MG enquiries should be addressed to PP Frank Baffoe or PDG Ron Stevens

I had a meeting with District Governor Phillipe Lamoise from District 5340 (California) over the past weekend and he has designed a fantastic website to advertise Matching Grants.

Clubs can no longer use the excuse that they cannot find an international partner to help with their projects. This website was designed by a Rotarian for Rotarians and Clubs to use and advertise their projects. The website has about 4000 hits per day - which means that 4000 people look at the different projects per day and decide whether they are going to either participate in a project or submit a project.

How does this website work?

This website is meant to facilitate communication between Rotarians with a service project looking for some funding and Rotarians with funding looking for an international project. The parties can be from anywhere in the world. The website displays a personalized page for each project, with the contact and budget information, and possibly pictures and other material. This is a great way to show the great work Rotary is doing through projects all over the world. Here is the step by step process:

1. A Rotarian or Rotary Club somewhere in the world publishes a service project on the website. He/she fills in the description of the project and gives his/her contact information. The Rotarian can make reference to the specific project web page while he/she tries to find a club partner to fund the project. To find out how to publish a project, go to the "Submit Project" section of this website.
    
2. A Rotarian or Rotary Club somewhere else in the world looks at the website and finds a project he/she would like to support. He/she pledges support to the project by filling the relevant form on this website. The project page is automatically updated and an email is sent to the project originator to announce that the project is now fully funded. To find out how to sign up for a project, go to the "Pledge Support" section of this website.
    
3. The parties get together by email to fill the necessary paperwork to be sent to the Rotary International Foundation in Evanston. While the project is being worked on, the web page can be used to display the project information, including pictures. To find out how to submit the project paperwork to the Rotary Foundation, go to the "Paperwork" section of this website.
    
4. Once completed, the web page is a great testimony of the good work achieved by all parties through the Rotary Foundation. Don't forget to submit pictures and other material to have a better display of your project. Send additional material via email to: admin@matchinggrants.org

Matching Grant History for D9320

PDG Mel Smethurst has compiled two MG reports. One shows D9320's MG history since 1990 and the other shows our MG situation as at 1 July 2005.

Download both reports as a single pdf file (15 Kb)

(Please note that RI may, of course, change these items from time to time,
so we cannot guarantee that the above list is entirely up to date)