CONNECT. GROW. SERVE.

The Rotary Club of Madison empowers you to Connect, Grow, and Serve:

  • Connect with other leaders to expand your network
  • Grow personally and professionally
  • Serve and help shape our community, our world and our future
EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS
  • Through Rotary, you will meet people from all backgrounds. Enrich yourself culturally and socially, personally and professionally.
  • Rotary has 2 million members worldwide; our local club consists of over 400 community and business leaders.
  • Learn through our weekly speakers on timely topics. We offer a wide breadth of programs on various local, national, and international topics to all of our members.

CREATE CHANGE THROUGH VOLUNTEERING

  • We participate in many hands-on service opportunities. Volunteer to help with community service projects.
  • We focus on three key areas: Basic Needs, Education, Mentoring and Civic Leadership.
  • With Rotary, you'll be able to make a difference in the areas closest to your heart.
MAKE AN IMPACT
  • It's people like you who make up the heart of this city - people who promote change and take steps to make it happen. You shape our community and our future.
  • Not only will you improve the world starting with your community and moving across the globe, you'll advance yourself both personally and professionally by connecting with people from every sector.
HOW MEMBERS SUPPORT OUR CLUB
  • One-time admission fee of $200 which covers District and Rotary International dues and a processing fee.
  • Membership dues of $900 per year which is billed in six-month increments. Members pay the $21 meal cost for each meeting attended.
  • Contribute annually to our Madison Rotary Foundation (average gift is $300).
  • Contribute annually to the Rotary International Foundation (average gift is $100).
  • Although membership is by individual (and not by organization) membership is often funded by the company you work for because they recognize the value Rotary provides.
OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT:
  • Encouraged to participate in one or more of our 25 committees.
  • Encouraged to participate in one or more of our 25+ Fellowship Groups.
  • In Rotary, our purpose is simple: join together to accomplish greatness - greatness for ourselves, our community and our world.
HOW WE SERVE OUR COMMUNITY:
  • GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIPS.
    • $860,000 is annually distributed in grants and scholarships to local organizations and students through our Madison Rotary Foundation.
  • VOLUNTEERING.
    • In response to the requests and needs of location organizations, we create and fill volunteer service opportunities.
  • ETHICS SYMPOSIUM.
    • Our annual ethics symposium connects over 200 local high school juniors in an all-day session to learn how to deal with daily ethical dilemmas.
  • POLIOPLUS.
    • One of our largest global service projects works throughout the world to achieve polio eradication by promoting National Immunization Days and sending Rotarians to administer polio vaccines to local children.
  • ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE.
    • Rotary Youth Exchange provides a unique opportunity for greater global understanding among young people in our community and abroad.