Membership

Membership....

General Qualifications — Rotarians are adults of good character and good business or professional reputation, who hold or have held an executive position with discretionary authority in any worthy and recognized business or profession.

Membership — Members must meet the above qualifications, as well as live or work within the club’s locality or surrounding area.

Invitation — Rotary membership is by invitation of a current member.

Membership in a Rotary club offers a number of benefits, including:

Effecting change within the community
Developing leadership skills.
Gaining an understanding of, and having an impact on international humanitarian issues.
Developing relationships with community and business leaders.

Through Rotary's service programs, a Rotary club can have a significant effect on the quality of life in its community. Programs of The Rotary Foundation offer opportunities to form international partnerships that help people in need worldwide. More than 1.2 million Rotarians make significant contributions to the quality of life at home and around the globe.

ROTARY’S GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Throughout Rotary’s history, several basic principles have been developed to guide Rotarians in achieving the ideal of service and high ethical standards.

OBJECT OF ROTARY: First formulated in 1910 and adapted throughout the years as Rotary’s mission expanded, the Object of Rotary provides a succinct definition of the organization’s purpose as well as the club member’s responsibilities.

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

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;

FOURTH: 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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