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Our Rotary Foundation
Meet Your 2023-24 District Foundation Team

by Anne Glenn, District Rotary Foundation Chair

We’re bigger than ever, better than ever and here to help District 6900 Rotary Clubs achieve their big dreams and goals in their communities and around the Rotary world.

Please Say Hello to your 2023-2024 District Foundation Team:

  • Ray McKemie, Sage Advisor
  • PDG George Granade, Foundation Grants Chair 
  • PDG Fran Milberg, Major Giving, Bequest and Paul Harris Society Chair
  • Kay Williamson, Community Grants Chair,
  • Olga Narvaez, Global Grants Chair
  • William Mac Arthur, Treasurer and Polio Plus Chair
  • Kathy Brandt – Global Grant Scholarship Chair

This year, District 6900’s Foundation Team is here to help you and your Rotarian friends create the most impactful year ever, starting now.  On July 25, all of your District, Competitive, and Community Grants were accepted as proposed to The Rotary Foundation. You may begin your projects immediately and should receive your checks next week as soon as the funds are wired into our District account.

Thanks to incredible Rotary generosity three years ago, District 6900 has $240,000 returning to our Clubs this year to create all of tomorrow’s good that we want to start now.  To assist you and your Clubs begin and build Community Grant projects, Kay Williamson (RC Meriwether County) has accepted the challenges and joys of becoming Community Grants Chair.  Through the year, she and her team will work closely with your Assistant Governors to be certain every Club in our District has the knowledge, understanding and support needed to successfully complete project commitments while enjoying the work and accomplishments.

In addition to local Community Grant funds, your generosity also provides $240,203 that District 6900 will use to create Global Grants between our Rotarians and other Rotary Clubs around the world.  If your Club wants to initiate a Global Grant Project this year, please contact Olga Narvaez, (RC Alpharetta), our Global Grants Chair  or District Rotary Foundation Chair Anne Glenn (RC Dunwoody). For global grants note that:

  • Before a Club can propose a Global Grant, you’ll need to present a brief description of the project idea for review and approval by the District 6900 Foundation Committee, and
  • At least one member of your Club must attend a Global Grant Training meeting.  These are offered at District Assembly or by District 6900 via zoom.
  • Global Grant projects not pre-approved by District 6900 cannot obtain District DDF matching and TRF World Fund money.

While supporting TRF’s Grant programs represents a substantial part of District 6900’s Foundation Team’s day-to-day work, that’s not everything we do.  Fundraising for The Rotary Foundation in support of all our areas of focus is the other half of our mission.  Please join us next month to see the remainder of the story.  Meanwhile, contact us, ask us questions, and ask us to speak or to visit your Clubs on zoom.  Whenever possible, we’re here for your success.  

Posted by Anne Glenn
July 30, 2023

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