Initiate a local or international service project that reduces child mortality.

Achieve a net increase of one member by 31 March 2009.

(Suggested goal: Achieve a net membership increase of 10 percent.)

• Ensure that a club member attends the district membership development seminar.

• Have 10 percent or more of the membership, other than the club president, bring in new members by 31 March 2009.

• Ensure that a club member attends a regional presidential conference.

• Recruit at least one alumnus from Foundation programs (Ambassadorial Scholars, Group Study Exchange team members, Rotary World Peace Fellows) or RI program (former Youth Exchange students, Rotaract or Interact members) into membership by 31 March 2009.

• Give formal recognition to any club member who recruits more than one new member by 31 March 2009.

• Encourage diversity of membership, and promote a balanced membership. Induct new members from demographic groups not currently represented in your club.

• Conduct an analysis of qualified professional and business leaders within the community to identify prospective members, and invite them into membership.

• Retain members in Rotary by helping relocated Rotarians join a club in their new community.

• Have 5 percent of your members attend the RI Convention.

• Give your local public or high school library a magazine subscription to The Rotarian (or Rotary regional magazine).

• Ensure that incoming club officers and members attend the presidents-elect training seminar, district assembly, district Rotary Foundation seminar, and district conference, as appropriate.

• Recognize a member who is providing outstanding service toward polio eradication.

• Ensure that every Rotarian in your club is personally invited to participate in club activities, whether it be serving on a project committee or taking responsibility for some aspect of club service.

• Recognize a Rotarian in your club who actively participated in the full range of club projects and programs with the Four

Avenues of Service Citation.

• Include non-Rotarian family members (for example, spouses, children, parents, widows, widowers) in the family of Rotary through service and fellowship activities on at least five occasions.

• Appoint a family of Rotary committee to assist with projects and activities for Rotarians and their families.

• Invite a speaker from a local nongovernmental organization, or present a club program on the United Nations Millennium Development Goa (www.un.org/millenniumgoals).

• Have a current or former Rotary World Peace Fellow speak at a club meeting.

• Hold a forum on ethics and the application of The Four-Way Test in business and professional life.

• Present all new club members with a copy of The Four-Way Test or the Declaration of Rotarians in Businesses and Professions (200-EN).

• Sponsor a day for Rotarians to bring young people to theirplaces of business to educate them about career opportunities.

• Have at least one member provide an internship at his or her place of business to a high school or college student.

• Organize a vocational service activity during Vocational Service Month (October).

• Register a club member as a Rotary Volunteer, and encourage him or her to seek a Rotary Foundation Volunteer Service Grant.

• Have a club member host a Group Study Exchange team member at his or her place of employment.

• Participate in a career counseling and development project for young people in your community, stressing the importance of formal education in meeting career goals.

• Conduct a community needs assessment and use it to establish new local service projects that will involve at least half of the club members and their spouses. Consider using Goodwill Industries International* as a project resource.

• Sponsor a new Rotary Community Corps.

• Conduct a water project in your community.

• Conduct a project that decreases child mortality by addressing hunger issues in your community.

• Sponsor or participate in a project that addresses the problems of child abuse or street children.

• Sponsor or participate in a health awareness campaign or a project that addresses health concerns.

• Sponsor or participate in a community literacy project. Consider working with the International Reading Association* in developing the project.

• Sponsor or participate in a project that addresses child safety, such as road or playground safety.

• Share Rotary with the general public by placing a public service announcement, possibly one from Rotary’s public image campaign, in a print publication, on a radio or TV program, or on a billboard.

• Sponsor or participate in a project designed to promote peace or conflict resolution.

• Conduct a community service project carried out by club members and Rotary Foundation alumni.

• Sponsor a new Interact or Rotaract club.

• Sponsor a participant in a Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) event.

• Adopt a school.

International Service

• Support or register a project on the World Community Service ProjectLINK.

• Using the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (www.un.org/millenniumgoals) as a starting point, develop and initiate a new project in support of international service that will be carried out by at least half of your members.

• Seek a Rotary Foundation Matching Grant or Health, Hunger and Humanity (3-H) Grant for a water, health, hunger, or literacy project with the goal of reducing child

mortality.

• Achieve the Every Rotarian, Every Year goal of US$100 or more per club member in Annual Programs Fund contributions to The Rotary Foundation.

• Conduct an international service project in support of water management and sanitation.

• Conduct an international literacy project.

• Identify a qualified candidate to compete at the district level for at least one Rotary Foundation Educational Programs award (Ambassadorial Scholar, Rotary World Peace Fellow, Group Study Exchange team member or leader, Rotary Grants for University Teachers participant).

• Sponsor a Group Study Exchange team or host a team member, or participate in a Rotary Friendship Exchange.

• Give a club program on Global Networking Groups, or have at least 5 percent of club members join one of these groups.

• Make a club contribution to PolioPlus or PolioPlus Partners.

• Implement a club program on PolioPlus and Rotary’s role in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.

• Have a club member serve as a Rotarian host counselor for a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar.

• Conduct an international service project that addresses hunger issues for children.

• Sponsor or host a Youth Exchange student, Ambassadorial Scholar, or Rotary World Peace Fellow.