The Club Excellence Award is the most significant award a Rotary Club can achieve. Recipient Clubs and their members have demonstrated a commitment to achieve their goals, which ultimately helps strengthen Rotary and shape our future.
The Club Excellence Award isn’t just an honour for your club to receive; it’s an important tool to help monitor the health and growth of your club. Taking action toward achieving the club excellence goals helps clubs engage their members, stay relevant in their communities, and function more efficiently. A welcoming and engaging club also reflects the values of Rotary. When clubs achieve their goals, they contribute to the overall health and culture of Rotary for generations to come.
The Club Excellence awards, formerly the Rotary Citation awards recognise clubs that achieve specific goals throughout the year, such as increasing their membership, engaging members in sustainable service projects, giving to The Rotary Foundation, building awareness of Rotary in your community, and having an up-to-date strategic plan.
Rotary and Rotaract clubs can find their goals in Rotary Club Central. To achieve the Club Excellence Award, review all the available goals, select at least half of them, achieve those goals, and report your achievement in Rotary Club Central.
All achievements need to be reported in Rotary Club Central by 30 June.
To be eligible for the Club Excellence Award, Rotary and Rotaract clubs need to begin the year as active clubs in good standing and remain so throughout the year. For the purposes of the Club Excellence Award, good standing means a club has paid each club invoice balance in full within 60 days after the invoice is issued. If a club’s payment isn’t received by that date, the club will receive a 60-day reminder letter from Rotary International and the club will no longer be eligible. For Rotary clubs, dues are invoiced semi-annually in July and January. Rotaract clubs receive one invoice per year in January.
New clubs that are chartered during the current Rotary year are also eligible for the award if they are in good financial standing and have achieved at least half of the available goals before the end of the Rotary year.
If club leaders find that a goal they set is going to be unattainable, but another will be achievable, they can edit the goals selected at any time during the year.
See the 2024-25 Club Excellence Award recipients below.
