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ROTARY FACTS
 
Total Membership As Of 30 June 2008
 
Average Club Size As Of July 2008
 
Number Of Members By Region As Of 30 June 2008
 
ROTARY CLUB MEETING DAYS AND TIMES
 
Based on data submitted by Rotary clubs for publication in the 2007-08 Official Directory
 
AVERAGE AGE RANGE OF MEMBERS
 
As reported by clubs in response to the 2006 RI Demographic Survey Worldwide, the largest age group of members is ages 50-59. Members 49 or younger make up 34% of membershop worldwide.

 

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Rotary - Club Leadership Plan
Recommended Committees*
 
 
*Additional committees can be appointed as needed on an annual basis
 
 
Recommended Committees and the Four Avenues of Service
 
 
 
 

  ROTARY In Brief

  • ROTARY is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
  • ROTARY is the world's first service club. The first Rotary club was founded in Chicago, Illinois, USA on 23 February 1905.
  • ROTARY is some 1.2 million service-minded men and women belonging to more than 32,000 Rotary clubs in virtually every nation in the world.
  • ROTARIANS meet weekly for fellowship and interesting and informative programme dealing with topics of local and global importance. Membership reflects a wide cross-section of community representation.
  • ROTARIANS plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programme that touch people's lives in their local communities and our world community.
  • ROTARY is The Rotary Foundation, which each year provides some US$90 million for international scholarships, cultural exchanges, and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people. Rotary is widely regarded as the world's largest private provider of international educational scholarships.
 
 
OBJECTIVES OF ROTARY

 

 The Objective of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

 
  • The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
  • High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
  • The application of the ideal  of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
  • The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
 
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ROTARY CODE OF ETHICS
 
The Four-Way Test

 

From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world’s most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The Four-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy.

 
Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The Four-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four questions:

 

"Of the things we think, say or do:
 

1.      Is it the TRUTH?

2.      Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3.      Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

4.      Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?"
 
 
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WHY JOIN ROTARY

  

1.   Friendship

In an increasingly complex world, Rotary provides one of the most basic human needs: the need for friendship and fellowship. It is one of two reasons why Rotary began in 1905.

 

2.   Leadership Development

Rotary is an organization of leaders and successful people. Serving in Rotary positions is like a college education. Leadership - learning how to motivate, influence and lead leaders.

 

3.   Personal Growth and Development

Membership in Rotary continues one's growth and education in human relations and personal development.

 

4.   Business Development

The second original reason for Rotary's beginning is business development. Everyone needs to network. Rotary consists of a cross section of every business community. Its members come from all walks of life. Rotarians help each other and collectively help others.

 

5.   Citizenship in the Community

Membership in a Rotary club makes one a better community citizen. The average Rotary club consists of the most active citizens of any community.

 

6.   Continuing Education

Each week at Rotary there is a programme designed to keep one informed about what is going on in the community, nation and world. Each meeting provides an opportunity to listen to different speakers and a variety of timely topics

 

7.   Fun

Rotary is fun, a lot of fun. Each meeting is fun. The club projects are fun. Social activities are fun. The service is fun.

 

8.   Public Speaking Skills

Many individuals who joined Rotary were afraid to speak in public. Rotary develops confidence and skill in public communication and the opportunity to practice and perfect these skills.

 

9.   Citizenship in the World

Every Rotarian wears a pin that says "Rotary International". There are few places on the globe that do not have a Rotary club. Every Rotarian is welcome - even encouraged - to attend any of the 31,000 clubs in 194 nations and geographical regions. This means instant friends in both one's own community and in the world community.

 

10.  Assistance when Travelling

Because there are Rotary clubs everywhere, many a Rotarian in need of a doctor, lawyer, hotel, dentist, advice, etc., while travelling has found assistance through Rotary.
 
 

HISTORY OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

  
 
The world's first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA, was formed on 23 February 1905 by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who wished to recapture in a professional club the same friendly spirit he had felt in the small towns of his youth. The name "Rotary" derived from the early practice of rotating meetings among members' offices.
 
Rotary's popularity spread throughout the United States in the decade that followed; clubs were chartered from San Francisco to New York. By 1921, Rotary clubs had been formed on six continents, and the organization adopted the name Rotary International a year later.
 
As Rotary grew, its mission expanded beyond serving the professional and social interests of club members. Rotarians began pooling their resources and contributing their talents to help serve communities in need. The organization's dedication to this ideal is best expressed in its principal motto: Service Above Self. Rotary also later embraced a code of ethics, called The 4-Way Test, that has been translated into hundreds of languages.
 
 
An endowment fund, set up by Rotarians in 1917 "for doing good in the world," became a not-for profit corporation known as The Rotary Foundation in 1928. Upon the death of Paul Harris in 1947, an outpouring of Rotarian donations made in his honor, totaling US$2 million, launched the Foundation's first program - graduate fellowships, now called Ambassadorial Scholarships. Today, contributions to The Rotary Foundation total more than US$80 million annually and support a wide range of humanitarian grants and educational programs that enable Rotarians to bring hope and promote international understanding throughout the world.
 
In 1985, Rotary made a historic commitment to immunize all of the world's children against polio. Working in partnership with non-governmental organizations and national governments thorough its PolioPlus program, Rotary is the largest private-sector contributor to the global polio eradication campaign. Rotarians have mobilized hundred of thousands of PolioPlus volunteers and have immunized more than one billion children worldwide.
 
As it approached the dawn of the 21st century, Rotary worked to meet the changing needs of society, expanding its service effort to address such pressing issues as environmental degradation, illiteracy, world hunger, and children at risk. The organization admitted women for the first time (worldwide) in 1989 and claims more than 145,000 women in its ranks today. Following the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Rotary clubs were formed or re-established throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Today, 1.2 million Rotarians belong to some 32,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.
 
 
 
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