Minutes of March 31, 2014 meeting

Announcements

District Assembly- Sat. May 3, 2014 at BMO training Centre. All new members must attend. Club will pick up registration fee. Let Nash know.

Jean Do
David O. and Rick S. took Jean and her mother west of London to see the service dog  centre and trainer. The service dog will be trained to wake Jean up if she stops breathing. The Club is in the final stages of working out a contract with the Breeder. We are looking for a yellow, female Lab. It takes up to 1.5 years to train. A $2000 deposit was put down.
David O. reminded us to go to our website to donate. $6000 has been committed so far.

Golf Tournament -June 17 , 2014
Cyril reminded us that this tournament will be in the place of a meeting for the Club that week. If you are unable to play-please come for the dinner. There are 30 spots left and there will be a need for volunteers as well. There is the potential to make a good profit if we can get enough sponsors.

International Night- May 9, 2014
Paul- our Club is doing very well with tickets so far. There will be a meeting tonight. We are still looking for silent auction items. Funds to the Club will be pro-rated based on number of tickets sold.

Yuk Yuk’s-Sat April 5@ Newmarket
Ted has a table booked for this Sat. Tickets are $30. Contact him if interested.

Camp Enterprise- May8-11
Dr. Abara mentioned that all the applications are in. Our Club has the task of doing the business activity on the Sat.

Special speaker- Tom Manimanakis

David introduced Tom- the owner of Ethos Asset Management.

This company does on-line and live auctions of goods for charities,  foundations, commercial and industrial clients. Tom is a volunteer with the Humane Society, Salvation Army and Habitat for Humanity.

Fundraising Initiatives
Tom is usually hired to assess value to items that people donate to charities. With his three other employees they have a combined total of 60 years experience. They do
Live/online auctions
Liquidation sales
Wholesale brokering
Appraisal services.
Our Goal is to Remanage, Re-Purpose and Recycle

New purpose is to help charities. Challenges for them today are
Decline in fundraising
Decline in govt. funding
Slow economy
Credibility
Increased demand
Strict rules

What do we do now? We look to businesses with surplus goods and try to repurpose these goods with the charities helping to sell and getting a percentage from these sales.
Overall benefits- the Corporations get a higher value for their surplus goods while having reduced write-offs. The Corporation also maintains a stronger socially responsible image.
Benefit to charity is increased funding, more public exposure and a positive relationship with Corporate sponsors.

Why are we doing this?
Principle-The time is always right to do what is right.

Purpose- You must be the change.

Susan thanked Tom. She knows him to be a very ethical, imaginative person and has positive sales experiences.

50/50 winner- Glen