Action 2 Impact Podcast

10/31/2025

A talent showcase held by the Rotary Club of Carpinteria in California has raised more than $325,000 since 2009. The club has used the funds for service projects, including purchasing about 300 musical instruments for children and awarding around 100 college scholarships. A sellout for the 16th stra...

10/31/2025

The morning Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in 2013, the sky above Manila turned a bruised gray. At the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in the Philippines’ capital city, phones started ringing. Dr. Estrella “Star” Jusi, then head of the hospital’s milk bank — one of the first in the countr...

10/31/2025

Rotary’s new peace fellows converged on Istanbul’s Bahçeşehir University from countries thousands of miles apart: Egypt, Bulgaria, Kenya, Jordan, and beyond. But they lost no time in finding out what they had in common.

10/31/2025

Colombian 20-something Yuliana Andrea David Hidalgo’s life has been defined by the crossfire in her nation’s decades-long war between government and rebel forces, complicated by the violence of drug cartels and criminal gangs.

10/31/2025

As a teenager in southern Italy in 2005, Maria Vittoria “Mavi” Gargiulo was “kind of forced” to join an Interact club that her father’s Rotary club was trying to reestablish. The students wore suits (or at least coats and ties), and the atmosphere was very formal. “Everybody was pretendi...

10/23/2025

Welcome back Nan McCreadie and Stephanie Urchick ! Their here to tell us all about this years Rotary Poetry Contest.

Grab a pen or pencil, some paper too and try your hand at poetry . The Contest starts Nov.1st 2025

Welcome back Nan Mc Creadie and Stephanie Urchick ! Their here to tell us all about this years Rotary Poetry Contest.Grab a pen or pencil, some paper too and try your hand at poetry . The Contest starts Nov.1st 2025

10/23/2025

You’ve likely heard a lot about polio in recent weeks. Rotary members talk about it all year, but never more than in the month leading up to World Polio Day on 24 October. It’s one of the most important days of the year for Rotary — a time to reaffirm our nearly four-decade commitment to elimi...

10/20/2025

Most workplaces have an employee like Peter Lee. His job title may be office administration assistant, but it’s more accurate to say he’s the go-to guy.

10/17/2025

For the 17th consecutive year, The Rotary Foundation has received the highest rating — four stars — from Charity Navigator, an independent evaluator of charities in the U.S.

10/08/2025

This week is part ! of a 2 part Conversation about Conversations.

Friend of the show Brian Rusch joins me to talk about some of the conversations that are causing some real controversies. Mainly Dubai and the walk out on a speaker at this years convention in Calgary.

Are Rotarians loosing their skill of "Hearing Both Sides" Is the political climate just getting so hard to navigate that we can't just hear both sides?

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This week is part ! of a 2 part Conversation about Conversations. Friend of the show Brian Rusch joins me to talk about some of the conversations that are causing some real controversies. Mainly Dubai and the walk out on a speaker at this yea...

10/02/2025

10/02/2025

Editor's note: Jane Goodall, a renowned chimpanzee researcher and conservationist, died on 1 October 2025. This Q&A was originally published in the March 2009 issue of The Rotarian [now Rotary magazine]. That same year, she delivered a keynote address at the Rotary International Convention in Birmin...