Rotary is an international humanitarian service organization. The men and women of Rotary are business and professional leaders who volunteer their time and resources to help others in their local communities and throughout the world.

Rotary Clubs carry out a variety of service projects that address critical issues including poverty, hunger, illiteracy, substance abuse, and pollution.

Service to youth, especially children at risk, is a major emphasis. Working with and for tomorrow's leaders, Rotary sponsors service clubs for youth and young adults and offers career development and mentoring programs.

Where need exists, Rotary works to find solutions. Nonpolitical and non-governmental, Rotary clubs are autonomous and create innovative solutions to meet community needs. Rotary services the community using the Four Avenues of Service.

The Red Bank Rotary was chartered in 1921. Our club consists of 80 members who selflessly devote “service above self” to the community at large. Red Bank Rotary is a service organization of business and professional people, whom together with Rotarians worldwide, conduct humanitarian projects, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and work together for world understanding and peace. Red Bank Rotary meets at noon on Thursdays, at the Molly Pitcher Inn, 88 Riverside Avenue, Red Bank, NJ.

As it approached the dawn of the 21st century, Rotary worked to meet the changing needs of society, expanding its service effort to address such pressing issues as environmental degradation, illiteracy, world hunger, and children at risk. The organization admitted women for the first time in 1989 and claims more than 90,000 women in its ranks today. Following the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Rotary clubs were formed or reestablished throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Today, 1.2 million Rotarians belong to some 30,000 Rotary clubs in more than 160 countries.