It is Rotary Foundation Month ... a time we can celebrate all the projects that The Rotary Foundation has helped us to do in our communities and around the world. And a great time to consider how we would like to invest in that Foundation, so that it can continue to help us make a difference!

Your 2019-20 Giving

District 6900 continues to be a generous supporter of The Rotary Foundation. In the 2019-20 Rotary year that ended in June, our total giving as a District totaled $978,233. That includes:

• Annual fund giving of $670,070
• Polio donations of $180,738
• Endowment fund giving of $84,500
• Other donations totaling $42,925

Special recognition goes to our top three per capita giving clubs for the year: 

1. Muscogee-Columbus at an average of $1,947.18 per member
2. Emory Druid Hills at $1,803.57 per member
3. Alpharetta at $818.31 per member.

 Rotary Foundation Dollars Power Our Work at Home and Around the World

In the 2019-20 Rotary year that ended June 30, District 6900 received money from The Rotary Foundation based on our annual fund giving in the 2016-17 Rotary year. As a result, we were able to invest $476,000 in Global Grant projects, scholars and disaster relief, and an additional $162,308 in district grants to our clubs who in turn made a difference in their communities. Two of those district grants are featured in this newsletter - one allowed the Rotary Club of Griffin Daybreak to donate 10 educational tablets to its school district to support remote learning and another helped the Rotary Club of Senoia support our veterans. And there are many more stories like that - locally and around the world - thanks to your creativity in identifying projects, The Rotary Foundation's financial support, and your generosity in supporting the Foundation.

In this newsletter, you can also read about one of recent Global Grant Scholars, Jasmine Burton, who has just been named one of the Top 40 under 40 by the Georgia Tech Alumni Association for her work in bring sanitation (toilets) to places in Africa. And look at two of the Global Grant projects we're working on for this Rotary year - in our new "Through Rotary's International Window" feature. It's exciting to know that we can invest in young people who are already starting to make a difference in the world, and that we can work together to achieve great things in the Rotary Foundation's seven areas of focus.