Rotary Key Messages
Posted by Janice Teetsell
Often you will be stopped along the way and asked "What is Rotary?". Here are some points you can use to explain what Rotary is and what we do.
Rotary is one of the largest and most influential international humanitarian service organizations in the world. Rotary's 1.2 million members worldwide belong to more than 33,000 Rotary Clubs in more than 200 countries and geographic areas. As volunteers, Rotary members have been serving the needs of communities worldwide since 1905.
Rotary is a global network of business and professional leaders. Participating in international service projects allows the women and men of Rotary to connect with people from around the world and promote cross-cultural understanding. Rotary clubs are nonpolitical, and open to all cultures, races and creeds.
Rotary promotes peace and international understanding through its educational and humanitarian programs. Rotary sponsors the larges privately funded international scholarship program in the world.
To help provide the next generation of ambassadors and social leaders, Rotary has teamed with leading unversities around the world to offer a master's degree program in peace and conflict resolution at seven Rotary Centers for International Studies.
Rotary clubs promote peace by initiating thousands of humanitarian projects every year that address the underlying causes of social instability and conflict - such as hunger, poverty, disease and illiteracy.
PolioPlus
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Rotary $355 million for polio eradication, of which Rotary will match $200 million over three years.
This challenge grant is one of the largest given by the Gates Foundation and represents a tremendous validation of Rotary's goal-oriented, business model approach to polio eradication.
Since 1985 Rotary members have donated their time and money to help immunize more than 2 billion children in 122 countries.
Despite Great progress, polio still persists in four countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nigeria.
For more information go to rotary.org/endpolio.
Rotary is a global network of business and professional leaders. Participating in international service projects allows the women and men of Rotary to connect with people from around the world and promote cross-cultural understanding. Rotary clubs are nonpolitical, and open to all cultures, races and creeds.
Rotary promotes peace and international understanding through its educational and humanitarian programs. Rotary sponsors the larges privately funded international scholarship program in the world.
To help provide the next generation of ambassadors and social leaders, Rotary has teamed with leading unversities around the world to offer a master's degree program in peace and conflict resolution at seven Rotary Centers for International Studies.
Rotary clubs promote peace by initiating thousands of humanitarian projects every year that address the underlying causes of social instability and conflict - such as hunger, poverty, disease and illiteracy.
PolioPlus
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Rotary $355 million for polio eradication, of which Rotary will match $200 million over three years.
This challenge grant is one of the largest given by the Gates Foundation and represents a tremendous validation of Rotary's goal-oriented, business model approach to polio eradication.
Since 1985 Rotary members have donated their time and money to help immunize more than 2 billion children in 122 countries.
Despite Great progress, polio still persists in four countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nigeria.
For more information go to rotary.org/endpolio.