Why rotary club is bad
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Rotary started with the vision of one man — Paul Harris. The Chicago attorney formed the Rotary Club of Chicago on 23 February 1905, so professionals with diverse backgrounds could exchange ideas and form meaningful, lifelong friendships.
Over time, Rotary’s reach and vision gradually extended to humanitarian service. Members have a long track record of addressing challenges in their communities and around the world.
Whatever Rotary may mean to us, to the world it will be known by the results it achieves.
Paul Harris
Rotary founder
Our ongoing commitment
That commitment endures today through an organization that remains truly international. Only 16 years after being founded, Rotary had clubs on six continents. Our members now span the globe, working to solve some of our world’s most challenging problems.
We’re not afraid to dream big and set bold goals. We began our fight against polio in 1979 with a project to immunize 6 million children in the Philippines. Today, polio remains endemic in only two countries — down from 125 in 1988.
Rotary's Timeline
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Rotary’s History & Legacy
Rotary was founded in 1905 by Paul Harris, an attorney who settled in Chicago but found himself without friends or clients—and decided to start meeting with like-minded individuals to find solutions for his community.
While we are sure that Paul Harris didn’t imagine at that time that Rotary would become one of the world’s largest and most influential service organizations, his heart was focused on helping others. Now, over 100 years later after it was founded, Rotary continues to help the world by inspiring people just like YOU to become involved and engaged in a Rotary Club near you.
Here are some interesting facts about Rotary that can help you see how Rotary evolved with the times and adjusted its mission to meet the needs of a changing world:
- First Meeting: Paul Harris held the first Rotary meeting on February 23rd, 1905 with three other members: Gustavus Loehr (a mining engineer), Silvester Schiele (a coal broker), and Hiram Shorey (a merchant tailor). By the end of the year, Rotary Club One had grown to 30 members.
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Rotary is a global network of more than 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.
Solving real problems takes real commitment and vision. For more than 110 years, Rotary's people of action have used their passion, energy, and intelligence to take action on sustainable projects. From literacy and peace to water and health, we are always working to better our world, and we stay committed to the end.
Learn more about our structure and our foundation and our strategic vision.
What we do
Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues. Our more than 45,000 clubs work together to:
- Promote peace
- Fight disease
- Provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
- Save mothers and children
- Support education
- Grow local economies
- Protect the environment
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Our mission
We provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, a
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