Collective Impact
Rotary Club of Wellington
Mission Statement
To promote social responsibility and ethical
practices within our community through
proactive project-focused volunteering.
Purpose
We create sustainable and cooperative
partnerships with institutions and individuals that
enable opportunities for meaningful contributions
through volunteering within our community.
Proposed Structure
Roles:
• Director
• Communications
• Finance
Meeting format:
Meetings will follow this four-week rotation:
Week 1
Breakfast
meeting
(with
speaker)
Week 2
Week 3
Optional
Breakfast
meeting for
Meeting
project groups
Week 4
After-work
drinks with
RCW
Fit within RCW
We propose that a Collective Impact member be
invited to sit on the RCW Board. This would
involve attending monthly Board meetings and this
person would be the official line of communication
and contact between Collective Impact and RCW.
We would like to have access to RCW’s
administration services, e.g. accounting for
membership fees, holdings funds on behalf of CI.
Questions from RCW for Collective
Impact: Their Answers
Rotary Related Questions
Is Collective Impact a ‘bridge’ between Rotaract and
Rotary? Is the idea that Collective Impact members will
later become Rotarians?
If members of Collective Impact want to join RCW (or any
other Rotary club) we don’t have a problem with that.
Technically, Collective Impact members are already RCW
members, as we fall under a RCW committee. However,
we differ from your regular members, in that we are subject
to different rules and guidelines. Collective Impact will have
its own rules, which are based on Rotary principles. The
host club and its regular members will continue to function
according to your rules and constitution, and Collective
Impact will function in line with its own, different rules. We
are considering a constitution.
Rotary Related Questions cont.
Why is the name Collective Impact being used and
not Rotary? What is the connection between
Collective Impact and RCW then?
Collective Impacts sits as a committee of RCW.
Therefore, Collective Impact members are
members of the RCW.
Rotary Related Questions cont.
What does this mean in terms of younger
members of RCW and younger members in Rotary
generally?
Collective Impact has no agenda for younger
members of RCW. If they want to come to our
meetings and they fit our criteria, then that is fine.
Don’t forget that every four weeks there will be
after-work drinks for RCW and Collective Impact
members.
Governance
Collective Impact will sit under a committee of
RCW and be subject to a separate set of rules and
guidelines to RCW regular members. We look at
this as a partnership.
The reason we have not established Collective
Impact as a stand-alone group is that we want to
try out a different kind of “Rotary” club - one which
calls itself by a name other than Rotary, which has
a different and simplified structure, but which is
based on the same principles of Rotary.
Projects
Members of Collective Impact would like to have
full access to the existing committees within RCW.
In the beginning Collective Impact will not have its
own projects established. We also see RCW
projects as a way to interact with the members of
the Rotary Club of Wellington.
We would also like to see experienced members of
RCW to act as mentors on projects initiated by
Collective Impact.