There are more than 80 Rotary Fellowships. From sports and hobbies to professional interests, these groups draw members from around the world.
From stamp collecting to ballroom dancing, the interests of Rotarians are as diverse as the membership itself. Yet, among the more than 1.2 million Rotarians worldwide, an amateurradio enthusiast or a chess player is bound to find others who share the same passions. But Rotary Fellowship members share more than just their common interest in sport diving, golf, fishing, or scouting; they share an interest in fellowship and service and in promoting world understanding. As such, it’s no wonder that the International Skiing Fellowship of Rotarians donates the profits from ski events to The Rotary Foundation or that the Flying Rotarians help ferry medical personnel and supplies. Rotary Fellowships also unite Rotarians who have shared professional interest in such fields as arts and communication and finance/banking. Members exchange technical information and seek opportunities to employ their expertise in service not just to their own communities and countries, but to their professions as well.
They're just one more way Rotarians are promoting international fellowship, friendship, and service.
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Special Days:
9-10 Presidential Conference: Celebrating our Commitment to Peace, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 12 World Blood Donor Day (DPT)
Overview of the program
Global Networking Groups allow individual Rotarians from several countries to join together to focus on common interests. Through these groups, you can -
• Share fellowship and friendship with thousands of Rotarians • Meet other Rotarians with a similar hobby or vocational background • Collaborate with Rotarians from around the world who are dedicated to a particular area of service
There are two types of Global Networking Groups: Rotary Fellowships and Rotarian Action Groups.
Rotary Fellowships
Rotary Fellowships offer Rotarians the opportunity to make friends with others in Rotary who share a common vocation, hobby, or recreational interest.
Rotarian Action Groups
Rotarian Action Groups conduct international service projects that further the Object of Rotary. If you're interested in supporting a particular type of service activity, there may be a Rotarian Action Group for you.
In 2017-18, we’ll answer the question “What is Rotary?” with RI President-elect Ian H.S. Riseley’s theme, Rotary: Making a Difference. “Whether we’re building a new playground or a new school, improving medical care or sanitation, training conflict mediators or midwives, we know that the work we do will change people’s lives — in ways large and small — for the better.”
Retaining existing members is vital to the success of any club. The more members you retain, the more service you are able to perform. In general, members are retained because they are satisfied with some aspect of being involved, whether that is their participation or the validation they feel after a job well done.
Surveying your members can be an integral part of your club's retention plan, and allows you to take action to prevent loss of members. It's important to measure your club's effectiveness among your current membership roster to find out if what you are currently doing is working or if it needs to change. As there are always new ideas and techniques evolving to increase productivity and progression within your club, there are a number of ways you can gather this information. Often times people will not proactively complain or provide feedback unless asked, and a survey allows you to pinpoint exactly where the club weaknesses reside. You can even decide to make your survey anonymous, something that may prompt more honesty.
You can create a survey using one of many free survey tools such as Survey Monkey, Zoomerang, or Survey Console, and providing a direct link to it on your web site or eBulletin, or you can create one using Word or PDF and post it in your "documents" section for members to download, complete and submit by email (although this method will not allow you to create an anonymous survey). A some questions that you can ask to gauge your club's effectiveness are below:
This week’s Rotary Foundation Thought is aboutFoundation programs.
"The Rotary Foundation exists to help Rotarians 'repair' the world when things go wrong…and since things go wrong a lot, we‘re very busy! If we‘re going to repair the world, we‘ll need some tools and a toolbox. It is the programs we participate in and the projects we complete through The Rotary Foundation that are the tools in our Rotary toolbox. We have the tools, but we need to keep up with the ever increasing need for more of them, and that is where the financial support of The Rotary Foundation comes into play. We must support the Annual Programs Fund of our Foundation through the Every Rotarian, Every Year initiative. Each of us holds Rotary in a special place in our minds and our hearts. We have the opportunity every day to decide how we will use Rotary‘s tools to make the world a better place." — Rotarian Barb Feder
PolioPlus is Rotary’s massive effort to eradicate poliomyelitis from the world by 2005. It was launched in 1985 with the goal of raising US$120 million to immunize the developing world’s children against polio for five years. The PolioPlus fundraising campaign that concluded in 1988 raised a record $247 million, and by 2005, Rotarians’ contributions to the global polio-eradication effort will exceed $500 million. Of equal significance has been the huge volunteer army mobilized by Rotary International. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers at the local level are providing support during National Immunization Days and mobilizing their communities for immunization and other polio-eradication activities.
In 1988, Rotary joined the World Health Organization in committing itself to the eradication of polio by 2005, Rotary’s 100th anniversary. Rotary works with the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), national governments, and others, making this effort the world’s most extensive public/private health undertaking. As a result of the efforts of Rotary International and its partners, almost two billion children have received oral polio vaccine and are protected from poliomyelitis. WHO declared the Americas to be polio-free in 1994, the Western Pacific region in 2000, and the region of Europe in 2002.
As of 2002, the number of polio cases had been reduced by 99 percent since 1985. Efforts are focused on eradicating the virus in the 10 remaining polio-endemic countries — all in Africa and South Asia. Achieving eradication will be difficult (only one other disease, smallpox, has ever been eradicated) and expensive (estimated total cost is nearly $3 billion). It requires polio-endemic, high-risk, and recently endemic countries to carry out National Immunization Days to immunize all children under the age of five, continuing routine immunization of children worldwide, systematic reporting of all suspected cases, rapid response to outbreaks, and establishment of laboratory networks.
In 2002, a $275 million funding gap was identified as the most significant obstacle to global eradication. To help fill that gap, Rotary launched a new polio eradication fundraising campaign called Fulfilling Our Promise: Eradicate Polio, which seeks to raise $80 million during the 2002-03 year. No other nongovernmental organization has ever made a commitment of the scale of Polio-Plus. It may be considered the greatest humanitarian service the world has ever seen. Every Rotarian can share the pride of that achievement.
Posted by Rotary Club of Twinsburg on Jan 30, 2017
The club has fundraisers and service events coming up!
Give our Club all the support you can to make it successful. We need all cylinders firing!!! Please do what you can to serve our club. If you not being asked to serve the club, ask where you can help!
Participate in Every Rotarian Every Year. Any amount you can contribute will help the success of Rotary International in your community and around the world. Let's try to become a 100% EREY club, where every member contributes something to the Rotary Foundation, either directly or through the club.
Think of another way in which you could serve our club, or help a committee chair with some of their responsibilities. Abby and Kathy are assembling the team for the next Rotary year. Help them in any way that you can, even if you have not been asked.
Posted by Rotary Club of Twinsburg on Jul 01, 2016
Things you can do to promote Rotary
1. Wear your Rotary pin daily.
2. Tell someone something about Rotary daily.
3. Invite a friend or co-worker to our next meeting or event.
4. Stay in touch with alumni.
5. Sponsor a new member to the club.
6. Give to the Rotary Foundation.
If you have any photographs or pictures of Rotary events both recent and in the past, please forward them to Philip Weiss or Laura Leonard for posting on the website. If you like we can also show you how to post them in the website yourself.
