Camden Rotary Club

Service Projects Committee

Our goal is to serve our community with distinction– local and international – through projects designed to improve the lives of others.  In the past, we have been proud to support an array of local causes that have provided services to seniors, helped the disabled and strengthened services for the young.  More recently, our club has re-focused its service projects, and we will now focus on one primary project, that will be both larger and capable of greater impact.  In addition to this single project, however, our club will continue to provide rides for senior shut-ins, the international youth exchange program, assisting with local meal services and support the occasional international project.



To fund these activities, our annual calendar sports regular fund-raisers including:

  • Summer concert in celebration of Independence Day
  • Community pancake breakfasts
  • Gifts from members and community supports
  • Community raffles and product sales.

Each project and each fund-raiser has its own sub-committee, which works in close cooperation with the service projects committee

Our Charter

Purpose: To provide leadership and guidance in the Camden Rotary Club’s selection and implementation of community service projects and the fundraising needed to support those projects.

Goals

Projects

  • To develop criteria to guide the Camden Rotary Club in its selection of the service projects it will support.
  • To facilitate selection of the club’s active service projects.
  • To recruit leadership from among club members for each service project and assist those leaders in recruiting club member volunteers to support the project.
  • To monitor service project progress as needed.


Fundraising Activities

  • To develop criteria to guide the Camden Rotary Club in its selection of the fundraising activities it will undertake.
  • To facilitate selection of the club’s active fundraising activities.
  • To recruit leadership from among club members for each fundraising activity and assist those leaders in recruiting club member volunteers to assist in the activity.
  • To assess each fundraising activity’s success relative to its goals.
  • To recommend to the club whether specific fundraising activities should be carried forward into the next club year.
 

The Four Way Test

For Rotary, The Four-Way Test is the cornerstone of all action.

It has been for years, and it will be in the future. Of the things we think, say or do

  1. Is it the TRUTH?
  2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
  3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
  4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
The test is one of the hallmarks of Rotary. Since it was developed in 1932 by Herbert J. Taylor, who later became RI president, it has never ceased to be relevant. Its four brief questions are not based on culture or religion. Instead, they are a simple checklist for ethical behavior.

They transcend generations and national borders.

Club Meetings

Tuesdays at 12:00 noon

First Congregational Church, 55 Elm Street, Camden ME

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Rotary International ~ News Headlines

Reach Within to Embrace Humanity ~ RI Theme 2011-12

RI-2011-12-Theme RI President-elect Kalyan Banerjee will ask Rotarians to Reach Within to Embrace Humanity during the 2011-12 Rotary year.  Banerjee unveiled the RI theme during the opening plenary session of the 2011 International Assembly, a training event for incoming district governors.  He urged participants to harness their inner resolve and strength to achieve success in Rotary.

"In order to achieve anything in this world, a person has to use all the resources he can draw on. And the only place to start is with ourselves and within ourselves," Banerjee said.

Once Rotarians find their inner strength, he continued, they can accomplish great things in their communities and around the world.

"Discover yourself, develop the strengths within you, and then unhesitatingly, unflinchingly, go forth and encircle the world, to embrace humanity," he said.

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