Rotary Organisations are dying- Past President Hon Moses-Scatliffe
This is according to Past President and Speaker of the House of Assembly, Honourable Ingrid A. Moses-Scatliffe, during the Rotary Club of Tortola installation dinner of the new board of directors, for 2017-2018. The event took place on July 2, 2017 at Maria’s by the Sea in Road Town.
Hon Moses-Scatliffe pleaded to her fellow Rotarians that it is very important to work on the challenges that the clubs are facing collectively as a Rotary family.
The past president told her Rotarian family that the issues are also occurring with their international Rotarian counterparts.
“This challenge was highlighted in an article written recently captioned, ‘Why Our Service Organisations are Dying and how to fix them’. The article was written by Michael Brand, a member of the Rotary Club of Oregon City in Oregon, USA,” said Mrs Moses-Scatliffe.
She encouraged her Rotarian family to read the article and also to work together to overcome the challenges that they are facing.
This drew a response from Mrs Karia J. Christopher, newly inducted President, who said, “By the end of this Rotary year, I expect to grow this outstanding club by at least 10 percent, and educate and change the mindset of all Virgin Islanders by 100 percent.”
‘They cannot keep members’
According to an article written by Michael Brand, member of the Rotary Club of Oregon City, the club was founded to make “communities stronger, more interesting, and more engaging.”
He also noted that a fellow Rotarian observed that meetings held by Rotary clubs, has declined by 58 percent during the periods of 1975-2000. To date, this trend has continued to accelerate throughout the entire Rotary organisations; internationally and regionally.
Michal Brand points out that the issue for majority of the service clubs is not recruitment, its retention:
“Rotary averages 44,000 new members per year and loses an average of 51,000. They cannot keep members.”
17 Responses to “Rotary Organisations are dying- Past President Hon Moses-Scatliffe”
Two wonderful ladies doing great things...carry on stars, carry on and never get discouraged.
No where in her speech did she say the organisation was dying, but membership participation was down last year for what ever reason, remember there are tons of high level business people who may not have had the time necessary to devote to the community.
The office of the President of any Organisation is a challenging one, add this with the balancing of a demanding job and every other person ego, not many people can stay motivated to inspire people to serve and you sure as hell can't make them.
I for one likes the lady I find her frank but pleasant so if she was as bad as some claim she was, it must have been because she put a few people in their place, I don't know, i was not there and I am not even part of their crowd.
for those who are grading her year as president I hope you can do better or have done better in the past but I suspect that you are the ones sitting on the side lines doing nothing or actively trying to sabotage or handicapping the process.