2. Celebrating 100 Years of Doing Good in the World
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Celebrating 100 Years of Doing Good in the World
Jean-Mark Giboux

3. The Rotary Foundation’s Mission
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The Rotary Foundation’s Mission
The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
The Rotary Foundation is a primary source of funding for Rotary’s humanitarian activities, from clubs’ and districts’ local service projects to global initiatives. It also leads Rotary’s ongoing effort to eradicate polio worldwide.
Our Foundation is able to achieve its mission through the generous contributions and active participation of Rotarians and friends of Rotary.
100 YEARS OF DOING GOOD IN THE WORLD

4. The Rotary Foundation’s Centennial Year — 2016-17
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The Rotary Foundation’s Centennial Year —
2016 The centennial celebration begins at the Rotary International Convention in Seoul, Korea, 28 May to 1 June
2017 The celebration culminates at the
Rotary International Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June
In , The Rotary Foundation will celebrate its 100th anniversary. The centennial festivities will begin at the 2016 convention in Seoul and end with a celebration at the 2017 convention in Atlanta.
All Rotarians are invited to join in this year of celebration. Clubs can organize centennial events to share our Foundation’s many successes with their communities. You can also continue the Foundation’s tradition of Doing Good in the World by supporting and participating in global and district grant projects. Or you can honor the Foundation’s history by contributing to the Annual Fund, the Endowment Fund, the PolioPlus Fund, or the Rotary Peace Centers.
In 1917, the seeds of the Foundation were planted with a call to action from the Rotary president and a contribution of $ Today, The Rotary Foundation has $1 billion in assets and an impressive record of improving millions of lives.
Our Foundation has come a long way — let’s take a look at how we got here.
EXTRA: See more ways to celebrate the centennial at

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Arch Klumph’s Vision — 1917
It seems eminently proper that we should accept endowments for the purpose of doing good in the world, in charitable, educational or other avenues of community progress … — Arch Klumph, 1917
Arch Klumph is called the father of the Foundation because he had the vision of a Rotary endowment fund and the dedication to bring this dream to life.
As president of the Rotary Club of Cleveland, Ohio, USA, in 1913, he advocated for the club to build a reserve that would ensure its means to do future good work. As president of Rotary in , he proposed this idea to a larger audience.
In his speech to the 1917 convention in Atlanta, he said: “It seems eminently proper that we should accept endowments for the purpose of doing good in the world, in charitable, educational or other avenues of community progress …”
Arch’s vision of an endowment would eventually become The Rotary Foundation, and his call for “doing good in the world” was to become the Foundation’s motto. But it would take some time for all of that to happen.

6. First Contribution — 1917 7/2/2018
In 1917, the Rotary Club of Kansas City, Missouri, USA, made the first contribution, $26.50, to the endowment fund that Arch Klumph had suggested in his convention speech. But for almost a decade, the endowment went largely unknown and received very few contributions.

7. Rotary Peace Centers — 1999 7/2/2018
The Foundation launched The Rotary Centers for International Studies in 1999 in cooperation with several leading universities throughout the world. These Rotary Peace Centers welcomed the inaugural class of peace fellows in the fall of 2002.
Through academic training, study, and practice, the Rotary Peace Centers program develops leaders who become catalysts for peace and conflict prevention and resolution in their communities and around the globe.
Each year, up to 100 Rotary Peace Fellows are chosen to participate in a master’s degree or certificate program at one of our six centers.
Graduates of the program are reintegrating refugees in Sudan, creating jobs for disadvantaged women in India, and supporting reconstruction in devastated regions of the world.
After the 2010 earthquake that destroyed much of Haiti, former peace fellow Louisa Dow (shown here at left) worked for Habitat for Humanity, helping displaced families find safe permanent housing.
EXTRAS: Read about the work peace fellows are doing:

8. A Simplified Grant Model — 2013
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A Simplified Grant Model — 2013
At the start of the 21st century, Foundation programs were doing a great deal of good in the world. But Rotary leaders began to worry about how long the Foundation could sustain the wide assortment of programs that had evolved over the years.
In 2004, Rotary started to look for a remedy to the increasing costs of administering these ever-expanding programs. It began work on what became known as the Future Vision Plan, in which the Foundation would offer just three types of grants: district grants, global grants, and packaged grants.
From 2010 to 2013, 100 districts participated in a pilot of Future Vision, and the new grant model was put into place worldwide in The Foundation discontinued Matching Grants, Ambassadorial Scholarships, Group Study Exchange, and other programs, though the new grants retained many of their features. Not long after, it also discontinued the new packaged grants.

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District Grants
District grants fund small-scale, short-term activities that address needs in local communities and communities abroad. Each district chooses which activities it will fund with these grants. Some districts choose to allocate smaller grants to support several club projects.
District grants can fund many kinds of district and club efforts, including:
Humanitarian projects, including service travel and disaster recovery efforts
Scholarships for any level, length of time, location, or area of study
Vocational training teams
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Salim Najar

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global Grants
Global grants support large-scale international activities with sustainable, measurable outcomes in one or more of Rotary’s six areas of focus. Grant sponsors form international partnerships and work together to develop projects that respond to real community needs.
Global grants can fund:
Humanitarian projects
Scholarships for graduate-level academic studies
Vocational training teams
For example, the global grant project shown on the right supports a mobile repair shop that travels to cities in Mexico. Disabled workers employed by a project partner design, fabricate, and repair specialty wheelchairs and custom wheeled devices. Rotary clubs in each city coordinate permits, access to electricity, housing for workers, and marketing.
Another global grant in Burkina Faso, shown on the left, installed a well in an area where droughts are frequent and women and children had to walk several kilometers a day to get water. Many local residents watched the drilling continue through the night, excited by the promise of having clean drinking water.

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Global Grants
A global grant project sponsored by a Rotary club in Honduras and clubs from District 5340 in California, USA, helps poor women in Honduras become self-sufficient business owners.
Shown here is Remigia Dominguez, who heads a weaving cooperative of 12 women. They support their business through microcredit loans from Rotary and project partner Adelante.
EXTRAS: Learn more about this global grant project by reading the story at or watching a video at vimeo.com/

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PolioPlus
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Donor Recognition
The Foundation’s first form of donor recognition was Paul Harris Fellow recognition, which the Foundation began using in 1957 to express appreciation for donations of more than $1,000. Donors are named Multiple Paul Harris Fellows with each additional eligible gift of $1,000. Donors may also name another person as a Paul Harris Fellow by donating in his or her honor.
The number of Paul Harris Fellows reached the 1 million mark in 2006, and more than 1.5 million have been named to date
Apart from being Paul Harris Fellows, some donors become members of the Paul Harris Society. These are Rotary members and friends of Rotary who contribute $1,000 or more yearly to the Annual Fund, PolioPlus, or approved Foundation global grants. This form of recognition was administered by districts until 2013, when the Foundation adopted the Paul Harris Society as one of its official programs.
In the 1980s, the Foundation began recognizing contributors who make eligible cumulative donations of $10,000 as Major Donors.
In , the Foundation established Benefactor recognition for donors who either include the Endowment Fund as a beneficiary in their estate plans or donate $1,000 or more to the fund outright.
In 1999, the Trustees started the Bequest Society, which recognizes those who give at least $10,000 to The Rotary Foundation through their estate plans.
EXTRAS:
Learn about donor recognition at
Read more Paul Harris Fellow history at
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Impact
From its first contribution of $26.50, the Foundation’s assets have grown to approximately $1 billion, and more than $3 billion have been spent on programs and projects, transforming millions of lives across the globe.
2.5 billion children have been immunized against polio, reducing cases of the disease by 99.9 percent.
More than 900 Rotary Peace Fellows have been trained to resolve conflict, deal with the aftermath of war, and promote peace.
Hundreds of thousands of people now enjoy access to clean water, heath care, and education, thanks to Foundation humanitarian projects.
EXTRA: Watch a video of Rotary’s impact at vimeo.com/

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We should not live for ourselves alone, but for the joy in doing good for others
— Arch Klumph, 1929
Through the Foundation, Rotary members find satisfaction in serving others. The Foundation offers countless opportunities for all members, alumni, and their friends to do good in their communities and in the world — and to make a real, life-changing difference for people in need.
And because of the Foundation, people around the world recognize Rotary as an agent of positive change in the world.
There are many ways that you can improve lives today and build a better future though Rotary:
Work with an international partner club to develop a project in one of Rotary’s six areas of focus and apply for a global grant
Participate in or support your club or district’s grant projects
Contribute to the Foundation to ensure it can continue to do good in the world for many years to come

16. Presidential Citation
In celebration of our Foundation’s centennial, several of the Citation goals refer to the original donation of $26.50 that started The Rotary Foundation in 1917.
Additionally $536 is the approximate value of $26.50 today

17. Presidential Citation
Clubs must achieve 3 of the following goals
Support the Foundation with $536 or more
At least $26.50 per member
At least $2,650 in total giving to Polio-Plus
A minimum Annual Fund contribution of $100 per capita
Reach a 5-year high in total club giving
Increase total # f Benefactors and Bequest Society members by at least one