An average of $7.5 million in scholarships are given out by The Rotary Foundation each year. The Rotary Global Grant Scholarship funds graduate-level study outside the United Stated, as well as community service projects related to one or more of Rotary's seven areas of focus: peacebuilding and conflict prevention; disease prevention and treatment; water, sanitation, and hygiene; maternal and child health; basic education and literacy; community economic development; and the environment. Anna Cerf, a 2020 graduate and environmental engineering from the University of Virginia, is a 2021 Rotary Global Grant recipient. Anna is from Edina, Minnesota and is sponsored by the Arlington Rotary Club. She is headed to Germany where for the next two years, with full tuition and living expense funded by TRF, she will study for a Master's degree in water resource engineering and management at the University of Stuttgart. Through this $30,000 annual scholarship by TRF, Cerf will be able to "...anticipate, understand and evaluate water management-related issues... As climate change exacerbates existing water scarcity issues and environmental degradation damages water quality, these skills will become increasingly important".
