THE STRUCTURE OF THE ROTARY FOUNDATION

The Rotary Foundation is the charitable trust fund of Rotary International. In simple terms it is OUR charity and it belongs to every one of us who holds membership of any Rotary club world-wide.

At the 1917 convention of Rotary International in Atlanta, Georgia, RI President Arch Klumph proposed the creation of an “endowment fund for Rotary… for the purpose of doing good in the world in charitable, educational and other avenues of community progress”.

Objective

The objective of the Rotary Foundation is the achievement of world understanding and peace through international charitable and educational programmes.

Administration

The Rotary Foundation is administered by a Board of Trustees comprising members of high standing and wide experience in Rotary matters and equipped with enthusiasm to promote international understanding and to develop the activities of the Foundation with imagination and inventiveness.

Relevance to your club

With a story unrivalled in the history of humanitarian activity, and with its programmes having had a profound effect on individuals, on organisations and on countries, the Foundation is Rotary’s world-wide success story!

There is a limit as to what any one individual can achieve, and no one person could have achieved a fraction of the good which has been formed under the auspices of the Foundation.

The Foundation enables the Rotarians of your club who work with those of all the other clubs in the world to achieve a level of success which would be undreamed of by any individual member, club, or even district.

You will also find helpful Foundation information on the Internet website: www.rotary.org/foundation