Join the Polio Plus Society Today.

What is the PolioPlus Society(PPS)? In an effort to increase sustainable giving, the PolioPlus Society was formed to encourage Rotarians to commit to a minimum of $100/year to the PolioPlus Fund until polio is eradicated from the face of the earth. Society members receive a special society pin.

Welcome to District 5300

Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.

Polio COVID Infrastructure

Animated video about how the infrastructure that Rotary and its GPEI partners have built over decades is evolving and making an impact that extends beyond polio eradication.

Maui No Ka Oi

August 9, 2023 was a tragic day for our Rotarians, families and friends on the Island of Maui. The fires across the island have changed lives forever. Truly devastating. Our sympathy, thoughts and prayers are with everyone impacted.

As people of action, we can take immediate action. As we come together to recover and rebuild, we need to support each other. We need to Create Hope for Maui.

Through our Rotary District 5000 Foundation, a relief fund has been established. Foundation President Dave Hamil and Treasurer Sharon Amano will handle all donations. A committee will be organized shortly to find the greatest needs for distribution of monies. A single fund will be the most helpful over time to provide the most significant benefits.

Please consider donating to this special fund, Maui Fires Relief Fund.

Mahalo to the Rotary Club of Waikiki for collecting monies at their lunch meeting today. These are the first contributions to the fund.

Please also widely share this opportunity to help.

Stay safe, take care and mahalo for creating hope.
Mark Merriam, District Governor
Rotary District 5000, Hawaii, USA

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Important Dates:

Windmill Library Chess Program--LV Southwest
August 30th - September 28th 2023 at 3:30 pm
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DG Official Visit - Las Vegas Southwest (w 5 other clubs)
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
September 26th 2023 at 5:30 pm
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DG Official Visit - Green Valley (w 5 other Clubs)
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
September 26th 2023 at 5:30 pm
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DG Official Visit - Las Vegas West (w 5 other clubs)
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
September 26th 2023 at 5:30 pm
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DG Official Visit - Las Vegas Red Rock (w 5 other clubs)
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
September 26th 2023 at 5:30 pm
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DG Official Visit - Las Vegas After Hours (w 5 other Clubs)
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
September 26th 2023 at 5:30 pm
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Service Member of the Quarter
Speaker: Service Member of the Quarter Celebration
September 27th 2023 at 11:30 am
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President's Circle - CA East Clubs
September 27th 2023 at 5:30 pm
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DG Official Visit - Las Vegas
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
September 28th 2023 at 12:00 pm
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DG Official Visit - North Las Vegas
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
September 29th 2023 at 7:10 am
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Claremont Weekly Club Meeting-Speaker
Speaker: Marcus Rodriguez, PhD
Topic: Mental Health Accessibility,
September 29th 2023 at 12:00 pm
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Club Intent to Participate TLC
September 30th 2023 at 11:30 pm
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Service - Packing Feminine Hygiene Bags, Project Marilyn
Topic: Project Marilyn 3840 S Jones Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89103
October 3rd 2023 at 10:00 am
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DG Official Visit - Pomona/Chino Valley
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
October 3rd 2023 at 12:10 pm
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DG Official Visit - Pomona/Chino Valley
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
October 3rd 2023 at 12:10 pm
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DG Official Visit - West Covina
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
October 4th 2023 at 12:15 pm
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DG Official Visit - La Verne
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
October 5th 2023 at 7:30 am
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DG Official Visit - Azusa
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
October 5th 2023 at 12:00 pm
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DG Official Visit - San Gabriel Valley NG
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
October 5th 2023 at 6:30 pm
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Pancake Breakfast-Altadena
Topic: Community Pancake Breakfast
October 7th 2023 at 7:30 am
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Prepare Dinner at the Fisher House-LV Southwest
October 7th 2023 at 4:30 pm
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DG Official Visit - Covina Sunrise
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
October 10th 2023 at 7:15 am
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DG Official Visit - Industry Hills
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
October 10th 2023 at 12:10 pm
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Mesquite Sunrise Rotary Golf Tourney
October 14th 2023 at 7:30 am
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Police Memorial Park Clean Up
October 14th 2023 at 9:30 am
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Rotary Essentials Online - Membership
October 14th 2023 at 10:00 am
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DG Official Visit - Sierra Madre
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
October 17th 2023 at 7:00 am
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DG Official Visit - Monrovia
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
October 17th 2023 at 12:00 pm
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Oktoberfest Progressive Dinner
October 20th 2023 at 5:00 pm
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Service - HallOVeen (Opportunity Village)
Topic: Volunteer at Opportunity Village HallOVeen
October 22nd 2023 at 5:00 pm
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DG Official Visit - Duarte
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
October 25th 2023 at 7:45 am
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Happy Feet-LV Southwest
October 26th 2023 at 7:30 am
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Walk to End Alzheimer
October 28th 2023 at 7:30 am
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Make A Difference Day Service Event
October 28th 2023 at 8:00 am
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Rotary Essentials Online - Public Image
October 28th 2023 at 10:00 am
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Put Up Flags for Veterans Day & Thanksgiving
Topic: Put up flag display on Lake Avenue
November 4th 2023 at 10:00 am
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DG Official Visit - Arcadia
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
November 10th 2023 at 12:00 pm
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Rotary Essentials Online - Foundation
November 11th 2023 at 10:00 am
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Holiday Food Distribution - Pack Boxes
November 11th 2023 at 10:00 am
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DG Official Visit - Rancho Del Chino
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
November 14th 2023 at 7:15 am
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DG Official Visit - Claremont
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
November 17th 2023 at 12:10 pm
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Santa's Pantry
November 18th 2023 at 9:00 am
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DG Official Visit - Greater San Gabriel Valley
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
November 18th 2023 at 11:00 am
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DG Official Visit - West Covina Tutorial Cause Based
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
November 19th 2023 at 12:45 pm
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Feed the Homeless
November 29th 2023 at 4:00 pm
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TLC - save the date
December 1st - December 3rd 2023 at 8:00 am
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Take Down Flags for Veterans Day & Thanksgiving
Topic: Put up flag display on Lake Avenue
December 2nd 2023 at 10:00 am
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Christmas Party & Crazy Sock Exchange
December 2nd 2023 at 6:00 pm
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Target Shopping
December 4th 2023 at 8:30 am
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DG Official Visit - San Dimas
Speaker: Michael L. Soden
Topic: DG Official Visit
December 6th 2023 at 12:00 pm
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28th Annual Santa Clothes event
December 7th 2023 at 7:00 am
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Rotary Essentials Online - D.E. I.
December 9th 2023 at 10:00 am
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Adult Holiday Party
December 9th 2023 at 6:00 pm
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Happy Feet
December 13th 2023 at 7:30 am
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Combined Club Assembly/Board Meeting
Speaker: Combined Club Assembly/Board Meeting
December 13th 2023 at 6:00 pm
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DC24 - A Cruise to Service

June 21 – 24, 2024

3 Night Ensenada Cruise

Day 1 Los Angeles, California
Day 2 Cruising Day at sea
Day 3 Ensenada, Mexico – Day of Service
Day 4 Los Angeles, California

What is Rotary?

Rotary is an international membership organization made up of diverse groups of people who share a passion for and commitment to enhancing communities and improving lives across the world. Rotary clubs exist in almost every country. Being a member is an opportunity to take action and make a difference.

How Did We Get Here?

We’ve been making history and bringing our world closer together for more than 100 years. The first Rotary club was started in Chicago, Illinois, in 1905 by an attorney named Paul Harris. Harris wanted to bring together a group of professionals with different backgrounds and skills as a way to exchange ideas and form meaningful acquaintances. In August 1910, there were 16 Rotary clubs in the United States and by 1912 Rotary started to expand internationally. By July 1925, Rotary clubs existed on six continents. Today, there are more than 35,000 clubs, in almost every country in the world.

Although Rotary clubs develop autonomous service programs, all Rotarians worldwide are united in a campaign for the global eradication of polio. Through the PolioPlus program, Rotarians have contributed more than $2.1 billion to date and provided an army of volunteers to promote and assist at national immunization days in polio-endemic countries around the world.

Find out more about Rotary by visiting the Rotary International website.

The Four-Way Test

The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships. The test has been translated into more than 100 languages, and Rotarians recite it at club meetings:

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?

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WE CONNECT PEOPLE

Rotary unites more than a million people

Through Rotary clubs, people from all continents and cultures come together to exchange ideas, and form friendships and professional connections while making a difference in their backyards and around the world.

WE TRANSFORM COMMUNITIES

We take action locally and globally

 

Each day, our members pour their passion, integrity, and intelligence into completing projects that have a lasting impact. We persevere until we deliver real, lasting solutions.

WE SOLVE PROBLEMS

No challenge is too big for us

 

For more than 110 years, we’ve bridged cultures and connected continents to champion peace, fight illiteracy and poverty, promote clean water and sanitation, and fight disease.

Singapore awaits

The Rotary convention is where friendship and learning come together to inspire you. In Singapore you’ll connect with people of action from around the globe at Rotary’s biggest event of the year.

We’ll share fresh perspectives, inspiration, and hope – with each other and the world! The convention features world-class dining and cultural attractions, distinguished speakers, energizing breakout sessions, and much more.

Join us 25-29 May 2024 in Singapore where we’ll be Sharing Hope With the World!

Read our coverage of the 2023 Melbourne convention