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Membership Benefits
Impact starts with our members - people like you who want to be part of making the world a better place. At club meetings in communities across the globe, our members come together to strengthen their connections to friends and neighbors and their commitment to improving lives.
Service Opportunities:
Club members have many opportunities for humanitarian service, both locally and internationally. Rotary has seven (7) areas of focus. Rotarians experience the fulfillment that comes from giving back to the community.
Friendship:​
Rotary was founded on friendships and opportunities for fellowship -- an ideal that remains a major reason for members to join today. Club members enjoy opportunities for social events and include their own friends and family member with club projects. Rotary club members who travel have friendly contacts in almost every city in the world.
Professional Training:​
Rotarians have access to hundreds of professional 'live' training webinars each year. Rotary International maintains a library of hundreds of online courses that have been developed to build the leadership skills of all members. Rotary also has a strategic alliance with Toastmasters that can help members improve their communication and public speaking skills. Â
Networking:​
Rotarians meet to hear interesting guest speakers about issues in their local community and around the globe. You can grow your circle of friendships and meet business, community and professional contacts. As the oldest service club in the world, Rotarians represent a cross-section of the community’s business owners and leaders. Many are in public service, political leaders and professionals – people who make decisions and influence policy. People of Action
Good Citizenship:​
Rotary club programs keep members informed about what is taking place in the community, nation, and world and motivated to make a difference. Clubs meet at various schedules (weekly, bi-weekly etc.)
Youth and Family:
Rotary sponsors one of the world’s largest youth exchange, educational exchanges, and scholarship programs. Rotary clubs provide innovative training opportunities and mentoring for young leaders and involve family members in a wide range of social and service activities.
Ethical Environment:​
Ethics are at the heart of Rotary … doing the right thing in our profession and demonstrating respect for all work that people undertake. From its earliest days Rotary has helped support business professionals and developed Rotary’s The Four-Way Test. It is as follows:
Of the things we think, say or do:
1) Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Is it the TRUTH?
2)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Will it BUILD GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Ending Polio Forever:​
In addition to the seven (7) areas of focus, Rotary continues to its work to eradicate polio. After more than 35 years, our goal of ridding the earth of this disease is in sight. We started in 1979 with vaccinations for 6 million children in the Philippines. Today, Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only countries where polio remains endemic.
