About
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 160 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs.
Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the community's business and professional men and women. The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.
The main objective of Rotary is service —
in the community,
in the workplace,
and throughout the world.
Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today's most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence. They also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.
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
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Geneseo Rotary supports:
State Trooper Summer Program for Underprivileged Children
Holiday food baskets for needy families
The Rotary Vic Raschi Little League
Geneseo Summer Festival
"Keyboard Kamp" with Good Neighbor Program
Christmas Tree Lighting for Camp Good Days
Geneseo Halloween Parade
Geneseo Elementary School Playground Project
ChristmaSing on Main Street
Teresa House Hospice for the terminally ill
Geneseo Nursery School
Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
GCS Character Education
GCS Job Shadowing Program
Interact Club at Geneseo Central
Rotaract Club at SUNY Geneseo
Salvation Army Christmas Kettle Drive
Genesee Valley Hunt Races
Rotary Club in Kazan, Russia
International Hosting of Visiting Governors
Young at Heart
A Touch of Home
Scholarships for local students at SUNY Geneseo
Scholarships for Senior at Geneseo and York Central Schools
BOCES Migrant Center and Summer Program
Genesee Valley Rotary Summer Camp
We also host and encourage:
International Group Study Exchanges
Foreign exchange students to attend Geneseo Central School
High school and college students to attend Youth Leadership and Critical Issues programs