Rotary members, Our 2025 sponsors drive resulted in thirteen sponsors that contributed $24,000 to our charitable foundation. My anticipation is that we will need to be proactive this year in order to reach that plateau again. I am therefore requesting each member who has a good relationship with an owner or manager of a business or brand in Northbrook to approach that person to see if they would be interested in a 2026 sponsorship. Make sure you tell them about the grants we disburse, the service we provide and the fact that we want the community to know of their generosity by naming them at our fund raisers, on our website, Rally Up and with a banner in front of Village Green Park that hangs there for a period of one week in September. I have attached to this email a sponsorship form for 2026. If the person is interested in a sponsorship, they should return the form with a check for either $1000, $3000 or $5000. It is essential that we act quickly on this since many organizations do charitable budgeting in November and December for the next year. We don't want to be approaching these organizations if they have already exhausted their charitable budget. Denis | 
