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. In 163 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs.

Rotary club membership represents a cross- section of the community's business and professional men and women. The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.

The main objective of Rotary is service — in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today's most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence. They also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.

The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is a not-for-profit corporation that promotes world understanding through international humanitarian service programs and educational and cultural exchanges. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and others who share its vision of a better world. Since 1947, the Foundation has awarded more than US $1.1 billion in humanitarian and educational grants, which are initiated and administered by local Rotary clubs and districts.

The Rotary Club of Golden

Chartered in 1986, the Golden is one of 50 clubs in Rotary District 5450. Golden Rotary has a membership of business and professional men and women with diverse interests and backgrounds, mutually committed to serving the community and contributing to a better future for our world. The Club contributes financially to many local causes, including the Christian Action Guild, the Foothills Art Center, the Golden Civic Foundation, and the Jefferson Symphony. Golden Rotarians regularly contribute their personal time to such projects as preparing Christmas food baskets for the needy, cleaning local roadsides, remedial reading programs with elementary school students, recycling musical instruments, and packaging medical supplies for shipment to third world countries.

The Club regularly sponsors visiting exchange students and foreign study exchange team members. Golden Rotarians have hosted gifted students from Germany, Italy, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Japan, Denmark, and Siberia.

Golden Rotary sponsors an Interact Club at Golden High School. The Club is composed of outstanding young people who share a commitment to community service. Interactors frequently join Rotarians for charitable projects as well as the opportunity for mentoring by leading business men and women.

A significant benefit of Rotary membership is fellowship, developing lasting friendships with colleagues of common interest and dedication. And club fellowship extends to immediate acquaintance with Rotarians all over the world. “Making Up” a missed meeting at another club not only is expected to maintain a high attendance standard, but provides the opportunity to make new friends in other communities, in foreign countries, and on every continent.

How can you become a Rotarian?

Membership in Rotary is invitational; you must be nominated by a current Rotarian. You probably know a number of Rotarians already. If not, call 303/279-5580 for the name of a Rotarian in your neighborhood. Qualifications for membership are simple: you must share our commitment to service; you must support high ethical standards in your business or profession; you must be willing to commit your time and skills to the objects of Rotary. And you must be willing to meet the Club’s attendance standards; members are expected to attend every weekly meeting if possible. In order to maintain current membership, a member must attend – or ‘make up’ – at least 60% of the regular meetings.

There is a modest initiation fee, and quarterly dues, which include meal expenses and a contribution to the Rotary International.

“All thinking men recognize the moral and spiritual value of Rotary. There is indeed a wealth of meaning in the motto “Service Above Self.”

Sir Winston Churchill

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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.

Rotary Club of Golden

The Rotary Club of Golden meets every Tuesday, 7:15am, in the Rolling Hills Country Club, at the foot of Kendrick Road, off West 32nd Street in Golden.

For additional information call 303-313-8528

Rotary Club of Golden
Post Office Box 851
Golden, Colorado 80402

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