Quota International — We Change Lives

Activities and Speaker

Club Sales Room

Convention is a great opportunity to sell Quota items to raise money for your club or district! Sales space may be rented by clubs and districts for U.S.$25. Use the Club Sales Form (MS Word) to reserve a table and make payment. You are responsible for selling your items during Club Sales Room hours before general sessions and during coffee breaks. Selling items is a wonderful way to meet and greet new Quota friends.

Silent Auction

Our always impressive Silent Auction and first-ever Hula Happy Hour will take place on Wednesday, July 11, directly after Opening Ceremonies. We ask each registrant, club, and district to contribute an item to the auction with a minimum value of $25 for an individual, $50 for a club, or $100 for a district. The money received from your donated items will go to Quota’s Wanda Frey Joiner Development Fund.  Be creative! Previous years’ items have included handmade items, jewelry, art, antiques, books, gift cards, decorative items, vacation properties, and clothing and accessories. We suggest a product that can easily be transported to and from convention in a suitcase. Send in your donation form telling us what you are bringing and be entered in a prize drawing!  Silent Auction Details and Donation Form (MS Word).

Service-on-Site

Small acts of kindness will add up to significant impact at Convention 2012 via this year’s “Service-on-Site” project.  Quota Convention Welcome Committee members will be collecting small toiletries for women participating in the Total Life Recovery Rehabilitation Program at the Women’s Correctional Center in Oahu, Hawaii.  The program helps women rebuild their lives, equipping them with the knowledge and tools they need to live successfully every day with dignity and self-worth. Our Convention 2012 speaker, Tadia Rice, volunteers with this successful program, which is now being replicated nationally.

Specifically, we welcome your donations of small bottles of shampoo and conditioner, soap, toothpaste, sanitary pads, combs, brushes, tissues, lotions, etc. These are wonderful gifts for the women as they are supplied only with minimal amounts of basic, low-quality, state-issued items. In addition, the women would appreciate receiving crochet needles, and more importantly, skeins of yarn of any kind, size, color, or type for a service project they are undertaking. Their Crochet Club makes clothes by hand for children in need. The small toiletries, yarn, and crochet needles are easy to carry in your luggage, so please bring with you what you can!

Convention Speaker

Special guest Tadia Rice (right) will impart the wisdom of Hawaii’s Golden Rule called “The Spirit of Aloha” and how it can empower each of us at Convention’s closing business session, Friday, July 13. Tadia lives on Oahu and is a memorable and motivating author and performer. She helps audiences understand the deeper meaning and greater scope of the meaning of Aloha, and how it can empower each person to increase self-mastery and mental discipline. She identifies obstacles that prevent personal transformation and offers methods to unmask the disguise that often prevents people from achieving goals and becoming their best selves. Practiced for thousands of years by the earliest people of the Hawaiian Islands, the aloha spirit was the working philosophy of over a million native Hawaiians who lived sustainable lives on a few islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Tadia’s unique “out of the box” approach engages audiences to enhance emotional, social, and cultural intelligence.