Rotary Club of Beavercreek

What is Rotary

• 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.

• Rotarians meet weekly for fellowship and interesting and informative programs dealing with the 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 exchanges programs 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 the improve the quality of life for millions of people.  Rotary is widely regarded as the world largest private provider of international educational scholarship.

• Rotary is PolioPlus, Rotary's commitment to work with national and international health organizations on the goal of polio eradication by the year 2005, Rotary's 100th anniversary.  More than one billion children in developing nations have been immunized against polio through PolioPlus grants.

• Rotary is Service above Self.

The Objective 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:

• First, The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

• Second, 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;

• Third, the application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;

• Forth, the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

Rotary International's Mission

The mission of Rotary International is to support its member clubs in fulfilling the Object of Rotary by:

• Fostering unity among member clubs;

• Strengthening and expanding Rotary around the world;

• Communicating worldwide the work of Rotary; and

• Providing a system of international administration.

Date last updated: August 7, 2007