PRESIDENT

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

Dear Club Presidents,

This brochure describes the Presidential Citation program, Please use it ti plan your clubs' activities for the 2015-2016 Roratyyear. This year's Presidential Citation is somewhat different from previous ones. In developing this program, I put a lot of thought into selecting goals that, if achieved, would be measurable by all of us and make Rotary demonstrably stronger, more effective at delivering service, and more widely known and respected by the general public.

To improve our capacity to accurately measure our goals, Rotary International has enhanced the tools we use to gather and analyze data. These improvements will allow all levels of  Rotary _ from the clubs all the way up through the district, zone, and international levels __ to measure and assess their respective performance.

Thanks to these resources, we now have a paperless process that replaces the forms and reports clubs and district governors were required to submit in the past. Instead, We will verify all club achievements with the information your clubs provide in the rotary international database.

To qualify for the Presidential citation, your clubs must complete two mandatory activities and additional activities as described in each category. Some activities will be verified by the information you enter in Rotary Club Central, as noted in this brochure. Other activities will be verified automatically when you initiate a specific action.

Unless otherwise specified, all activities must be completed between 1 July 2015 and April 2016. Your accomplishments will then be verified by Rotary International data.

As club president, it is your responsibility to regularly check your progress and verify the accuracy of RI's data. To help you with this, you will have the ability to track your club's progress toward each of the citation's goals in real time by signing in to your My Rotary should be brought to our attention immediately so they can be resolved before the deadline.

District governors will also be able to track the progress of all of their clubs in My Rotary. I am asking your district governors to follow up with you regularly and support you  in achieving these goals. I will also challenge district governors to qualify for a District Governor's Citation program to promote district wide achievement. Details on the criteria will be shared with them separately.

Thank you in advance for your efforts this year. Remember that your hard will enable Rotary to make a significant difference in the lives of people all over the world.

K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran

President, Rotary International, 2015-16