Results of Rotary Survey

Cathy recently conducted a survey which about 20 Rotarians responded to. Here are the results.

FOR THE ROTARY 2024-2025 CLUB YEAR:
1. What should the club STOP doing?
 Hot meals
 Supporting only non-profits
 Rural Urban Day
 Being Content with the Convention Center’s bad sound system(s).
 Try to find programs that are not non-profits
 Too many non-profit programs
 Starting the meeting so soon after 12 pm because the meeting seems to adjourn early, so there is more time
for conversation.
 Go back to the 4-way test, rather than the 5-way test.

 

2. What should the club START doing?
 Cold meals
 Sharing how we support the community, hearing from new businesses in the community
 Seek members to fill a variety of vocations and encourage formal introductions of new members.
 Recruit many, many new members
 Find a service project
 Community projects
 Support community projects like Gates Park
 Programs in club history
 Recalling Rotary’s beginning with a return to business related topics and opportunities
for new members to mingle and demonstrate their interests and skills
 More offsite meetings or service projects during regular meeting times
 Recruitment efforts in the 30-45-year-old range
 Get more business-related programs
 Exchange Rotary members with close clubs, CF, Waverly, etc. Maybe 1 time a month
 More topical and educational presentations
 Have more presidential candidates prior to the caucuses, be invited to speak or perhaps in joint meetings
with other Rotary’s.
 Exchange member with CF, more business owners to speak on their success.

 

3. What should the club CONTINUE to do?
 Celebrate members, support members
 Volunteering, Coats for kids
 Include more programs related to larger national issues
 More presentations with animals
 Honor athletes and students
 Volleyball, football and academics
 Have uplifting meetings
 Enjoy the current structure of the weekly meetings

 Weekly meetings
 Be welcoming
 Stay involved with Waterloo community
 Programs
 Good with all that we do
 Fellowship
 Have the off-site meetings continue

4. What EVENTS should the club continue to host? i.e. family picnic, football, volleyball,
honors luncheon, rural/urban?
 Love the Family picnic -3 and honors luncheon-5
 All of them-12
 Rural Urban
 Add a banquet to recognize track and/or cross-country athletes
 Political forums
 All high school events are great
 Family picnic should be reviewed-2

5. Would you like to do more events as a club outside of Monday meetings? i.e. Bucks games, parades?
 Bucks games-3
 Parades-1
 Yes-3
 No/not necessarily-8
 Meet at area businesses
 Social night, no program, invite spouses
 Rotary International encourages clubs to have special interest groups such as wine tasting, travel, stamp
collecting, etc.
 Any kind of outdoor events or family events
 Iowa Woo-2, Learning event
 Monday lunch works best for me
 Black Hawks hockey games

 

6. What PROJECTS should the club be involved in such as the food bank, Habitat for Humanity, or international
projects?
 Food Bank-6, more often too
 Habitat for Humanity-5
 Warm Coat project-3
 Anything we can do for the community-3
 Programs that involve the variety of ethnic groups in our community-1
 Other not-for-profit events
 Support a district grant-1
 Create our own community project like we did for the Rotary Reserve-1
 Gates Park-1
 One local project and one international project-2
 A Garden in Every Yard-1
 Youth focus-2

 

7. Our food prices have doubled since the last time dues were raised 9 years ago, should we continue to stay at
the convention center? Do you have any ideas on other meeting places or how to reduce costs?
 Open to suggestions, not opposed to staying here
 Maybe one less meeting a month, its hard because of the size of the group
 Cold meat sandwiches, Motel meeting room or Hawkeye metro campus room
 Yes, stay at convention center
 Russell Lampson-Brown Bottle, Doughy Joey’s
 Breakfast meetings instead of lunch
 We could bring our own lunch, breakfast club bring our own coffee
 Prices will be higher everywhere, stay here and support the Convention Center-5
 Check out Majestic Moon
 I would hesitate to leave the Convention Center for now, the food is good now
 Maybe not monthly but somewhat regularly meet at area restaurants
 Elks Club?
 Grout Museum or Center for the Arts