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Hello fellow Rotarians!
This is it; we are in the final stretch of 2016-17! Thank you for your generosity this year. Many of you made Rotary your "charity of choice"! District 5950’s goal was $762,580.Through May 31, donations were at $647,650! Wow, that is great! We are at 85% of goal! Paul Harris Society Chair Carolyn Pratt reported that on May 31 we had 271 Paul Harris Society (PHS) members, just four away from our goal of 275 this year! That means 10% of District 5950 members pledged $1,000 each year to The Rotary Foundation. Wow! Thank you! Worldwide, PHS membership is about 3%, so 5950 is hitting it out of the park, outperforming other districts by more than 300%! Do you know what 275 Paul Harris Society members means for our district? That's a guaranteed $275,000 for the Annual Fund each year! DGE Bob Halagan’s goal is north of 300 next year. That could make us the highest in worldwide rankings. In three years we'll get half of it back for matching funds for your projects. Powerful.With these funds, we can make a real impact Serving Humanity. But we have a ways to go,
so please send your gift to TRF soon! I want to give a shout-out to several clubs whose giving averages more than $300 per member:  Minneapolis City of Lakes $302Eden Prairie AM $318 Bloomington $327 Monticello $329 New Ulm $329 Orono $347 Minneapolis University $350 Minnetonka $478 Edina Noon $573 Edina Morningside $596 Congratulations to these ten clubs! They all set and exceeded their giving goals.That is Great, On Purpose. An additional 13 clubs have a per capita gaining in the $200's! Congratulations! Our district is also tops in the world in giving to Polio PlusPlus! We set individual club goals of $116,765 and, with half of our clubs sending in contributions, we are over 75% of the goal -- $88,007.Thirty clubs have not yet sent in their club contributions.When they do, we will hit our goal! It’s 10 days until the International Convention in Atlanta --100 years after Arch Klumph started The Rotary Foundation at the 11th annual International Convention in…Atlanta!
In 100 years, TRF has channeled BILLIONS of dollars to Serve Humanity. We have seen 400,000 annual cases of wild polio evaporate to less than a couple dozen cases.
We are So Close to eradication. District 5950 has made a powerful contribution towards this effort! So once again I say, THANK YOU!!! --DG Mark |
The Rotary Foundation (TRF) has been named the 2016 Outstanding Foundation by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). From its first contribution of $26.50 almost a century ago, TRF’s assets have grown to approximately $1 billion, and more than $3 billion have been spent on projects that promote peace, fight disease, provide clean water, support education, save mothers and children, and grow local economies.
