Grant Types
Fund small-scale, short-term activities; may be local or international projects; issued annually in a single lump sum
What are District Grants?
This Area of Focus would include fighting malaria and fighting Alzheimer's.
What is Disease Prevention and Treatment?
This assessment should include a diverse group of participants, including those who are overlooked or marginalized, in determining the type of project needed.
What is a Community Needs Assessment?
This Fund helps to fund current and ongoing district and global grants.
What is the Annual Fund?
You may designate to SHARE or to an Area of Focus.
What level of giving is recognized as a Paul Harris Fellow?
What is $1,000.00 contributed to the Foundation
Multiple PHF's are given for each additional $1,000.00 up to a PHF+8
Specialized funding for Response to Natural Disasters and Conflicts; grants of up to $25,000.
What are Disaster Response Grants?
These 2 Areas of Focus might encompass projects cleaning waterways from debris or providing the ability to remove impurities from a water source.
What are Environment and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene?
This document must be signed by the club with the District to receive grant funding.
What is a Memorandum of Understanding?
Gifts to this Fund are eligible for a 2 to 1 match from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
What is the PolioPlus Fund?
What is the required contribution to the Rotary Endowment Fund to become a Benefactor?
What is $1,000.00
Contributions to the Endowment fund stay with the Foundation and are not granted. Earnings from these funds come back to the District to be used for grants.
Funding for 3-5 year projects; involving partnerships; fit within an Area of Focus; Minimum of $2 million
What are Programs of Scale Grants?
This Area of Focus could involve providing books and teachers for children or adults.
What is Basic Education and Literacy?
The World Fund matches this percentage of District Designated Fund (DDF) funding for a grant.
What is 80%?
This Fund helps to fund grants up to $25,000 to address natural disasters.
What is the Disaster Response Fund?
What is the commitment to become a Paul Harris Society member?
What is $1,000.00 or more per year.
Funds can be distributed between the various Rotary funds. ie Annual, Polio, Disaster.
Funding for Long-term, Sustainable projects which fit within at least one Area of Focus
Minimum $30,000
What is a Global Grant?
This Area of Focus includes projects to improve pre-natal care and training for midwives.
What is Maternal and Child Health?
Final reports should be submitted within this time period after completion of a global grant project.
What is 2 months?
Note: Annual reports are also required.
What is the Endowment Fund?
What is the contribution amount to become a Major Donor?
What is $10,000.00 in total contributions to the Foundation.
Multiple Major donor levels are recognized at $25,000, $50,000, $100,000
Potential funding source for a $10,000 project at the local library to buy books for an after-school program for at-risk children
What is a District Grant?
The names of the 2 Areas of Focus which can fund peace scholars and can help fund start up businesses for disadvantaged community members.
What are Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention and Community and Economic Development?
The minimum percentage of funding which must be contributed by an international sponsor.
What is 15%?
This is the name of the online recurring means of donating to The Rotary Foundation available on rotary.org.
What is Rotary Direct?
You can also find other reports and forms online, set up a fundraiser through Raise for Rotary, make memorial/tribute gifts, and search for employer matching.
What is a Bequest Society member?
What is a member who makes a commitment of future gifts to the Foundation of $10,000 or more.
Gifts can be made through wills, insurance assignments and other estate planning methods