Our Rotary Club is a network of active and retired business, professional, and community leaders who are committed to service and passionate about making the world a better place. We host, support and volunteer for local charities, international projects, youth projects, and community events. We build lasting friendships and have fun while helping Dana Point, the surrounding communities, and the world.
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While ”Service Above Self” is our motto, every action we take is driven by guiding principles called the 4 WAY TEST of the things we think, say or do: Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build good will and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
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In 2019, the philanthropic event known as Giving Tuesday raised nearly $2 billion. And eight years after its inception, what began in the United States as a day focused on monetary donations has expanded across the globe and transformed to include volunteering, finding ways to show gratitude, and educating people about the value of altruism. For Rotary, as for many other nonprofit organizations, Giving Tuesday has become an important part of the philanthropic calendar.
And though financial giving is central to the movement, many people have taken the idea of giving in a different direction, using the day to volunteer or otherwise focus on altruism. The event tapped into online giving culture by making the idea open to all.
Giving Tuesday was shared and open-source: Beyond the event’s thousands of partners, anyone could take up the Giving Tuesday banner and carry it forward for their own organization or any group they wanted to support.
In 2019, for instance, elementary schools in Guam participated in #GivingTuesdayKids by introducing a kindness curriculum, in which students organized food and toy drives and visited nursing homes.
Rotary has embraced the concept, encouraging the use of Giving Tuesday as a fundraising opportunity for clubs and for The Rotary Foundation. Thanks to its organic, flexible nature, Giving Tuesday has spread to at least 70 countries, adapting in profound ways to different cultures.
This story originally appeared in the November 2020 issue of Rotary magazine.
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Rotary International (RI) is an international service organization whose stated purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian service and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.
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RI is the largest service organization in the world, with more than 1.4 million Rotarians in more than 46,000 Rotary Clubs. MBSR was chartered in 1988, and members have met weekly ever since.
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