Posted by Gordon Crann

BREAKING NEWS

Only 12 days into the new Rotary year, the new District 7090 Member Recruitment Committee has identified the minimum 20 charter members for a global Rotary E-Club of Social Innovators, who come from Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Ghana, India, Liberia and the United States. We are continuing to invite more people around the world to join us as charter members to increase our numbers beyond the minimum 20.
 
So far, the high-profile people who have agreed to be charter members of the global Rotary E-Club of Social Innovators include:
 
  1. FINCA International Co-Founder John Hatch from Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, who invented village banking in Latin America around the same time as Muhammad Yunus was inventing the Grameen Bank’s form of microcredit in Bangladesh. A global leader in the microfinance movement for a number of years, John Hatch is also a Co-Founder of the Microcredit Summit Campaign (along with Nobel Peace Laureate & Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus and RESULTS International Founder Sam Daley-Harris). For further information, please see: http://www.finca.org/board-member/john-hatch/.
  1. Solar Ear Co-Founder & President Howard Weinstein from Sao Paolo, Brazil, who in 2011 had the honour of being named global Social Entrepreneur of the Year. Howard and Solar Ear have won many international awards, including recently placing third in the world-wide Bright Minds Challenge, see: https://www.sciencecanchangetheworld.org/en_US/solutions/renewable-energy/solar-powered-hearing-aids.html.
DG Reg Madison has approached the presidents of the Rotary Club of Brantford and the Rotary Club of Brantford Sunrise about their clubs jointly sponsoring the chartering of our global Rotary E-Club of Social Innovators; and he has reported that the presidents of the Brantford clubs are supportive and starting the process of getting their clubs’ members formal approval.
 
The 20 charter members of the Rotary E-Club of Social Innovators have unanimously elected by consensus Gordon Crann as Charter President Designate to lead them through the charter process and setting up this new global E-Club up to June 30, 2018.