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End Polio Now
End Polio Now RI District 6270 Fundraiser
Join your fellow Rotary Members and support RI District 6270's campaign to eradicate polio. Donations are accepted now through December 31st. Donate Today!
As of the Fall of 2024, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.
Join the movement - END POLIO NOW
2024-25 Fundraising Results
Since 1985, on October 24 Rotary International celebrates our support with Rotary World Polio Day.
District 6270 has a goal to raise $39,000
Our goal is to commemorate World Polio Day and Rotary's efforts for the past 39 years.
Join your fellow Rotary Members and donate through your Club, by check (scroll down for details), online by clicking the following link, or by scanning the QR Code.
Donations help us save lives and give a child a chance at a prosperous future.
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PolioPlus Giving for 2024-25 Rotary Year in District 6270 totaled $149,111.
That is 382% above our original goal!!!
The numbers are in, and we have a winner, again. Congratulations to the Elkhorn Rotary Club, also winners of the first half of our PolioPlus Challenge, for continuing their successful fundraising during the second half of the Rotary Year. The Busted Crutch Award remains at the Elkhorn Library, and will be awarded in more permanent form later this summer at an upcoming meeting.
Their pacesetting leadership helped the entire district achieve the second highest total raised for PolioPlus in the last 20 years. We raised $149,111 to help eliminate polio. That means that nearly 150,000 kids will be protected thanks to the efforts of District 6270 Rotarians. The overall global giving to PolioPlus achieved our target of $50 million, and we will now receive the $100 million match from the Gates Foundation. Many thanks to all who helped make this happen.
The per capita total for the district was $67.00, which is a record for our district. The old record and the total giving record were set in 2007-2008, when there were 1160 more members in our clubs.
Here are the results, in order, of the clubs that achieved the targets set by RI, of $1,500 per club, or $50 per member. These numbers, when attained globally, assure that we annually receive the Gates Foundation match. Of course, not every club can make this goal, but many clubs, as you can see, are able to pick up the slack and beat them, in some cases by many times.
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Number of Rotarians
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PolioPlus TY Per Capita Giving Amt
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PolioPlus LY Per Capita Giving Amt
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Elkhorn
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52
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$816.34
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$57.74
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Mitchell Field (Milwaukee)
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18
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$388.33
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$257.22
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Ripon
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43
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$362.64
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$396.59
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Milwaukee Amigos After Hours
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12
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$179.89
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$110.00
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Lake Geneva
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24
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$148.59
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$27.57
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Elmbrook (Brookfield)
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77
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$129.60
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$106.13
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Whitnall Park
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19
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$123.42
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$134.38
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Milwaukee North Sunrise
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12
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$106.46
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$16.25
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Neenah
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46
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$103.28
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$112.12
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Oconomowoc
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68
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$99.32
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$63.24
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Sheboygan Early Birds
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31
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$86.87
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$39.45
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Slinger-Allenton
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35
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$86.71
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$20.00
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Hartford
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36
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$82.03
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$122.83
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Waukesha Sunrise
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15
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$60.40
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$22.33
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Geneva Lake West
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53
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$53.11
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$52.83
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Milwaukee
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322
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$52.48
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$48.00
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Mequon-Thiensville Sunrise
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48
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$50.50
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$128.82
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Attached to the email sent to all Rotarians dated 7/16/2025 is the file with all the clubs listed, first alphabetically, then with a tab sorted in order of total giving, and finally, a tab with per capita giving numbers. The per capita number is based on the number that has been used throughout the Challenge, and will be adjusted for next year, based on final membership numbers reported to RI at the end of June 2025.
Thank you to all who made an effort to make our PolioPlus Challenge a success. Whether you raised money, donated money, or just provided support to your club's fundraising efforts, you deserve a pat on the back. We had a great year, and I can hardly wait to see how good the upcoming one is in making this a polio-free world.
Rob Bassett
Rotary Club of Mitchell Field (Milwaukee)
District 6270 PolioPlus Chair 2024-25 and beyond
414-350-6090
Why Purple Pinkie?
World Polio Day, which is on October 24th every year, is also sometimes referred to as “Purple Pinkie Day”. This is because during National Immunization Days kids have their pinkies marked with purple ink that lasts for 30 days, to ensure they are not vaccinated more than once
Events held on Rotary World Polio Day
To name a few from our District, on Oct 24, the Rotary Club of Elmbrook held a bike ride, both West Allis and Neenah Clubs held Pints for Polio events, and the Rotary Club of Milwaukee lit up the Hoan Bridge purple to symbolize the efforts of eradicating polio for good!
39th Annual Rotary World Polio Day, Thursday, October 24, 2024
Join us now through Dec 31 in the fight to end polio by scrolling down and selecting your donation. In the comments box, enter your Club Name and, if you know it, Membership ID#.
We have come a long way since Rotary made the promise to rid the world of polio back in 1985 but there are still enormous challenges to overcome.
To support the polio eradication efforts and commemorate the past 39 years, Rotary District 6270 (SE Wisconsin), with the support of our club members, has a goal to raise $39,000 toward the End Polio Now campaign.
Please join us now through 12/31/2024 with either an End Polio Now donation online or by check. If by check,
Make checks payable to:
Rotary District 6270
Memo:
The Rotary Foundation, Polio Plus
Mail your check to:
End Polio Now Campaign
Dean Danner, Treasurer RID 6270
2007 Coldwater Creek Drive, Waukesha, WI 53188
World Polio Day is a chance to celebrate progress towards eradicating polio and to encourage people to take action to end the disease. Rotary districts and clubs around the world hold events and fundraisers to bring about awareness of the need for the continued fight. As we celebrate the successes of polio immunizations, we must also recognize the challenges that lie ahead. The recent global pandemic serves as a stark reminder of the critical importance of vaccines. Viruses do not discriminate; they go where people go. Only through widespread immunization can we hope to shield ourselves from their devastating effects.
Rotary and other partners, welcomed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2007. Since 2013, the Gates Foundation has matched every $1 Rotary commits to polio eradication 2-to-1, currently up to $100 million per year.
Since we started the fight against polio, we’ve reduced the number of polio cases by 99.9 percent and reached nearly three (3) billion children in 122 countries with the vaccine. There are fewer polio cases today than ever before, but we will not stop until we reach zero. If polio is not eradicated, hundreds of thousands of children could be paralyzed. Global healthcare costs would rise dramatically, and many children’s quality of life would be drastically diminished.
For details on Rotary's End Polio Now campaign, visit: https://www.endpolio.org/
Hoan Bridge image credit: Light the Hoan Bridge website
Purple Pinkie Day image credit: Rotary Club of Guernsey
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Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever.
Click below for details.
As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.
Through The Rotary Foundation, Rotary members have contributed more than $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect nearly 3 billion children in 122 countries from this paralyzing disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $10 billion to the effort.
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RI District 6270's PolioPlus Society
is a program to promote individuals giving to PolioPlus. Members of the Society agree to give $100 per year toward polio eradication until polio is wiped out of the world.
Click below for more information and to become a member of the PolioPlus Society.
FLIGHT TO END POLIO - One Engine, Two Pilots, and a 2:1 Donation Match 
Peter Teahen (Cedar Rapids West Rotary Club) and John Ockenfels (Iowa City, Iowa A.M. Rotary Club) are raising awareness for polio eradication by piloting a single-engine aircraft all the way around the globe! Both Peter and John are pilots, Rotarians, and members of the International Fellowship of Flying Rotarians (IFFR).
Thanks to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, your donation will be matched 2:1, getting us even closer to a polio-free world.
Click below to learn more about their work, sign up for their newsletter, and to donate.
Around the World: Flight to End Polio
