What is Rotary?

• Rotary is a Global Network of community volunteers
• Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world
• Founded over 100 years ago
• Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians
• More than 32,000 clubs
• In 200 countries and geographical areas

Rotary Foundation

Rotary Foundation’s mission is improving health, supporting education and alleviating poverty.
Contributing 111 million in 2005-2006 to support community projects at home and abroad.

4 Avenues of Service

Club Service
Focuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the effective functioning of the club.

Vocational Service
Encourages Rotarians to serve others through their vocations and to practice high ethical standards.

Community Service
Covers the projects and activities the club undertakes to improve life in its community.

International Service
Encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary's humanitarian reach around the globe and to promote world understanding and peace

What Rotary Does?

• Funds and Participates in Humanitarian Projects locally and around the world
• Polio Eradication
• Over $600 million and countless volunteer hours to help immunize over 2 billion children
• 1985 over 125 polio-endemic countries, in 2006 Only four countries remain polio-endemic

Rotary Grants for University Teachers
Grants are awarded to higher-education faculty to teach abroad in an academic field of practical use to people in a low-income country.

Humanitarian Grants Program
Humanitarian grants enable Rotarians to increase their support of international service projects that provide water wells, medical care, literacy classes, and other essentials to people in need. Rotarian participation is key to the success of these projects.

Matching Grants
Assist Rotary clubs and districts in carrying out humanitarian projects with clubs in other countries.

Health, Hunger and Humanity (3-H)
Grants fund long-term, self-help, and grassroots development projects that are too large for one club or district to carry out on its own.

Group Study Exchange
Small groups of young professionals learn from others in different countries, ages 25-40.

Ambassadorial Scholarships
The world’s largest, privately funded international scholarships program for university-level studies, sends about 750 students each year to serve as ambassadors of goodwill while abroad.

Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies Fellowships
Are awarded to individuals for study in a short-term certificate program at the Rotary Center for Peace and Conflict Studies in Thailand.

Rotary World Peace Fellows
Rotary partners with eight prestigious universities around the globe to educate mid career professionals in peace and conflict resolution.

Rotary Youth Exchange
Clubs and districts sponsor and host students ages 15-19 who travel abroad for an academic year or an extended holiday; about 7,000 a year.