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How The Rotary Foundation spends its funds

14 Thursday Dec 2017

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The Annual Report

Past District Governor Bill Pollard posted a link to the online Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation 2016-2017  this week on the Rotary D7600 Foundation Committee Facebook page.

A click brought us to this description of how The Rotary Foundation spent its funds. The numbers are amazing:

  • Polio Plus: $108 million
  • Global Grants: $73 million (net of returned funds and other adjustments)
  • District Grants: $26 million
  • Program Operations: $23 million
  • Fund Development: $9 million
  • General Administration: $5 million
  • Peace Centers: $5 million

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With our giving in District 7600 we are part of the worldwide reach of The Rotary Foundation. What we donate in the 2017-18 year will be of benefit to others in future years.

There is also an incisive report on our efforts to prevent disease and on the status of Pollio Eradication.  Please take the time to take a peek at the Annual Report.

 

 

 

Fall is upon us … Upcoming Events

05 Tuesday Sep 2017

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District Conference – Sept 22 – 24:

There is still time to register on the dacdb.com Calendar.  Come for the entire conference or pick a day or a dinner.  There is a lot offered this year.  You can learn more on www.rotary7600, including this nifty schedule of events.  Remember that registration is on dacdb.com Calendar.

Silent Auction at Conference to benefit Polio Plus- Sept 23:

 

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Colleen Bonadonna (L) And Diana M. Waters on 2017 National Immunization Day in India.

Colleen Bonadonna of the New Kent Club and the District Polio Plus Chairs shares this information on the silent auction. Silent Auction at District Conference to Benefit Polio Plus,

Round 2 ($25,000) of District Grant Deadline Oct 2:

The first round of District Grant applications has been approved and there is $25,000.00 remaining in the block grant allocation. Round 2 opened on September 2 with a closing deadline of Monday, 2 October 2017. If you plan to submit an application, please read the directions closely as incomplete submissions will not be considered.

Help is available through your Area Governor, Grant committee members or me. We will review draft applications for procedural deficiencies. Your grant will be evaluated by the committee based on the checklist (2017-18) Final and the selectees will be announced on or about 16 October 2017.

Yours in Rotary Service,
Chuck
District Rotary Foundation Chair

Save the date for the District Rotary Foundation Awards Banquet – Nov 9:

The Banquet will be at the Colonial Heritage Golf Club in Williamsburg on November 9 with light pre-dinner refreshments, music, and a cash bar.  Registration for the Banquet will be available on dacdb.calendar on September 25, 2017.  More details to follow soon. Carol Woodward may be contacted for more details as the details are available.

 

Facebook live video and learning

08 Tuesday Aug 2017

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The attendees at the Foundation Workshop had an adventure:

The 45 or so attendees at the Foundation Workshop who had brought their smartphones, Rotarians Facebooktablets, or laptops got the chance to engage with live videoing of the topics presented by the superior Foundation leaders on August 5. After turning their volume down on their devices they were invited to join the live videos, adding comments, and posting “#rotary7600”  periodically.  There were a few amusing discoveries, e.g., one must have a Facebook account to join in, but a couple of folks signed up that day.   Others were delighted to see how easy it was to join in on the fun on their smartphones.

None of this would have been possible without the able phone camera work by Sarah Hanbury and Shel Douglas of the Prince George Club, who served as the mentors and videographers at the workshop.  These videos are about 15 minutes or so in length and were videoed by topic.  They can all be seen by scrolling down the District Foundation’s Facebook page, clicking on the big arrow in the middle of the image, and turning the sound up on your device.  OR you can view all of the videos on the ‘Documents & Videos’ tab on this website.

We are also exploring how to upload them to YouTube and to the District Website, but did you know that you can share the videos from Facebook to your own club’s Facebook page or at least the administrators or editors for your club’s page can.  Talk with them about it.

For the moment … here we share one of the videos.  This is Joy Kline Annual Fund Chair for the District Foundation Committee extolling how well the District did this last year in exceeding our giving goals.

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