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Doing Good in the World: The Rotary Foundation's Virtual Speaker Series is a webinar series for Rotary's strongest supporters, highlighting the difference you make through your generosity. Join Rotary leaders and subject matter experts as they share stories of impact and discuss the Rotary programs and initiatives that interest you most.
2.025 by 2025: World Fund and the Power of the Endowment
7 March 2024 | 10:00 CT
Live on Zoom
The World Fund supports Rotary’s highest priority activities around the globe and helps to ensure The Rotary Foundation’s ability to fund large-scale, sustainable projects with long-term positive impact. The World Fund’s unrestricted contributions ensure critical flexibility for use where it is needed most.
In March, join experts as they discuss how The Rotary Foundation uses World Fund to support its programs and quickly respond to the world’s most pressing challenges. Panelists will also discuss how World Fund and Rotary’s Endowment are connected today and into the future and how a fully funded Endowment will impact the strength of the World Fund in perpetuity.
Register today! Participation in the live session is limited and available to the first 1,000 registrants.
Calendar Year or “Rotary Year” – it can be confusing, especially when reporting statistics related to polio. GPEI, the CDC, and WHO report Polio case numbers using the calendar year; yet in Rotary we report dollars raised to End Polio using the Rotary year (July 1 through June 30).
It is useful to periodically assess where we are with both. Many of us involved in polio eradication efforts had high hopes the world would see the last child paralyzed by wild polio virus sometime in this calendar year, but unfortunately that hasn’t happened.
As of mid-December, 12 cases of wild poliovirus-causing paralysis were reported (6 in Afghanistan and 6 In Pakistan) and 129 environmental samples positive for wild polio virus were reported.
It can take up to a month or more to confirm that a person’s acute flaccid paralysis was caused by polio, so statistics for 2023 are not finalized. On the other hand, Rotarians in the Big West are being even more generous with their donations to Polio Plus during the first half of this Rotary year when compared with the same time period last year.
Thank you! Your support is more critical than ever in order to eradicate this horrible disease once and for all. We must stay the course
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