New poliovirus cases and positive environmental isolates this week: Afghanistan: No WPV1 cases and 12 WPV1- positive environmental samples. The number of WPV1 cases in 2025 is four. There were 25 in 2024. Algeria: one cVDPV1 case, no cVDPV2 cases, one cVDPV1-positive...
You may remember the "Rotary Showcase" where clubs and districts featured their projects. Now renamed and improved, you can enhance your service projects with the tools and resources on Rotary’s Service Project Center. This comprehensive hub not only features...
World Polio Day will soon be upon us, on October 24th, but your club and district still have time to plan your event. Year-to-date polio counts are encouraging and a unified effort to publicize our commitment is needed to finish the job. Out of ideas? Check out this...
Expanding to add to the over 1,800 Rotary Peace Fellows already trained, Rotary's next peace center will be at Symbiosis International University in Pune, Maharashtra, India. It will offer a one-year certificate program to train professionals in peace studies,...
Originally established 30 years ago to help evaluate Health, Hunger and Humanity (3-H) Grants, The Rotary Foundation Cadre of Technical Advisers continues to play an active role in evaluating our grant projects to assure proper stewardship of Rotary Foundation funds....
Of the over 530 Rotary districts in the world, only 66 (12%) were recently recognized for exceptional grant reporting during the 2024-25 Rotary year. Grant reporting is crucial because failing to report on time can result in disqualification from receiving future...
Established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981, The International Day of Peace has been designated as a period of non-violence and cease-fire. Not limited to combatants and peacekeepers, everyone has a role to play in promoting positive peace. As...
Mark your calendar Rotary’s World Polio Day Online Global Update, coming up on October 24th. It will be streamed on RI’s Facebook pages in multiple languages and time zones around the world. New poliovirus cases and positive environmental isolates this week:...
If you've recently contributed to The Rotary Foundation to help us reach our goal of raising $2.025 billion by 2025, CONGRATULATIONS! You did it! In 2015, the Endowment reached $1 billion in investments and commitments. In 2017 the trustees of our Foundation set a...
By now, you should have received your September issue of the Rotary magazine and you've hopefully taken the time to at least browse through it. If so, you couldn't miss the ten-page spread on our upcoming 2026 International Convention in Taipei, Taiwan. Whether you've...
SangKoo Yun, a consummate Rotary leader and businessman who had been selected to be Rotary International's president for 2026-27 has died on September 5th at the age of 75. This sad announcement came mere weeks after stepping down as President-Elect and after months...
Why did you join Rotary? Why do you stay? What does it do to improve you, your community, and the world? What do you get out of it? The more you think about the answers to these questions, the better you'll be able to tell others your personal Rotary story and why you...
