A worldwide community turning friendship, knowledge, and a willingness to help into lasting change.
Rotary is a worldwide network of people who bring their experience, ideas, and energy to community challenges. Its members build relationships through local clubs, then work together on projects close to home and across borders.
Shiner Rotary is one local expression of that bigger idea. Through our club and Rotary District 5870, a conversation in our hometown connects to a global tradition of service.
Rotary International supports the network of clubs and districts. The Rotary Foundation helps turn donations into grants, scholarships, and humanitarian work. Each part plays a different role in helping members make a difference.
Meet Rotary InternationalPaul Harris brought together professionals from different backgrounds on February 23, 1905. Friendship was the starting point; community service became an enduring purpose.
Arch Klumph proposed an endowment for doing good. An initial contribution of $26.50 helped begin what became The Rotary Foundation.
A vaccination project in the Philippines helped set Rotary on the path toward a worldwide eradication effort.
More than 1.2 million Rotary members connect local commitment with international cooperation.
Explore Rotary’s history and its worldwide network.
Rotary’s humanitarian priorities guide projects and partnerships around the world. Learn how each area helps communities build a stronger future.
Peacebuilding involves more than responding to conflict. Rotary supports education, relationships, and community projects that address underlying pressures such as poverty, discrimination, and unequal access to opportunity. Peace fellowships help leaders develop the skills to work across divides.
Explore peacebuilding ↗Rotary members work with health professionals and community partners to improve access to prevention and treatment. Their efforts include polio eradication, support for community health workers, and projects that strengthen local health systems and reach people who lack essential care.
Explore health projects ↗Reliable water and sanitation are foundations for healthy communities. Rotary works with local partners on water supplies, sanitation facilities, and hygiene education, including in schools and health facilities. Lasting solutions require local knowledge, maintenance, and community participation.
Explore water projects ↗Healthy starts matter. Rotary supports better access to care, nutrition, and education for mothers and children. Projects can help train health workers, improve services, and connect families with resources that reduce preventable illness and support well-being.
Explore family health ↗Literacy and education create opportunity at every age. Rotary’s work includes supporting teachers, improving learning environments, and helping communities strengthen access to basic education. The goal is to help people develop the skills and confidence to shape their own futures.
Explore education ↗Stronger local economies give families more choices. Rotary members contribute professional knowledge and build partnerships that expand skills, work opportunities, and livelihoods. Projects are shaped around community needs and can help people recover after disruptions or develop new sources of income.
Explore economic development ↗Healthy communities depend on healthy ecosystems. Rotary supports projects that protect natural resources and respond to environmental challenges, bringing local leaders and volunteers together to care for the places people depend on.
Explore environmental work ↗When disasters disrupt lives, Rotary’s local relationships can connect needs with volunteers, resources, and longer-term recovery efforts. This work draws on the same practical cooperation that powers service throughout the Rotary network.
Explore Rotary’s work ↗How generosity supports grants, humanitarian projects, and opportunities to learn.
Meet the Foundation ↗A decades-long commitment to protecting children and ending a preventable disease.
Learn about the effort ↗Discover Interact, Rotaract, Youth Exchange, and Rotary Youth Leadership Awards.
Explore youth programs ↗Learn about Rotary by meeting the people who bring it to life in our town.
Visit a meeting ↗Come for lunch. Meet your neighbors.
See where service takes you.
