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Take Action to Create Change

Giving & Grants

August, 2023

Take action to create positive change locally and globally

A small club in Ecuador delivers a big water project

District 9620 Disaster Recovery Grants

District 9620 has secured a Disaster Response Grant from the Rotary Foundation. This grant has enabled us to offer clubs, on a reimbursement basis (requirement of the Rotary Foundation), District Disaster Recovery Grants to fund activities and projects that support relief and recovery efforts for families, across the District, that have been impacted by the current flood disaster. Support includes the provision of basic items such as water, food, medicine, and clothing. It can also cover the costs associated with helping with the major clean-up of homes, for example cleaning products and equipment necessary to enable the clean up and to assist affected families to get back into their homes with basic needs such as fridges and washing machines (of a basic nature) to see them through until they can re-establish themselves.

Grants will be approved based on their eligibility, the club’s contribution to the project (financial or in kind) and the merit and benefits of the project. Applications will be assessed and approved on a first come basis by a special Grants Sub-Committee comprising the Foundation Coordinator, the District Governor, the current District Grants Chair and the incoming District Grants Chair. Applications will close once all grant funds have been committed. Grants are limited to a maximum of $3,000 per club but clubs are encouraged to work together to enable larger grants.

Grant Applications are now open using the Application form downloadable below.

For further information please contact the District Foundation Coordinator PDG Elwyn Hodges.

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DIRECTING YOUR DONATION DOLLARS TO DO GOOD IN THE WORLD

More and more people are donating to causes and Rotarians can do the same.

At the height of the 2020 Australian bushfires comedian Celeste Barber set up a crowd funding appeal for $30,000 to supply fire equipment for NSW Rural Fire Services (NSWRFS). She was blown away by the response and so was everybody else with more than $51 million being donated.

What a great outcome - or so it seemed. It turned out much of the money was donated with the expectation that it would go to a range of charitable purposes to support bushfire victims and the matter ended up in the NSW Supreme Court, which ruled that indeed the money could only be given to the NSWRFS.

With The Rotary Foundation, donors can be assured that their gift is going where they want it to go. Many Rotarians are happy for their donations to go to the Annual Fund knowing that it will be used to support Rotary’s causes – our seven Areas of Focus.

A growing number of Rotarians also want to support particular projects and are accordingly directing their donations more specifically. A good example is the signature project launched in the Centenary Year of Rotary in Australia and New Zealand. Rotary Give Every Child a Future has an ambitious goal to raise US $3.9 million to vaccinate 100,000 children in 9 Pacific Island Countries. These countries fall through a funding gap and would not otherwise be able to afford pneumococcal, rotavirus and human papillomavirus vaccines.