This newsletter comes out every couple of months to report on the activities of the District relating to The Rotary Foundation and to help clubs stay ontop of all things TRF. This newsletter has also been sent to Club Presidents, Secretaries, officers of D9550 and our TRF contacts across the District.

Featured in this edition:

Fabulous Foundation Festivities, Fun and Fundraising events coming
up in February

• Latest news on PolioPlus and events
• Polio movie night fundraiser event preliminary details
• Introducing Guest Speaker World Peace Fellow David Burgener
• TRF requirements for the Presidential Citation
• Tax Deductibility for Online Donations in Australia
• The Rotary Horn of Africa Famine and Refugee Relief Fund Appeal
• Black & Bling Foundation Fundraiser Dinner Flyer
• Pin It For Polio Flyer

Again this is a great month for clubs and individuals to contribute to The Rotary Foundation as the exchange rate for January 2012 is $1.00.

RI President-elect Sakuji Tanaka will ask Rotarians to build Peace Through Service in 2012-13. 

Tanaka unveiled the RI theme during the opening plenary session of the 2012 International Assembly, a training event for incoming Rotary district governors. 

"Peace, in all of the ways that we can understand it, is a real goal and a realistic goal for Rotary," he said. "Peace is not something that can only be achieved through agreements, by governments, or through heroic struggles. It is something that we can find and that we can achieve, every day and in many simple ways.

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