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Sorrento Institute Rotary Foundation special
Session
PRID Josè Antonio Salazar Trustee Rotary
Foundation Representative of the President
Robert S. Scott La Rotary Foundation questa
sconosciuta
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• Welcome to today's Special Session on The Rotary
  Foundation where we will talk about the present
  and the future of our Rotary Foundation.

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• The title TRF as unknown entity will be no
  fair after this Session because through the
  comments of our fellow Rotarians and friends, you
  will be hearing in detail on the Foundations
  efforts to raise funds this year, you will learn
  more about the various programs it has.

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• We will be made aware of the strategies to help
  guarantee peace and dialogue amongst people of
  different credos and persuasions, through the
  creation of educational opportunities for young
  people that I like to call the care takers of
  peace.

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• We will hear our PPRI and Trustee of our RF Carl
  Wilhem Stenhammer and PDG Prikasky talking about
  Polio Plus.
• PDGs Carlo Sarasso, Paul Joseph Zeiler, Bernard
  Bonnes and Rudolf Hoorweg, the efficient Rotary
  Foundation Zone Coordinators, will speak about de
  Mankind Promotion and Peace Fund raising
  commitments for every body, Education and
  Cultural Programs and Humanitarian Programs
  respectively.

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• I hope after that The RF won't be longer an
  unknown entity.

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• On my part, I would like to cover today the plan
  we, the Trustees of The Rotary Foundation, have
  been formulating for the future at large. What I
  am about to communicate deals with the future of
  our Rotary Foundation for the long term perhaps
  ten, fifteen, maybe twenty years.

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• I would like to have the magic touch and the
  verbal ability of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the
  great writer of my native Colombia, who in his
  novel Hundred Years of Solitude created his
  magic world for explaining and to clarify some
  of the issues coming up.

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• I will try to be as clear and logical as I can.
  Please forgive for not going in great detail into
  the technicalities of the initiatives that I am
  about to share with you all. To learn more, you
  are more than welcome to refer to the text of the
  Trustee decisions, when you have a chance.
• Also, I will be glad and available to discuss
  specific points, if you have any questions.

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Future Vision Committee

• About two years ago, the Future Vision Committee
  was appointed to study the issue of how to plan
  for the coming years.
• Once the Future Vision Committee presented its
  recommendations and conclusions to the Board of
  Trustees during this October meeting we made
  decisions on matters touching on the following
  five areas

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Five Areas

• The structure of our grants,
• Establishing strategic cooperative relationships,
  
• Creating distributable funds for the future,
• Improving the current recognition plan,
• Establishing a committee to better prepare our
  associate foundations for the challenges coming
  along in future years.

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The structure of our grants

• I will start commenting that nothing was decided
  without careful reference to the feedback
  provided to the Future Vision Committee through
  surveys of Rotarians, selected focus groups,
  external consultants, in the general frame of the
  strategies and vision of our Foundation.

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• Much work remains to be done in this regard, but
  I can at this point share with you that in the
  future there will be two types of grants, which
  have been named- provisionally- Type A and Type B.

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Type A

• Type A grants will be administered by
  Trustee-certified districts, and will include
  activities that should be completed in 18 months
  or less.
• Sustainability is recommended, but not required
  for these grants, which are intended for
  international projects in other countries,
  including non-Rotary countries and areas.

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Type B

• Type B grants will also be implemented in and
  outside of Rotary countries, and will enable
  clubs and districts to participate with
  cooperative relationship organizations at the
  local and international levels.

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Type B

• These grants will foster the creation of
  international partnerships between clubs and
  districts and/or organizations with which TRF has
  a strategic cooperative relationship, and will
  include larger grant awards, with minimum/maximum
  amounts to be determined.

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Establishing strategic cooperative relationships

• As for strategic cooperative relationships, we
  know that they will work better in the instance
  of Type B or larger grants.
• These cooperative relationships will be
  developed or solicited from non-governmental
  organizations and other experts for each area of
  focus.

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• Our intention will be that of providing these
  efforts with the necessary financial resources,
  the necessary technical expertise, and advocacy,
  or support in multiple fields that will empower
  their constituents to reach their goals.

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• Here is the bottom line
• We are prepared, my friends, to study
  and then approve strategic relationships with
  other entities that work alongside Rotarians in
  the fields of service.

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• We have found that joining forces with entities
  such as UNICEF, other private foundations as Bill
  Melinda Gates and Turner Foundation, or
  entities such as the World Health Organization,
  may be an attractive, constructive proposition.
• We have proved that success can be obtained, as
  in the instance of polio. Therefore, we are
  prepared to look into specific possibilities in
  this field.

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Social Responsibility

• In this point I want to share with you an
  opportunity created by the new concept of Social
  Responsibility which has a direct effect upon de
  business world to which so many of us belong and
  it was handle masterfully in the third plenary
  session this morning.

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Social Responsibility

• It was not that long ago that we were all taught
  at business colleges and universities around the
  world that a companys first duty was generating
  dividends for its shareholders.

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Social Responsibility

• That was capitalisms first instinct, and to be
  sure it remains alive and well, but somehow it is
  tempered now by the goals of struggling to
  achieve the well being of workers and their
  families, maintaining issues such as the
  ecological impacts of the industrial activities
  in mind, and constantly monitoring the effects of
  the corporations activities upon the community
  at large.

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Social Responsibility

• Here is another great opportunity of service for
  Rotary clubs around the world. Many well
  intentioned corporations do have budgets
  available to contribute toward socially
  responsible issues, but they may not always have
  the necessary contacts and human resources to
  implement their policies.

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Social Responsibility

• This should be another opportunity for service
  for us all.
• What is preventing us all from offering our
  expertise and resources to join forces and work
  together in that front?

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Social Responsibility

• Near Hundred years doing well in the world
  shows our capability for serving as a tool in
  this proposal.

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Social Responsibility

• Can we have a world where the social
  responsibilities of the big corporations and of
  the each one of us are integrated into our
  everyday activities at the level of the Rotary
  Club, the Rotary District, and the Rotary
  Foundation?
• The answer is YES.

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Creating distributable founds for the future

• What do we mean by distributable funds model for
  the future?
• Well, what we mean is that we need to continue to
  identify financial mechanisms such as SHARE,
  because they have proved to be of such optimal
  results in the recent past.

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Share

• Yes, nobody should worry, the SHARE system has
  been re-adopted for the allocation of funds.
• The current proportion of shared funding will be
  50/50 (50 per cent for the District Designated
  Fund and 50 percent for the World Fund). Of
  course, this proportion may be reviewed and
  adjusted periodically depending on the future
  resources and needs of our Foundation.

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Improving the current recognition plan

• About recognitions
• Are you all wearing your Rotary pins?
• Are there any Paul Harris members in the room?
• Any Major Donors?
• Any members of the Arch Klumph society?

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• Please stand up
• for recognition!

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Recognition plan

• The Foundations recognition plan for the future
  simplifies the current system, and makes it more
  user-friendly. For example, the Paul Harris
  Fellow medallions will not be provided as
  automatic recognition, but will be available for
  purchase from TRF at a reasonable cost.
• Thats means a significant save for our
  Foundation.

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• Anyone wearing a medallion today?

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Recognition plan

• Also, wearable recognition will be created for
  the individuals contributing US250,000, which is
  Major Donor level (Arch Klumph).
• In the new system, recognition points will expire
  upon the death of the donor or the death of the
  surviving spouse for major donors, and a minimum
  threshold of 500 points will be established to
  transfer recognition points.

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Recognition plan

• Taking into consideration all the points I have
  mentioned up to here, the Trustees have now
  adopted a preliminary business operations and
  technology utilization structure for the future.
• Put in simple terms, this means that we are now
  in the process of defining and then creating the
  necessary infrastructure to support al the points
  above
• What are our staff needs, and what are
  our hardware and software needs?
• Where do we need to add, and where will
  it be necessary to cut?

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Associate foundations

• The last point is related with Associated
  Foundations.
• I will mention here was is that after all that
  work on the future of the organization we
  suddenly came to realize that we will need to
  improve the current financial capabilities of the
  Foundation.
• In other words, we will need to improve the level
  of our income and our capability for managing
  this increase that we hope will be a tremendous.

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Associate foundations

• You may all recall that we have seven sisters
  that have been but seldom invited to the family
  reunion. The seven sisters liven in the countries
  of Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, India,
  Brazil, and the United Kingdom. And they need
  someone to bring them to the family party.

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Associate foundations

• The seven associate foundations will now be
  galvanizing their efforts through the good work
  of an ad hoc committee that will study the
  purpose, guidelines, and issues pertaining to
  them.

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• This is the plan we have for the future. I missed
  much, and could add much more, and could continue
  to deplore that García Márquez did not write the
  minutes of our meeting, but I hope I have
  provided a fair picture of the magic world
  whats ahead.

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Back to the present.

• As I commented yesterday in my presentation, we
  may say that there are two pillars supporting
  The Rotary Foundation.
• The first pillar is that formed by you all, the
  generous Rotarians.

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• The second pillar of The Rotary Foundation is
  that of the recipients of the generosity of our
  programs and initiatives worldwide.

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• Should we be missing one of them, either one of
  them, The Foundation would collapse.
• If we only had the supporting pillar, our
  resources would be similar to those left in a
  huge bank, where an account is abandoned and the
  resources lay idle, without benefiting anyone.

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• If we only had the pillar of the communities in
  need, and no resources, there would be no
  practical way to advance our initiatives, and we
  might find ourselves in the position of wishful
  dancers claiming for rain in the middle of the
  desert.

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• Lets all give a hand to this two pillars of
  our Foundation for their support for it!

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Magic of Rotary

• Our President Willkinson frequently refers
  about the magic of Rotary which permit that
  ordinary people do extraordinary thinks. My
  proper explanation about this magic world
  here again Garcia Marquez and his 100 year of
  solitude- is that TRF has given us all the
  possibility of making a real difference.
• Here is how Rotary is making the difference. It
  looks like magic but is realty.

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Magic of Rotary

• We are making the difference, as we have
  provided safe, drinking water to many in areas of
  the developing world. In Bangladesh, in Sri
  Lanka, in Ghana and in South Africa, many fellow
  human beings are blessing today the name and the
  action of the Rotarians who joined forces
  together to contribute to provide them with a
  glass of pure, crystalline water that so many of
  us take for granted.

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• We have done a lot for creating a better world
  but I'm sure that we have not made all that we
  can.
• I order to face the big challenges, the issues
  of the 21st century we have no other choice than
  turning to the future and helping to build it
  along the lines of what we choose that future
  to be.

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Graffiti

• I recently saw a graffiti on a wall, in Brazil.

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Graffiti

• It said
• Fight hunger with rice and beans
• Fight Poverty with education and opportunities
  for all.

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• Rotary is prepared, eager and happy to continue
  to provide rice and beans whenever possible and
  necessary.
• Lets work so that the Rotary of tomorrow
  provides opportunities and education for all as
  well.
• Justice for all .
• This is how peace will be made possible.

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• By Sharing Rotary we will one day get to share
  Peace
• . Peace will not be a distant memory in our
  collective mind, or an impossible dream that we
  all aspire to live one day.
• Peace will be there, and it will start with each
  one of us.
• Peace is possible but Justice must be first.
• Remember it !.

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• Thank you
• my old and new friends