The Many Ways We Give

Creative and caring service and fund-raising projects—large and small—benefit Quota communities in Australia, Canada, and the United States in special ways.

AUSTRALIA
Getting Cozy with Quota of Taree

CANADA
Grey Bruce Silver Q Cares about Service
Quota of Orillia gets Mobile with the Police
Service is an Awarding Experience in Estevan

AUSTRALIA AND THE UNITED STATES
Supporting Our Soldiers

AUSTRALIA, CANADA, AND THE UNITED STATES
Reaching Out with Rhythm

AUSTRALIA
Getting Cozy with Quota of Taree

Bringing people together around a pot of tea isn't revolutionary, but uniting a whole community in service through tea cozies certainly is. The Quota club of Taree, New South Wales, did just that with a recent service project that raised Aus.$3,500, all of which will be spent in the immediate district.

The Quotarians asked local businesses to decorate and donate teapot and mug cozies, which were then displayed in Taree City Center where people could vote for their favorite. These "votes" were cash donations for the best design among 70 cozies in the show. The top cozy made nearly Aus.$180 during its weeks of display.

Not satisfied with this successful fund-raiser, the ingenious Quotarians also auctioned off all the donated cozies during an afternoon tea that served as the closing celebration to their project. Here, top winners were announced and awarded tea-themed prizes donated by Ashdene China, Twinings Tea, and Dilmah Tea.

CANADA
Grey Bruce Silver Q Club Cares about Service

Caring about service has paid off for one of Quota's newer clubs, QI of Grey Bruce in Ontario with an almost 40 percent membership increase in a two-year period. Grey Bruce Quota is a Silver Q club—a new club concept in Quota where the membership emphasis is on fellowship and hands-on service, not fund-raising. Supporting their community in many caring ways—from baking cookies to donate to "Second Chance Kids," a group which helps families of chronically ill children, to collecting and donating a variety of items such as used hearing aids, toys, eye glasses, and more—club members are constantly on the go! Grey Bruce Quotarians not only care about each other and their community—they care about Quota, too. They hope to launch another club or branch, a project now underway!

CANADA
Quota of Orillia gets Mobile with the Police

When Quota of Orillia, Ontario, turned 60, club members decided to get mobile—in the form of a mobile Community Events Center donated to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). The 29-foot trailer cost Can.$12,000 and was fully funded and purchased by the Orillia Quotarians. The OPP will outfit the trailer for use by auxiliary officers and volunteers at community events and may even put it to use as a mobile disaster unit. The best part? The trailer arrived in Orillia emblazoned with a prominent Quota International logo, so while the OPP serves their community, Quota will be recognized for its commitment in and out of Orillia.

CANADA
Service is an Awarding Experience in Estevan

The community of Estevan, Saskatchewan, counts on the support of its local Quota club. A nine-year tradition of hosting the Women of Today awards, held every April, is a major community event, and the club receives extensive media publicity and exposure from it. The best part is that the proceeds from this event, which totaled Can.$11,080 this year—the most ever raised—enabled the club to place FM sound systems in local schools and support the Violence Intervention Program. The Women of Today Awards program honors women who contribute to the Estevan community in special ways.

AUSTRALIA AND THE UNITED STATES
Supporting Our Soldiers

Military service has always been an honorable, difficult, and essential part of maintaining democracy, and Quotarians in the U.S. and Australia recently recognized the dedicated men and women who serve their countries in this way.

In Rome, Georgia, U.S.A., Quotarians donated a variety of personal items and everyday necessities to a local unit serving in Iraq that includes the husband of one of their own club members. Another club in District 8, Quota of Valdosta, Georgia, gave the children of Moody Air Force Base a back-to-school pizza party that included gift bags of school supplies and Wal-Mart gift cards for over 50 children of enlisted personnel.

Other Quota clubs chose to help troops celebrate holidays. Quotarians in Lake County, Ohio, decorated small, donated Christmas trees with small gifts—books, pencils, candy, and toiletries—that were then sent to men and women serving far from home. In Victoria, Quotarians in the Wimmera club offered rosemary for remembrance by preparing 90,000 herb boutonnieres distributed during the Anzac Day march through the province to commemorate Australia's entry into WWI.

AUSTRALIA, CANADA, AND THE UNITED STATES
Reaching Out with Rhythm

Music speaks across—and often beyond—language, something used to advantage by Quota clubs in North America and the South Pacific.

In the U.S., Quota of Andover, Massachusetts, U.S.A., hosted a story hour for a crowd of 50 that included a violin accompaniment and two sign language interpreters for a rousing rendition of "Where the Wild Things Are." Farther west in Kirksville, Missouri, several members of the local Quota club have been performing as the Quota Divas at class reunions, local holiday celebrations, and the 7th District Conference and are often paid for their very entertaining show.

In Australia, Quota of Gloucester in New South Wales used their Autumn Strings and Poetry fund-raiser to support the Hunter Medical Research Institute's work with infants and mothers with a donation of over $1,200. In another part of the province, Quota of Penrith chose to support music by helping a music student tour with the Sydney Youth Orchestra and study in Europe.

And in Canada, Quota's Collingwood club in Ontario raised funds for the Hearing Ear Dog of Canada from a concert featuring the locally popular "Singing Priest." Prior to the performance, a club PowerPoint presentation promoted the club and its service work.

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