捐献1,000美元或以上给扶轮基金会的扶轮社社员会得到许多特别的关注。他们被命名为保罗·哈理斯之友以纪念该组织的创始人。他们会得到一份证书和一枚精美的翻领别针。这是扶轮世界的一个重要奖项，也是一个从1957年左右就已经存在的奖项。但最近，它已成为许多不愉快的根源。
国际扶轮首席信息官彼得•马科斯(Peter Markos)表示:“我们不断听到(捐献者)的抱怨，因为有时在他们捐献两到三个月后才会得到表彰。”“这对我们的俱乐部来说是一个很大的认可，所以他们希望能有两到三周的时间。”The culprit was Rotary's badly outdated processes and technology. "We couldn't do it in less than six to eight weeks, and sometimes twelve," Markos says.
在大型组织中，任何一个超过20岁的CIO都能理解他的困境。马科斯说:“我不认为扶轮与许多其他组织有什么不同，因为我们的制度已经存在了一段时间。”有些是15年前建造的，当时他们在市场上找不到任何产品。然后他们又继续往下修，直到维修成了一场噩梦。”So two years ago, the organization began work on a three-year plan to replace its older technology with more modern alternatives, and to simplify its systems as much as possible. That has resulted in many changes--beginning with much faster recognition for Paul Harris Fellows. "We've implemented a solution with a guaranteed [result in] 10 days," Markos says. "We've been meeting that."