If you've recently contributed to The Rotary Foundation to help us reach our goal of raising $2.025 billion by 2025, CONGRATULATIONS! You did it! In 2015, the Endowment reached $1 billion in investments and commitments. In 2017 the trustees of our Foundation set a...
By now, you should have received your September issue of the Rotary magazine and you've hopefully taken the time to at least browse through it. If so, you couldn't miss the ten-page spread on our upcoming 2026 International Convention in Taipei, Taiwan. Whether you've...
SangKoo Yun, a consummate Rotary leader and businessman who had been selected to be Rotary International's president for 2026-27 has died on September 5th at the age of 75. This sad announcement came mere weeks after stepping down as President-Elect and after months...
Why did you join Rotary? Why do you stay? What does it do to improve you, your community, and the world? What do you get out of it? The more you think about the answers to these questions, the better you'll be able to tell others your personal Rotary story and why you...
Rotary has released a new set of videos promoting the causes we all work for. You already know about them, but there are many others out there in your community and on your social media networks who don't. While Rotary's staff does a great job of developing these and...
If you were with us in Columbus, you know just how innovative, fun, and educational this year's Institute was. If you couldn't make it but want to know, "what's all the fuss about institutes?", there's too much to fit in a blog post here, so check out the Zone's...
New poliovirus cases and positive environmental isolates this week: Afghanistan: one WPV1 case and no positive environmental samples. The number of cases in 2025 is now four. There were 25 cases in 2024. Angola: two cVDPV2 cases and no positive environmental samples....
Zone Institute attendees were the audience for the "pitches" of three projects in our version of the TV show, "Shark Tank". Director Brian Hall, Foundation Trustee Vicki Puliz, and Past Trustee Bryn Styles served as the sharks. In the end, the sharks chose all three...
Day one kicked off with The Rotary Show starring Brian Hall, a "talk show" format General Session with Director Brian Hall serving as our host and Institute General Chair Craig Maxey filling the "sidekick" rile. Guests included R.I. Past Presidents Ravi Ravindran and...
New poliovirus cases and positive environmental isolates this week: Afghanistan: one WPV1 case and no positive environmental samples. The number of cases in 2025 is now three. There were 25 cases in 2024. Chad: one cVDPV2 case, one cVDPV3 case, and no positive...
Does your club sponsor an Interact club? How active is Interact in your district? A new video has been released which can help you explain and promote Interact. It can help Rotarians, students, and their parents learn about the program. Consider posting it to your...
Does your district have any goals for helping its members learn more about Rotary and The Rotary Foundation? If not, it isn't too late for Governors to set some, and for Governors-Elect and Governors-Nominee to begin thinking about those for the next years. You can...
