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What is Rotary
The Object of Rotary
The Four Way Test
Declaration


What Is Rotary

Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

Rotary is the world's first service club.

Rotary is more than 1.2 million service minded men and women belonging to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs in virtually every nation in the world.

Rotary is , Rotary's commitment to work with national and international health organizations on the goal of polio eradication by the year 2005, Rotary's 100th anniversary.





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What is Rotary
The Object of Rotary
The Four Way Test
Declaration


The Object Of Rotary

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

First. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

Second. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

Third. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;

Fourth. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.





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The Four Way Test
Many Rotarians believe that one way of accomplishing the promotion of high standards of conduct in a trade or profession is to apply the 4-Way Test. This is a simple, four question test of the things we think, say, or do, and can be applied to virtually all areas of life.
  1. Is it the Truth?
  2. Is it Fair to All Concerned?
  3. Will it Build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
  4. Will it be Beneficial to All Concerned?
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Declaration of Rotarians
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Businesses and Professions

The Declaration of Rotarians in Businesses and Professions is a statement of recent origin. It was adopted by the Rotary International Council on Legislation in 1989 to provide more specific guidelines for the high ethical standards called for in the Object of Rotary. Here is the text:

As a Rotarian engaged in a business or profession, I am expected to:

  1. Consider my vocation to be another opportunity to serve;

  2. Be faithful to the letter and to the spirit of the ethical codes of my vocation, to the laws of my country, and to the moral standards of my community;

  3. Do all in my power to dignify my vocation and to promote the highest ethical standards in my chosen vocation;

  4. Be fair to my employer, employees, associates, competitors, customers, the public and all those with whom I have a business or professional relationship;

  5. Recognize the honor and respect due to all occupations which are useful to society;

  6. Offer my vocational talents: to provide opportunities for young people, to work for the relief of the special needs of others, and to improve the quality of life in my community;

  7. Adhere to honesty in my advertising and in all representations to the public concerning my business or profession;

  8. Neither seek from nor grant to a fellow Rotarian a privilege or advantage not normally accorded others in a business or professional relationship.




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What is Rotary
The Object of Rotary
The Four Way Test
Declaration