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YOUR COMMUNITY’S
NEEDS AND STRENGTHS

Making sure that projects meet the local community’s needs and build
on its strengths makes them more likely to be supported and continued
by local community members after the grant has ended. It also ensures
that the projects will work within the local culture and the community
and builds ownership from the beginning.
Because local participation and support is so important to a project’s
success, Rotary requires local sponsors to conduct a community
assessment as the first step and include the assessment results in their
grant application. This establishes that the project is being driven
by data from the beginning, which gives it credibility. It is also one
of Rotary’s criteria for a project’s sustainability. To get a thorough
understanding of an issue, involve different groups of people — men
and women, elders and youths, leaders and marginalized community
members, traditional healers and experienced hospital administrators.
Listening to these diverse perspectives helps your club learn about a
community, recognize its strengths, and understand how you can use
those strengths to address a significant need related to one of Rotary’s
areas of focus.

Here’s how you can get started:
Decide how you want to conduct an assessment. Community
Assessment Tools offers instructions for several types of assessments.
You can use district grant funds to conduct a community assessment.
Ask your district leaders if funds are available. Global grant funds
cannot be used for community assessments.

Based on the assessment’s results, determine whether you can address
the needs through a global grant. You may have to consider scope and
budget. When you’ve identified a possible project, make sure that:

• It falls within Rotary’s global grant guidelines
• It’s technically feasible
• You and your partner club are qualified to address this need through
your collective expertise and resources

• The issues aren’t already being addressed by another organization
Once you’ve completed the assessment and chosen a suitable goal and a
project that will achieve it, you’ve laid the groundwork for making lasting
improvements in the lives of community members.
Complete the Global Grants Community Assessment Results form
and include it in your global grant application.

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