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 To Our Owego Rotarians & Friends,

Owego Rotary Club meets in person at the Belva Lockwood Inn, 249 Front St. Owego, as well as  virtually via Zoom Tuesdays at noon for lunch. The exception is every 1st Tuesday of the month, the meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. for conversation followed by dinner and a more extensive program. You are invited. Please contact us to receive the Zoom meeting link or to inquire how to reserve a seat at noon and evening meetings. Visit our Facebook Page for updates on projects, programs, news and links. 

Owego Rotary has a new grant request form! If your organization would like to ask for assistance from the club, ask for a form by emailing contact@owegorotary.org.

Owego Rotary Club is proud to have served our community for more than 100 years! Watch for information about the postponed Owego Rotary Centennial Gala celebration. Follow along on our Instagram or Facebook pages to learn more about the club. 

Rotary is 1.2 million neighbors, friends, and community leaders who come together to create positive, lasting change in our communities and around the world. The Owego Rotary Club is one of 35,000 clubs in more than 200 countries that make up Rotary International. Our club is made up of business and professional leaders from our local community who contribute their time and talents in service to the community and the world. The objectives of Rotary are to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

Rotary Areas of Focus

Rotary is dedicated to seven areas of focus to build international relationships, improve lives, and create a better world to support our peace efforts and end polio forever.  Rotarians around the world are directing their efforts in these areas to enhance their local and global impact. Rotary’s most successful and sustainable projects and activities tend to fall within the following areas:

  • Promoting peace
  • Fighting disease
  • Providing clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
  • Saving mothers and children
  • Supporting education
  • Growing local economies
  • Environment

Rotary Guiding Principles

These principles have been developed over the years to provide Rotarians with a strong, common purpose and direction.  They serve as a foundation for our relationships with each other and the action we take in the world.

OBJECT OF ROTARY

The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

  1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
  2. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
  3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
  4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
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

  1. Is it the TRUTH?
  2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
  3. Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
  4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
AVENUES OF SERVICE

We channel our commitment to service at home and abroad through five Avenues of Service, which are the foundation of club activity.

    • Club Service focuses on making clubs strong. A thriving club is anchored by strong relationships and an active membership development plan.
    • Vocational Service calls on every Rotarian to work with
      integrity and contribute their expertise to the problems and
      needs of society.
    • Community Service encourages every Rotarian to find ways
      to improve the quality of life for people in their
      communities and to serve the public interest.
    • International Service exemplifies our global reach in promoting peace and understanding. We support this service avenue by sponsoring or volunteering on international projects, seeking partners abroad, and more.
    • Youth Service recognizes the importance of empowering youth and young professionals through leadership development programs such as Rotaract, Interact, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, and Rotary Youth Exchange.