GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ROTARY FOUNDATION
At the 1917 Rotary Convention in Atlanta, President Arch Klumph planted the seed for what is now the Rotary Foundation.
- The Board of Directors had oversight of the Foundation
- The Rotary Club of Kansas City Missouri made the first donation of $26.50
- At the 1928 Convention the current Foundation was officially named and a Board of Trustees was created
- In 1922, Paul Harris, Edgar F Allen and others helped form Easter Seals and gave $500 from Foundation to the International Society for Crippled Children
- Paul Harris died in 1945 and in lieu of flowers, he requested donations to the foundation. Over 1 Million was raised