Clarification on Paul Harris Fellow Awards

The Paul Harris Fellowship PHF) is named for Paul Harris, who founded Rotary with three business associates in Chicago in 1905.  The Fellowship was established in his honor in 1957 to express appreciation for a contribution of $1,000 to the humanitarian and educational programs of the Rotary Foundation. (Each additional donation totaling $1,000 recognizes the donor with additional PHF levels.) Those programs include an array of projects that save and invigorate the lives of people around the world and enhance international friendship and understanding. Foundation programs provide educational opportunities, food, potable water, health care, immunizations and shelter for millions of people.  These activities are funded, implemented and managed by Rotarians and Rotary clubs around the globe.  Rotarians can also designate a PHF to recognize another person whose life demonstrates a shared purpose with the objectives and mission of The Rotary Foundation to build world understanding and peace.