Your Guide to the New Grant Program of The Rotary Foundation

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World Community Service
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About World Community Service

• A WORLD COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT is born . . .
  
• when Rotary clubs from two or more countries
  join together to accomplish a community service
  project.

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How you can participate in WCS

• Get Involved with an international service
  project by supporting one of many deserving
  projects listed on the WCS projects Exchange
• The minimum project size is 5,000.00 (US)

• Consider partnering with a multi-club project as
  a means of participating

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World Community Service Project Criteria

• 1. the project must be humanitarian in nature
• 2. Rotarians in two or more Rotary countries
  must be involved
• 3. One of the countries must contain the project
  site

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WCS Projects Exchange

• Available as a searchable database in English on
  the RI Web site at www.rotary.org
• Includes short descriptions of over 400 Rotary
  club projects
• Lists a local project coordinator for each project

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Important Guidelines

• Project sponsor must be in the project country
• Register project using official Project Data Form
• Notify RI of changes

• Up to five projects per club may be registered at
  a time

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Sources of funding

• Matching grants
• Health, Hunger and Humanity grants
• District Simplified grants
• Volunteer Service grants

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Why Participate in WCS?

• Greater financial, material and human resources
• Develop ties with Rotarians abroad
• Learn about another country and its people
• Create a favorable image of your country and
  Rotary
• Address global concerns
• Make a difference!

PDG Art Lesley Erasmus in Ginir, Ethiopia Water
Project
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Materials and Resources

• WCS Handbook A Guide to Action (742-EN)
• http//www.rotary.org/newsroom/downloadcenter/pdfs
  /742en.pdf
• WCS Projects Exchange
• http//www.rotary.org/newsroom/downloadcenter/pdfs
  /wcs_projexchange_flyer.pdf

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Key contacts

• Area Rep . . . . .enter your name here with
  contact email and phone
• Wilbur Walrond, Rotary Grants Sub-committee Chair
  walrondreality_at_shaw.ca Phone [phone]
• Dave Dickson, District 5040 WCS Chair
• david.dickson_at_icbc.com Phone [phone]

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• THANK YOU !