COMMUNITY SERVICE

What is Community Service?

Community service is one of Rotary’s Avenues of Service and it encourages Rotarians to offer service to their communities.  Every Rotary club and every Rotarian assumes a responsibility to find ways to improve the quality of life for those in their communities and to serve the public interest.
 
Community Service:
  • Encourages and fosters the ideal of service to the personal, business and community life of every Rotarian.
  • Provides opportunities for every Rotarian to exemplify “Service Above Self”.
  • Provides a chance to respond to the needs of a local community.
Effective Community Service projects:
  • Are relevant to the community
  • Serve as a learning experience for Rotarians
  • Help identify a Rotary club’s role in its community
  • Respond to real issues
  • Offer more than a “quick fix”
  • Improve community members’ lives
  • Incorporate the abilities of those who are served
  • Recognize the contributions of all participants
  • Are supported by members of the Club