Auburn Rotary - Five Avenues of Service

What are your community’s needs and assets? This is an important question in planning any service project. By taking time to learn about local issues, ROTARY will discover new opportunities for service projects and avoid duplicating existing resources. Community assessments such as surveys, asset inventories, and focus groups will reveal important information.

Assessment tips

When assessing our community, we take a positive approach – we don’t just look at the community’s problems.

A close assessment might include these factors:

Human assets
One of our community’s most important assets is its people. What are some of the residents’ unique skills and talents, and what are their needs and challenges? How can the community be involved in your club’s project?

Organizational assets
What groups and organizations in our community provides resources for local projects? We consider government offices, nongovernmental and nonprofit organizations, religious institutions, schools, and businesses, and look at informal groups, such as neighborhood organizations or sports teams, as well.

Physical assets
Our community’s physical assets include any existing infrastructure – buildings, parks, public transit systems, hospitals and clinics, water and sanitation facilities, recycling centers and landfills, libraries, theaters, meeting halls – that might be used to support a project.

Club assets
Rotary clubs sometimes forget that they’re full of hidden assets. Club members’ expertise and professional skills are important tools for service. We must perform close examination of our club’s financial and human resources will help determine the types of projects club members can effectively manage.