The vision of Rotary Charities and Rotary Camps & Services states that our organizations will be collaborative leaders of strategic efforts to achieve positive change in the Grand Traverse region. Our Rotary organizations are involved in an active way in the Grand Vision because it is an ideal way for us to work in collaboration with other organizations, businesses, citizens and units of government within a strategic long-term framework to achieve positive change over the next 50 years. And our foundation plans to be around for the next 50 years and beyond that. The Grand Vision helps provide a regional long-term framework to help guide our investments.

The Grand Vision is coming at the perfect time for us. As our oil & gas reserves are drying up and our investments are effected by the declining stock market, it is now more important than ever that we strategically invest our grants in programs, projects and organizations that will have a long term positive impact on the quality of life in our region. We believe that the most effective way to do that is to focus our support on bringing resources together in collaborative partnerships. The Grand Vision provides the big picture and call for innovative new partnerships between business, government and nonprofit sector. By providing leadership and supporting the Grand Vision, Rotary Charities ensures that our current investments in our region will continue to pay dividends in a future that is desired by our citizens.

Marsha Smith
Rotary Charities