PAUL HARRIS FELLOW DONATIONS
Did you know you have options on where your Foundation donations go to Rotary International?
The Paul Harris Fellow recognition acknowledges individuals who contribute, or who have contributions made in their name, of $1,000 to The Rotary Foundation. These donations include the Annual Fund, PolioPlus or an approved Foundation grant. If you would like any portion of your donation earmarked toward PolioPlus, it needs to be designated as such. Otherwise, all donations go into the Annual Fund.
Polio Plus
Eighteen million people around the world who would have died or been paralyzed are alive and walking because of the polio eradication campaign. Health workers and volunteers supported by PolioPlus grants have built an infrastructure for delivering health care and collecting data that, in many parts of the world, didn’t exist before. It’s already being used to improve overall health care and to fight other diseases, proving that the legacy of PolioPlus is more than eradicating a deadly disease from the planet — it’s also building a stronger health system that provides better access to lifesaving interventions for the world’s most vulnerable children.
Annual Fund
The mission of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty. Donations given to the Annual Fund are used for service projects that change lives both close to home and around the world. Since it was founded more than 100 years ago, the Foundation has spent more than $4 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects.
To read how funds are handled, go to: https://www.rotary.org/en/why-rotary-best-steward-your-money
