1. ROTARY’S AREAS OF FOCUS
Alberto Cecchini (Rotarian, Italy; Rotaract & Interact Committee Chair)
Yvonne Kwan (Rotaractor, USA)

2. OBJECTIVES
• LEARN WHAT THE SIX AREAS OFFOCUS ARE
• DISCOVER REAL PROJECTSHAPPENING INEACH OFTHESE
CATEGORIES
• LEARN WHERE TOFIND RESOURCES TOSUPPORT THESE
NEEDS LOCALLYANDINTERNATIONALLY
• UNDERSTAND FUTUREVISION AND WHYROTARY
PROMOTEDTHIS CHANGE

3. PEACE AND CONFLICT
RESOLUTION/PREVENTION
RESPONDING TO CONFLICT:
• 6,000 civilians are maimed or killed by land
mines each year
• 42 million people are currently displaced by
armed conflict or persecution
• 90% of casualties in armed conflicts are
civilians, and at least half are children
• 300,000 child soldiers (boys and girls under age
18) are believed to be involved in conflicts
around the world

4. PEACE AND CONFLICT
RESOLUTION/PREVENTION
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
• Help children who have been orphaned,
injured, or traumatized by conflict
• Pursue projects that address the underlying
causes of conflict: disease, illiteracy, hunger,
and poverty
• Participate in fellowship and service activities
with other Rotary clubs in other parts of the
world to promote understanding and peace

5. DISEASE PREVENTION
AND TREATMENT
DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH CARE:
• 1 billion people suffer from neglected tropical
disease such as dengue fever and leprosy each
year
• 1 in 6 people worldwide cannot pay for health care
• 100 million people are pushed into poverty each
year because of medical costs
• 57 countries have fewer than 23 health workers for
every 10,000 people
• 4.3 million doctors, nurses, midwives, and other
skilled caregivers are needed worldwide

6. DISEASE PREVENTION
AND TREATMENT
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
• Support health education programs that
explain how diseases are spread and promote
ways to reduce the risk of transmission
• Carry out immunizations against infectious
diseases
• Sponsor continuing education and training for
health workers, including scholarships,
stipends, and public recognition

7. WATER ANDSANITATION
SANITATION AND HYGIENE:
• 2.6 billion people lack access to
adequate sanitation facilities
• 6,000 children die each day from
diarrheal diseases caused by lack of
sanitation and unsafe water

8. WATER ANDSANITATION
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
• Promote good hygiene habits through education.
Proper handwashing, with soap and water, can reduce
diarrhea diseases by up to 45%.
• Implement rainwater harvesting systems to collect and
store rainwater for drinking, irrigation, or recharging
underground aquifiers
• Build water wells to extract groundwater from
underground aquifiers
• Provide point of use home water filters, such as ceramic
or sand filters, to make drinking water safe

9. MATERNAL AND
CHILD HEALTH
CHILD HEALTH CARE, ANTENATAL CARE AND
CHILDBIRTH, AND FAMILY PLANNING:
• 9 million children under the age of five die each year due
to malnutrition, poor health care, and inadequate
sanitation
• 1 in 22 women will die during pregnancy and childbirth in
Africa
• 80% of maternal deaths could be prevented with access to
reproductive health services and trained health care
workers
• 40% of women in developing countries do not use
contraception
• 53 million unintended pregnancies could be prevented
through family planning

10. MATERNAL AND
CHILD HEALTH
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
• Provide immunizations and antibiotics
• Promote good nutrition
• Provide birthing kits to health
professionals
• Provide access to family planning
information and resources

11. BASIC EDUCATION
AND LITERACY
TEACHER TRAINING AND SUPPORTING
STUDENTS:
• 31% of secondary school teachers in low-
income countries are not professionally
trained
• 75 million children worldwide – 41 million
of them girls – have no access to education
• 677 million people over the age of 15 are
illiterate

12. BASIC EDUCATION
AND LITERACY
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
• Provide teacher training, curriculum, and/or
supplies for schools
• Send a vocational training team to offer
curriculum development training in rural
communities
• Develop an adult literacy program
• Serve as a mentor to students in your
community

13. ECONOMICAND
COMMUNITYDEVELOPMENT
JOB CREATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
• 1.4 billion people – nearly half of them
employed – live on less than US$1.25 a day

14. ECONOMICAND
COMMUNITYDEVELOPMENT
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
• Provide equipment or supplies to a cooperative to
increase production and sales in the local market
• Send a vocational training team to teach business
leaders in developing countries how to create a
business plan and maintain accurate financial
accounting
• Expand vocational training opportunities,
including job placement programming, at local
nonprofit organizations

15. WHAT IS
FUTURE VISION?

16. FUTURE VISION
BACKGROUND
• 1917: The Rotary Foundation was created with one simple
goal – “To do good in the world.”
• 1947: The Foundation awarded its first grants in the form
of ambassadorial scholarships to 18 Rotary Fellows
• 1965: TRF launched Global Study Exchange (GSE) and
Matching Grant programs to focus on international
humanitarian, vocational, and cultural efforts of
Rotarians. By initial design, Matching Grants were
intended to support relatively small, one-time projects.
• By 2004, the Foundation was making more than 4,000
grants per year, with matching grants growing at an
unsustainable rate.

17. FUTURE VISION
BACKGROUND
We were still “doing good in the world,” but…
• The Foundation’s grant business had become a confusing and
frustrating maze, inefficient, and expensive to operate, with a
dozen different grants, each with their own rules, funding, and
processes.
• In 2005-06, TRF was using only 20% of its program awards to
fund grants with clearly defined high-impact, sustainable
activities. The rest – the other 80% of the grant projects – were
not quite hitting the target. Many of them met real needs, but
they had limited, short-lived impact.
• Was our Foundation getting the greatest return on donors’
investments?
• The Foundation had to look at new ways of doing good in the
world.

18. AND SO, FUTURE VISION WAS BORN
MANY ROTARY GROUPS PARTICIPATED
IN DEVELOPING IT

19. THE GOALS OF
FUTURE VISION
• Simplify and streamline TRF’s grant activities
and their rules and processes
• Create bigger projects that have lasting,
sustainable impacts, help more people, and
provide greater support for Rotary’s public
image
• Empower Rotarians by giving them greater
flexibility in their grant activities
• Align and focus Rotarian service efforts within
the six Areas of Focus

20. FUTURE VISION:
TYPES OF GRANTS
• To make the system easier to use, the number of
grant types have been reduced from 12 to 3:
1. District grants
2. Global grants
3. Packaged grants
• These are in addition to PolioPlus and Rotary Peace
Centers programs, which are still top priorities for
TRF and will continue as currently structured

21. FUTURE VISION:
DISTRICT GRANTS
• District grants are issued annually in a lump sum to the
district, based on submission of simple spending plan
• They offer flexibility because:
• They support short-term activities that can be either
local or international
• The projects they fund must align with the
Foundation’s mission but don’t have to conform to the
six Areas of Focus
• They can include cultural and fellowship exchanges
by individuals and groups similar to a traditional
group study exchange

22. FUTURE VISION:
GLOBAL GRANTS
• Global grants were designed to focus the majority of TRF
resources on larger, more sustainable projects that fall
within the six Areas of Focus
• Global grants are supported by a minimum match
from the World Fund of US$15,000, which means that
the minimum project cost is US$30,000
• Global grants are international, requiring a
partnership between a host club or a district and at
least one club or district across borders
• Global grants must be sustainable, which means they
are designed and implemented so that the benefiting
community can maintain long-term solutions to
community needs after grant funding ends

23. FUTURE VISION:
PACKAGEDGRANTS
• Packaged grants build on Rotary’s tradition of
partnering with other organizations to pool
resources and expertise in order to achieve greater
impact
• Packaged grant projects:
• Are planned and implemented by Rotarians
• Require no financial commitment by the project
sponsors
• Provide a way for small clubs with limited
resources to become involved with the
Foundation

24. NOW IT’S
YOUR TURN!

25. QUESTIONS?
a.cecchini@mclink.it yvonne@kwanlegends.com
ALBERTO CECCHINI YVONNE KWAN
@yvonnekwansays
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