Events

Discussion about restaurant raffle distribution of funds.  And more.

This will be a Harbor Rotary event outside on the patio at Arrivederci in San Rafael.  Appetizers will be served and a no host bar.  Cost TBD.

Feel free to invite friends and family.

A Viennese survivor, Paul taught for forty-five years in Mill Valley and San Francisco, high school, Alliance Francaise and Cal Extension

Creating a Legacy at Rotary provides info about how easy it is to make a bequest.   I will ask members of your Club to consider their experience of Rotary....the Rotary moments we all have had.   Through inspiration the future of Rotary will grow from your plans today for what happens tomorrow.  Creating a Legacy will allow Rotary to grow into the future. 

Dan Joraanstad is a member of the Rotary Club of San Francisco #2.  He has been involved for years serving with  Membership and the SF Rotary Foundation Board.  Currently Dan is District 5150 Endowment and Major Gifts Officer.

Dan and his husband Bob Hermann, also a member of the Rotary Club of San Francisco, are part of the White Hat Society, the Bequest Society, and the Paul Harris Society.  They are Major Donors focused on achieving membership in the Arch Klumph Society.

In 2021, the SF Chronicle spotlight led the Canal community of San Rafael for being the "most segregated neighborhood in the Bay Area." This upcoming talk welcomes Next Generation Scholars, a nationally-recognized educational non-profit, which empowers Marin's first-generation youth into college and into their careers. 

Joining Mr. Bui online will be an alumnus, Jorge Hernandez, a current resident of the Canal who will share his deep insights into the community, sharing his own journey of struggle and triumph, delving deeper and beyond the headline. 

A Marin County native, Malaysian refugee-born, NGS Program student and now Executive Director, Nghiem Bui (nim boo-ee) looks forward to sharing his story from San Rafael's public housing to college graduation; and now back in the community serving as one of our educational leaders. 

Climate change is exacerbating floods and droughts, but our development choices -- urban sprawl, industrial agriculture, and concrete infrastructure designed to control water -- are making these problems much worse. People in the Slow Water movement are instead collaborating with water, making space for it again, such as by using underground paleo valleys to recharge dwindling groundwater in California.

Erica Geis is the author of "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge." An award-winning, independent journalist and National Geographic Explorer, she covers water, climate change, plants and critters for Scientific American, Nature, New York Times, bioGraphic, National Geographic and other outlets.

In this special lecture, Maestro Alasdair Neale will talk about what is involved in studying and understanding a musical score, how to communicate to the orchestra what is in the score through technique, the rehearsal process, and his duties as a Music Director.  

Maestro Neale is the Music Director of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Sun Valley Music Festival (SVMF) and Marin Symphony.  He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Cambridge University and a Master’s from Yale University, where his principal teacher was Otto-Werner Mueller. He lives in San Francisco and New Haven. 

Photo credit: Eisaku Tokuyama

It is well known that California could eliminate or drastically reduce its water deficit by diverting and storing the water from the upper 10% of high-magnitude river flows (for example, floods). Where could this water be stored? Answer: in groundwater systems, which have been sufficiently depleted in California that they could store additional water amounting to more than 3-times the storage capacity of the state’s surface reservoirs. This would require significant effort to recharge the groundwater systems with diverted floodwaters, which is known as “Flood-MAR” (managed aquifer recharge). I will discuss Flood-MAR and how California might use it to help solve its water supply problems as the climate continues to warm.

 Professor Emeritus of Hydrogeology, UC Davis, Dept. of Land, Air and Water Resources and Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences. I have spent the last 45 years researching and teaching about groundwater hydrology, including groundwater flow, contamination, computer modeling, and water resources management under climate change.

Amarok Society is proud to have partnered with more than a hundred Rotary Clubs to pursue an unusual model of education: instead of teaching children directly, we teach illiterate mothers to become neighbourhood teachers. 

Dr. Tanyss Munro has devoted her life, with her husband, author Gem Munro, to improving educational opportunities for disadvantaged people across Canada and abroad.
Through her work as an educator with remote Native communities, as senior advisor to federal Ministers and to Regional Native political organizations, she’s had the privilege of getting to really know life in communities ranging from Arctic hamlets to troubled reserves to Parliament Hill.
In 2006, she and her husband Gem and their 4 children were invited to Bangladesh to bring improvements to the education system there, but what they saw for millions of children was no education at all. In 2006, Tanyss and Gem founded Amarok Society and currently operate 26 schools.
Tanyss’ PhD is in International Education. In recognition of their work, they are recipients of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medals.

We’re past climate change and into climate emergency.  “Getting to Zero” is a boring goal — and not enough!  Find out about transforming cities and infrastructure for carbon sequestration.

Bruce King is the author of “The New Carbon Architecture” and "Build Beyond Zero", and has been a structural engineer for 45 years, designing buildings of every size and type all over the world. He is also author of the world’s first climate friendly building regulation, the Marin County Low-Carbon Concrete code.

Home Match is a shared housing program that provides free, personalized services in the Bay Area and beyond to help homeowners and renters find the right match for each other. Turn an available room in your home into an opportunity to earn income, save money and create new social connections. Your home can make all the difference to a fellow community member facing a difficult housing market.

Lucie received a BA in International Relations from San Francisco State University and a Master of International Forestry with a focus on community forest management and agroforestry from the University of British Columbia. She has 14 years of experience working for non-profits in diverse environments, and a passion for engaging with the public via varied mediums. Her position before Home Match was as the Education Director at a small nonprofit in Santa Cruz County teaching children and families farming, gardening, and nutrition. Though Lucie’s studies and career have been diverse, they have all been grounded in service to and strengthening of communities.

The Living New Deal is a nationwide team effort dedicated to uncovering the forgotten legacy of New Deal public works and interpreting their lost ethical language for a time that needs it. Founder and Project Scholar Dr. Gray Brechin will show what the project has so far discovered in the two counties north of San Francisco where New Deal matrix is ubiquitous but largely unseen. 

After a career of environmental and urban design journalism, Gray Brechin received his Ph.D. in Geography from UC Berkeley. His dissertation was published by UC Press in 1999 as Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin and spent sixteen weeks on the Chronicle’s best-seller list. Almost 25 years later, he is converting it into an audiobook. 

For those transitioning out of homelessness or aging out of the foster care system, even the simplest of furniture and household goods are unaffordable.  Make it Home was created to solve this problem. Make It Home furnishes homes of those in need with donated furniture and household goods.

Prior to working with Make It Home, Kendall Galli spent over 3 decades educating Bay Area kids culminating in teaching high schoolers at Archie Williams.  She is the proud mom of 3 twenty somethings.

 Similarly, Susan Brennan retired to join the Make It Home board after a long career in business in the US and Asia.  She is also a proud mom of twenty something kids.  

See also About Us — Make It Home (makeithomebayarea.org)