ROTARY SERVICE and ENGAGEMENT

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Rotary Service and Engagement

December, 2019

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Start or enhance a project to fight and prevent disease

Rotary members lead efforts to treat and prevent diseases around the world. They fight malaria, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, polio, and other serious health problems by establishing clinics, blood-donation centers, and training facilities in underserved communities. They also design and build health systems that allows doctors, patients, and governments to work together.

Clubs also focus on prevention by providing health education and bringing routine hearing, vision, and dental care to those in need.

In December, Rotary’s Disease Prevention and Treatment Month, take action to fight and prevent diseases in your community. Here are three ways to do that:

Build on an existing project or conduct a community assessment to determine what’s needed in your region. To get started, take a look at the Community Assessment Tools guide or take the Conducting a Community Assessment online course.
Collaborate with a Rotarian Action Group — members who share an interest in a particular service area and help other Rotarians design humanitarian projects. Of the 24 Rotarian Action Groups, 12 action groups that focus on disease prevention and treatment.
Join the Disease Prevention and Treatment discussion group on My Rotary to learn from experts and exchange project ideas with fellow Rotarians.

Vocational service in action

As 2018-19 vocational service chair, Ganesan K worked to promote vocational service throughout District 3232 (Tamil Nadu, India). He helped organize job fairs and career-guidance sessions, empowered Rotaractors with new skills to respond to emergencies, and worked with businesses to raise money for vocational service activities.

Rotary’s collaborating organizations

Collaborating with community leaders to increase your impact

In an effort to recognize select organizations that have an extensive history of working with Rotarians or Rotaractors, Rotary has created a new relationship designation: collaborating organizations. Rotary now acknowledges these groups and the relationships they have with clubs and districts by listing them on Rotary.org, as we list corporate-level partners.

Collaborating organizations offer Rotary members opportunities to participate with them in humanitarian service locally or internationally. They can be nongovernmental organizations, government agencies, corporations, or universities. They adhere to Rotary’s ethical standards, have no conflicts of interest in their work with Rotary, and have a regional or global presence. If you know of an organization that should have this designation and be featured on our Collaborating Organizations page, please complete the Relationship Inquiry Form.

Introducing programs of scale grants

A new type of grant

Programs of scale grants are competitive grants designed to respond to a need that a community has identified. They will benefit a large number of people in a significant geographic area using a sustainable, evidence-based intervention with measurable outcomes and impact. Each grant will support, for three to five years, activities that align with one or more of Rotary’s areas of focus.

The Rotary Foundation will award an amount of $2 million annually to a single program of scale in a competitive, two-step proposal-to-application process. Applicants should be prepared to include a fully developed and highly sophisticated project design, as well as include baseline data and plans for monitoring and evaluation. The project should involve activities that have proved to be successful elsewhere. The Rotary clubs or districts with the strongest proposals will be invited to submit applications, which will include comprehensive details about the project. Partner organizations can complete the proposal and application along with the Rotary club or district.

To start planning your project, download the proposal and application guidelines. Proposals and applications will be submitted online. Please read the terms and conditions and learn more online.