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 The Rotary Foundation

Rotary Foundation Board:

Doug Barclay, Board President

Joe Bertantz, Board Vice-President

Pam Berry, Board Secretary

Melissa Mahone

Barbara Martin

Bob Broadway

Marcia Elkins

Randy Blackwell

George Lewis

Art Meier

Chris Hanback

Ron Wainwright (Ex-Officio), Treasurer

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.

Rotarians of Greater Huntsville can contribute to the PolioPlus fund with this form (LINK)