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Contributed by: DR. SEAN REIF D.C. on 11/22/2006

November is Rotary Foundation Month, a time for all Rotarians to consider the many ways in which they can support Foundation Programs and Projects around the world. The Foundation is our most effective vehicle for fighting hunger, poverty, disease, and illiteracy. People who are deprived of life's basic necessities understandably may feel fear, hopelessness, and desperation - emotions that can breed anger and intolerance and even lead to violence. Through the Foundation, we can carry out humanitarian projects that improve the standard of living worldwide. These efforts will provide a stable foundation for peace and promote international understanding.

The Rotary Foundation embarked on a visionary program that provides advanced education and practical training in the field of international relations and diplomacy. Each year, 70 scholars study at seven Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution. Our hope is that these gifted men and women will be tomorrows leaders, diplomats, and peacemakers.

The Foundation offers Rotarians an opportunity to participate in humanitarian and educational projects that make a difference. They can refurbish a school, build a water well, deliver medical supplies, provide vocational training and immunize a child. The Rotary Foundation allows Rotarians to transform their ideas into action and turn dreams into reality. Many Rotarians have attended project fairs and forums where they have met potential partners for service. These can lead to successful applications for Foundation grants that benefit both donor and recipients.

This will allow us to continue so many worthwhile projects that deserve funding through our grant programs. It is our personal investment in peace, in hope, and in ourselves. "Rotary has won a place of respectinthe global village. Rotary has helped make the world a global village."

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Youth Exchange provides students with international communication skills which enable them to think, behave, and work effectively in a world of rapid change and assist in the resolution of international problems. We offer an opportunity to encourage the expansion of foreign language in a high school studies program. Our guiding premise is that all students have a chance to develop understanding of other cultures, non-Western, as well-as Western. This provides a year long student exchange of World students to the United States ( specifically Northglenn and Thornton ) and American students with opportunity to study abroad.

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Some magnificent projects grow from very small seeds. The Rotary Foundation had that sort of modest beginning. In 1917, Rotary International President Arch Klumph told the delegates to the Atlanta Convention that “it seemed eminently proper that we should accept endowments for the purpose of doing good in the world.” The response was polite and favorable, but the fund was slow to materialize. A year later the “Rotary Endowment Fund,” as it was labeled, received its first contribution of $26.50 from the Rotary Club of Kansas City, which was the balance of the Kansas City Convention account following the 1918 annual meeting. It is staggering to imagine that from those humble beginnings, The Rotary Foundation is now receiving more than $45 million each year for educational and humanitarian works around the world.

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