About Rotary - The Rotary Foundation

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The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is a not-for-profit corporation that promotes world understanding through international humanitarian service programs and educational and cultural exchanges. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and others who share its vision of a better world. Since 1947, the Foundation has awarded more than US$1.1 billion in humanitarian and educational grants, which are initiated and administered by local Rotary clubs and districts.

The Foundation was created in 1917 by Rotary International's sixth president, Arch C. Klumph, as an endowment fund for Rotary "to do good in the world." It has grown from an initial contribution of US$26.50 to more than US$73 million contributed in 2000-01. Its event-filled history is a story of Rotarians learning the value of service to humanity.

A child receives a polio vaccination through the Rotary Foundation Polio Plus project.		A Rotary Foundation Matching Grant brought clean drinking water to this small villiage.

The Foundation's Humanitarian Programs fund international Rotary club and district projects to improve the quality of life, providing health care, clean water, food, education, and other essential needs primarily in the developing world. One of the major Humanitarian Programs is PolioPlus, which seeks to eradicate the polio virus worldwide. Through its Educational Programs, the Foundation provides funding for some 1,200 students to study abroad each year. Grants are also awarded to university teachers to teach in developing countries and for exchanges of business and professional people. Former participants in the Foundation's programs have the opportunity to continue their affiliation with Rotary as Foundation Alumni.

A Matching Grant from the Rotary Foundation provided solar energy for three rural schools near Santiago del Estero, Argentina.

You can find out more about the Rotary Foundation by visiting the Foundation section of the Rotary International web site.

Information on this page came from the following pages at the Rotary International web site:

About Rotary

The Rotary Foundation

Programs of the Rotary Foundation

You can make a contribution through your local Rotary Club, but ere are a few other ways that your contribution can make a difference:

• US$100 can buy textbooks for one elementary
  school in Zambia
• $5,000 can buy vaccine to immunize
  10,000 children against polio
• $26,000 can buy an academic-year Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship
• $120,000 can buy funding for two Rotary World Peace Fellows to complete a two-year graduate program

Please contribute now.

The Rotary Foundation’s tax identification number is 36-3245072.

Click here to use the online contribution form for The Rotary Foundation.

Ways to give

There are several ways to give to the Foundation.

Check

Make your check payable to The Rotary Foundation, and send it with a completed recognition/contribution form (PDF) to the appropriate address:

Canada:

The Rotary Foundation, Box B9322
P.O. Box 9100
Postal Station F
Toronto, ON M4Y 3A5

United States:

 
The Rotary Foundation
14280 Collections Center Dr.
Chicago, IL 60693

Credit card

To make a contribution with your credit card, complete the following:

• In the United States, download the U.S. credit card contribution form (PDF) and fax it to 847-328-5260.
• In Canada, download the Canadian credit card contribution form (PDF) and fax it to 519-471-8982.

Read more about outright contributions and ways to give.

Contact information

Call the Foundation's Contact Center at 1-866-9ROTARY (1-866-976-8279), or e-mail contact.center@rotary.org. A team of Foundation specialists will answer calls Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Time.

You also may contact your international office.