The several facets of Rotary’s Service In the Roman mythology the figure of the god Janus had two faces and was compared in the past by Past President Barth as symbolizing the two ways to support our Rotary Foundation: financially contributing to increase its investment capacity and participating of its programs and projects to use effectively these contributions. In the process of providing opportunities to render service, Rotary has many alternatives to serve that can be called as different directions to which we turn our face or attention. We can mention some of them: Facing the community That express the permanent attention to the community in each club area of action, that needs to be known, analyze and define priorities and select the projects that could solve or mitigate them; Facing contributions This facet implies the aspect of incentivizing contributions to the Rotary Foundation and the administrative proficiency of the clubs not to be in arrears with annual contributions to RI or the district. It is important to point out the discipline and administrative responsibility of club’s board that prepare their budgets to guarantee a cash flow that goes beyond their term to have cash to pay their dues early in the beginning of next year’s term;
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