Rotary Foundation Update

Posted by Billie Addleman

on Nov 18, 2010

When DGN Miller spoke to our club about the Foundation earlier this month, Bill Gentle asked two questions that our speaker could not answer. Here are the answers.

First, the permenent fund (endowment ) of the Rotary Foundation is approximately $208 million.

Second, in 2008-09, the Rotary Foundation provided the following program awards:

$38.2 million for humanitarian grants programs
$22 million for educational programs
87.8 million for the Polio Plus program

Totaol awards $149 million in totoal program awards.

The 2008-09 Annual Report is available at http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/187en09.pdf