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This week: June 12, 2026 - TBA - TBA
Anne Peyer, Director of Vocational Services at Cornerstone Montgomery. It is the largest and most comprehensive mental health organization in Montgomery Coounty. They served 437 adults and 146 youth last year.
One in four adults (approximately 61.5 million Americans) experience mental illness in a given year. One in seventeen (about 13.6 million) live with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, major depression or bipolar disorder. Cornerston’s employment rate is 3-4 times the national average. About 70% of people with disabilities want to work but only 14-20% are actually working.
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, so let’s take action! You can get involved. Many here have already done mock interviews and become business mentors…. The more people that know the truth about hi-ring their job seekers, the more people they can reach and help.
Our member, Barrie Friedman, can answer your questions and handle our referrals about job opportunities.
Last Week Former District Governor Andy Baum spoke on the requirements and the process for obtaining project grants from RI or the District. Fundable projects may be local, domestic or international and may involve several clubs. To become eligible for District funds a club should ordinarily have donated $50.00 per capita.
Projects are favored that promise sustainability and success, that have strong leadership and have access to the relevant expertise.
RI maintains a “terms and conditions” statement to be consul-ted by clubs requesting support. Clubs applying for funds from the District or RI should go to www.rotary.org, which contains all the information needed to apply. The tab “explore grants” is of particular interest. Applications to RI must be re-viewed and seconded by the District. The District favors direct, active involvement by a club or clubs rather than mere financial assistance.
“Global grants,” which normally exceed $30,000, support projects in which clubs abroad are active partners. It is crucial that all participating clubs be “certified” by RI, that is, be in good standing. In our club, Barry Thompson is well-informed on the application requirements.
In March 2009 the Fed started buying US bonds by placing an IOU with the US Treasury, thus monetizing the debt. The IOU’s (Quantitave Easing, “QE”) are now $3T, and has set in motion a global currency war. The QE risks are run away inflation or callaps of the US $ as a global reserve currency. This could cause a financial collapse much worse than 2008-9. Steve Emerickk suggests that we should consider investing part of our IRA in rare tangible assets as a hed-ge against a US financial crisis. Steve represents Asset Strategies Internatio-nal, ASI. One can buy, sell, and store rare assets by internet using ASI Pre-cious Metals Direct. The storage can be off shore. Rare tangible assets can be bullion coins and bars (in Global Gold Swiss Storage), gold or silver money, numismatics, offshore real estate, Perth mint certificates, and/or rare stamps through Stanley Gibbons Ltd ( with stor-age in Chanel Islands Guerney and Jer-sey plus Hong Kong and Singapo-re). Steve also recommends 90% silver US dimes, quarters, and half $’s minted before 1965 in case the banks and credit cards are shut down. Steve Emerick can be contacted at seme-rick@assetstrategies.com.
