Matching Grants TRF Seminar 2012 (Call someone up to the front to take notes) Raise your hand if you have been actively involved with creating or implementing a matching grant? What causes the difficulties? (Have the scribe write down the issues) Our goal today, is to find solutions to those issues. TRF Seminar 2012

www.matchinggrants.org ROTARIAN WITH A PASSION DISTRICT GRANTS CHAIR ROTARY CONTACT CENTER WWW.ROTARY.ORG DISTRICT GRANTS CHAIR ROTARIAN WITH A PASSION www.matchinggrants.org Email questions to grants@rotary.org or call direct to TRF Country Coordinator OTHER ROTARY CLUBS

You Can Do It! Lot of Resources in Your Club, District, Zone and with the Foundation Just Do One Step at a Time There’s a Lot of Help Not Hard Break Up Work and Delegate Tasks. Get Started on Your Grant

Matching Grants Address humanitarian conditions that benefit a community in need Direct Rotarian involvement Engages at least two countries (host and international) 1:1 match for DDF and 0.5:1 match for cash contributions Let’s start with an overview of Matching Grants What is a Matching Grant? Can you give me a definition or list the characteristics? What it does? How it does it? Matching Grants is currently the most popular grant type within Humanitarian Grants. Matching Grants are intended to assist Rotary clubs and districts in carrying out humanitarian projects that will benefit a community in need. As with all of the grants offered by Humanitarian Grants, Matching Grant projects must involve active Rotarian participation. Matching Grants “match” Rotary clubs or districts in at least two countries. The club or district in the project country is the host partner, and the club or district outside the country is the international partner. As the name of the grant indicates, Matching Grants provide a match to funds raised by Rotary clubs and districts. Approved applications will receive a 50% match on every dollar of cash contributions and a 100% match for every dollar of DDF contributions.

Two Paths to Take on Grant Join with Experienced Club Learn by Joining Effort for First Grant Best First Step to Learning About Grants Less Work and Able to Do Part of Work Give Your Club Better Chance of Success Write Your Own Club Grant Club & Host Decide on Specific Project More Control Over Project More Planning and Work Involved

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KAUNAS RC, LITHUANIA (HOST) BRANDERMILL RC (INTERNATIONAL PARTNER) CHICAGOLAND RC (TRIPLE CLUB CONTRIBUTOR) $5000 DDF $3000 APF EXCHANGE SOROCABA, BRAZIL (HOST) DISTRICT 6950 (INTERNATIONAL) NOFOLK RC (CONTRIBUTOR) $6000 DDF $3000 APF EXCHANGE RWANDA NEWPORT NEWS and ??? BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY (cooperating org) $25000 DDF $16000 APF exchange

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