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1. A presentation by Rtn. Prakash Saraswat – DGSC, District 3170, India

2. The Rotary Foundation was born as an
endowment fund in 1917, the
brainchild of RI President Arch C.
Klumph.
It was reborn 12 years later in the form
we know today, The Rotary
Foundation of Rotary international.
However, it wouldn’t be until after the
passing of Paul P. Harris in 1947 that
TRF would reach the financial health
and world importance that it enjoys
today.

3.  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 Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation
supported solely by voluntary contributions
from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation
who share its vision of a better world.

4.  The Rotary Foundation enables Rotarians to advance
world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the
improvement of health, the support of education, and
the alleviation of poverty
 Rotary Foundation grants support Rotarian efforts to
change lives and serve communities through projects
that promote peace, fight disease, provide clean water,
save mothers and children, support education, and
grow local economies.

5.  PolioPlus
For more than 25 years, Rotary has been a leader in the
global effort to eradicate polio.
 Peace Centers
Fellowship recipients prepare for a leadership role in
peace and conflict resolution.
 Foundation grants
Grants support Rotarians in their humanitarian,
vocational, and educational activities.

6.  PolioPlus, the most ambitious program
in Rotary's history, is the volunteer arm
of the Global Polio Eradication
Initiative.
 For more than 25 years, Rotary has led
the private sector in the global effort to
rid the world of this crippling disease.
 Today, PolioPlus and its role in the
initiative is recognized worldwide as a
model of public-private cooperation in
pursuit of a humanitarian goal.
 To date, Rotary has contributed more
than US$1 billion.

7. Rotary Peace Fellows are leaders
promoting national and international
cooperation, peace, and the successful
resolution of conflict throughout their
lives, in their careers, and through service
activities.
Fellows can earn either a master’s degree
in international relations, public
administration, sustainable development,
peace studies, conflict resolution, or a
related field, or a professional
development certificate in peace and
conflict resolution

8. Fellows are chosen from countries and cultures around the
globe based on their ability to have a significant, positive
impact on world peace and conflict resolution during their
careers.
Rotary Peace Centers:
 Chulalongkorn University , Bangkok, Thailand
(professional development center)
 Duke University and University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill , USA
 International Christian University , Tokyo, Japan
 University of Bradford , West Yorkshire, England
 University of Queensland , Brisbane, Australia
 Uppsala University , Uppsala, Sweden

9. Humanitarian Grants
The following Foundation Humanitarian Grants are being
phased out, but applications are being accepted through 31
March 2013.
 District Simplified Grants
 Matching Grants
Educational Programs
The following Foundation Educational Programs are being
phased out, but scholarships and exchanges funded during
the last fiscal year will continue through 2012-13.
 Ambassadorial Scholarships
 Group Study Exchange (GSE)

10. The Rotary Foundation’s Group Study Exchange (GSE)
program is a unique cultural and vocational
exchange opportunity for businesspeople and
professionals between the ages of 25 and 40 who are in
the early stages of their careers.
The program provides travel grants for teams to
exchange visits in paired areas of different countries.
For four to six weeks, team members experience the
host country's culture and institutions, observe how
their vocations are practiced abroad, develop personal
and professional relationships, and exchange ideas.

11.  Since 1947, a total of $532 million has been awarded to 41,000
men and women.
 The Ambassadorial Scholarships program promotes
international understanding and friendly relations among
people of different parts of the world.
 The scholarships sponsor undergraduate and graduate students,
as well as qualified professionals pursuing vocational studies.
While abroad, scholars serve as goodwill ambassadors to the
country where they study and give presentations about their own
culture to Rotary clubs and other groups. Back home, scholars
share with Rotarians and others the experiences that deepened
their understanding of another culture.
 Through their generous contributions, Rotarians worldwide
show a continued faith that today’s scholars will be tomorrow's
community and world leaders.

13. A 10-month-old boy is
treated for severe
burns at Clinica del
Nino Sano: Borrando
Huellas ("Erasing
Scars") in Guatemala
City, Guatemala, a
pediatric burn clinic. It
is the only non-
immediate burn care
facility in the country
and is supported by
the Rotary Club of
Guatemala Metropoli
and The Rotary
Foundation.

14. Students at a school in
Cluj-Napoca, Romania,
receive coloring books
and a certificate for
completing the year. The
school is provided with
protein-rich meat and
dairy products partly
because of a US$175,000
3-H grant from The
Rotary Foundation that
benefits local farmers. In
exchange for funding, the
farmers agree to give a
portion of their products
to children's facilities
such as this school.

15. At the Bujo Primary School in
Kasamu-Kyali, Mpigi District,
Uganda, groups of children
cluster in the schoolyard to eat
their porridge lunch. The
children here receive a free
lunch five days a week during
the school year through the
Humanitarian Project Against
Malaria, Poverty, Hunger, and
Illiteracy. Carried out by the
Rotary clubs of Muyenga,
Uganda, and Genk-Noord,
Belgium, the project is made
possible by a Health, Hunger
and Humanity Grant from The
Rotary Foundation.

16. Computers funded by
Rotarians in the children's
section of the library in
Pass Christian,
Mississippi, USA. The
library is part of the City
Hall complex, built by
Rotarians and other
volunteers. After
Hurricane Katrina
devastated the historic
Gulf Coast community in
August 2005, D.H. Short,
2005-06 president of the
Rotary Club of Pass
Christian, went on the
road, raising funds to help
rebuild the town he loved.

17. A Rotary Foundation
Matching Grant
provided Jhoole with
looms and other
equipment, 1,500
pounds of cloth and
thread, and funds to
cover office expenses,
publicity, and website
design. It also covered
the cost of training in
weaving, sewing, and
personal finance from
the Indore School of
Social Work.

18. THE GIFT OF LIFE
PROGRAM, which began in
1975, is today a worldwide
Rotary International Service
Program. Its primary purpose
is to help those needy
children who require
corrective heart surgery
secure another lease on life
through the miracle of open-
heart surgery in a Gift of Life
Participating Hospital.

19. The Rotary Jaipur Limb
Project revolves around
Limb camps, with
thousands of patients
turning up for help, but
in Africa and other
countries outside India
they establish new
permanent centres and
provide on-going support
for them by way of
technician training,
materials and equipment.

20. A school bus to the
Ashadeep School for the
Specially Challenged
Children under the
Matching Grant project of
the Rotary Foundation.
The school bus will serve
the need of the specially
challenged children
students of the school and
also of those challenged
children of Mormugao
taluka who due to
unavailability of dedicated
transport could not have
access to the school.

21. 600 Cataract
Surgeries being
carried out by
Rotary Club of
Belgaum South
under a TRF
matching
Grant.

22. Drinking water
connections to
210 BPL family's
in Kaviyoor
village,Thiruvall
a Kerala India
with support of
Rotary club of
Slough UK RI
Dist 1090

23. In a single year
(2011-12) 530 toilets
for 530 families have
been planned in
District 3170:
 160 Toilets under
Matching Grants
 370 Toilets under
District Simplified
Grants

26.  The "Paul Harris Fellow" designation
(later to become "Paul Harris Fellow
Recognition" was created in 1957 to
recognize the gift of US$1,000 to The
Rotary Foundation.
•The first Paul Harris Fellow was Al Brush, from the
Rotary Club of Laurel Mississippi. He became the first
Paul Harris Fellow in 1957.
•In many countries a ‘PHF’ is still considered an award
and Clubs decide on who will be a ‘PHF’ and who will
pay the $1000

27. Club recognition Individual donors
Rotary clubs in which all dues- The Rotary Foundation offers
paying members are Paul Harris
Fellows are eligible to receive a several ways to recognize
one-time special recognition Rotarians and friends for
banner. their generous support.
 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club
 Sustaining Member
The following recognitions are
awarded annually at the conclusion  Benefactor
of the Rotary year
 Bequest Society
 100% Rotary Foundation
Sustaining Member Club  Paul Harris Fellow
 Every Rotarian, Every Year Club  Major Donor (level 1- 4)
 Top three per capita in Annual
Fund giving  Arch C. Klumph Society

28.  Through SHARE , Rotary districts choose which Rotary Foundation
grants and programs they wish to support and participate in.
 At the end of each Rotary year, 50 percent of each district's
contributions to the Annual Fund -- SHARE is credited to their District
Designated Fund (DDF); the other 50 percent is credited to the World
Fund.
 The three-year cycle gives districts time for planning projects, selecting
participants, and budgeting expenditures. This cycle also allows the
Foundation to invest the contributions and spend the investment
earnings on administrative and fund development costs.
 The system is called SHARE because
1. Rotarians share their resources with fellow Rotarians around the
world
2. The Trustees share some of their decision-making responsibility with
the districts
3. Rotarians share Rotary with the world through their Foundation

29. The new grant model (2013-14 onwards) includes:
 District grants
Block grants that help clubs and districts address
immediate needs in their communities and abroad
 Global grants
Range from $15,000 to $200,000 and offer opportunities to
participate in strategically focused, high-impact activities
within the six areas of focus
 Packaged grants
Enable clubs and districts to work with Rotary's strategic
partners on predesigned projects and activities

30. Global grants will support large international projects
with sustainable, high-impact outcomes in the six areas
of focus that correspond to the Foundation's mission.
Peace and conflict prevention/resolution
Disease prevention and treatment
Water and sanitation
Maternal and child health
Basic education and literacy
Economic and community development

31.  Eradicating polio
 Basic education
and literacy
 Promoting peace
and conflict
resolution
Contributions to the Every Rotarian,  Reducing child
Every Year (EREY) initiative, are the mortality
primary source of funding for
Foundation programs.  Fighting hunger