Opportunity of Services
Celebrate Rotary in your club
- Create a membership recruitment plan.
- Create a membership retention plan to alow attrition to less than 3 percent annually.
- Encourage diversity of membership and promote a balanced membership. Induct new embers from demographic groups not currently represented in your club.
- Sponsor a new Rotary club.
- Appoint a family of Rotary committee to assist with projects and activities in support of Rotarians and their families.
- Invite members to bring their partners and/or children to a club meeting or event on at least five occasions.
- Welcome and include non-Rotarian family-members (e.g., spouses,adult children, parents, widows, or widowers) into the family of Rotary through service and fellowship activities.
- During Family Month (December), recognize the importance of Rotarians families and their contributions to your club's success.
- Appoint a centennial committee and a club historian to coordinate and promote centennial activities and create or maintain a club history to be presented at one meeting.
- Invite a least one Rotary Foundation alumnus or alumna to join your club.
- Recognize a club member with the Four Avenues of Service Citation for Individual Rotarians
- Develop and initiate a new project in support of club service or the family of Rotary.
Celebrate Rotary in your vocation
- Ask each member of your club to share information on Rotary International and the club's activities with their places of business and/or their professional associations.
- Hold one or more club meetings at the workplaces of newer members.
- Hold a forum on ethics and the application of The Four-Way Test in business and professional life or present all new club members with a copy of the Declaration of Rotarians in Businesses and Professions (200-EN).
- Ask each member of your club to mentor a young person.
- Sponsor a day for Rotarians to bring young people to their places of business to share career opportunities.
- Sponsor or participate in a career development project for people with disabilities.
- Sponsor or participate in a skills retraining project for those returning the work force.
- Organize a special vocational service activity during Vocational Service Month (October) or register a club member as a Rotary Volunteer.
- Nominate a community member as a candidate for the Rotary Centennial Service Award for Professional Excellence to your governor.
- Develop a project to improve literacy and numeracy in the workplace.
- Develop a campaign to improve vocational or professional skills in the workplace.
- Develop and initiate a new project in support of vocational service.
Celebrate Rotary in your community
- Actively participate in Rotary's centennial celebrationactivities.
- Conduct a Centennial Community Project.
- Contact local media to publicize Rotary's role in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
- Conduct a community needs assessment and establish one new service project this year. Ensure that a significant number of club members and their partners participate in new service projects.
- Initiate an ongoing community water project (e.g. water resources, water conservation, safe drinking water).
- Sponsor or participate in a project designed to promote urban peace or conflict resolution.
- Sponsor or participate in a project to improve literacy and numeracy.
- Sponsor or participate in a health awareness campaign or a project that addresses health concerns.
- Sponsor or participate in a project that addresses the problems of child abuse, street children, and/or domestic violence.
- Sponsor a new Interact club, Rotaract club, or Rotary Community Corps.
- Conduct a Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) event.
Celebrate Rotary in our world
- Participate in at least one Polio Plus or Polio Plus Partners project.
- Achieve the Every Rotarian, Every Year goal of US$100 or more per capita in Annual Programs Fund Contributions.
- Support the Permanent Fund Initiative by securing at least two new bequest commitments.
- Participate in the Centennial Twin Club program.
- Sponsor a Centennial Group Study Exchange (GSE) team.
- Participate in The Rotary Foundation's Individual Grants program by sending a Centennial Rotary Volunteer from your club.
- Sponsor or host a Youth Exchange student or conduct a Rotary Friendship Exchange.
- Identify a qualified candidate to compete at the district level for at least one Rotary Foundation Educational Programs award (Ambassadorial Scholar, Rotary World Peace Scholar, Group Study Exchange [GSE] team member or leader, or Rotary Grants for University Teachers participant).
- Support or register a project on the World Community Service Projects Exchange.
- Seek a Foundation Matching Grant for a water resources, health, or literacy project.
- Register both the club president and incoming club president for the 2005 Rl Convention in Chicago.
- Develop and initiate a new project in support of International service.
