is that exchange as good as RYE?

What is the fee of joining and staying in an interact club in Turkey,Germany and in the USA .I wanna join but i don’t know how much it cost.

Hi!! I'm currently in Interact Club.

I was wondering if you may have suggestions to solve absenteeism rates in interact Club activities?

Recently, our interact club members have not been turning up, possibly due to studying or just feeling overwhelmed (?). This issue has been around for quite a long time.

How can I help ameliorate this issue? Thank you!

I live in New England. I've called the Rotary Club in my city, but their number directed me to an unaffiliated organisation. I've called the rest of the Rotary Clubs in my county, but except for one which couldn't help me, they all failed to answer or redirected me to unaffiliated companies. I even called the hotel where my city's Rotary Club meets, but they didn't have any information, either. Maybe it's just because it's the weekend, but all of this makes me wonder how much it takes to just get someone to answer the phone. Is it this bad in other areas or is it just NE?

Greetings, I am expressing my interest in participating in volunteering and other activities organized by the club. If you are a member of a Rotary Club in Budapest or have connections within the organization, I kindly request that you reach out to me. I am seeking additional information regarding the club's initiatives and how I can contribute. Thank you for your assistance. Helena

I was an Interactor and currently Rotaractor. My club currently uses social media as main way to attract members. I have noticed that other Rotary clubs and even other Rotaract clubs do not have a strong social media presence, and even Rotary International socials are not were it could be I feel. I wanted to know others thoughts on their experience with social media and if you also think we need to address it

Hey guys, I’m an interactor and recently got elected as service chair in my school-based interact club. We were discussing our plans for the next academic year, and we agreed that we need a lot more people in our club for it to be able to run effectively in the future. Rn there are a bunch of seniors, some juniors and some sophomore and freshmen. We need to expand on our younger population as seniors are gonna be gone.

Any ideas for service activities we should plan that would attract lots of teens. Like fun stuff that still promote rotary/interact values and make one feel accomplished. Also I was wondering if any of your school based interact clubs have ever collaborated with another school based interact club cause I think that would work.

Basically I need ideas for fun service events to attract fellow high schoolers to join the club, or any other tips to bring people in.

Our club membership is down over the years. I'd like to help it grow. Mostly we grow from personal referrals, or Rotarians moving to our area. Has your club done anything that created membership growth?

I have been a Rotarian for 4 years. Paul Harris Society, Paul Harris Fellow +4, Bequest Society level 3, Benefactor, Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) graduate AND RLI Facilitator & Producer.

I recently moved to Ohio from South Carolina after a year-long trip to Europe. My SC club bylaws stated you could only remain an inactive member for a year, so I was in a rush to transfer clubs.

I found a club I liked, spoke with the co-president, and we transferred my membership. We agreed that it was fast and not the way it was normally done, so if anyone had a problem with me I would find another club, rather than upsetting the harmony that existed.

I get an email one day that says the club is not extending an offer for me to join. All I was told was that one of the members of the board objected to my being a member. No reason, just that I can't be a member.

I spoke with the co-president at the beginning of March - when this all transpired - and said I would transfer to another club, that there were several clubs who want me as a member. With Easter it might take a little longer, as clubs may not be meeting, etc.

In the meantime, the first club canceled my membership through International. How is the 4-way test fulfilled through this.

This has me so upset that I think I am done with the organization altogether. I wasn't a prospective member, I WAS a member and should have been shown the respect or decency of either an explanation, time to move to another club, or maybe even a conversation about whatever this mysterious objection is.

Please, tell me your thoughts so I can possibly see this in a light that doesn't make me resent Rotary.

Over the past few years, our club in the Midwestern USA has essentially turned into a fundraising club, with two major fundraisers that brought in over $90K last year, which we turn back around with grants to local nonprofits and scholarships to high school students. We have one small service project addressing food insecurity in December, but outside of that nothing, so we're looking for ideas to duplicate.

Or if your club has a lot of smaller service projects that work well, please share those as well.

Does anyone have recommendations for an app to communicate with their club?

Three people I know are in my local rotary club. But they are at least 30 years older than me. I'm mot 18 but it is possible to join whatever your age?

So I was recently invited to join a Rotary Club. When my friend told me about it, I was really excited to join! I love the idea of being more active within my community and giving back to good causes.

The biggest hurdle, however, is that they meet at 7 am on Fridays. That doesn’t work because I have to be at my job at 8 am.

Once I realized I wanted to join, I thought surely there’s another local chapter that meets at a reasonable time. Nope! All 3 local chapters meet at times that make it difficult for anyone who works a regular M - F job.

So what’s the deal with that? Is the Rotary Club just for retirees and the independently wealthy?

Hello everyone!

I have an interview coming up for an instruction/development position and want to do my best to be prepared for it. Do any of you have any pointers or advice for me?

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!

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Note: I apologize that this post may be semi-vague, but I do not want to provide information that might identify me as I prepare for my upcoming interview.

2nd time pres here, longtime event planner for the club. Did anyone know rotary switched from Gallagher to Hylant? This means a new portal, COI, and contact info. I searched my emails and have nothing from district or RI on the matter. To get the login, I had to watch this weird video found somewhere in the depths of the interwebs (thank you Google). I'm curious if anyone, especially club officers, have received any communication on the matter.

Hii!! If any Interactors are reading this, i just created a discord server for us!!

Here's the link : https://discord.gg/GjWAggR4Q8

It never expires so share to your fellow Interactors and let's help each otherr

Hello hello! I am a Rotarian from Mexico. What do you do in your clubs in other countries to make them more committed to the club? Thanks for your future responses?

Anyone here run an interact club outside of America? I’m looking to collaborate on an international project with someone.

Let me know if anyone is interested!

Hello everyone. My name is Jon. I have been a member of the Rotary going on 3 years now. I am a 24 year old entrepreneur who wants to work with young minds. After speaking to some people I believe an important step to ensuring the continuation of Rotary is to allow meetings to be more inviting. With this in mind, i’m sure most could agree Rotary is an older-person’s thing and can be quite intimidating. I can speak to some people I know and I can charter a new club focused on networking, scholarships, business grants and sponsorships, job finding, and more. It’s time we modernize Rotary. Without modernization, Rotary will not be. Thanks for the support guys, best to you all!

Please contact me if you would like more info.

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Hello, my name is Jon, and I am the youngest Rotarian of my tri-county district in Upstate New York.

• If you have no seen my other post this is the email sent to the magazine.

I started Rotary when I was 21 years old as an entrepreneur and business owner. The Rotary introduced me to people and promoted my prospects in business and truly changed my life. I am now 24 years old. I live in a college town and work with many young individuals interested in business or professional careers. I try and tell everyone that joining the Rotary will take you places you wouldn’t think to ever be.

However, the Rotary, unfortunately, is mostly consisting of older individuals who have grown more out of touch simply by the lack of household recognition of the Rotary. In addition, older generations can feel intimidating to young people interested in Rotary. This is not to say our older members should not be the exemplified faces found in media like magazines, but more to say the younger generation will be the replacing peoples involved in the organization soon. It’s with this is mind I encourage all members to motivate young people into joining the Rotary.

I, myself, have been able to encourage some under-thirty professionals from my home state of New York and to Georgia and California as well to join. I believe an opportunity to appear in some form on the monthly magazine would be a fantastic opportunity to show that a college age person can achieve things similar to what I have through the Rotary.

I am a business owner entrepreneur who started in March, 2020 with an ice cream business. At first I failed spectacularly. But, I got back up. I am still in operation now soon to be going into my fourth year in business. Over the course of my time in business I have operated 3 different companies vastly different from each other. I owned a fish tank cleaning service, a custom guitar making business, and I still am a fair coordinator coming this June being or 3rd annual.

This most important point in all of this is such: the Rotary will die out unless new members join. I had been a part of a different club at one point. Two individuals had passed away that year. I switched to a club closer to me meaning there were 3 less Rotarians. Our clubs are shrinking and the only way for the Rotary to endure is for younger members to join. If you believe in anything I have said here the opportunity to promote my efforts would be an incredible platform to ensure the vitality of Rotary International.

Again, I am Jon Holmberg or District 7170. I am 24, a business owner, and someone who is willing to take the Rotary to a place where in the next decade we can guarantee the survival of this incredibly vital organization.

Hello all. I am a 24 year old Rotarian from Upstate NY and have been since the last 3 years. I am an entrepreneur and have been for the last 4 years. My main ambition in the club is to get young people to join the Rotary. I think the reasoning behind this effort is clear. Without new members the club will start to die out. I switched clubs to one closer to me and that same year two members had passed away.

I sent an email to what I found online to contact the monthly magazine and explained why I believe showing young faces on the cover would be a great and important way to encourage them to join.

I’ll post the full email in another post.

This is my greatest non-personal effort and your support to get this to as many people as possible could revolutionize the association as a whole. If you could upvote this, my other post, comment, or show any other support for more people seeing this I would appreciate it beyond bounds.

So please, my fellow Rotarians and others, help me get this as viral as possible.

Thank you.