner, 2014, 2nd edition). |
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It’s Not your Grandmother’s Library
Aug. 18, 2016
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Santa Clara County Asset Management
Aug. 25, 2016
Bruce J. M. Knopf Director, Santa Clara County Office of Asset and Economic Development Mr. Knopf has over thirty years of economic development and business transaction experience in the Glen A Williams More than two years ago, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors initiated an effort to reach out to both the local community and the private sector to help plan the future of the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds. On August 23, 2016, responses are due from a Request for Qualifications issued June 21, directed to Investors and Operators of Commercial Recreation and Event Center Uses for the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds. At the Rotary Club lunch, members will get to be the first group to hear about the results of the submittals received the day before and the process going forward. |
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Climate Change - Ideas for Solutions
Sep. 08, 2016
A Climate Solution We Can All Live With” A speaker from the Citizens Climate Lobby will cut through the divisiveness of climate change by describing a bi-partisan effort underway to pass national legislation. This common sense proposal won’t wreck the economy, is fair and equitable, and is aligned with most people’s core values. Karl Danz has been a volunteer with Citizens' Climate Lobby since August 2013, and is a co-leader of the local chapter which meets monthly in Mountain View. He learned about the threats associated with greenhouse gas emissions in college many years ago and has been involved with various efforts and organizations addressing this issue. Nothing seemed to offer a solution at sufficient scale until he encountered CCL. Karl joined 1000 other volunteer lobbyists who went to Washington, DC last June to meet with members of Congress and push for national legislation to put a price on carbon--he has made five such lobbying trip to the nation's capital. |
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Diversity in Rotary Club Members
Sep. 15, 2016
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Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center
Sep. 22, 2016
Carrolee Barlow, MD, PhD—renowned expert in neuroscience and neurodegeneration—joined the Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in February 2014. Dr. Barlow is the second CEO in the Institute’s 25 year history. She takes the reins from Dr. J. William Langston, who founded the organization in 1988. Dr. Barlow’s previous work has spanned clinical care, laboratory and clinical research, academia, and industry. She is the former Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Medical Officer of BrainCells, Inc. in San Diego, California, a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of small molecules that stimulate adult hippocampal neurogenesis for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disease using human neural stem cell technology. Prior to BrainCells, she served as the Director of Molecular Neuroscience and Therapeutic Area Head for Stroke and Neurodegeneration at Merck Research Laboratories where she was responsible for neuroscience biology, global exploratory, licensing, and full-phase efforts. Dr. Barlow has held a faculty position in the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. She also serves as an advisory board member for several biotechnology companies and disease foundations advancing therapies for rare diseases and disorders of the central nervous system (CNS). Dr. Barlow received her MD from the University of Utah, did her residency in Internal Medicine at The New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, and went on to obtain a PhD in molecular and developmental biology at the Karolinska Medical Nobel Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Shortly thereafter, she joined the National Institutes of Health and completed medical sub-specialty training in the field of endocrinology and a postdoctoral fellowship in neurogenetics at the National Human Genome Research Institute. Currently, there are 5-10 million United States residents living with Parkinson’s disease. Did you know that if you reside in the San Francisco Bay Area 13.4% out of every 100,000 residents might develop Parkinson’s disease in their lifetime? At the Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center in Sunnyvale, 2500 patients per year are now being treated for this disease. Dr. Carrolee Barlow: Carrolee Barlow, MD, PhD—renowned expert in neuroscience and neurodegeneration—joined the Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in February 2014. Dr. Barlow is the second CEO in the Institute’s 25- year history. She takes the reins from Dr. J. William Langston, who founded the organization in 1988. The Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center will celebrate its 30-year anniversary in 2018 by moving to a new location on the El Camino Hospital Campus, Mountain View. As CEO of the Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center, Dr. Barlow would like to speak to your audience about: •Who are some of the famous people who have Parkinson’s disease? •What is Parkinson’s disease? •How do you tell you may have Parkinson’s disease? •What are the latest treatments for those afflicted with Parkinson’s disease? •Discoveries of the Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center •What is the Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center currently working on?
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San Jose Police Department PAL and San Jose East/Evergreen Rotary
Sep. 29, 2016
Presentation will cover possible ways for SJ PAL and Rotary Club of San Jose East/Evergreen can work together. Sgt. Jim Ureta was born in San Jose but grew up in Orange County. He served in the United States Navy as a Fire Control Technician and attended Orange Coast College in Orange County. He was a police officer in Buena Park for 3 1/2 years prior to joining the San Jose Police Department in 1992. His police assignments have included patrol, field training officer, burglary unit, pre procession center, the sexual assaults unit, Megan's Law Detail, Main Lobby,Internal Affairs and PAL . Jim has two sons. One is a senior at the university of Arizona and the other is a senior in high school. He has been married to Marylou for 25 years. |
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The Grateful Garment Project
Oct. 06, 2016
Lisa J. Blanchard – Executive Director and Founder: As founder, Lisa has been the guiding force and visionary of The Grateful Garment Project. Lisa’s unique combination of experience in nonprofit, customer service, law, and management produces the creative and conceptual leadership required to bring The Grateful Garment Project to the State of California and beyond. She has dedicated significant amounts of time to working with people not only professionally, but also in a volunteer capacity. Lisa holds an AS in Business, a BS in Human Services and a Masters in Nonprofit Administration. It is her vision that no victim of sexual assault ever experience further suffering due to lack of resources |
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Self Esteem and Communication
Oct. 13, 2016
COMMUNICATION and SELF-ESTEEM How are these two topic related OR are they? These, and more questions will be answered by Dr Banner in her talk on October 13, 2016! Please come and bring your own questions for this “enlightening” talk! Dr. Linda Banner is a Health, Clinical, and Forensic Psychologist in private practice in San Jose for more than 25 years. She is an international expert in the field of sexual medicine and has been quoted, published, and regarded as an expert in this area of specialty for many years, especially after completing her doctoral research at Stanford Medical Center. |
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Club Halloween Party
Oct. 27, 2016
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