Download the latest RI Strategic Plan Progress Report (PDF) for January 2012 to learn more about the progress Rotary is making on its strategic priorities.

The RI Strategic Plan charts a clear course for Rotary’s future, helping Rotarians fulfill their promise of putting Service Above Self. The plan identifies three strategic priorities supported by 16 goals.

Future progress reports will become available in advance of RI’s annual convention at the end of the Rotary year.

Learn more about the RI Strategic Plan and download the progress report.

Progress report January 2012

A teacher prepares a lesson for first graders at École Ste.-Famille in Les Cayes, Haiti. The school was rebuilt with support from a Rotary Foundation donor advised fund after the 2010 earthquake. Resolve to support the Foundation’s work in the six areas of focus in 2012. Rotary Images/Alyce Henson

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Try something different in 2012 to attract new members and keep existing ones. Here are a few ideas to help you do more with Rotary in the new year.

Be part of Rotary’s efforts to End Polio Now

Consider planning a fundraiser for polio eradication, or having your club or district light up a landmark as part of Rotary’s anniversary celebration on 23 February. Rotarians have made great progress in the push to end the disease, but the job isn’t finished yet. As little as US$0.60 can help immunize a child against the incurable disease. Contribute to PolioPlus, and learn more about Rotary’s eradication efforts.

Think strategically and set club goals

A new online assessment tool will be launched in July to help clubs set goals and track their accomplishments, such as contributions to The Rotary Foundation. Available in Member Access, it will replace paper-based tracking methods and help RI measure Rotary’s global impact. Help your club work more efficiently by using the tool to set and measure club goals.

Help the Foundation fulfill its mission

Make a resolution to donate to the Foundation’s Annual Fund in 2012. Skip one latte a week, and you’d have US$100 or more to contribute to your club’s Every Rotarian, Every Year effort. You can make a one-time contribution or a recurring gift. Learn how your club or district can make a difference in one of Rotary’s six areas of focus with a Foundation grant.

Get inspired at the RI Convention

The 2012 RI Convention in Bangkok, Thailand, 6-9 May, will feature speakers including Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus and Global Poverty Project CEO Hugh Evans. And, along with thousands of your fellow Rotarians from around the world, you’ll be able to attend workshops on topics such as membership, leadership, and Future Vision. Register today.

Celebrate 50 years of Interact

Interact will celebrate its 50th year in 2012. Since the first club was established in 1962 at a high school in Melbourne, Florida, USA, thousands of communities worldwide have benefited from Interactors putting Service Above Self. The program has helped countless youth develop leadership skills, meet new friends, and become more familiar with Rotary. Rotary clubs that sponsor an Interact club gain fresh insight into service and help develop future Rotarians. If your club isn’t already involved in Interact, consider sponsoring a club.

Publicize your good work

PR grants enable districts to raise Rotary’s profile and promote the global and local work of Rotarians by placing public service announcements on television and radio, in print media and on billboards, and on the Web. Help your district apply for a grant by 4 March. To further promote your club’s signature activities, be sure to update your website with information about your projects and meetings. Also, start a social media page, and follow what Rotary is doing on sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn.

Connect with alumni

Rotary Foundation alumni can be effective speakers at club meetings, and many are potential club members. Reach out to them.

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The Rotarian Action Groups Annual Report 2010-11 is now available online, where you can learn information about projects, new initiatives, and membership.

From developing a microcredit program in Liberia, to funding a wheelchair production facility in Jos, Nigeria, and building a community garden at a family homeless shelter in the U.S., these action groups kept busy in 2010-11.

Rotarian Action Groups are autonomous, international groups are organized by committed Rotarians, Rotarians’ family members, and Rotaractors who have expertise in and a passion for a particular type of service.

• View the Rotarian Action Groups Annual Report 2010-11.
• Listen to a recent webinar on action groups to see how best to work with them to improve your club or district projects.

If you have questions about organizing a Rotarian Action Group, please contact RI staff for assistance.

http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/rag_annual_report_compilation_en.pdf

See the assembly

• Find photos, including official portraits of the incoming president and district governors, in Rotary Images.
• Watch an excerpt of President-elect Sakuji Tanaka unveiling the 2012-13 RI theme
• Browse photo coverage of events
• See a video from the International Assembly about the upcoming Rotary Global Peace Forums, which will be held in Berlin, Honolulu, and Hiroshima in late 2012 and early 2013.

2012-13 RI theme: Peace Through Service

• Read a story and watch a video of the theme speech.
• Download the theme speech (PDF)
• Download Rotary graphics
• Learn best practices for using Rotary graphics in the RI Visual Identity Guide
• Send an RI theme e-card
• Order RI theme postcards for your club

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RI President-elect Sakuji Tanaka unveiled the 2012-13 RI theme, Peace Through Service, during the opening plenary session of the 2012 International Assembly, a training event for incoming Rotary district governors. Rotary Images/Alyce Henson

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RI President-elect Sakuji Tanaka will ask Rotarians to build Peace Through Service in 2012-13.

Tanaka unveiled the RI theme during the opening plenary session of the 2012 International Assembly, a training event for incoming Rotary district governors.

“Peace, in all of the ways that we can understand it, is a real goal and a realistic goal for Rotary,” he said. “Peace is not something that can only be achieved through agreements, by governments, or through heroic struggles. It is something that we can find and that we can achieve, every day and in many simple ways.”

Peace has different meanings for different people, Tanaka said.

“No definition is right, and no definition is wrong,” he said. “However we use the word, this is what peace means for us.

“No matter how we use, or understand the word, Rotary can help us to achieve it,” he added.

Tanaka, a businessman from the greater Tokyo metropolitan area, shared how becoming a Rotarian broadened his understanding of the world. After joining the Rotary Club of Yashio, in 1975, he said, he began to realize that his life’s purpose was not to make more money, but to be useful to other people.

“I realized that by helping others, even in the simplest of ways, I could help to build peace,” Tanaka said.

He noted that the Japanese tradition of putting the needs of society above the needs of the individual helped his country rebuild after the tsunami and earthquake in March.

“This is a lesson that I think the whole world can learn from, in a positive way. When we see the needs of others as more important than our own needs — when we focus our energies on a shared goal that is for the good of all — this changes everything,” he said. “It changes our priorities in a completely fundamental way. And it changes how we understand the idea of peace.”

Tanaka will ask Rotarians to focus their energy on supporting the three priorities of the RI Strategic Plan , he said. He added that he will ask the incoming leaders to promote three Rotary peace forums, to be held in Hiroshima, Japan; Berlin; and Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

“In Rotary, our business is not profit. Our business is peace,” he said. “Our reward is not financial, but the happiness and satisfaction of seeing a better, more peaceful world, one that we have achieved through our own efforts.”

• Watch a video excerpt of the theme speech
• Send a theme e-card
• Get Rotary graphics
• Download the theme speech (PDF)
• Learn more about Rotary Peace Centers
• Order RI Theme materials

Regards
PP Gladys Pang
District Awards Chair 2011/2012
District 3310

Thank you
Gladys

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