Popular service project guides revamped

Posted by Michele Rassin 
 

Rotary's favorite service guides have been recently revised to provide clubs with the latest resources to help plan service projects. A new service kit bundles together updated versions of Communities in Action: A Guide to Effective Service (605A) and the Menu of Service Opportunities (605B) as well as a new addition to Rotary's service library, Community Assessment Tools (605C).

Rotary International News

6 March 2007

Communities in Action: A Guide to Effective Projects is Rotary's comprehensive guide to selecting, planning, implementing, and evaluating effective service projects in a community. The revised version includes new sections about project liability and protection, tips on promoting projects, updated information about RI programs and resources, and a new project submission form. The publication is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Menu of Service Opportunities includes information sheets on important social issues like literacy, poverty, hunger, health, and the environment. It highlights Rotary's approach to addressing issues, tips for taking action, and Rotary stories from the field. Look for extensive lists of online resources for each issue, as well a new section on Rotary and the Millennium Development Goals. Available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish, the Menu of Service Opportunities serves as an excellent resource for presentations at a club meeting or district training event.

Community Assessment Tools (605C), a new publication, is designed to provide clubs with some simple tools to evaluate needs in their communities and improve the effectiveness of their service projects. This resource provides eight session guides for carrying out practical and low-cost community needs assessments. In addition, it serves as an excellent resource to help clubs understand their community better and identify hidden assets that might contribute to a project's success.

Buy hardcopies of Rotary's service kit online or download the three parts separately for free.

 

 

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