Why Plan?
• Preparing for The Rotary Foundation Centennial
• Immense growth
• Relevance in philanthropic world
• Evolving organization
• Rotarian feedback
• Sustainability, significance, simplification
1979 3-H grants and club partnership
1985 PolioPlus campaign launched
1999 Rotary Centers for International Studies
2000 10,000 Matching Grants approved since 1965
2003 District Simplified Grants launched
2004 Another 10,000 Matching Grants approved
2005 Future Vision Committee begins
2007 Gates $100 Million Challenge for polio
2008 Another 10,000 Matching Grants approved
2009 Gates commits additional $255 million for
$200 Million Challenge
Growth of the Foundation
Objectives of Future Vision
• Sharpen focus and increase impact of overall grant activity
• Simplify the Foundation’s programs and operations
• Transfer more decision-making to the local level
• Increase visibility, image and resources
Rotary Foundation Motto & Mission
Doing Good in the World…to enable Rotarians to advance world
understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of
education, and the alleviation of poverty.
COL Endorsed, April 2007
Rotary Foundation District Grants
• Simple, flexible, innovative
• Educational and humanitarian activities consistent with the mission
• Single “block” grant awarded annually
• Smaller activities and projects
• Fund both local or international activities
• Local decision making with broader guidelines
Examples of Activity
District Grants — Mission-related
• Exchange of mixed profession vocational training teams with another district (traditional GSE)
• International travel for local doctor to volunteer at a clinic
• Scholarship for student to attend local or international university
• Donating art supplies to assist youth after-school program
• Send ShelterBox containers in response to natural disaster in another district
Rotary Foundation Global Grants
• Long-term projects
• Rotarian participation
• Larger grant awards
• Sustainable outcomes
• Support the Areas of Focus
• Provide World Fund match
• Basic Education and Literacy
• Disease Prevention and Treatment
• Economic and Community Development
• Maternal and Child Health
• Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution
• Water and Sanitation
Areas of Focus
Examples of Activity
Global Grants Relate to Areas of Focus
• International safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene education project
• Send scholar abroad to enroll in water engineering degree program
• International malaria project to distribute bed nets and malaria treatments
• Send vocational training team abroad to participate in workshop and learn teaching methods to address adult illiteracy
Pilot Districts
Rotary World – Pilot Districts Comparison
World Pilot WorldPilot
USA & Canada 31% 28% Asia (Zones 4B, 6B) 3% 4%
Western Europe 18% 16% Korea 3% 3%
Latin America 15% 18% Sub-Saharan Africa 3% 5%
Japan 6% 6% Philippines 2% 2%
India 6% 7% Mid East & N. Africa 1% 1%
R.I.B.I. 5% 4% Central/Eastern Europe 1% 1%
Austral/N. Zeal/PI 5% 5% Caribbean Islands 1% 0%
Working in the Pilot
Pilot Districts
• District Grant activities can be conducted in both pilot and non-pilot districts
• Global Grants require international partnership between 2 pilot districts
Working in the Pilot
Non-Pilot Districts
• District Simplified Grant activities can be conducted in both pilot and non-pilot districts
• Can send scholars and GSE teams to both pilot and non-pilot districts
• Matching Grants are exclusively non-pilot districts
Qualification
• Clubs and districts must be qualified to receive Rotary Foundation funds
• Ensures proper legal, financial, and stewardship controls of grants
• Qualification process is simple
• Goal for every district to become qualified
• Districts will be trained to qualify their clubs
Resources
• RI Web site (www.rotary.org)
– Future Vision Pilot News
– FV e-learning modules
– Terms and Conditions for District and Global Grants
• Future Vision Pilot Operations Staff
Staff contact sheet is posted on RI Web site
• District Leadership
DGE, DRFC, Grants subcommittee members