Centennial Year for Rotary Foundation, Jesse Tam
Rotary Foundation turns 100 this year 2016-2017. How will your club and organization celebrate this special Centennial year? Rotary members changing lives and improving communities all over the world. It's definitely worth celebrating the work of members thousands of projects to provide clean water, fight disease, promote peace, provide basic education and grow local economies. The fight to eradicate polio worldwide continues.
Here are just a few ways you can join in and commemorate this Centennial Year:
- Plan a special Rotary Day and invite the community to participate. It can be anything from a concert to a simple birthday party with a giant cake in the shape of the Rotary wheel of course.
- Hold a fundraiser in your community to support a Foundation grant project, the Rotary Peace Centers, or PolioPlus.
- Organize or participate in a global grant or district grant project.
- Promote your club or district projects that are funded by the Foundation.
- Dedicate some club meetings to Rotary Foundation topics.
- Challenge members to increase your club’s contributions to the Foundation.
Here's to another year of successful Rotary projects and volunteering in your local community and across the global. Thanks for visiting Jesse Tam stay connected. "Start with Rotary..."
