Dear Rotarians, November is Foundation month! At the 1917 Kansas City convention, outgoing RI President Arch C. Klumph proposed to set up an endowment “for the purpose of doing good in the world.” In 1928, it was renamed The Rotary Foundation, and it became a distinct entity within Rotary International. And over the last 103 years, we are doing good in the world. Particularly in India, our Rotarians are not only contributing generously to the

In the early 1870s, a genius toiled in his laboratory, driven by a vision to improve life through technology. After many failed attempts, by 1880 Thomas Edison had perfected a new light bulb that could be produced on a mass scale. When someone pointed out to him that he had tried and failed 10,000 times before succeeding, he responded that he had merely found 10,000 ways it wouldn't work! Just like Edison, The Rotary Foundation is driven by a vision