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An exciting matching gift challenge for our District PolioPlus fund
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Grant Management Seminars to help you apply for over $90,000 in District Grant funds
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Our annual District Conference in April 2019 at Clear Lake, Iowa
Thank you to each one of you for the service you’ve given to The Rotary Foundation in the first half of our year through your completion of grant projects, financial support of the Foundation, and promotion of the good work the Foundation is doing. Let’s keep it going in the second half!
Multiply the Impact of Your Gifts to PolioPlus!
Thanks to the incredible generosity of a Major Donor Rotarian in our District, you have a unique opportunity to match your gifts to PolioPlus 4 to 1! Here’s how it works:
This donor will match a club’s total giving to PolioPlus 2 to 1, when that club reaches its PolioPlus goal for this year. The maximum total match will be $100,000. When you add the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation matching gift of 2 to 1, effectively the match will be 4 to 1, and actually grow the original gift by five times!
For example, if a club reaches its goal of $2,000, the gift would grow like this:
$2,000 Original gift
$4,000 2 to 1 Major Donor match
$4,000 2 to 1 Gates Foundation match
$10,000 Total gift
Even if your club has already met its goal, consider raising additional funds to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity.
Remember that gifts from individual Rotarians and gifts from a club count toward the challenge. This is an incredible opportunity for our clubs to meet and exceed their PolioPlus goals in a significant way, which in the end, gets us closer to our ultimate goal of eradicating polio.
Thanks to the following 18 of 52 clubs who have met their PolioPlus goals already this year (as of December 31, 2018):
- Anamosa
- Cedar Falls
- Cedar Rapids Sunrise
- Dubuque
- Ely
- Emmetsburg
- Estherville
- Forest City
- Guttenberg
- Hampton
- Iowa Falls
- Iowa Great Lakes
- Manchester
- New Hampton
- Pocahontas
- Rockwell City
- Spencer
- Webster City
We anticipate ALL of our 52 clubs will be on this list by the end of June. Don’t miss this opportunity! Go for it!