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.”

• 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 is Rotary?

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

Rotarians are your neighbors, your community leaders and some of the world’s greatest history-makers:

Warren G. Harding, U.S. presidentJohn F. Kennedy, U.S. presidentJean Sibelius, Finnish composerDr. Charles H. Mayo, co-founder of Mayo ClinicThomas Mann, German novelist and Nobel laureateFriedrich Bergius, German chemist and Nobel laureateJan Masaryk, foreign minister of CzechoslovakiaH.E. Soleiman Frangieh, president of LebanonDianne Feinstein, U.S. senatorFrank Borman, American astronautEdgar A. Guest, American poet and journalistJames Cash Penney, founder of JC Penney Co.Carlos Romulo, UN General Assembly presidentSigmund Sternberg, English businessman and philanthropist

Notable Rotarians

Mina SorooshRotary Ambassadorial Scholarship

2004-2005Universidad del País Vasco

Map of Spain

Map of Districts 2200 & 2210, SpainThe two Rotary districts span the country’s

northern and southern regions

Guggenheim MuseumBilbao, Spain

Bilbao Rotary Club in sessionHotel Ercilla, Bilbao

Santander Rotary ClubSantander, Spain

Vitoria Rotary ClubVitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Rotary Club Visits

What is the Rotary FoundationGlobal 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

Graduate-level field of study must support your career interest in one of the following six Rotary areas of focus:

What is the Rotary FoundationGlobal Grant Scholarship?

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

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 & CommunityDevelopment

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 mina.soroosh@pepperdine.edu

by Friday, December 2, 2016.

• 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.

Application Process & Timeline

For questions and information, contact:

Mina Soroosh, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor of French

International Studies & Languages Division

Pepperdine University

mina.soroosh@pepperdine.edu