SUMMARY OF THE

PAUL HARRIS SERVICE

FELLOWSHIP

Key Purpose of Program

To cultivate, reinforce and promote a culture of volunteerism and service through a program of recognition.

We reward what we value. The PHSF program rewards, by recognition,

those individuals (including non-Rotarians) who provide volunteer service to others.

The PHSF program is meant to reinforce our values and our motto of –

“SERVICE ABOVE SELF.”

Description of Program

Akin to our Paul Harris FellowshipPaul Harris Fellowship program of recognition of financial financial contributioncontribution to the Rotary Foundation, individuals and clubs are recognized by their accumulated hours of service service contributioncontribution.

Each Individual Volunteer’s service time is documented on a Rotary Club’s Service Log Book monthly or periodically.

Both individuals and clubs are recognized for their aggregate service time contributions.

Procedure & Implementation:

Each participating member maintains a record of his / her service hours and reports the total hours monthly.

The clubs provide a monthly report of the total service time of its members in the monthly attendance report.

The DG receives an accumulated quarterly report of members who have attained a PHSF and the total volunteer service time of each club from the District Chair of the volunteer Committee.

Criteria for Credits

Time given to any of the four Avenues of Service, as well as District and RI Service. Preparation for & attendance of Committee

meetings of club, district or RI International Service – Actual time of service

activity NIDs – Standard credit = 40 hours/trip/week Participation in Interact, Rotaract activities, etc. Time for preparation of meetings (club presidents)

District Conference – 4 hours for first time attendance

(the only non-service exception)

Examples of Exclusions:

Basically non-service related Rotary activity such as: club meetings club social event travel time learning activities

other than those directly benefiting the club, i.e. Assembly, etc.

Recognition & Categories of a Paul Harris Service Fellow

250 hrs. of accumulated service time – Bronze PHSF Pin.

500 hrs. of accumulated service time – Silver PHSF Pin.

1,000 hrs. of accumulated service time – Gold PHSF Pin.

2,000-5,000 hrs. accumulated service time – Gold Square PHSF Pin with stonesstones..

Recognition Pins

BRONZE – 250 hrs.BRONZE – 250 hrs. SILVER 500 hrs.SILVER 500 hrs.

GOLD – 1,000 hrs.GOLD – 1,000 hrs.

MAJOR, 1,2 3 & 4 stones ETC.

(Sapphire stones?)

GOLD – 2,000 – 5,000 hrs.GOLD – 2,000 – 5,000 hrs.

CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION

PAUL HARRIS SERVICE FELLOWSHIP CREDITS

INDIVIDUAL VOLUNTEER’S SERVICE LOG SHEET Kept at home, entered at the volunteers convenience with the given guidelines (and the 4-Way Test) and reported to club monthly

NAME OF ROTARIAN: Joe BlowRC of the Arroyos / Month__________________ YEAR: 2006 - 2007

DATE DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE HOURS

7/6/2006 4TH of July fireworks event, YMCA Committee 6

7/13/2006

Community Service Committee 1.5

7/20/2006

Interact activity & Attendance Monitor 2.5

7/27/2006

Board Meeting, Rotary Information preparation 3

8/4/2006 YMCA Committee, RYLA Meeting 3.5

8/11/2006

Writing article for Bulletin 2

8/18/2006

Writing Matching Grant 3

Total Hours 21.5

PAUL HARRIS SERVICE FELLOWSHIP CREDITSCLUB REPORT FORM retained in club’s log book (Report TOTAL CLUB SERVICE HOURS onlyin a column on the Monthly Attendance Report)

DATE Name of member Volunteer Hours

7/30/2006

Joe Blow 21.5

7/30/2006

Betty Brass 13

Etc.

Total 33.5

Name of Club: Club of the Arroyos

(Signed by Club President)_______________________________________

MEMBERSHIP AND ATTENDANCE REPORT

Rotary Club of ________________________________________________ Month of _________________________________ 2006/07

Total membership (except honorary members)at the end of the month ______

Average attendance percentage for the month _______ Number of meetings held _______ New Members _______ Terminated Members _______ Reason for termination(s)____________________________________ If any meeting was canceled, give date and

reason:__________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Volunteer Hours for MonthVolunteer Hours for Month _______ _______

_______________________________

Secretary

Enter your club’s total Paul Harris Service Hours under Enter your club’s total Paul Harris Service Hours under Volunteer Hours for Volunteer Hours for MonthMonth, along with the other data on the Membership and Attendance Report, along with the other data on the Membership and Attendance Report

Thanks for participating.Final Comments:

This is a pioneer program in our district and we appreciate your forbearance and cooperation. We ask that each club observes the guidelines, but feels free to modify them to what works best and correlates with the club’s consensus.

Each club will share their positive and negative experiences at the Mid-Terms and we hope to derive further and modified standard guidelines at that time, based on our joint experiences.

If there are questions, or a need for further clarification, please contact:

Wade Nomura– Chair of D-5240 Volunteer Committeewnomura@verizon.net / 805-448-9912

Let’s make it work!

Keep those Wheels turning