Club Development
Resources
Use these resources to see if your club is meeting members’ needs and reflecting the community:
- Rotary Club Health Check — Identify your club’s problem areas and make changes to help it stay relevant for members and the community.
- Is Your Club Healthy? — Take this Learning Center course to help your club improve its member experience, service and social events, public image, and club operations.
- Understanding Membership Reports: Getting Started — Learn how to use membership data to determine where to focus your membership efforts.
- Membership Assessment Tools — Analyze your member profile to identify prospective members and diversify your membership.
- Representing Your Community’s Professions (classification assessment)
- Diversifying Your Club (member diversity assessment)
- Finding New Club Members (prospective member exercise)
- Improving Your Member Retention (retention assessment and analysis)
- Enhancing the Club Experience (member satisfaction survey)
- Understanding Why Members Leave (exit survey)
- Building a Diverse Club — Take this Learning Center course to strengthen your membership and increase your club’s capacity to serve.
Find ideas for planning and strengthening your club in these resources:
- Understand the current state of Rotary’s Membership: how we got here, who is joining, who is leaving — and the opportunities we all have to make membership a top priority.
- Club Membership Committee Basics — Enroll in this learning plan to learn more about your responsibilities in developing a strategic plan to engage and attract members.
- Club Membership Committee Checklist — Follow these steps to identify prospective members, introduce them to your club and Rotary, invite them in a meaningful way, and be sure to engage them and get them involved.
- Strengthening Your Membership: Creating Your Membership Plan — Develop a long-term strategy for boosting membership.
- Be a Vibrant Club — Learn 10 best practices shared by vibrant clubs worldwide, along with regional versions featuring local success stories.
- Club flexibility — Learn about flexible membership and meeting options; view frequently asked questions, governance documents, a video, and start guides for alternative membership types, and flexible meeting formats.
- Regional membership seminar curriculum — Find session guides to lead breakout sessions at your regional membership seminar.
- District Membership Chair Terms and responsibilities — Description of role, term, and complete list of responsibilities.
- Your Membership Plan — This Learning Center course will teach you how to create a plan that includes steps your club can take to strengthen its membership.
- Leadership in Action — Develop skills such as teamwork, communication, and innovation in your club, with the session guides and ideas in this resource.
- Starting a Rotary Club — Learn what you need to do to form a club.
Club Planning Downloads
Discovering Club Culture Survey
Rotary Weapons Policy Code Amendments
Engaging Young Leaders Reference Sheet
Increasing Sustainable Service
Women in Rotary Reference Sheet
Rotary Club Health Check
Goals Worksheet
Club Merger Application
Effective Leadership Tips
Enhancing the Club Experience Survey
New Club Quick Start Guide
New Rotary Club Application (Form 808A)
Revitalizing and Re-Thinking Your Rotary Club
Rotary Event Planning Checklist
Rotary Event Planning Guide
Rotary International Strategic Plan
Club Planning Downloads
Satellite Club – Application (fillable)
Satellite Club – Member Information Form (fillable)
Satellite Clubs – Club Constitution including a Satellite Club
Satellite Clubs – Frequently Asked Questions
Satellite Clubs – Guidelines for Establishing
Tips for Negotiating a Hotel Contract
DACdb files
Ideas Rotary
Setting and Entering Goals at RCC
Crowd Resources
Wallis Jones Application
Interact Medical Release Form
Four Way Test Speech Form
Foundation Presentation
Club and District Administration FAQ
New Club Development
Josh Champman – Chair
Phone: 334-655-7707
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District Leadership Contact
Steven Weaver
District Membership Chair swkcbama@gmail.com 913-485-0807
Zone Leadership Contact
Bob Callahan
Zone 30 Membership Coordinator bcjr@callahanmail.com 251-422-3081
District Visioning Chair
John Dew jrdew@troy.edu 205-246-0564
Club and District Support (CDS)
Is your key Rotary contact. They provide training and guidance on Rotary resources, policies, and procedures. Contact them if you have questions on
- Rotary resources and services
- Administrative procedures
- Board policy and Rotary constitutional documents
- Conducting Rotary business with Member Access
Greg Franks | Senior Supervisor
gregory.franks@rotary.org
847-866-3272
Darwin Sampedro | Senior Officer
darwin.sampedro@rotary.org
847-866-3259