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March 5, 2008
A Shared Experience 1 March 5, 2008
Tips for funding Rotary’s US$100 Million Challenge
By Dan Nixon
Rotary International News - 22 February 2008
District 7190 Polar Bears warm up
after their end-polio plunge. Photo
courtesy of Harriet Noble
In the push to finish polio, Rotarians are
pressing ahead with
Rotary’s US$100 Million
Challenge to match the
$100 million grant received
from the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation.
The nearly 33,000 Rotary
clubs in the world are each
being asked to contribute
at least $1,000 annually for
three years.
Hundreds of community
projects helped fuel the
previous polio eradication fundraising
campaign in 2002-03. Among them,
Rotarians ran in the Los Angeles
Marathon, bicycled from Russia to the
Netherlands, sponsored
theater performances in
Tokyo, skydived over England,
auctioned off artwork in India, sold
staterooms for a Canada-to-Alaska
cruise, and individually sold 2,000
pieces of a puzzle in Turkey depicting
Mother Teresa immunizing a child. Here
are some ways your club or district can
set its creative wheels in motion:
• Auction or raffle off a luxury car, boat,
house built as a vocational service
project, vacation
packages, tickets to
sports events.
• Create special items for
sale, including CDs,
DVDs, cookbooks,
craftwork, and Push to
End Polio T-shirts,
bumper stickers, and toy
bears.
• Organize special events
such as a walkathon,
telethon, golf tournament,
car rally, festival, fun fair, flea market,
variety show.