With its transparent funding and stewardship, The Rotary Foundation is playing a key role in executing global service projects. But Rotary clubs still find applying for global grants a cumbersome process as they have to fill forms and answer queries from the RI head office at Evanston

If you want responsible Rotarians, give them responsibility by engaging them in regular meetings, events and service projects so that “they feel the belongingness and don’t leave the organisation,” said RI President Jennifer Jones. Addressing the 30 district trainers-elect at Visakha Vista Rotary zone institute, she said,

As Rotaractors world over will have to pay

Public apathy and indifference is

IPRIP Shekhar Mehta and Rashi with TRF award winners PDGs Gaurish Dhond (RID 3170), Rajesh Subash (3204), Sanjay Malviya (3053), J Sridhar (3232) and Rajasekhar Srinivasan (3201). Pratima Dhond, Deeshma Subash, Punitha Sridhar and Shanthi Rajasekhar are also in

The Run to Read programme was a dream shared by institute convenor RI director Mahesh Kotbagi a few months ago at an institute committee meeting. He said that apart from regular institute programmes “we should do a massive service project and a public image exercise. So we

Sunny’s autographed bat fetches Rs.45 lakh!     After Sunny Gavaskar had completed his speech, he was requested to take a few balls from Rotarians including RI director Mahesh Kotbagi, and the ­Little Master gently tapped them towards the audience, the ball of course being a tennis ball.

I am sure you all must be experiencing butterflies in your stomach and are brimming with several ideas and plans to make your term memorable. I too have felt the same on various occasions, including very recently, when I took over as your president. It means that

India needs to give a quantum push to grassroots innovation in tier-2

A robust financial system is in place at the Rotary International to ensure a transparent stewardship of money collected from Rotarians and funds are being well-spent to enhance the participants’ experience, said RI director A S Ventakesh, who is also the RI Board’s treasurer. [caption