The Rotary Foundation’s Future Vision Plan

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A Foundation for the Future

A Foundation For The Future

Support and Strengthen Clubs• Innovation and Flexibility• Service Project Variety• Diversity• Recruitment and Retention• Leadership Development• New Dynamic Clubs• Strategic Planning

A Foundation For The Future

Focus/Increase Humanitarian Service• Eradicate Polio

• Service through New Generations and Six Areas of Focus

• Collaboration With Other Organizations

• Create Significant Local and International Projects

A Foundation For The Future

Enhance Public Image and Awareness• Unity Image and Brand Awareness

• Publicize Service Actions

• Promote Core Values

• Emphasize Vocational Service

• Promote Networking

Why A TRF Strategic Plan?

Preparing for The Rotary Foundation Centennial

Immense growth

Relevance in philanthropic world

Evolving organization

Rotarian feedback

Sustainability, significance, simplification

Future Vision is a …

Strategic plan for The Rotary Foundation

Simplified grant-making model

Way to build on successes

Alignment of projects and activities

New structure and organization of committees

The Foundation’s Motto and Mission

Doing Good in the World

…to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace

through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation

of poverty.

Objectives of Future Vision

Strengthen impact of club projects Sharpen focus of overall grants activity Transfer more decision-making locally Partner with other organizations Simplify the Foundation grants process Increase visibility and image

Strengthen Impact of Projects

Rotarians will develop and implement larger projects with greater more sustainable impact.

Sharpen Focus

Six Areas of Focus:

Peace and Conflict Resolution

Disease Prevention and Treatment

Water and Sanitation

Maternal and Child Health

Basic Education and Literacy

Economic and Community Development

Transfer Decision-making Locally

District- and club-level committees direct use of District Grant funds

Districts continue the direct use of DDF to obtain matching funds from the Foundation

Partnerships

Strategic partnerships with NGOs and corporations will enhance Rotary’s capability to address urgent world needs.

Simplify and Expedite Grants

Rotarians will learn to understand and navigate grant options.

Rotarians will enjoy faster grant payment processing

Increase Visibility and Image

Rotary will become increasingly recognized as a premier foundation,

which will in turn help increase Rotary

membership, donations, and grant activity.

Grant Names

Rotary FoundationDistrict Grants

Rotary FoundationGlobal Grants

Rotary Foundation Global Grants

Long-term projects

Rotarian participation

Larger grant awards

Sustainable outcomes

International partnerships required for club- and district-developed grants

Rotary Foundation District Grants

Simple, flexible, innovative

Educational and humanitarian projects and activities consistent with mission

Smaller activities and projects

Local decision making with broader guidelines

District 7750 Future Vision Objectives

Complete draft Future Vision Procedures Manual using materials obtained from Future Vision pilot districts by January 1, 2012.

Complete draft club training program by May 1, 2012.

Select Future Vision Club Representatives and alternates from each club in the District by March 1, 2012.

Begin club training for certification on September 1, 2012 and complete by December 1, 2012.

District 7750 Future Vision Objectives

Using 2010-2011 PDG’s, create collaborative to help non-pilot districts prepare for transition by July 1, 2013.

Like Future Vision pilots, begin listings of planned world grants to encourage shared resources and ideas across districts by July 1, 2012.

Prepare District application for DDF funding beginning July 1, 2013 and submit to Rotary Foundation by March 1, 2013.

Complete Global Grant applications by March 1, 2013.

Begin drawdown of DDF funding for Global and District Grants by July 1, 2013.

District 7750 Designated Funds for 2013-14

District APF Giving 2010-11: $282,480

DDF in 2013-14: $141,240

DDF Decision Making

Develop a system of deciding how to distribute District Designated Funds each year that gives the Rotary Clubs the opportunity to decide how the funding they raised three years earlier is to be spent.

Ensure that the system gives the District the ability to make the final decision on the funding distribution in keeping with the deadlines set by the Rotary Foundation.

Matching Grants and Global Grants

Establish a Strategic Plan that ensures that all of the global activities presently being carried out by the District continue to develop such that they continue to be funded into the first Future Vision year of 2013-14.

Begin to develop partnerships between clubs, districts and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) such that we can develop larger projects with greater impact in host countries where District 7750 is working.

Club Certification Training

Train all Rotary Clubs in District 7750 so they can be certified to handle either District or Global Grants by January 1, 2013.

Ensure that both the Rotary Clubs and the District leadership have the knowledge and capacity to administer Global and District Grants in accordance with the requirements of the Rotary Foundation.

The Future of Rotary

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