- Major Donor Level for the Rotary END POLIO NOW fund, and Certificate of Appreciation for support of this fund.
- 100% Rotary Foundation participation. (click on READ MORE for more information).
- 100% Member Participation 2025-2026, Every Rotarian, Every Year Club.
- Club Excellence Award 2025-26.
The Rotary Foundation
helps Rotary members to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace by improving health, providing quality education, improving the environment, and alleviating poverty. Since it was founded more than 100 years ago, the Foundation has spent more than $4 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects. Together, we can make an impact in your community and around the world.
What impact can one donation have?
- $3 is the average cost to fully protect a child against polio.
- $50 can maintain water filters to help fight waterborne illness.
- $200 to develop work opportunities by replacing livestock for people impacted by disasters.
END POLIO NOW
Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a paralyzing and potentially deadly infectious disease that most commonly affects children under the age of five. The virus spreads from person to person, typically through contaminated water. It can then attack the nervous system. Learn more about the disease
Our goal : Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 45 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever.
Rotary's first polio project was to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979. Inspired by that successful vaccination campaign, Rotary went on to become a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988, which has reduced polio cases around the world by 99.9 percent.
Thanks to the generosity and commitment of our members, Rotary has contributed more than US$2.9 billion in PolioPlus grants and countless volunteer hours to protect more than 3 billion children in 122 countries from this disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $11 billion to the effort.
Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.
