The Rotary Foundation - Where Our Money Goes

We’ve closed the door on a second full year of the new grant model and there’s a lot of good news to report: We awarded 1,078 global grants in 2014-15, up 24 percent from the previous year’s total. The dollar value of global grants totaled $64.9 million. The most popular area of focus was disease prevention and treatment, followed closely by water and sanitation. We also awarded 487 district grants, totaling $23.8 million. And we awarded 16 scholarships, totaling about $500,000, for study at UNESCO-IHE in the Netherlands.

 

From Rotary International Giving & Grants newsletter

 

A little over two years ago, Rotary members in Detroit, Michigan, USA, began an ambitious program to help entrepreneurs launch or expand their businesses by providing microloans and pairing them up with Rotarian mentors. Since then, LaunchDetroit has helped dozens of small businesses, like Willie Blake’s All About Technology computer shop.

• Read LaunchDetroit President Lawrence Wright’s blog post
• View videos about the program
• Learn about a microcredit project in the Philippines