Welcome on Board; our Rotaract Clubs!

Dear Rotary leaders:

I want to update you on an exciting new opportunity from The Rotary Foundation. Beginning next Rotary year, Rotaract clubs can receive Rotary Foundation district grant funds or global grants to support their service efforts in their own communities or abroad. Starting in January, districts that are applying for their district grants can include Rotaract club activities in their spending plans. And in July, Rotaract clubs can apply for global grants.

We suggest that Rotaract clubs start with district grants and then, when they have some experience managing such a project and applying for and reporting on grants, consider applying for a global grant.

To be eligible to sponsor a global grant, a Rotaract club must have partnered previously with a Rotary club or district on a global grant-funded project and must be qualified to participate in global grants. Districts are responsible for tracking club qualification as well as previous Rotaract participation in grants. If the Rotaract club applies for a global grant as the international or host sponsor, the other sponsor needs to be a Rotary club.

Here are some things that Rotary clubs and districts can do now to prepare for this change:

Invite Rotaractors to participate in grant management seminars so their clubs can become qualified to apply for global grants

Appoint Rotaractors to committees or subcommittees

Partner with Rotaract clubs on grant-funded projects

Develop a system to track which Rotaract clubs have participated in global grant-funded projects

Ask Rotaractors to help organize a fundraiser

Consider changing the way the district distributes DDF to facilitate Rotaract involvement

Invite Rotaract clubs to participate in project fairs

Work with Rotaract clubs in your district to make sure that they have reported their current membership information to Rotary

Here are some things that Rotaract clubs can do now to get ready:

Learn about Rotary grants

Participate in a grant management seminar and work with your district leaders to become qualified to apply for global grants

Help conduct a community assessment

Take an active role in implementing a project funded by a district or global grant

Work with a Rotary club to organize a fundraiser

Participate in public relations and advocacy efforts

Contribute technical, cultural, or academic expertise to the development of a grant-funded activity

Make sure that your club’s current membership information has been reported to Rotary

All of us on Rotary’s Grants staff look forward to supporting Rotaract clubs in doing even more good in the world.

*Sincerely,

Meredith Burlew 
Director of Grants 
The Rotary Foundation 

ONE ROTARY CENTER1560 SHERMAN AVENUEEVANSTON, ILLINOIS 60201-3698* USAROTARY.ORG

Rotaract Ethiopia is very excited to have the 2021-22 RI president Shekhar Mehta.

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Fellow Rotarians & Rotaractors, the early bird rates are now open for the 4th All Africa Zone Institute in Addis Ababa, between the 6th and the 10th of September 2022. Please share the website widely and encourage your members to register.

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