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Rotary Foundation Information

Rotary Foundation Information. District 5790 V 1.1. JP Lucas. contents. RF Background Purpose Major Programs What are they? How does our Rotary club participate? Recognition Programs Levels and Criteria. Background.

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Rotary Foundation Information

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  1. Rotary FoundationInformation District 5790 V 1.1 JP Lucas

  2. contents • RF Background • Purpose • Major Programs • What are they? • How does our Rotary club participate? • Recognition Programs • Levels and Criteria

  3. Background • Started in 1917 with a gift of $26.50 from the Kansas City Club (leftover profit from the international convention) • Initiated by RI Pres Arch Klumph • First gift that year was to the International Society for Crippled Children. • Now more than $55M is contributed annually.

  4. World Understanding and Peace Through Local/National/International Programs Humanitarian/Educational/Cultural Purpose

  5. Foundation Programs PolioPlus & Polio Partners Matching Grants Group Study Exchange University Teachers Health, Hunger, Humanity Peace Programs & Scholarships Ambassadorial Scholar

  6. How do Rotarians Participate Contributions /YR > $100 (each member) plus Personal Involvement

  7. PolioPlus and Polio Partners • $600,000,000 for global polio eradication since 1985. • A portion of your Foundation Pledge makes this possible.

  8. Annual MG Projects by a local club 1998-99 Medical Equipment (Mexico) • 1999-2000 (100 eye operations) #115467 • 2000-01 Girls School • Water Well / Books #117008 2001-02 Aids Ed #17281 • 2002-03 El Angel • #321792 2003-04 Health Training #221068 (continued)

  9. MG Projects (continued) 2004-05 Tsunami Relief (#56130) (Indonesia) 2005-06 Wheel Chairs () (Rwanda) 2005-06 (#58832) Transportation (Honduras) 2005-06 Katrina Relief (Louisiana/Mississippi)

  10. How Opportunities Can Expand (El Angel Orphanage) ESL Teaching Grant Discovery Grant Matching Grant Orphan Train

  11. Group Study Exchange Projects • Hosting multiple international exchange groups (India, Russia, Sweden, etc..) • Leading and participating in international exchange visits

  12. Contribution Process Pledge Payment

  13. Contribution Process Pledge RF Annual Programs Payment World Fund Polio Plus Matching Grants

  14. Contribution Process Pledge RF Annual Programs Payment District 5790 50% World Fund Polio Plus Matching Grants Dist Proj

  15. Your $100 contribution to the RF Annual Programs fund helps provide: • A year of education expenses for a child in Thailand • Dental and medical services to 25 poor near Mexico City • Textbooks for a school in Villanueva Columbia • Osteoporosis/Bone density screening for senior citizens in Iowa • An electric transformer for an Orphanage/agricultural training farm in Mongolia • …..

  16. Recognition

  17. Recognition • Sustaining Member • Pledges $100 per year • Paul Harris Fellow - PHF • Has exceeded 1,000 in contributions and/or recognition credits • Benefactor • Bequest of $1K in will • Bequest Society • Bequest of $10K+ in will

  18. Neal Adams Barry Alldredge Jim Ames Bill Anthony Cherry Bailey Ardis Bell ** Bob Bouse ** ~ John Brown Ralph Butts John Deitloff Jim Dunning Bill Ellis Ron Estill ** Dale Harwell Allan Heindel Joe Hennig Zane Hilger Kent Hopkins Carl Jones Sneed Kaker Bud Liles Doug Long Mark Long Sid Lorio Paul Lucas ** ~ Carl Marling Bill McLendon Charles Miller JB Morgan ** Guillermo Olarte Dave Osborne Walter Ott Van Parker Bob Plummer *** ~ Glenn Porterfiled Charles Runnels Gary Short Todd Smith Tom Tennery ** Carl Tyson ~ Allan Weegar Chris Yiantsou ** HEB Paul Harris Fellows ** = Multiple PHFs ~ = Benefactor July 2005

  19. Recognition Credits After becoming a PHF, each dollar that member contributes generates: • a contribution credit to that member • a recognition credit which that member can only use to “recognize another person”.

  20. Customary Recognition Procedures • Members pledge at least 100/yr • First $500 matched by recog credits from existing PHFs to reach the PHF level • As new PHF contributes his next $500 he designates recognition credits to help the next in line. “paying forward to help others become PHFs” but also “is a way of paying back loan of recognition credits”

  21. PLEDGE UPDATE • [_] $25 / Qtr – Sustaining • + • [_] $15 PHF / $15 HHH • [_] $5 Anniv / $5 Birth • Sign___________Date____ SUSTAIN Note: Be sure to pledge $25/Qtr for a Sustaining Badge Sticker!!! 100% = a club banner!!!

  22. Handouts Available • RF Fact sheet • Sustaining Member Program and pledge form • Benefactor Gift Commitment • Recognition/Contribution Form http://www.rotary5790.org http://www.rotary.org/foundation

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