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Title: BACK to BASICS


1
BACK to BASICS
  • Membership in the
  • Second Century
  • of Rotary

Service Above Self
2
Wake-up Call
  • Dave Hossler PDG
  • RI Director 2004-06
  • 1986-87
  • 2,500,000
  • 5148
  • 2004-05
  • 5,500,000
  • 5157

3
Why Rotary?
  • Organized in 1905
  • in Chicago by Paul Harris for
  • Professional Networking
  • Today
  • Rotary International is in
  • 168 Countries with
  • 1,219,532 Members in
  • 31,936 Clubs

4
Why Rotary?
  • First Community Service project
  • was a public toilet in Chicago.
  • Today community service and betterment projects
    worldwide with an emphasis
  • on helping people help themselves.

5
Why Rotary?
  • Whats in it for ME?
  • Service, Not Self
  • Service Above Self
  • SERVICE AND SELF
  • Who Profits Most Serves Best

6
Why Rotary?
  • Opportunity to Serve
  • Professional Networking
  • Personal Growth
  • Friendship
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Good Citizenship
  • World Understanding
  • Entertainment
  • Family Foundation
  • Ethical Environment

7
Opportunity to Serve
  • Community and International
  • Worldwide polio eradication
  • Health-care needs
  • Hunger
  • Poverty
  • Illiteracy
  • Disaster relief
  • Water systems
  • Rotary offers members the opportunity to solve
    needs and
  • experience fulfillment from giving back to the
    community.

8
Professional Networking
  • Founding principal was a forum for professional,
    business and community leaders.
  • Rotarians represent all business, professional,
    occupational and vocational areas.
  • Rotary is not a leads or referral club, although
    business can follow from membership thru
    participation in projects and programs.
  • Rotary is the oldest, most prestigious service
    club organization in the world.

9
Personal Growth
  • Professional Development
  • Leadership
  • Public speaking
  • Communication
  • Organization
  • Planning
  • Team-building
  • Fund-raising
  • Teaching
  • A few of the skills that are enhanced by
    membership.

10
Friendship
  • Fellowship was a primary reason Rotary was
    started.
  • It remains of greater need and value today.
  • Rotarians have friends wherever they go
    worldwide.
  • 31,936 Clubs
  • 1,219,532 Members
  • 166 Countries
  • Rotary builds community and enduring friendships.

11
Cultural Diversity
  • Rotary is an association of local Clubs in many
    countries.
  • Clubs are open to men and women of every ethnic
    and racial group, political view, language and
    religious belief.
  • Rotary contains a cross-section of current and
    developing world leaders.
  • Rotarians practice and promote appreciation of
    the uniqueness of individuals.

12
Good Citizenship
  • Weekly Club programs keep members informed about
    the local community, nation and world.
  • Expansive network of Clubs with local and
    international projects offer extensive
    opportunities for service and interchange.
  • Members suggest and help develop new and
  • ongoing local and international projects.

13
World Understanding
  • Members gain an understanding of global
    humanitarian issues.
  • Members have significant impact through service
    projects and exchange program of Rotary
    International and its Foundation.
  • The promotion of peace is one of Rotarys highest
    objectives.

14
Entertainment
  • Every Club and District hosts parties and
    activities offering both breaks and enhancement
    of personal and business life.
  • Conferences,
  • Conventions,
  • Assemblies
  • provide entertainment as well as Rotary
    information, education, service and fun.

15
Family Foundations
  • Rotary sponsors some of the worlds largest youth
    and educational exchanges and scholarship
    programs.
  • Local Clubs provide training opportunities and
    mentoring for future leaders.
  • Members and their families are involved in a wide
    range of social and service activities.

16
Ethical Environment
  • Rotary 4-Way Test
  • Is it the TRUTH?
  • Is it FAIR to all concerned?
  • Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
  • Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
  • Encouraging high ethical standards and respect
  • for all worthy occupations has been a hallmark
  • of Rotary from its earliest days.

17
Local Community Service
  • Food Banks
  • Dictionary Project
  • Student Mentoring
  • Road Clean-up
  • Park Projects
  • Health Centers
  • Thanksgiving Baskets
  • School Clothing Banks
  • Fund Raising Events for Local Charities
  • and many, many more

18
International Projects
  • Student Exchange
  • Wells and Water Systems
  • Polio Immunizations
  • Shoe Boxes
  • School Houses
  • Medical Equipment
  • Sports Equipment
  • Disaster Relief
  • Matching Grants
  • and many, many more

19
Investment
  • Amount of quarterly dues.
  • Amount of Rotary Foundation
  • Amount for special, social events and
  • fund raising projects

20
Investment
  • Meeting attendance
  • Participation in Club projects and events
  • Choose committee assignment(s)
  • Learn about Rotary
  • Share Rotary

21
Next Step
  • Explain Clubs membership procedure

22
Elevator Speech
  • Members benefit from
  • professional networking
  • while engaged in
  • service projects and programs
  • that enrich both
  • local and international communities.

23
Recap
  • Service Above Self
  • Service and Self
  • Service by Sharing
  • Just Ask

24
  • JUST ASK!

25
How to get this Presentation
  • Online at www.d5500.org to download. Go to
    District News then Membership Tips.
  • Contact Jay McCall at jmccall415_at_msn.com for a
    presentation or to request a disc to use at an
    open house and to have on a laptop for personal
    recruiting.
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