District 6580 Rotaract Clubs
What does a Rotaract club do?
Rotaract clubs organize a variety of projects and activities, depending primarily on the interests of the club members. However, within the Rotaract program, all clubs undertake three types of activities in varying degrees: professional development, leadership development, and service projects.
Service Above Self is Rotary’s foremost guiding principle. A Rotaract club’s service projects are designed to improve the quality of life at home and abroad. Each Rotaract club is required to complete at least two major service projects annually, one to serve the community and the other to promote international understanding.
Each Rotaract club should provide professional development opportunities to its members through activities such as:
- Professional and vocational forums
- Business technology updates
- Management and marketing seminars
- Conferences on business and professional ethics
- Presentations on finance and credit options for business start-up
- Leadership Development
Important topics to address in training club leaders include:
- Improving public speaking skills
- Developing techniques for marketing the Rotaract program to potential members
- Building consensus among members
- Delegating project responsibilities and ensuring necessary follow-up
- Identifying channels for project publicity and promotion
- Finding financial resources for strengthening club development
- Assessing project success
Organize a Rotaract Program for your club:
Sponsoring Rotarians can enhance the professional development of Rotaractors by providing practical advice on entering the business world and tackling business, vocational, and professional challenges. Making the club’s professional development projects into joint Rotaract-Rotary projects can also help Rotaractors get better acquainted with sponsoring Rotarians.
Organizing a Rotaract club is one of the most rewarding activities a Rotary club can undertake in its community. The Rotaract program gives Rotarians the opportunity to mentor dynamic young women and men interested in providing service to their own communities as well as the global community. In turn, a Rotaract club can bring new energy to a Rotary club, inspire fresh ideas for service, increase support for projects, and help develop future Rotary club members.