Corporate Memberships - what are they?

Posted by Michael Milston on May 15, 2017

What is a Corporate Membership?

Example:

The corporate membership might work like this: XZY Accounting wants its two junior partners - Sally and Ahmed - to experience Rotary and serve the community. If the Club has corporate membership it will allow Sally and Ahmed to attend Club dinners/ breakfasts /lunches on, say, at least one of them every month, and a service activity also every two months. They (or their firm) would need, as a minimum, to pay two RI dues in the names of Sally and Ahmed. The Club may decide to charge only the equivalent of one club fee for both, and a full District (including the Insurance) fee for each, or whatever the club decided. Note that the District would require a fee for each RI member in the Club.

If your club is interested, there are some good resources on My Rotary website. I suggest you look at the following:

A video, only 4½ minutes, on the various membership changes - https://vimeo.com/169728997
Also look at https://my.rotary.org/en/club-flexibility

In summary, the club needs to decide to introduce the new type of membership (in this case corporate membership) and develop its own policies on dues, attendance, and service expectations, and then change its bylaws. Rotary International will count these people in the club membership and will consider them active members if they pay RI dues.

Note that corporate membership does not mean that a business is a member of Rotary.