End Polio Now Resources
The End Polio Now Resource Center brings together a curated collection of essential tools, links, and information to support End Polio Now Coordinators at every level. Whether you serve at the District or Club level, these resources are designed to guide, inform, and strengthen your efforts to raise awareness, inspire action, and advance Rotary’s mission to eradicate polio. Together, we can finish the job — and end polio for good.
Helpful Links For END POLIO NOW Coordinators
What is Polio?
Poliomyelitis is a highly infectious disease that commonly affects children under age 5. Most know it as poliovirus.
Our Polio Partners
Celebrities and public figures are helping Rotary raise awareness as we move closer to a polio-free world.
Why More Funds?
To end polio, we must stop the transmission of wild poliovirus in the 2 countries that continue to report cases.
Donate to End Polio
Every donation provides vaccines, transportation, and essential materials to protect children and stop the spread of polio. Your gift helps Rotary and its partners reach every child with the polio vaccine. Every donation provides vaccines, transportation, and essential materials to protect children and stop the spread of polio. And thanks to the Gates Foundation, your contribution will be tripled. Together, we end polio.
PolioPlus Society Materials
The Rotary District-led PolioPlus Society recognizes Rotarians, Rotaractors, and friends of The Rotary Foundation who commit to giving an amount determined by the criteria set by each District.
Download the resources here to help create and support a PolioPlus Society in your District!
GPEI –Global Polio Eradication Initiative
A roadmap to achieving a lasting world free of all forms of poliovirus.
Helpful Links For END POLIO NOW Coordinators
- What is Polio?
- Our Polio Partners
- Why Donate?
- Donate to End Polio Now
- Rotary vs. Polio
- Current Polio Stats
- Resource Center
- World Immunization Week April 24-30
- World Polio Day October 24
- Register your World Polio Day Event

Links
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World Polio Day event ideas video
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How to Register your World Polio Day Event video
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Link to the End Polio Now World Polio Day resources
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Direct link to register your World Polio Day event
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Video of the "End Polio Now" walk during the Better Together Zone Summit in Winnipeg, September 20, 2025
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Global Polio Eradication Initiative webpage
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World Polio Day Facebook page
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End Polio Now Facebook page
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PolioPlus Society Facebook page
