The Rotary Foundation (TRF)

The Rotary Club of Wilsonville supports The Rotary Foundation, also known as TRF. The club has a TRF Committee which is led by a Director, TRF, who serves on the club’s Board of Directors.

The Rotary Foundation (TRF) is a non-profit corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace. It does so through international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions. The following are the main TRF areas of emphasis:

• Polio Eradication (also known as Polio Plus) — Since the program’s inception in 1985, more than two billion children have received the oral polio vaccine which has eradicated polio in all but two countries around the world.

• Humanitarian grants programs including disaster preparedness and recovery.

• Health, Hunger, and Humanity (3-H) grants provide support for large-scale, two-to four-year projects that improve health, alleviate hunger or promote human development.

• Educational Programs including scholarships that support unofficial ambassadors of goodwill throughout the world.

• Group Study Exchange (GSE): These annual endeavors are made to paired Rotary districts to provide travel expenses for a team of non-Rotarians from a variety of vocations. Rotarian hosts organize a four-to-six-week itinerary of educational and cultural points of interest.

• Rotary Peace Fellowships: Up to 100 fellows are selected every year in a globally competitive process based on personal, academic, and professional achievements.

• Rotary Grants for University Teachers are awarded to faculty members to teach in a developing nation for three to ten months.