Using global research to permanently improve the lives of the poor

Karl G. Feld, Uri Farkas and Hilary Leav

This paper explains how Rotary International, an international organisation facilitating humanitarian services, drove its global Future Vision project through data.

Introduction

Rotary is a premier membership organization that combines global reach and local resources to address priority world needs. Its primary motto is "Service Above Self" manifested by bringing together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and advance goodwill and peace. Rotary has 34,000 clubs and 1.2 million members serving local communities around the world.

Each year Rotary also provides grant awards to support highly skilled volunteers in their humanitarian projects, scholarships, and vocational training activities. Rotary is best known for its polio eradication efforts, but these activities go...

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