ROTARY INTERNATIONAL. K.R RAVINDRAN

K.R. Ravindran
President, 2015-16
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My dear Rotary friends,

Every year, Rotary’s Presidential Citation program helps Rotary clubs around the world focus their efforts and achieve more in their service.

This year, for the first time, the Presidential Citation was data-driven: we asked you to increase membership, contribute to The Rotary Foundation, and to use online tools such as Rotary Club Central and Rotary Showcase to report your accomplishments throughout the year.

As a result, clubs have been able to monitor their own progress via their club dashboards, and we at RI have been able to see that progress as well.

The purpose of the Citation is to honor the efforts of the many clubs who have worked so hard toward their Rotary goals this year. Seeing how many of you have made great strides in your service, without reaching every goal needed to achieve a Citation, I sought a way to recognize that work as well.

As a result, I am pleased to announce that this year, the Citation will be modified and issued in three levels: Gold, Silver, and Bronze. The Gold citation will recognize those who met the high bar of all seven goals; Silver citations will go to those who have achieved six goals, and Bronze will go to those who have attained five (including, in all cases, the mandatory goals).

No action is needed on the part of any club at this point; the citation results are now being tabulated here in Evanston from the data that has already been collected online.

I hope as we look to the last three months of our term that you will not slow in your efforts or in your service. The true rewards for Rotary endeavors, of course, do not come from Evanston: they come from the satisfactions of service well delivered, and the knowledge that our clubs have been A Gift to the World.

Sincerely,
K.R. Ravindran
President, Rotary International 2015-16