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 The Rotary Foundation

Rotary Foundation Board:

Joe Bergantz, Board President

Ray Baker, Board Vice-President

Charlie Sealy, Board Secretary

Ron Wainwright, Treasurer (Ex Officio)

Bob Broadway

Marcia Elkins

Ed Stone

Paul Freeman

Randy Blackwell

George Lewis

Art Meier

Chris Hanback

The Board has elected to fund these charitable organizations during this Rotary year:

Rotary Education & Assistance Program (REAP)

Greengate School for Dyslexia

Madison County Water Festival

BBB Torch Scholarships

Two Uganda Grants for Literacy & Eye Care

Eradication of Polio donation to Rotary International. 

The Rotary Foundation has two main streams of activity: programs and fundraising.

Fundraising directly feeds program activities. The programs of The Rotary Foundation fall into three main categories:

• Educational Programs, which fund Ambassadorial Scholarships and cultural exchanges
• Humanitarian Programs, which fund a wide variety of grant programs to assist people in developing countries
• PolioPlus (http://www.rotary.org/foundation/polioplus/) , Rotary's worldwide effort to eradicate the poliomyelitis virus.

The fundraising efforts fall into two main categories:

• The Annual Programs Fund, which supplies monies for the Educational and Humanitarian programs
• The Permanent Fund, which is Rotary's endowment‚ a fund whose principal is never spent and investment earnings are channeled into programs.

The PolioPlus program is funded through a separate PolioPlus Fund‚ the result of an extraordinary fundraising effort in the mid-1980s when Rotarians and friends of the Foundation contributed more than US$240 million to eradicate polio.