D-2483 DG's Newsletter July 2016

DG Velibor ZOLAK GOVERNOR'S NEWSLETTER No. 1 - July 2016 Dear Presidents and Secretaries, Dear Rotarians and Rotaracts, Never smaller, never weaker, BUT STRENGTH IS NOT IN NUMBERS! The new Rotary year has not started very well. Most of the clubs have lost their members and the new year started with 1,194 members and 62 clubs (down 61 members and one club), smaller and weaker than ever before. However, strength is not in numbers! The strength primarily depends on our firmness and resolution to build better organization and community than the current ones, believing that we can do it despite all obstacles, wishing to do good deeds, and be the leaders in promoting the good in our local community, in establishing strong links with our community. We are proud to be carrying a badge of the organization that has been doing good deeds for already 100 years in all the communities throughout the world it is present in. We must live up to that standard every day. Doing good deeds, high ethical and professional standards we cherish and the leadership in all professions are what distinguishes us from everybody else! The organizations such as ours do not depend on unchangeable cosmic rules, economic trends and national laws, but ONLY ON OURSELVES, on our will and faith, our commitment. Whoever does not have this will should leave their position as a leader; whoever does not have the faith should leave the organization. This is not the organization for the despondent and narrow-minded! This is the organization for those with surplus good will to help their community and do good. If we want to reverse the trends, we can do it! If we want more members, we will attract them with nice and successful actions and positive image these actions project. What we need are actions, rather than talks, arid presentations, self-praises or mere display of a badge. If we wish larger and more successful actions, we must design, plan and launch them! WE CAN HAVE BOTH SUCCESSFUL ACTIONS AND NEW MEMBERS! This is evident from the clubs: Budva, Zemun, Šabac, Beograd Metropolitan, Beograd Skadarlija, Beograd Dunav, Novi Sad Alma Mons, Novi Sad Dunav, Sremska Mitrovica, etc! First things first WHAT ARE OUR GOALS? Therefore, I would like to remind all the presidents and secretaries of clubs that 1 September is the final deadline for setting goals by the clubs and entering them into the Rotary Club Central! Without carefully defined goals, there can be no meaningful and successful actions. Velibor Zolak District Governor D2483 Montenegro & Serbia C +382 69 01 74 44

As of 5 September, the assistants, district trainers and committee chairs will start our official visits to the clubs and evaluation of the feasibility of the goals set by the clubs and monitoring of their achievement. We will not be inventing our goals, they have been defined by our highest bodies, while our task is to adjust them to the concrete community and individual conditions each club operates in. Every club that carries this great sign is obliged to set goals in the following fields: 1. Member attraction and engagement 2. Contribution to the Foundation 3. Adoption of online tools 4. Humanitarian service 5. New generations 6. Image  Back to the standards Of all the goals set by the Rotary International, the defined membership growth rates do not apply to our District, as they apply to REMEDIAL PLAN the standard clubs (with over 20 members). Our task is much greater – to restore each club to the minimum of 20 members necessary to register a club! Our Rotary Zone 20B and the New Zone Director Corneliu DINCA have designed new Regional Membership Plan & Remedial Plan, implying special teams that will be working with the clubs with fewer than 15 members in order to ensure their recovery. The clubs that will be assisted by the District and Zone have been selected on the basis of the following criteria: number of club members, attendance of meetings, change in numbers, membership retention rate in a three-year period, problems in payment of liabilities to RI and District, contribution to the Foundation, and participation in the community aid projects. The action is directly managed by the District Membership Committee Chair Vesna LATINOVIĆ, in the cooperation with me and, indirectly, with the zone coordinator Malik AVIRAL.  SEMINARS OF THE ROTARY FOUNDATION – 17 and 18 September Page2 There is a lot of works ahead of us this autumn, including a series of meetings and seminars. On 17 and 18 September (Saturday and Sunday), we will organize two seminars: The Rotary Foundation (TRF) seminar and the Grant Management (GM) seminar. Save these dates and inform your club about them! The drafting of seminar programs and selection of the venue are under way. The purpose of these seminars is to get acquainted with the Rotary Foundation and its programmes and the training of club leaders in project application, monitoring and control of the projects funded by other clubs, the Rotary Foundation and the Global and District Grants. The seminar is mandatory for all the presidents of the clubs and chairs of the clubs’ TRF committees. Only the clubs whose committee chairs have attended these seminars qualify for the Global and District Grants. 

Major event in Zone 20B Page3 ROTARY INSTITUTE THESSALONIKI - 6 - 9 October 2016 What is the congress for others, that is the Institute for our organi- zation. The largest, major and most interesting event in the Zone, which is attended by everybody who loves the Rotary. It will be attended by the most senior Rotari- ans, governors, coordinators, dire- ctors - both current and former, as well as our President John F. GERM. October is the month of low prices at the seaside, including the accommodation rates between €15 and €120 in Thessaloniki, and plenty of restaurants and other temptations. Since the institute is just “a stone’s throw away,” five or six hours drive on the highway, and the transport costs are very low when shared among three or four people, the conditions have been met for us to surprise our Zone and the Rl with an unexpectedly large turnout. This will be the EVENT TO REMEMBER for the rest of a person’s Rotarian life! A classic win-win situation – the major event, the greatest satisfaction, at the lowest cost. The registration fee is €125, which covers a welcome cocktail on Thursday afternoon, two lunches (Friday and Saturday) and all coffee breaks. You will make new friends, meet coordinators, directors and the President and, if you come prepared and persistent - arrange new projects and actions for your club. In addition – you will have a great time! In conclusion: if you mean well for your club – REGISTER! www.ri2016.rotarydistrict2484.org  New forces NEW CLUB - RC Beograd Kalemegdan On the last day of the old Rotary year, the Rotary District 2483 got a new club – RC Beograd Kalemegdan. The club has 23 members, 12 experienced ones and 11 newly admitted Rotarians, and is the 15th club on the territory of the capital of Serbia (including Zemun) and the 62nd club in the District. The President of the newly established club is Dr Aleksandar Luj TODOROVIĆ, while its sectary is the member of the Academy of Science and Arts Dr Branislav JELENKOVIĆ. The club meets on Wednesdays at 8 pm at the hotel Envoy, 13 Čika Ljubina St. 

Good news NEW MEMBERS - RC Sremska Mitrovica NOVAK SAMARDŽIĆ, the manager of the branch of Societe Generale Banka Srbija in Sremska Mitrovica, with the university degree in economics; born on 7 March 1975 in Sremska Mitrovica. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Subotica. Married to Nada, with son Jovan. Worked as the head of foreign trade at the public enterprise Matroz AD, the head of foreign trade at Novi Drvni Kombinat, the Director of the Business and Sports Centre Pinki in Sremska Mitrovica, with SGS since 2006. Speaks English language. Work address - Societe Generale Banka Srbija, Sremska Mitrovica branch, 5-7 Kralja Petra I, 22000 Sremska Mitrovica, telephone 0631048168, [email protected]. Home telephone: 022649058, mobile: 0641949075, novaksamardzic75@ gmail.com  NEW MEMBERS - RC Beograd Dedinje BARBARA KAPETANOVIĆ, President of the Management Board of the Balkans Development Association \"VIRIBUS UNITIS\" Belgrade, born on 7 August 1949 in Warsaw. Graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Technology in Warsaw, from which she also obtained an MSc degree specialising in technologies for semiconductor materials, after which she graduated foreign trade from the Faculty of Economics in Warsaw. Children: daughter Magdalena and son Borivoje. Worked at the foreign trade company “Unitra” in Warsaw as a contract coordinator between Poland and Yugoslavia in the field of electronics; owner of an import and export company. Permanent resident of Belgrade since 2000. Work address: Balkans Develop- ment Association “Viribus Unitis” Belgrade, viribusunitisbalkan@ gmail.com. Personal email: barbarakap63@ gmail.com, mobile: +381 63 425 817.  NEW MEMBERS - RC Beograd Dedinje LAZAR JAKOVLJEVIĆ, senior real estate trade consultant in Dubai, UAE. MA degree in business planning and strategy in the field of business and economy, born on 16 October 1980 in Belgrade; married. Worked in Belgrade as a sales and marketing director at the hotel Tulip Inn Putnik Belgrade, as a development director at the Press Publishing Group – Press daily newspaper, and as a sales manager at Intesa Leasing Belgrade – Banka Intesa. Proficient in the English language. Dubai address: JLT, Lake City Tower 2406, telephone number: +97155 369 28 10, email: [email protected]  Page4

DISTRICT GROWTH 1 July 2015 - 1 July 2016 Membership trends by clubs MEMBERS LOST (more than 2 members) Beograd Balkan 11 WINNERS (net growth) Beograd Singidunum 11 Šabac Beograd Dedinje 8 Beograd Dunav 8 Beograd Vračar 6 Budva 4 Niš Konstantin Veliki 6 Zemun 3 Sombor 6 Beograd-Metropolitan 3 Beograd Novi Beograd 5 Beograd Skadarlija 2 Kraljevo 5 Loznica 2 Pljevlja 4 Novi Sad Alma Mons 2 Niš Mediana 4 Požarevac Viminacium 2 RC Beograd 4 Veliko Gradište 2 Zrenjanin 4 Beograd Čukarica 2 Beograd 3 Beograd Stari Grad 1 Bijelo Polje 3 Kula 1 Čačak 3 Leskovac 1 Kikinda 3 Subotica 1 Novi Sad 3 Užice 1 Palić 3 1 NEWLY ESTABLISHED CLUBS Smederevo 3 E club D2483 (another 13 clubs have lost 1 or 2 members) Beograd Kalemegdan SUSPENDED/TERMINATED CLUBS suspended RC Beograd International RC Stari Bečej terminated RC Kragujevac Šumadija merged SAME NUMBER OF MEMBERS Bačka Topola Bar Bor Jagodina Kruševac Novi Sad - Dunav Pančevo Mihailo Pupin Pirot Senta Sremska Mitrovica Stara Pazova Ulcinj Page5