November is "Foundation Month" in Rotary.  With that in mind, we were happy to welcome Paul Hofslien as our guest speaker today.  Paul is a professional money manager with Hofslien Wealth Services in Prior Lake.  He has been with the Prior Lake Rotary Club for 24 years and currently serves on the Foundation support committee for Rotary District 5960.  Our club has been recognized the past few years as one of the top clubs in our district in terms of per-capita giving and even total giving to the Foundation.  But we can do more!  Paul's presentation helped clarify the direct link between member gifts and the manner in which this money comes back to our district to help fund the work of individual clubs seeking support for local or global projects.  The Rotary Foundation has consistently been rated one of the top Foundations in the world in terms of efficiency and effectiveness and is truly the engine that drives all the good work of Rotary around the world, including the near eradication of polio from the face of the earth.  The are many good reasons to make it our "charity of choice" and many ways this can be accomplished, including recurring monthly or annual gifts or bequests upon death.