
Our mission
The Rotary Foundation helps Rotary members to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace by improving health, providing quality education, improving the environment, and alleviating poverty.
Since it was founded more than 100 years ago, the Foundation has spent more than $4 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects.
Together, we can make an impact in your community and around the world.
What impact can one donation have?
- $3 is the average cost to fully protect a child against polio.
- $50 can maintain water filters to help fight waterborne illness.
- $200 to develop work opportunities by replacing livestock for people impacted by disasters.
How the Foundation makes help happen

Classrooms Wired for Success
To close the digital divide in Panama, they started with the teachers.

Rising From the Ruins
After two powerful earthquakes in Turkey, Rotary’s relief efforts remain a path out of the wreckage.

A Labor of Love
With a US$2 million Rotary Programs of Scale award, a project makes high-quality care available to pregnant women, mothers, and newborns in Nigeria.
