Districts:
Clubs are grouped into 532 districts, each led by a district governor, who is an officer of RI. The district administration, including assistant governors and various committees, guides and supports the clubs.

RI Board:
The 19 member RI Board of Directors, which includes the RI president and president-elect, meets quarterly to establish policies. Traditionally, the RI president who is elected annually, develops a theme and emphases for the year.

RI Secretariat:
Rotary International is headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, USA, with seven international offices in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, Korea and Switzerland. The RI in Great Britain And Ireland (RIBI) office, in England, serves clubs and districts in that region. The Secretariat’s active managing officer is the RI general secretary, who heads a staff of about 600 people, working to serve Rotarians worldwide.

Rotary’s Guiding Principles
Four basic principles guide Rotarians in achieving the ideal of service and high ethical standards. 1. Object of Rotary 2. Classification Principle 3. Avenues of Service 4. The 4- Way Test.

First Guiding Principle –Object of Rotary:
First formulated in 1910, the Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and in particular, to encourage and foster.

First: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

Second: High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

Third: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business and community life;

Fourth: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

RCC
Rotary Community Corps (RCC) is one of Rotary International’s nine structured programmers designed to help clubs and districts to achieve their Service Above Self goals in community. A Rotary Community Corps is a group of non-Rotarians men women who share Rotary’s commitment to service, under the guidance of a sponsoring Rotary club. Dedicated RCC members put their own skills to work to improve the quality of life in their communities.

• To encourage individuals to take responsibility for the improvement of their community or village
• To recognize the dignity and value of all useful occupations
• To mobilize self help activities and collective work to improve the quality of life.
• To encourage development of human potential of its fullest with the context of the local culture and community.

Rotary Clubs around the world can sponsor an RCC in both rural & urban area in developing as well as developed countries.