Ethics: Sacking the Super Bowl
One man’s decision to give football a permanent time out. Two summers ago, in the bleary days after the birth of my third child, I received a phone call from my older brother Dave in California....
View ArticleBeyond Borders
Bilal Al Ayoubi uses the power of Rotary to help Syrian refugees. Bilal Al Ayoubi knows the power of a Rotary connection. At the 2012 Rotary convention in Bangkok, Thailand, he met Greg Garofolo, now...
View ArticleThe Rotarian Conversation: David Isay
Everyone has a story. The founder of StoryCorps wants you to learn to listen. In a world of tweets and celebrity sound bites, the founder of StoryCorps, David Isay, wants people to sit down and listen...
View ArticleYou’ve Been Fighting Ebola All Along
In West African countries affected by the Ebola outbreak, Rotarians step up to help — and take a page out of the PolioPlus playbook. Among the loved ones Elizabeth Mulbah has lost to Ebola: her foster...
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Permanent Exiles
Rotary Peace Fellows are helping refugees start over. Every 10 minutes, a baby is born without a state – without citizenship in any country. The crisis in Syria and conflicts in South Sudan, the...
View ArticleEvent: Rotary at the UN
Peace, polio, and a 70-year partnership. A werewolf passed me on my way to United Nations Headquarters. It was the morning after Halloween, and he’d had a long night. Adjusting his furry mask, the...
View ArticleThe Talent Around the Table: David Newman
Rotary member David Newman is focusing on peace and human rights in Winnipeg. When the Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened in Winnipeg this past September, it marked the fulfillment of a dream...
View ArticleSesame on Sanitation
With help from a fuzzy friend from Sesame Workshop, kids learn about sanitation and hygiene. Sesame Street is a lot like Rotary: It’s a place where the neighbors are friendly, and it’s home to...
View ArticleThe Great Scott
Bob Scott, chair of Rotary’s International PolioPlus Committee, is bullish on polio eradication. For years, Bob Scott has been a central figure in Rotary’s effort to eradicate polio. His contributions,...
View ArticleCalculated Success
For Pedro Cevallos-Candau, president of the Rotary Club of Chicago, work can be a zoo. For Pedro Cevallos-Candau, work sometimes means monkey business. Several years ago, the civil engineer and his...
View ArticleHorse Power
On a farm in Virginia, rescued horses teach young people to take the reins of their own lives. The calendar says it’s after Labor Day, but an early September heat wave makes it feel more like July. In...
View ArticleCulture: Generation Grandparent
Boomers tackle life’s next stage with characteristic zeal. To my mind, grandparents represent a double bonus: Grandkids are lucky to have grandparents, and grandparents are lucky to have grandkids. As...
View ArticleFor the Record: K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran
Our first Sri Lankan president insists he’s perfectly ordinary. You decide. K.R. Ravindran insists you call him “Ravi” immediately after you’ve been introduced. He has bearing: He is tall, with...
View ArticleIn Praise of Libraries
A salute to society’s most successful civic institution. The public library is the only civic institution in my community that is uncompromisingly successful. Not everyone in my small town is crazy...
View ArticleThe Talent Around the Table: Mitty Chang
For Mitty Chang, Rotaract is just the beginning. When it comes to Rotary, Mitty Chang is practically a lifer – and he’s only 26. Chang joined Interact 10 years ago in Fremont, Calif., where almost a...
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Launch Pads
In Fiji, students use tablets to explore the world. On the third-largest island in Fiji, 17-year-old Asenaca Sepa dreams of becoming a nurse. Her classmate, Laisenia Kidia, wants to study marine...
View ArticleHello, Curl World
Rotarians take their fellowship to the ice. It’s the sort of story that should start with a limerick: “There once was a fellow from Scotland … ” In February 1956, a Rotarian named Bob Mackintosh...
View ArticleThe Talent Around the Table: Julian Metts
Julian Metts, a member of the Rotary Club of South Richmond, Va., provides real care through a virtual hospital. By the time he was in his late 50s, Julian Metts had run a successful orthodontic...
View ArticleThe Rotarian Conversation: Dan Pallotta
Should nonprofits spend like for-profits? Dan Pallotta says yes. The way you think about charity is wrong. That’s according to Dan Pallotta, a man on a mission to free nonprofits from the belief that...
View ArticleFun in Rotary?
Evan Burrell proves that Rotary isn’t all business. Evan Burrell gets around. At the 2014 Rotary convention in Sydney, Australia, you may have seen him walking around holding a long stick with his...
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