Community Service

Community Service

Community service is one of the Five Avenues of Service. Rotary clubs and Rotarians have a responsibility to find ways to improve the quality of life for those in their communities and to serve the public interest.

What is Community Service?
Community Service responds to the needs of the local community by encouraging and fostering the ideal of service to the personal, business and community life of every Rotarian. It provides Rotarians with the opportunity to exemplify the Rotary motto: Service Above Self.

The following Community Service Committees come under the umbrella of the Assistant Governor Services.  You will find information about each of these committees by click on the links to the left of this page. 

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Australian Rotary Health is one of Australia’s largest independent funders of mental health research.

It funds research grants, fellowships and PhD scholarships to prevent and treat mental illness in young Australians, with a focus from 2023 on children aged 0–12.

It also funds general health research, rural medical and nursing scholarships, Indigenous health scholarships, and underfunded health areas.

Supported by Rotary Clubs across Australia, it aims to improve the health and wellbeing of all Australians.

We work with communities to implement service projects that improve the environment and transform lives. Thriving ecosystems can support people’s health, create economic opportunities, and help build peace.

Rotary's partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme
Through Rotary and the United Nations Environment Programme Community Action for Fresh Water initiative, Rotary clubs can protect, restore, and sustain their local freshwater ecosystems. Interested in getting involved? Visit communityactionforfreshwater.org to find out what other clubs are doing and learn how your club can act today.

Founded by Rotary, Probus is a not-for-profit organisation with clubs across Australia, New Zealand and 21 other countries. It helps retirees and semi-retirees stay socially connected, explore new interests and remain active in their communities.

 

Probus celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2026.

EndTrachoma was an initiative started by Rotary Melbourne and progressed to be a project led by Nourish our Communities Ltd which enabled EndTrachoma to be a Rotary Districts of Australia project.

 

Rotary District 9780 has been promoting Organ Donation Awareness since 2000.

  • Rotary works with both LifeGift (Victorian Organ Donation Service) and Transplant Australia (Living Proof Transplantation Works) the largest support organization of its kind in the world with an aim for Australia to lead the world in making organ and tissue transplants available for all who need one - saving lives, minimizing suffering and providing care and support.
  • The issue of organ and tissue donation personally touches the lives of many Australians, but as people continue to die on transplant waiting lists, it is vital that community understanding of the life-saving nature of organ and tissue donation is improved.
  • Each organ donor can save or improve the life of up to ten people through life-saving transplant operations.