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Our Rotary FoundationBackground information:The lifeblood of our Rotary Foundation is the Annual Programs Fund. It is giving to the Annual Programs Fund that supports virtually every facet of our Foundation's work around the world.Through the SHARE system, 50% of every dollar a District 6060 Rotarian donates to the Annual Programs Fund is spent under the direct control of our own district. The remaining 50% is controlled by the trustees of our Rotary Foundation to fund Group Study Exchange teams, 3-H Grants, Volunteer Service Grants and to provide the matching portion of Matching Grants.(Where did we spend your Foundation Donations in 2006-07) With this SHARE system, all donations to the Annual Programs fund made during this current year are invested. The earnings are used to pay the overhead expenses of our Rotary Foundation. Three years after the donation, all of the money is released and put into service, with our district directing the 50% under our control. This portion is known as District Designated Funds or DDF. It should be emphasized that the district does not actually receive these funds, but merely the ability to direct how they are spent. The other 50% that remains under the Trustees control is known as the World Fund. By being active in nearly every Rotary Foundation program, District 6060 manages to completely control that 50%, too.With DDF:For several years, District 6060 has funded one Ambassadorial Scholarship annually. ($23,000)We also have been donating DDF to fund the Rotary World Peace Fellow program since its inception in 2002. (~$25,000 per year)We have been asking for 15-20% of our DDF to come back to our District through the District Simple Grant program. We then award it to our clubs in the form of Community Assistance Program grants which can be used for small local or international projects to be done quickly with hands-on Rotary work. They are usually $1,000. (~$25,000 total for the district)We use the rest of our District Designated Funds to assist our clubs with their Matching Grant projects. ($50,000-$100,000)Since these District Designated Funds are just 50% of our Annual Programs Fund giving, it is clear that we must continue strong support of the Annual Programs Fund.From the WORLD FUND:The World Fund supplies the necessary funds for our Group Study Exchange. A complete GSE costs approximately $22,000The World Fund supplies the matching portion of our Matching Grants. This could be $50,000 - $100,000 each year.Where do we get the money ?Beginning 5-6 years ago, our Rotary Foundation began encouraging all Rotarians worldwide to give $100 per year to The Annual Programs Fund. The themeEvery Rotarian - Every Yearwas developed and began to appear regularly in correspondence from our Foundation and in The Rotarian.
District 6060 has used this goal in developing expected minimum goals for each club according to club size. These minimum amounts are for giving to The Annual Programs Fund only. They do NOT include any amounts individual clubs may give to The Permanent Fund or to any of the Restricted Funds, such as PolioPlus.In the 2006-2007 Rotary year 38 of our 61 clubs reached this level of averaging over $100 per member in support of Annual Programs Fund. Fix of our clubs exceeded $200 per member, with two of our clubs exceeding $300 per member and one exceeding $400 per member..Each club president elect receives a letter from the District Foundation Chair about 2-3 weeks before Show Me Rotary detailing these goals. The final page of this letter is a goal sheet to be returned to the District Foundation Chairman at Show Me Rotary. These letters are available here in Adobe Acrobat format.We are asking our clubs to make a special effort to reach half their goal by December 31 and to achieve their goal and have all funds mailed in by May 31. We also ask that all funds and contribution forms are sent in via District Foundation Chair Todd Lindley. This helps our district keep track of donations on a real time basis, compared to receiving reports back from The Rotary Foundation approximately two months later.Methods of Achieving Your Club's GoalEach club should appoint a Foundation Chairperson. We recommend that this position does not change annually to help the Foundation Chair to develop system of record keeping and an effective method of working with the club.District 6060 wants EVERY club to establish a Sustaining Member program as part of the club's regular billing cycle. This involves adding a line to the club's statements reading something like "voluntary donation to the Annual Programs Fund of The Rotary Foundation." The amount in the dollars column would vary with your billing cycle. Perhaps $8.33 for monthly billing and $25 for quarterly billing. However, we also recommend putting several other amounts on a second line below, such as $50, $100, $250, $1000, and _______other. You will be pleasantly surprised that fairly often members will be ready to give a little extra and suggesting a larger amount will be all it takes to generate a larger donation.The term Sustaining Member infers that the member is donating $100 per year to The Annual Programs Fund of The Rotary Foundation. In the example cited above, the funds are being collected through the club treasury and sent to The Rotary Foundation in the member's name every six months, or at least annually. Our Rotary Foundation sends a "Success Kit" to every President Elect in April prior to becoming President. That kit will contain a supply of "name badge stickers" to put on your member's name badges as soon as they become a Sustaining Member. Naturally, we are hoping that every Rotarian will be a Sustaining Member and your club can earn a 100% Sustaining Member Club banner.Sustaining Member Name Badge Stickers:
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