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 on February 23, 1905
• There are 1.2 million service-minded women and men belong
ing to more than 29,000 Rotary clubs in 161 nations in the world.
• Rotarians meet weekly for fellowship and interesting and informational programs dealing with 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 exchange programs that touch people’s lives in their local communities and our world community.
• Polio Plus – Our top priority is eradicating polio. Thanks to Rotary and our international partners, the number of polio cases has dropped 99 percent worldwide since 1988.
• Rotary is The Rotary Foundation, which each year provides close to $90 million for international scholarships, cultural exchanges, and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people. Rotary is widely regarded as the world’s largest private provider of international educational scholarships.
