Rotary International
Rotary International is one of the largest service organizations in the world. The mission of Rotary, as stated on its website, is to "provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through [the] fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders".[1] It is a non-political and non-religious organization.[2] Membership is by application or invitation and based on various social factors. There are over 46,000[3] member clubs worldwide, with a membership of 1.4 million individuals, known as Rotary members.[4]
"Rotarian" redirects here. For the ship, see SS Rotarian.Formation
February 23, 1905
Evanston, Illinois, United States
- Global (except Cuba, Greenland, Guinea, Iran, North Korea, Vietnam, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and some Arab countries)
1.4 million
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
Gordon R. McInally (July 2023 – June 2024)
John Hewko (CEO & General Secretary)
The Rotarian
Publications[edit]
Rotary International publishes an official monthly magazine now named Rotary in English (first published in 1911 as The National Rotarian). From April 1923 to August 1928, the official magazine was managed and printed from the same building – the Atwell Building – as Rotary's office and headquarters;[19][20] the building was designed for Atwell Printing and Binding Company by famed Chicago architect, Alfred S. Alschuler.[65]
Other periodicals are independently produced in more than 20 different major languages and distributed in 130 countries. One of them is Rotary Norden which is distributed in four language editions in five countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.[66]