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To
receive the 2003-04 Presidential Citation, clubs must undertake a
well-rounded program of activities in support of the Family of Rotary and
within each of the four Avenues of Service. The number of activities a club
must undertake is based on the size of its membership as outlined in the
chart below:
To
qualify for a citation, the club must:
· Determine
the minimum number of activities your club must accomplish in the Family of
Rotary and within each Avenue of Service according to the chart above.
· Review
the menu of suggested activities in each category, select those your club
will achieve by the deadline, and set them as goals.
· Meet
these goals between 1 July 2003 and 1 April 2004.
· Complete
the Presidential Citation Certification Form (900IB-03EN) once the goals
have been met and send it to your district governor.
Your
governor must certify the club size and the activities your club has
achieved by signing the certification form. He or she must then send the
certification form to RI World Headquarters by 15 April 2004. Those clubs
that qualify for the Presidential Citation will receive a certificate
recognizing their outstanding achievements.
The
Family of Rotary
Establish a Family of Rotary committee in your club to assist with club
projects and activities in support of club members and non-Rotarian members
of the extended Rotary family. (MANDATORY)
· Conduct
formal orientation and training for new members.
· Welcome
and include non-Rotarian family members (e.g., spouses, adult children, or
widows or widowers) into the Family of Rotary through service and fellowship
activities to promote club well-being.
· Establish
a system to follow up with club members who have missed recent meetings to
schedule a make-up meeting.
· Invite
members to bring their partners and/or children to a club meeting or club
event on at least five occasions.
· Hold
a series of five club meetings at the workplace of newer members.
· Send
a gift subscription of THE ROTARIAN or a regional magazine to the partner of
a deceased club member.
· During
Family Week, recognize the importance of Rotarians’ families and their
contributions to your club’s success.
· Ask
members who have joined within the last three years to lead a service
project or appoint them to a committee so that they become actively involved
in the club.
· Develop
and initiate a new project in support of the Family of Rotary.
Your
Club
· Achieve
3 percent net membership growth by 1 April 2004.
· Create
a membership retention plan to slow attrition to less than 3 percent
annually.
· Encourage
diversity of membership and promote a balanced membership. Induct new
members from demographic groups not currently represented in your club,
including women and younger people.
· Hold
a Rotary seminar dedicated to recruiting new members. Invite a number of
prospective members from your community.
· Highlight
your club’s service to the community by conducting regular outreach to local
media. Place a supplement or a news release in a local newspaper regarding a
specific project, event, or outstanding Rotarian.
· Ensure
that incoming club officers and members attend the presidents-elect training
seminar, the district assembly, a district Rotary Foundation seminar, and
the district conference as appropriate.
· Recognize
an outstanding club member with the Four Avenues of Service Citation for
Individual Rotarians.
· Recognize
a member who has provided outstanding service toward polio
· eradication.
· Participate
in Rotary’s centennial celebration activities by appointing a club historian
to create or maintain a club history. Present the club history at one
meeting.
· Develop
and initiate a new project in support of club service.
Your
Vocation
· Participate
in a career counseling and development project for young people in your
community, stressing the importance of formal education in meeting career
goals.
· Sponsor
a day for Rotarians to bring young people to their place of business to
educate them about career opportunities.
· Offer
free professional services to needy community residents using the vocational
expertise of club members.
· Provide
vocational training to prison inmates and develop an ongoing mentoring
program to prepare them to lead productive lives upon release.
· Organize
a special vocational service activity during Vocational Service Month
(October) or register a club member as a Rotary Volunteer.
· "
Recognize one or more
community members who have made outstanding professional achievements while
maintaining high ethical standards (e.g., Teacher of the Year, Police
Officer of the Year).
· Develop
a project to improve literacy and numeracy in the workplace.
· Hold
a forum on ethics and the application of The 4-Way Test in business and
professional life or present all new club members with a copy of
the Declaration of Rotarians
in Businesses and Professions (200-EN).
· Encourage
members to join and serve on committees of professional or trade
associations or develop a campaign to promote pride in vocational or
professional skills in the workplace.
· Develop
and initiate a new project in support of vocational service.
Your
Community
· Sponsor
or participate in an ongoing poverty alleviation project to feed the hungry
in your community, bring safe drinking water to everyone in the community,
or provide clothing to the poor. (MANDATORY)
· Participate
in Rotary’s centennial celebration activities and/or continue progress on
the Rotary Club Centennial Community Project initiated last year.
· Conduct
a peace program or workshop on conflict resolution in your community.
· Conduct
a community needs assessment and use it to establish one new local service
project this year that would be conducted by at least half of the club
members and their partners.
· Conduct
a Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) event for young people in your
community.
· Sponsor
a micro-lending project targeted to women in your community to help reduce
poverty.
· Sponsor
or participate in a local program about reproductive health and AIDS
awareness.
· Sponsor
or participate in a project that focuses on the education of girls and women
or a project to improve literacy and numeracy in your community.
· Contact
local media to publicize Rotary’s role in the Global Polio Eradication
Initiative.
· Develop
and initiate a new project in support of community service.
Our
World
· Support
a project registered on the World Community Service Projects Exchange or
seek a Foundation Matching Grant for a poverty alleviation project in
another country.
· Participate
in the centennial Twin Clubs project.
· Participate
in a PolioPlus project.
· Sponsor
or cooperate with a micro-lending project to help a disadvantaged group in
another country.
· Sponsor
an international project that educates girls and women as a way of also
addressing the issue of population and development in the world.
· Participate
in a Group Study Exchange (GSE) or a Rotary Friendship Exchange to
experience the internationality of Rotary.
· Support
The Rotary Foundation by having 100 percent of club members contribute to
the Annual Programs Fund.
· Identify
a qualified candidate to compete at the district level for a Rotary World
Peace Scholarship or contribute to the Annual
· Programs
Fund in support of the Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and
conflict resolution.
· Support
the Permanent Fund Initiative to ensure the long-term future of The Rotary
Foundation by securing new bequest commitments.
· Develop
and initiate a new project in support of international service. |
