Over the past three years, Roswell Rotary has continued to assess how we recruit, engage, and attract the right balance of membership in our club. During the Strategic Planning process we identified the need to broaden our base of qualified members by seeking specific members to provide a better representation of our community. Rather than accept all comers, RRC now actively pursues civic and business leaders that can further strengthen our club with skills and contacts in the community that are unrepresented or lacking in our club. We have further tightened up the process of vetting potential new members to ensure that they have the same passion for "Service Above Self" This has slowed down our normal influx of new members this year but has paid off with highly qualified members who drink the Kool Aid. As a result, our retention rate this year is at 100% as of this writing. Furthermore, through this effort; this year, we have been able to increase our Fundraising dollars which allowed us not only to distribute $200,000 to local charities and fund our 8th Honor Air trip to Washington DC for Veterans; but also, to provide a chartered flight to the 911 Memorial in New York City to honor 40 First Responders from the greater Roswell area.