Information for Prospective Members
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Rotarians are business and professional leaders who take an active role in their communities while greatly enriching their personal and professional lives. A Rotary Club contains a diverse group of professional leaders from the community that the club serves.
Membership in a Rotary Club offers a number of benefits, including:
- Effecting change within the community
- Developing leadership skills.
- Gaining and understanding of - and having an impact on international humanitarian issues and
- 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. Rotary Foundation programs offer opportunities to form international partnerships that helps people in need worldwide. Some 1.2 million Rotarians in 30,000 clubs in more than 160 countries make significant contributions to the quality of life at home and around the globe.
Becoming a Rotarian
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An association of some 31,000 autonomous clubs in 166 countries, Rotary International in one of the world's largest service organizations. The goal for a club's membership is an up-to-date and progressive representation of the community's business, vocational, and professional interests. An important distinction between Rotary and other organizations is that membership in Rotary is by invitation. Rotary clubs invite individuals to join and become members.
Membership is vital to a Rotary club's operations and community service activities. A primary goal of the club is to continually expand the club with committed members who have interest and ability to get involved in service and humanitarian projects. Prospective members must:
Hold - or be retired from - a professional, proprietary, executive, or managerial position.
Have the capacity to meet the club's weekly attendance or community project participation requirements;
Live or work within the locality of the club or the surrounding area.
The membership process - Membership in Rotarian is by invitation not by application.
Often a person being considered for membership is invited by a member/sponsor to attend one or more club meetings to learn more about Rotary. The sponsor may then submit the name of the candidate to the club's membership committee.
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