Rotary $100 Million Challenge
The Rotary $100 Million Dollar Challenge
Rotary's US$100 Million
Challenge
Rotary's leadership in the polio eradication effort was recognized
in 2007 with a $100 million challenge grant from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The funds must be spent
during the 2008 calendar year on immunization and other
polio eradication initiatives and matched within three years.
Rotary's US$100 Million Challenge is a three-year fundraising
effort to match the grant. Each of the nearly 33,000
Rotary clubs in the world is being asked to raise at least $1,000
annually for the challenge, which ends 31 December 2010.
The $200 million generated by the grant and match will be a
vital catalyst to help achieve Rotary's top goal of ending polio
worldwide.