Birmingham Rotaract

What: Professional Partners is a joint program between the Birmingham Rotaract Club and the Downtown Rotary Club of Birmingham.  Participants are chosen from Rotaract through an application process to match with a member of the Downtown Rotary Club.

Why: This program provides members from each club the opportunity to learn more about each other’s professions, to network, and to foster relationships with established  and successful members of the Birmingham community.  It also continues to strengthen the relationship between the Downtown Rotary Club and the Birmingham Rotaract Club.

Who:  Each club will provide ten participants to be paired for the Spring session.  Rotary members will be handpicked, and Rotaract members will go through an application process.

When: The spring session of Professional Partners will run from February to May of 2010. The participants will be notified of their pairings in January. In February the program will be formally introduced at a Downtown Rotary Club meeting with all participants in attendance. This gives each partner the initial opportunity to meet.  Between March and May each pair are encouraged to meet at least twice if not more.  At the end of the program in May, we will have an after work reception to end the program.

Timeline:

Dec. 15^th: Applications due for Rotaract members

 Jan 15^th: Notify participants of their pairings.

 Feb: Announce program at Rotary meeting with all participants in attendance.

 Feb-May: Program and meetings occur

 May:  After work reception to wrap up the program.