Your Rotary Club

What is your club like? Is it fun and energetic? Does it stand out and make you proud? Does it have its own identity? Is it known for a signature activity? Are its members diverse, open to new ideas, and involved? When you think about your club, is it everything you want it to be? This guide provides the best practices of successful Rotary clubs that can help your club become a more vibrant one.

Rotary's History of Service

The Object of Rotary and the Avenues of Service capture the spirit of service that has long defined Rotary. Today, Rotary clubs carry on the tradition of service by meeting the needs of their members and community by staying relevant, flexible, and innovative for their members and community-each club in its own way. The tradition of service can take many forms. How will your club continue this tradition? Will your club take advantage of its autonomy to reach its fullest potential?

The Object of Rotary

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

FIRST: The development of acquantince as an opportunity for service;

SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professionals; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;

FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peach through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

What is Rotary?

To learn more about Rotary, please visit our What is Rotary page.

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Source: 2010 edition of Be a Vibrant Club: Your Club Leadership Plan (245-EN; formerly titled Club Leadership Plan).