Membership Information - Share Rotary

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Sharing Rotary

Are you aware of the responsibility most Rotarians fail to perform? Paying their dues? Attending meetings? Contributing to their Club’s service fund? Participating in Club events and projects?  No —— none of these!

Of all the obligations a person accepts when joining a Rotary club, the one in which most Rotarians fail is "sharing Rotary."  Rotary International clearly supports the position that every individual Rotarian has an "obligation to share Rotary with others and to help extend Rotary by proposing qualified persons for Rotary club membership." It is estimated that less than 30 percent of the members of most Rotary clubs have ever made the effort to propose a new member. Thus, in every club, there are many Rotarians who rarely share their positive experiences of Rotary membership with other individuals.

The Rotary International Constitution states with respect to club membership: "Each club shall have a well-balanced membership in which no one business or profession predominates."

One merely has to glance through the pages of the local telephone book or chamber of commerce directory to realize that most clubs have not invited qualified members of all businesses and professions into Rotary. One of the found ­ing principles of Rotary is a fair and equitable representation of the professional and business population of the community it supports. To remain relevant, Rotary clubs must be inclusive of all professions and businesses within a community.

Only a Rotarian may propose a customer, neighbor, client, supplier, executive, relative, business associate, professional, or other qualified person to join a Rotary club. Have you accepted your obligation to share Rotary? The procedures are very simple, and everyone must know at least one person who should belong to Rotary.