Rotary Foundation
Global Grant Scholarships
Information Session
University of Southern California
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
11-11:50am
TCC 227
1. What is Rotary International?
2. What is the Rotary Foundation
Global Grant Scholarship?
3. The Global Grant Scholarship
Application Process
What is Rotary?
• Rotary is an international service
organization whose purpose is to bring
together business and professional
leaders in order to provide humanitarian
services, encourage high ethical standards
in all vocations, and help build goodwill
and peace in the world.
• Rotary’s primary motto is:
“Service above Self.”
What is Rotary?
• The first Rotary Club was formed when
attorney Paul Harris called a meeting of
three business acquaintances in downtown
Chicago in 1905.
• Today there are 34,282 clubs and over 1.2
million members worldwide.
• Rotarians meet weekly for breakfast,
lunch, or dinner to promote the vision of
Rotary and for fellowship purposes.
What does Rotary do?
• Club service projects at the local, national, and
international levels to help build goodwill and
peace in the world.
• Rotary and the UN: Rotary currently holds the
highest consultative status offered to a
nongovernmental organization by the UN’s
Economic and Social Council
• PolioPlus: Rotary’s Polio Eradication Effort in
Partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation
Bill Gates speaks at the 2011 Rotary International
Convention about the PolioPlus program
Notable Rotarians
Rotarians are your neighbors, your community leaders and some
of the world’s greatest history-makers:
Warren G. Harding, U.S. president
John F. Kennedy, U.S. president
Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer
Dr. Charles H. Mayo, co-founder of Mayo Clinic
Thomas Mann, German novelist and Nobel laureate
Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and Nobel laureate
Jan Masaryk, foreign minister of Czechoslovakia
H.E. Soleiman Frangieh, president of Lebanon
Dianne Feinstein, U.S. senator
Frank Borman, American astronaut
Edgar A. Guest, American poet and journalist
James Cash Penney, founder of JC Penney Co.
Carlos Romulo, UN General Assembly president
Sigmund Sternberg, English businessman and philanthropist
Mina Soroosh
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship
2004-2005
Universidad del País Vasco
Map of Spain
Map of Districts 2200 & 2210, Spain
The two Rotary districts span the country’s
northern and southern regions
Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao, Spain
Bilbao Rotary Club in session
Hotel Ercilla, Bilbao
Rotary Club Visits
Vitoria Rotary Club
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Santander Rotary Club
Santander, Spain
What is the Rotary Foundation
Global Grant Scholarship?
• New Scholarship for the Rotary Foundation (2013)
The Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships have been
phased out.
• Global grant scholarship support for graduate-level
coursework or research or its equivalent for a term of
one year.
• Study abroad for one year in any country with Rotary
clubs
What is the Rotary Foundation
Global Grant Scholarship?
Graduate-level field of study must support your career
interest in one of the following six Rotary areas of
focus:
I. Peace and Conflict
Prevention / Resolution
The Rotary Foundation promotes the practice of peace and
conflict prevention/ resolution by:
• Training leaders, including potential youth leaders, to
prevent and mediate conflict
• Supporting peace-building in communities and regions
affected by conflict
• Supporting studies for career-minded professionals
related to peace and conflict prevention/resolution
II. Disease Prevention &
Treatment
The Rotary Foundation aims to prevent disease and promote
health by:
Improving the capacity of local health care professionals
Promoting disease prevention programs
Enhancing the health infrastructure of local communities
Educating and mobilizing communities to help prevent the
spread of major diseases
• Preventing physical disability resulting from disease or
injury
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III. Water & Sanitation
The Rotary Foundation aims to ensure that people have
sustainable access to water and sanitation by:
• Providing equitable community access to safe water,
improved sanitation, and hygiene
• Strengthening the ability of communities to develop,
fund and maintain sustainable water and sanitation
systems
• Supporting programs that enhance communities’
awareness of the benefits of safe water, sanitation and
hygiene
ROTARY CLUBS OF GUATEMALA SUR,
GUATEMALA, AND ILLINOIS, USA
The residents of Sumpango in rural Guatemala draw their water from several
municipal pools fed by unfiltered mountain water. These public pools are used
for everything—children fill water bottles, women do laundry, and farmers
bring livestock to drink. Not surprisingly, residents get sick from the water,
which is why Rotary members from Guatemala and the U.S. stepped in to
provide schoolchildren with clean water.
IV. Maternal & Child Health
The Rotary Foundation aims to improve the health of
mothers and their children by:
• Reducing the mortality and morbidity rate for
children under the age of five
• Reducing the maternal mortality and morbidity rate
• Improving access to essential medical services,
trained community health leaders, and health care
providers for mothers and their children
V. Basic Education & Literacy
The Rotary Foundation aims to ensure that all people
have sustainable access to basic education and literacy
by:
• Involving the community to support programs that
strengthen the capacity of communities to provide
basic education and literacy to all
• Increasing adult literacy in communities and
working to reduce gender disparity in education
VI. Economic & Community
Development
The Rotary Foundation aims to invest in people by creating
sustainable, measurable, and long -term economic improvements
in their communities and livelihoods by:
• Building the capacity of entrepreneurs, community leaders, local
organizations, and community networks to support economic
development in impoverished communities
• Developing opportunities for productive work
• Reducing poverty in underserved communities
How do I apply?
• Download the application here:
http://portal.clubrunner.ca/50010/SitePage
/scholars
• Email your application to:
Dr. Mina Soroosh
[email protected]
by Friday, December 2, 2016.
Application Process &
Timeline
• Applicants must provide proof of university
admission at the time of application
• Apply through a Rotary club where you live, work, or
go to school. University of Southern California and
Pepperdine University students may apply through the
Rotary Club of Downtown Los Angeles.
• If your application is accepted, you will be invited to
interview at the Club level in December. If you are
selected at the Club level, you will be nominated to
interview at the District level in March 2017.
For questions and information, contact:
Mina Soroosh, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of French
International Studies & Languages Division
Pepperdine University
[email protected]