Maltz Performing Arts Center this week at Rotary (Nov. 12, 2024)

The Rotary Club of Cleveland cultivates a diverse community of informed professionals working collectively to create a positive impact by exchanging ideas, forming meaningful, lifelong friendships, and giving back to our community.

Join us

Thursday, November 14, 2024

12:00 p.m.

Windows on the River

2000 Sycamore St. CLE 44113

(Doors open at 11:30 a.m. for networking)

Jason Cohen

Director of Facilities and Operations

Maltz Performing Arts Center

"A Backstage Tour of the Maltz Performing Arts Center"

Jason Cohen started his performing arts career as a stage manager in New York City over 20 years ago. After five years of stage managing, he worked for a talent agency, a Broadway Producer, a theater construction company, and the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. He then left New York City for Wisconsin and worked for the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and the historic Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee. Jason started at the Maltz Performing Arts Center as a staff of one a week before the inaugural concert Violins of Hope in 2015. Now, nine years later, with a team of seven, Jason leads the Maltz Center into its busiest season yet hosting nine different series and over one hundred events.

Youth Service

Will meet this week after our regular meeting

If you missed it last week, we will be passing the hat one more time this week for our annual Toy Drive, providing presents to children that ordinarily would not get any. This year we are supporting the St. Augustine Community Cupboard's Holiday Shop. Can't make it this week? We do accept Venmo (@rotarycle)

Thank you to all those that have contributed,

we have collected $447 so far!

Welcome New Cleveland Rotarians

Meet our newest Rotary members Gregory Johnson, Community Servant, Chapter President, United Nations Association USA Greater Cleveland and Bob Doroghazi, retired physician and publisher - Physician Investor Newsletter.

Gift of Life

This year our International Service Committee selected to support the Gift of Life program with $5,000 to aide in a young boy coming from Haiti to Akron Children’s Hospital for a life-saving pediatric heart surgery.

Rubens Jordan Pierre Louis along with his mother arrived in Cleveland on November 5th with a scheduled surgery for November 6th. Rubens was born with Tetralogy of Fallot. The surgery was successful, the recovery is slow, little Rubens in still in the PICU at Akron Children's Hospital with hopes of a release to the Ronald McDonald House this week. Please keep both him and his mother in your prayers, we will give another update when available.

Leaving Haiti After Surgery

Mentoring - Garrett Morgan High School

Many Seniors at Garrett Morgan need Ohio Means Jobs Seal Certification to graduate. Our initiative is to pair one or more Rotarians with one or more seniors and discuss/listen/converse over the critical areas of knowledge, detailed in the OMJ Seal form provided at the school. Below are the dates for mentoring, please let the Rotary office know when you can participate.

Address: 4600 Detroit Ave. CLE 44102

November Dates:

15^th 11:35-1:00pm followed by lunch at a nearby establishment

21^st 9-10am, 10-11:15am followed by our virtual meeting

22^nd 11:35am-1:05pm followed by lunch

SPECIAL for November:

13^th 11:35am-1:05pm 2 people needed to MOCK interview with

14^th 8:45am-11:30pm 2 people needed to MOCK interview with

December Dates:

5^th 9-10am, 10-11:15am followed by Rotary in-person lunch

6^th 11:35-1:00pm followed by lunch at a nearby establishment

12^th 9-10am, 10-11:15am followed by Rotary in-person Lunch

13^th 11:35-1:00pm followed by lunch at a nearby establishment

Rotary Online Spirit Wear Shop

We have an online spiritwear store that has various selections of shirts with the Rotary logo on them. The link will be active until November 17th at Midnight. In addition, I have several baseball hats, selling them for $20.

https://rotaryclubofcleveland2024.itemorder.com/shop/home/

Volunteer Opportunities - "Service Above Self"

Join us December 5th from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. for a "Sip and Sort" at the Kids Book Bank - 3635 Perkins Ave. #1e, CLE 44114

St. Augustine Community Cupboard

We will be volunteering the 2nd Saturday of each month. The volunteers help with greeting, checking in & out, and navigating the crowd, carrying items for those who need help, sanitizing the grocery baskets used, and stocking shelves, etc.

Saturday, December 14 - 10:30 - 3:00 p.m. (come for as long as you can)

Where: St. Augustine Community Cupboard, 2486 W. 14th St., Cleveland, OH 44113

RSVP rotarycle@gmail.com

Greater Cleveland Food Bank

Upcoming Volunteer Day - Tuesday November 12th, Wednesday November 20th.

6:00 - 8:00 p.m. - RSVP rotarycle@gmail.com or pqua@classicautocampus.com

American Red Cross Blood Donor Day, December 5, 2024

The American Red Cross is experiencing an emergency blood shortage

The nation faces the lowest number of people giving blood in 20 years. Blood and platelet donations are needed now to help alleviate the shortage and ensure lifesaving medical procedures are not delayed.
Over the last 20 years, the number of people donating blood to the Red Cross has fallen by more than 40%.
Additional challenges lie ahead as winter weather and seasonal illnesses like the flu and COVID-19 may compound the dire blood supply situation the nation currently faces.
Blood products are currently going to hospitals faster than blood donations are coming in. In recent weeks, the Red Cross has had to limit distributions of some of the most transfused blood types to hospitals.
Make an appointment to give blood or platelets now by using the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visitingRedCrossBlood.org or calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).