The Rotary Club of Houston is a group of business leaders working together collaboratively to impact positive change in our community and worldwide, operating consistently with Rotary's motto of Service Above Self.

 

Some of our service projects include:

• Rotary Distinguished Citizen Award is presented annually to someone in Houston who exhibits high ideals, leadership, and philanthropy. The funds raised support the club’s ongoing service activities.

• Camp Enterprise is an annual activity that introduces business and business ethics to 75 high school juniors.  The funds for this event are raised with an annual golf tournament.

• Burnett Bayland Outreach has delivered personal support and mentoring to at-risk children under the county jurisdiction. Started in 1919, it is the longest continuous service project of any Rotary worldwide.

• Rotary House across from MD Anderson was created as a culmination of a thirty year dream of our club. the successful fun raising reality of a $26 million fund raising reality is the largest project by a single Rotary club in history.

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The club also works actively in many other areas including mentoring elementary school youth, assisting to ex-offenders, and international projects, including Polio Plus.

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4-Way Test

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From the organization's earliest days, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The Four-Way Test was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy. This 24-word test for employees to follow in their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy. In 1943, The Four-Way Test was adopted by Rotary and translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four questions: "Of the things we think, say, or do:
 

1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3. Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

 

AND AS THE ROTARY CLUB OF HOUSTON SAYS

5. Will it be FUN?