The Rotary Club of Evergreen
District 5450
Evergreen Rotary
Red Badge Program
2014-2015
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Rotary International & The 4-Way Test
2. The Object of Rotary
3. New and Prospective Members
4. Membership in Rotary
5. The Rotary Foundation
6. Evergreen Club History
7. Rotary Clubs in District 5450
8. Committee Involvement Request
9. The Five Avenues of Service
10. Red Badge Program Requirements
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Rotary International
1.2 million Rotary members worldwide
Three quarters of service is local
49 Rotarians helped to draft the United Nations Bylaws
Since 1985, Rotary members have helped immunize more than 2 billion children against polio.
Founded in Chicago in 1905
Now headquartered in Evanston, Illinois.
THE 4-WAY TEST
Of Things We Think, Say, or Do…
1. Is it the Truth?
2. Is it Fair to all concerned?
3. Will it build Goodwill and
Better Friendships?
4. Will it be Beneficial to
all concerned
OBJECT OF ROTARY
The Object of Rotary
is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
The Rotary Club
Evergreen, Colorado
New and Prospective Member Information
This document introduces new and prospective members to Rotary International and the Rotary Club of Evergreen, Colorado USA. This is not an official Rotary document, but it is patterned after similar ones from other Rotary clubs.
The purpose of this Rotary information is:
o To help give you a bird’s eye view of Rotary
o To let you know what you may expect of your membership
o To let you know what our club will expect of you as a member
o To answer any questions that you might have about our club and Rotary in general
This document contains some helpful information about Rotary.
An International Organization
How You Were Chosen
Privileges of Membership
Obligations of Membership
Attendance Rules
Rotary Club Objective
Types of Membership
Financial Commitment of Rotary Membership
Our Rotary Foundation
Rotary International Foundation
Rotary Is an International Organization
Paul P. Harris, our founder, organized the first Rotary Club in Chicago in 1905. This club met in rotation at the offices of the members, thus the name Rotary. There are now more than 34,000 Rotary Clubs internationally with a total membership of over 1.2 million men and women.
Worldwide there are 527 districts in 159 countries. The free world is divided into territories known as Rotary Districts with which the clubs are associated. The Evergreen Club is in District 5450, which is comprised of 53 clubs that span an area from Northern Colorado to the town of Parker, Colorado. Total district membership is over 3,000 Rotarians. A President governs Rotary International with a board of directors elected from all over the world. Annually, each District elects a District Governor and each club elects its officers and directors.
Membership in Rotary
Who is a Rotarian?
Rotarians are business and professional leaders who take an active role in their communities while greatly enriching their personal and professional lives. A Rotary club contains a diverse group of professional leaders from the community that the club serves.
Benefits of Rotary
Membership in a Rotary club offers a number of benefits, including:
• Effecting change within the community
• Advancing business and professional contacts
• Developing leadership skills
• Gaining an understanding of, and having an impact on, international humanitarian
issues
Through Rotary International's service programs, a Rotary club can have a significant effect on the quality of life in its community. Rotary Foundation programs offer opportunities to form international partnerships that help people in. need worldwide. Some 1.2 million Rotarians in 34,000 autonomous clubs in more than 160 countries make significant contributions to the quality of life at home and around the globe.
Rotary International is one of the world's largest service organizations. The goal for a club's membership is an up-to-date and progressive representation of the community's business, vocational, and professional interests.
An important distinction between Rotary and other organizations is that membership in Rotary is by invitation. Rotary clubs invite individuals to join and become members.
Membership is vital to a Rotary club's operations and community service activities. A primary goal of the club is to continually expand the club with committed members who have the interest and ability to get involved in service and humanitarian projects.
Membership Requirements
Members must:
• Hold or be retired from a professional, proprietary, executive, or managerial position
• Have the capacity to meet the club's weekly attendance or community project
participation requirements
• Live or work within the locality or the surrounding area of the club
Often a person being considered for membership is invited by a member/sponsor to attend one or more club meetings to learn more about Rotary. The sponsor may then submit the name of the candidate to the club's membership committee. An individual who is interested in membership but doesn't know any Rotarians may contact the local club directly. Rotary uses a classification system to establish and maintain a vibrant cross-section or representation of the community's business, vocational, and professional interests among members and to develop a pool of resources and expertise to successfully implement service projects. This system is based on the founders' paradigm of choosing cross-representation of each business, profession, and institution within a community.
A classification describes either the principal business or the professional service of the organization that the Rotarian works for or the Rotarian's own activity within the organization. Some examples of classifications include high schools, universities, eye surgery, banking, pharmaceutical-retailing, petroleum-distribution, and insurance agency.
ROTARY MEMBERSHIP
1. As member of this Rotary Club You will have both a sponsor and a Mentor-they will not be the same person.
2. You will fill out and submit an application and it will be circulated to the entire membership and also the Board of Directors. Upon approval you will be inducted into the Club and then begin the Red Badge program. Upon successful completion you will be awarded full membership.
Privileges of Rotary Membership
Rotary membership provides:
· The privilege of friendship with leaders in your community, in neighboring cities across the USA, and around the world.
· The privilege of giving service to your community.
· The privilege of developing international goodwill and understanding.
· The privilege of helping build higher ethical standards within your vocation.
Obligations of Rotary Membership
Participation
To be a Rotarian, you must give your time, talents, and sometimes financial support to the following:
· Community work
· Social functions
· Club and District activities and service work
Each year we elect our officers and our Board of Directors. These officers and directors conduct the general business of our club. Our president, with the approval of the board of directors, makes committee appointments based upon the Five Avenues of Service:
Club Service, Community Service, Vocational Service,
International Service, and Youth Service.
Each Rotarian is expected to participate in one of the Avenues of Service.
The Rotary Club Objective in Five Avenues of Service
Our objective is based on the ideal that service is a worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage, foster, and implement this within the four avenues of service listed below.
1. Club Service – The cornerstone of Rotary service. It is service that makes the Rotary wheel turn, assuring that all club members work well together. It seeks to promote the spirit of fellowship in which every service should be rendered inside as well as outside the club.
2. Community Service – The use of high ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying, by each Rotarian, of their occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
3. Vocational Service – The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to their occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
4. International Service – The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a worldwide fellowship of business and professional people united in the ideal of service.
5. Youth Service - Recognizes the positive change implemented by youth and young adults through leadership development activities such as RYLA, Rotaract, and Interact, youth service projects, and creating international understanding with Rotary Youth Exchange.
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Attendance
100% attendance is urged and honored in Rotary. To achieve this goal:
· Attend each weekly meeting of our club.
· Make up meetings you miss at another Rotary Club or on-line within 14 days before or after a missed meeting of our club. (Directions on make=ups follow.)
· Attend a District Institute, Assembly, or Conference or a Rotary International Convention.
Strive to attend 100% of our meetings and stay for 100% of each meeting
Attendance Rules
· You must attend or make up at least 50% of the regular meetings of the club, with at least 25% attendance at the Evergreen Club.
· Failure to attend or make up four consecutive meetings may terminate your membership.
· Attendance percentages are calculated on a six-month period ending December 31 and June 30.
Making Up Meetings
You can make up a missed meeting any time two weeks prior or two weeks after the missed meeting. Ask the Club Secretary for a makeup form and do one of the following:
· Attend at least 50% of the regular meetings of another club or provisional club.
· Attend, at the direction of the club, a regular meeting of an Interact Club or provisional Interact Club.
· Attend a Rotary International Convention or a select International, Regional, or District Conference or Assembly.
· Attend eClub online. Go to rotaryeclubone.org/
The Evergreen Rotary Club is very liberal in what it will accept as a make-up. Any two full hours spent on Rotary business, whether it’s a committee meeting, volunteering outside of the club, or attending Rotary functions, counts as a make-up. If you don’t have a makeup form, just use any piece of paper or an email to the Club Secretary to record the event, with your name, date of service, and name of club or event attended will work to receive a make-up.
Types of membership
There are three types of membership in the Evergreen Rotary Club.
1. Active-Ordinary
Members selected for their leadership in the business or profession in which they are classified. Member pays all dues, expenses, and meal fees at quarterly invoicing.
2. Active-Exempt
Senior Members, whose age, plus their years of Rotary membership exceed 85, are considered to have achieved the Rule of 85. These members can voluntarily petition the Board for Exempt status, and if granted, meal fees can be paid at the door. Members pay all dues and expenses at quarterly invoicing.
3. Honorary
Non-voting members elected because of distinguished service in furthering Rotary as an organization. They must be re-elected annually for membership. Honorary membership follows the current board term and must be reinstated by the successor Board of Directors. Honorary members pay no dues or meal fees.
Spouses of existing Evergreen Rotary Club members that become Rotary members themselves do not pay monthly dues. The Club picks up that expense.
Your Financial Commitment of Rotary Membership
(Invoiced quarterly)
Initiation Fee(one time fee) / $100.00
Quarterly Dues
($25 per month) / $90.00
Quarterly Breakfast Fees
(Approximately 12 @ $11.00 each) / $132.00
Rotary Foundation Annual Giving*
($25 per quarter) / $100.00
Evergreen Rotary Foundation Annual Giving” ($25 per quarter) / $100.00
*-- Indicates optional
You are provided a financial credit for make-up meetings at another Rotary club where a meal fee was charged. The Rotary fiscal year runs from July 1 through June 30.
A typical Evergreen Rotarian spends approximately $1000 - $1500 over the course of a year for membership.
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International &
Evergreen Rotary Foundation
The Evergreen Rotary Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable foundation incorporated for the purpose of collecting and administering donations and funds raised by and through the Evergreen Rotary Club exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, or scientific purposes. All donations made to the Evergreen Rotary Foundation are tax deductible as provided by law.
The goal of the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is to foster understanding and friendly relations among the world’s people by funding educational and humanitarian programs. Some of these are:
· Ambassadorial scholarships
· Matching grants
· Group Study Exchange
· Health, hunger, and humanitarian (3-H) grants
· Rotary grants for university teachers to serve in developing countries
· Grants for Rotary volunteers
· Polio Plus Program
· Rotary Peace programs, including Rotary Peace Scholarships
Several of these programs send scholars and volunteer workers abroad to study, learn about other cultures, and offer assistance and promote goodwill within a host country.
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is supported by the financial contributions of Rotarians throughout the world. Each member of the Rotary Club of Evergreen is encouraged to become a member and maintain a sustaining membership in the Rotary Foundation through an annual contribution of $100. Once you have contributed $1,000 to the Foundation, you are made a Paul Harris Fellow in honor of Rotary’s founder.
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