Sequim Sunrise Rotary - New Leadership Plan

The Sequim Sunrise Rotary Foundation Committee refers to the club's support for RI goals as they relate to international projects like Polio Plus and other projects listed below.

The Director has overall responsibility for planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, reporting, and budgeting all aspects of the Rotary Foundation Committee and its sub-committees. Also included is verbal and written information-sharing with fellow club members, updating "their" pages and the Calendar on the Sequim Sunrise website, providing quality and timely input for the club bulletin, making arrangements with one of the club photographers for photo coverage of events and projects, and regularly attending the monthly Board of Directors meeting. This Rotary Year's Rotary Foundation Director is listed on the "Officers & Directors" page of the web site.

Sequim Sunrise's Rotary Foundation Committee supports the efforts of The Rotary Foundation (TRF) by educational programs on The Rotary Foundation at it's weekly meetings and in the club newsletter, by processing member donations, and by presenting Paul Harris Awards.

Two "hands-on" international projects that club members have participated in, Project Amigo in Colima, Mexico and a project in the Dominican Republic, are now part of the Special Projects Committee in the club's "New Leadership Plan."

The Rotary Foundation supports the efforts of Rotary International in the fulfillment of the Object of Rotary and the achievement of world understanding and peace through local, national, and international humanitarian, educational, and cultural programs.

PolioPlus. Since the PolioPlus program’s inception in 1985, more than two billion children have received oral polio vaccine. To date, 210 countries, territories, and areas around the world are polio-free. As of June 2005, Rotary has committed more than $581 million to global polio eradication.

PolioPlus Partnersis a program that allows Rotarians to participate in the polio eradication effort by supporting National Immunization Days and other polio eradication activities around the world.

Health, Hunger and Humanity (3-H) Grantsfund large-scale, two-to four-year projects that enhance health, help alleviate hunger, or improve human development. Since 1978, 276 projects in 74 countries have been funded at a cost of $71 million.

Matching Grantsprovide matching funds for international service projects of Rotary clubs and districts. Since 1965, 22,000 Matching Grant projects in 166 countries have been funded at a cost of more than $224 million.

District Simplified Grantssupport the short-term service activities or humanitarian endeavors of districts in communities locally or internationally. This program began in 2003-04, and 772 grants have been approved for projects in 57 countries totaling more than $11 million.

Individual Grantssupport the travel of individual Rotarians, spouses of Rotarians, Rotaractors, and qualified Foundation alumni who are planning or implementing service projects. This program began in 2003-04, and 686 projects in 87 countries have been funded.

Solidarity in South Asia. Shortly after the deadly tsunami struck South Asia on December 26, 2004, The Rotary Foundation established the Solidarity in South Asia fund to assist Rotarians in supporting long-term recovery efforts in affected communities.

Rotary World Peace Scholars. Each year up to 70 scholars are sponsored to study at one of the seven Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution for a master’s-level degree. Since the program’s inception in 2002-03, 180 Fellows from 50 different countries have participated.

Ambassadorial Scholarships. The Foundation sponsors one of the largest international scholarship programs in the world. Scholars study in a country other than their own where they serve as unofficial ambassadors of goodwill.

Since 1947, more than 37,000 scholars from some 110 countries have received scholarships

Rotary Grants for University Teachersare awarded to faculty members to teach in a developing nation for 3 to 10 months. Since 1985, 406 university teachers have shared their knowledge with a college or university in a developing country.

Group Study Exchange (GSE). These annual awards are made to paired Rotary districts to provide travel expenses for a team of non-Rotarians from a variety of vocations. Rotarian hosts organize a four- to six-week itinerary of educational and cultural points of interest. Since 1965, more than 52,000 individuals (almost 12,000 teams) from 102 countries have participated in the GSE program.

Paul Harris recognition is The Rotary Foundation’s way of expressing its appreciation for a substantial contribution to its humanitarian and educational programs. It is named for Rotary’s founder, Paul Harris, a Chicago lawyer who along with 3 other business professionals started Rotary in 1905. An outright or cumulative donation of $1,000 qualifies a person

for the Paul Harris Award. All gifts and donations can also be given anonymously.

Contributions to The Rotary Foundation enable TRF to carry out an array of programs that achieve beneficial changes in our world: improved living conditions, increased food production, better education, wider availability of treatment and rehabilitation for the sick and disabled, new channels for the flow of international understanding, and bright hopes for peace.

Rotarians often designate a Paul Harris Fellow as a tribute to a person whose life has demonstrated a shared purpose with the objectives of The Rotary Foundation.

According to "Rotary Figures at a Glance" as found at www.rotary.org there were 985,424 Paul Harris Fellows worldwide as of May, 2007.

Click Photo Album to see photos of some of the club members who have received Paul Harris Awards.

A Rotary Foundation Sustaining Member is a person who contributes $100 or more per year to the The Rotary Foundation.

Beginning in RY2004-05, Rotarians who gave $100 or more to The Rotary Foundation automatically became Rotary Foundation Sustaining Members (RFSM), and are eligible to wear the RFSM sticker (provided by the club president), on their Rotary name badge. All gifts given through the Sustaining Member Program are eligible for and count cumulatively toward the Paul Harris and other Rotary Foundation recognition programs.

The Rotary Foundation also gives special recognition to those couples or individuals whose combined personal outright or cumulative giving has reached increments of $10,000. All outright contributions made to The Rotary Foundation are included in this total, regardless of the gift designation.

Level Six	$1 million or greater
Level Five	$500,000
Level Four	$100,000
Level Three	$50,000
Level Two	$25,000
Level One	$10,000