What is the Goal of Rotary Foundation Grants? (Part 1 of 2)
During the past 100 years, the Foundation has spent over $3 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects. With your help, we can make lives better in your community and worldwide. The Rotary Foundation impacts communities through our grants program, which offers four opportunities for funding. Let's the first two grant options:
District Grants – fund small-scale, short-term activities that address needs in your community and communities abroad. Each district chooses which activities it will fund with these grants. How it works: Districts may use up to 50 percent of their District Designated Fund, based on the amount of DDF generated from a DistricDistrict's Fund given three years prior, including Endowment Fund earnings.
Global Grants – fund large-scale international activities with sustainable and measurable results that support Rotary'Rotary'sof focus. Activities include humanitarian projects, scholarships and vocational training teams. How it works: Global grants have a minimum budget of $30,000 and a maximum World Fund award of $400,000. Grant sponsors can use a combination of District Designated Funds (DDF), cash, and directed gifts and endowment earnings to fund a global grant. The Foundation will provide an 80 percent World Fund match for all DDF contributions. There is no minimum World Fund match.
The end of the year is nigh - I would like to extend a massive thank you to our club members and friends of this club for making 2021 the year that it was. I have found that being connected to fellowship and service through Rotary has been an enormous comfort during such uncertain times, and I hope that our club can continue to provide that for many others.
A huge thank you and congratulations to our club members in the Ottawa area that participated in the Salvation Army kettle bell fundraiser and made it a great success! What a wonderful way to bring in the holiday season.
Keep us all posted with what you are up to in the last weeks of the year - connect with our club members by email or on our Facebook group.
Stay safe and enjoy the holiday season,
Maddie
Editor's Note:
This is the final bulletin for 2021.
Our next one will be published
on Sunday, January 9, 2022.
Happy Holidays.
Happy New Year.
-Secretary Chris.
President-Elect
"Ça va bien aller"
At a time of year when comforting and traditions large and small bring families and communities together, we are disrupted again.
Here in Canada, the Omicron version of the Covid virus has rapidly changed plans in the last week. Uncertainty is high, we are tired of coping, and perhaps not coping as well as we did even a year ago.
But … our club is made up of people who care for each other. Perhaps it’s time to care for ourselves.
This too will pass. In the words of children across Québec who have stuck bright rainbows on house windows: "Ça va bien aller".
Happy Holidays & Happy New Year.
- Margaret Shibley
Good News!
DisCon 2022 Early Bird Extended
The Early Bird deadline for DisCon 2022 has been extended to December 31, 2021. Please encourage club members to register before that date.
If you did not register for the Friday night dinner, there is still time. You need to scroll to the bottom of the packages page to find the add-on. Dinner will be at the conference venue.
Coffee With a Rotarian
The list for December is now out and can be found here. For those who are not used to this, here is the introduction:
The concept of “Coffee with a Rotarian” was developed elsewhere as a means for increasing socialization, fellowship, or connectivity, or any one of several terms – in reality, it is one way that we as a club can get to know others. The list will rotate by one each month.
- Membership Chair, Ariane Carriere
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Interesting Fact:
Room 711- Rotary's Birthplace
The number 711 has a very special significance for Rotary.
Room 711 of the old Unity Building, formerly located at127 North Dearborn Street in downtown Chicago, was the birthplace of Rotary. It was in that historic room, which was the office of engineer Gus Loehr, where Paul Harris first met with several friends to discuss his new idea of a club for professionals and businessmen.
After extensive research, a few Chicago Rotarians restored the room to its 1905 authenticity. For years, Room 711 was preserved as a miniature Rotary museum by members of the Paul Harris 711 Club, which provided funds for leasing, maintenance, and preservation. In 1989, when the Unity Building was about to be torn down, 711 Club members carefully dismantled the landmark room and placed its contents in storage. There it stayed until 1994, when Room 711 was recreated and located at RI World Headquarters in Evanston, where this piece of Rotary’s heritage is preserved permanently.
