The Object of Rotary is to “encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise.” Rotary is a service organization. Since 1910, the Rotary Motto has been “Service Above Self.”
Rotary strives to achieve it’s objective of “Service Above Self” through activities in four primary areas. These are often referred to as the Four Avenues of Service.
This “Avenue” promotes the development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service. It involves the activities necessary to make the Club function successfully and achieve its goals.
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This area represents the opportunity that each Rotarian has to represent the dignity and utility of one’s vocation as an opportunity to serve society. Rotarians promote and foster high ethical standards in business and professions and promote the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations.
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This “Avenue” relates to the activities that Rotarians undertake to improve the quality of life in their community. Particular emphasis is given to helping children, needy families, the aged, the handicapped, and those most in need of assistance. Rotarians strive to promote the ideal of service in their personal, business, and community lives.
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In this area, Rotarians strive for the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service. International Service Projects are designed to meet the humanitarian needs of people in many lands, with particular emphasis on the most underprivileged children and families in developing countries.
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NOTE: We use the CLUB LEADERSHIP PLAN model, which incorporates the 4 Avenues into committee structures. We are in our fifth Rotary year of using the Club Leadership Plan model, and have our Key Committee Chairs as members of the board.
5 KEY COMMITTEES:
Club Administration focuses on strengthening fun and fellowship while ensuring the effective functioning and sustainability of SORC's weekly luncheons, events and operations.
Club Service Projects are "Good Acts" to improve life in our community as well as expanding Rotary's humanitarian reach around the globe to promote world understanding & peace.
Club Foundation giving is coordinated for our financial commitment to educational and humanitarian programs and processes Every Rotarian Every Year annual donations.
Club Public Relations promotes our activities to the media with newsletters, press releases and internet marketing and informs the general public with a better understanding of what Rotary does both at home and abroad.
Club Membership directs the recruitment and retention of our members along with encouraging service to others through vocational leadership and the practice of high ethical standards.
Information on this page came from these additional sources:
The Object of Rotary page on the Rotary International web site
The ABCs of Rotary by Clifford L. Dochterman, published by Rotary International.
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