Mission

Rotary International is the world's first service club organization. Its more than 1.2 million members (in more than 31,000 clubs) volunteer their time and talent to further the Rotary motto, Service Above Self. Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations and helps promote world understanding and peace.

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:

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

II. 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;

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

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