WHY ROTARACT YAP

Imagine yourself:
..... As an eighteen-year-old just stepping out into the world on your own for the first time: making your first adult decisions, buying your first car, meeting new people, getting a job, going to college.....
..... Or at age 22, making real career decisions, buying a new car, trying to match income with expenses, learning when and with whom to associate, scratching your head over the continuing gulf between the sexes....
..... Or at age 26, evaluating career choices and changes, controlling finances, settling into relationships, making investments for the future, now actively seeking answers from those with more experience.....

How do you balance your need to grow and develop your own personal economic, and psycho-social skills with your caring about others, especially those less fortunate?

What venues offer the best opportunity to network with like-minded others, to learn about life, to encounter a diversity of experiences, and to get ahead?

How do you build solid relationships that are mutually rewarding, learn tolerance of others, identify and relate to older and more seasoned leaders who really care about mentoring you and who can open doors you don't even know exist -- that may lead to awesome opportunities?

Where and how to do all this in a friendly, cooperative, enjoyable, advantageious, positive, safe environment?

ROTARACT!

ROTARACT Is the young adult affiliate organization of ROTARY INTERNATIONAL. Rotary clubs exist in over 32,000 communities around the globe in 216 nations and geographical areas, with over. 1.2 million business and professional leaders as members whose ideal is "Service Above Self" --

Rotary has been a major force in the world for over a hundred years.

ROTARACT, first established nearly forty years ago in 1968, has grown to over 7,000 clubs in 160+ countries.... with a membership of over 175,000. No other organization offers the combination of ehtical identity, prestige, global resources and community identity that ROTARACT does through its affiliation with a Rotary club and Rotary International.

And ROTARACT members have direct access to all of this talent, experience, and involvement brught ot it by its association with Rotary. ROTARACT becomes an exciting adventure in self-growth and leadership development through interaction with peers and mentors.
ROTARACT offers the opportunity to develop skills that the vast majority of young people just starting out on their careers never even learn of, much less have access to.

The best part? Every Rotary club has a built-in incentive to sponsor a ROTARACT club in its community!

There are 5 mutually advantageous reasons why ROTARACT is beneficial as well as a host of advantages that ROTARACTORS gain thfough your association:
1. Involvement in a ROTARACT club is MOST beneficial to you: the young "New Generations" adults
� ROTARACT not only gives you more credibility with your employer, but you also derive personal satisfaction from your own involvement in community affairs:
� ROTARACTORS encounter numerous opportunities to expand your personal horizons, being exposed to and learning the value of the ethical character of Rotary as exemplifed by the Rotary FOUR-WAY TEST of the THINGS WE THINK, SAY and DO and the OBJECT of ROTARY -- principles that will be of immense value to you for your entire life;
� ROTARACTORS have virtually limitless networking opportunities with your peers in your local communities or around the world and;
� ROTARACTORS working and professional skills are enhanced by association with other socially-conscious young people;
� ROTARACTORS interface regularly with Rotarian leaders who provide significant mentoring opportunities for personal and professional growth;
� ROTARACTORS learn and build your reputation by association with Rotary and Rotarians and by active participation in Rotary-sponsored community support activities.
� ROTARACTORS become more proficient on the job as you learn from your diverse club, community and international service projects; and
� ROTARACTORS acquire leadership skills for the enhancement of your profession through your participation and development in ROTARACT

2. Sponsoring a ROTARACT club is beneficial to the parent Rotary club because:
- Sponsoring a new community ROTARACT club is the single most compelling community service project a Rotary club can undertake as ROTARACT creates a permanent imprint on a community .
- Sponsoring a new ROTARACT club generates additional visibility, publicity and impact in the greater non-Rotarian community and especially to its employer base
- A ROTARACT club increases the Rotary club's ability to serve your local community with the additional resources and energy of young adult partners.
- Every Rotary club needs all the help as it can generate to support its community service programme and projects. How better to do so than with help from an enthusiastic group of young "New Generation" adults;

- ROTARACTORS add muscle and flexibility to the sponsoring Rotary club's schedule of activities and programmes;
- The autonomous operation of your own ROTARACT club creates opportunities for the development of future trained leadership as you ultimately become the next generation's core Rotary membership

3. Sponsoring a ROTARACT club is incredibly satisfying to the sponsoring club's individual Rotarians.
- The personal satisfaction they receive as Rotarians just from offering you the opportunity to become involved at a young age in a meaningful way is a blessing themselves as well as to the entire community and to you;
- As Rotarians get to know the ROTARACTORS they see the opportunities to mentor YOU and foster the development of bright, energetic, capable young adults and enhance their own legacy as well as building the future of their communities;

Remember, Rotary members are identifiable by their desire to be of service to others and to their community. They already have identified themselves as being the type of community leaders who look beyond themselves because they know that REAL HAPPINESS IS HELPING OTHERS!

4. Establishing a community-based ROTARACT club is beneficial to your employers � because you enhance their business reputation as you become better citizens and better workers when you learn and accept involvement in community activities. By sponsoring their employees into ROTARACT, employers are supporting your local community, which enhances their business reputation. .

5. And sponsoring a ROTARACT club is beneficial to the entire community for all the reasons cited above. � Need more be said?

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Rotarians� desire to serve their community extends automatically to seeking to identify, guide and train the next generation of community and business leadership. Offering the opportunity to operate an autonomous but affiliated group of young "New Generations" adults in a community based

A ROTARACT club is the most effective way for Rotarians to develop young minds and talent as well as to instill ethical principles of service and giving of oneself. Your best career and life development move is to join with other socially-conscious young adults in ROTARACT to provide you with a unique and life-changing experience.

After all, ROTARACT is designed for all young people from 18 to 30 years of age � making ROTARACT the perfect "Twenty-Somethings" organization in which to learn the principles of community involvement and service in a world that all but ignores you as a energetic, creative segment of the population � for Rotary knows you are the very people who are destined to become tomorrow's leaders!

Remember: The best way to build and maintain your Rotary club's image is to BE actively engaged, involved and visible � IN your community � for the benefit OF your community

ROTARACT HELPS MAKE THAT HAPPEN
� By adding an entirely new resource
� a new dimension of service identity
� to the local Rotary club � AND TO YOUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY.

ROTARACT:
.....Beneficial to the community by:
... DEVELOPING YOUNG ADULTS' POSITIVE LEADERSHIP SKILLS
... BUILDING BETTER BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
... ENHANCING THE STRENGTH & CAPABILITY OF YOUR ROTARY CLUB ... PROVIDING DYNAMIC YOUNG RESOURCE FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE

Navin Mancery-Valliappan, President America-Canada-Caribbean Together Rotaract Multi-District Infomration Organization [MDIO] rotaractrulz@hotmail.com

Robert G. Ketron, CFP PDG 92-93 District 7620 Washington DC/Central Maryland USA Chair, A.C.C.T. Rotaract MDIO Advisor Board (North America)
RI Rotaract Committee 2004-2005
interact@bigplanet.com http://www.ketron.org

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