The Grant Center is the place to go for everything you need to do online for your Rotary Foundation grants, and it keeps all of Rotary’s grant-related resources handy for you.

RIDE and marketing and communications professional Jessie Harman shares some insights which can help us promote our organisation more effectively. Here are five tried-and-true tips for services marketing that have always resonated and are directly relevant.

Media need stories now more than ever to meet the growing demand of the 24-hour news cycles. We need to increase public awareness and understanding of Rotary. Luckily, our members are actively working to improve communities around the world, so have a lot to share. Angela Stavrogiannopoulos, Senior Coordinator Communications and Public Relations at Rotary International, Parramatta, shares 8 tips on how to connect with your local media.

Be inspired by the Rotary members and program participants improving lives in communities around the world every day through thousands of service projects. Explore the good work that we’re doing locally and globally for ideas and new approaches, and don’t forget to share these projects through social media.

Global grants support large international activities with sustainable, measurable outcomes in Rotary’s areas of focus. By working together to respond to real community needs, clubs and districts strengthen their global partnerships.

Grant management recertification

If your project is applying for a global grant and you have already completed the nine-course Grant management seminar, this course can serve as part of the required training on grants in order to qualify your club to apply for global grants.

Learn how to plan service projects, about member service opportunities, how to assess project risks, and other roles of a club service projects committee member.

Find out how to empower young people to develop real-world leadership skills and make an impact through service-learning, which combines community service with learning objectives.

Plan your project with clarity. Learn the importance of community assessments, learn the best practices, and get resources for conducting your own assessment.

Use the results of your community assessment to start planning your project. In this course, you’ll learn the importance of project planning and the best practices to incorporate.

Learn how to incorporate sustainability into your plans to ensure that community members can maintain the project long after the grant funding ends.

This course focuses on understanding and developing leadership and collaboration skills

Have a greater impact. With help from your district international service chair – and the mentors with expertise in the district resource network – you’ll design projects and grants that will have lasting benefits for the community.

Use these Rotary committees, networks, groups and team members to find solutions to questions at various steps of the process of planning a successful project, finding support for your efforts, promoting your work, and evaluating its impact.

Rotary Community Corps are local, part of the community and help mobilize the community to ensure that local needs are met. They are invested in the project’s success. Rotary grant projects that establish Rotary Community Corps help ensure the project’s impact lives on long after Rotary’s direct support ends.

Learn how to increase the quality, impact, and sustainability of projects by improving design and implementation, mobilizing local resources and networks, increasing Rotarian expertise in global grant planning, and creating and strengthening Rotarian-led coalitions.

Assessing your community’s strengths, weaknesses, needs, and assets is an essential first step in planning an effective project. By taking the time to learn about your community, you can discover the best opportunities for service and maximize your club’s ability to make an impact.

Download and customise Powerpoint templates of promotional flyers for your projects, headlined as as one of Rotary’s areas of focus to publish online as PDFs or print as A4 double-sided flyers