Welcome to the Rotary International District 6980 website, serving more than 2,100 Rotarians in 46 Clubs throughout Central Florida.
Rotary International is the association of clubs throughout the world. Rotary is an organization of business, professional, and community leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
If you are a visitor to this website, you can learn more about Rotary International, how it functions in Central Florida and why it is the premier service organization in the world…without peer. Visitors can learn more about our district’s structure and can use this site to discover where and when our 46 clubs meet and how to contact them.
Rotarians who belong to clubs in District 6980 can use the member access section to log in and enter the District’s database, which will give them access to password protected information.
The District Governor’s monthly newsletters are posted on the website the first of each month which contain important announcements relevant to each month. Rotary International President John Kenny’s monthly message is also posted on this site.
It is an honor and privilege to serve the Rotarians and Clubs of District 6980 as Governor. Our future is bright because the Future of Rotary is in Your Hands!
Randolph S. Rawiszer
District Governor 2009-10
Rotary International District 6980
Two words that mean many things to different people.
World Understanding can certainly qualify as an abstract concept and one that may be difficult for some to answer in an articulate fashion. Ask one-hundred people what it means and you may get one hundred different answers.
Ask a Rotarian what World Understanding means to them and you may receive a more common response which involves Rotary’s dynamic international humanitarian and educational programs.
There is good reason for this.
Every Rotarian, regardless of years of experience, has access to a variety of diverse Rotary International and Rotary Foundation programs that connects people of all backgrounds and origins from around the world.
It is through these programs that interpersonal, international relationships are created, nurtured, grown and harvested. Relationships which give us a profoundly better understanding of the world than any media outlet with a political agenda, photo-op or soundbite can.
The Rotary way to World Understanding is through Rotary’s programs. The Rotary Foundation’s programs are very well known to Rotarians for advancing World Understanding and peace through the Humanitarian Matching Grants program and the ongoing Polio Plus campaign. There is the Group Study Exchange, Ambassadorial Scholarship and World Peace Fellowship programs that
Rotarians in our District proudly participate in.
But in addition to the Foundation programs, Rotary International has its share of international programs, such as Rotary Youth Exchange, International Rotary Fellowships, World Community Service, Rotary Friendship Exchange, and unofficial programs which Rotary supports such as DGE Homestay and Open World, as well as many others.
In these challenging times we live in, with all the international politics along with the social and economic dynamics that interweave (and interfere with) the multi-national fabric, there is more of a need than ever before for the commonality of human values that the programs of Rotary can provide and that Rotary and Rotary membership can offer.
