Participants in a classroom at HELP University in Kuala Lumpur raise their hands during Rotary-led psychological first aid training, May 2025

Our Programs

Learn how you can make a difference in your community through Rotary.

Rotary’s programs are developing the next generation of leaders, providing funding to make the world a better place, and making peace a priority. And our programs are not just for club members.

Peace fellows talk at the House of Friendship during the 2025 Rotary International Convention in Calgary, surrounded by project and fellowship displays

Rotary Peace Fellowships

Each year, Rotary selects up to 170 professionals from around the world to receive fully funded academic fellowships at our Rotary Peace Centers.

Rotary Community Corps

Finding community solutions to community challenges, Rotary Community Corps unites Rotary members with nonmembers to make a positive difference.

Jennifer Chan, co-director of Rotary's Youth Leadership Awards Camp, with two camp participants leaning on a fence outdoors in Scotts Valley. From Rotary Magazine, May 2024

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)

RYLA is a leadership development program for young people who want to learn new skills, build their confidence, and have fun.

Rotary Youth Exchange

Rotary Youth Exchange builds peace one young person at a time. Students learn a new language, discover another culture, and truly become global citizens.

At an Anganwadi community health center in New Delhi, India, a health worker vaccinates a child while caregivers look on

Grants

Our clubs receive funding to support humanitarian projects, scholarships, and international exchanges.

Conservation scientist Gabi Fleury sits in numbered auditorium seats at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Scholarships

Rotary invests more than $7 million a year in our future leaders and philanthropists by funding scholarships for undergraduate and graduate study.

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Help us create the next generation of peacemakers

Since 2002, The Rotary Foundation has trained more than 1,900 fellows at our Rotary Peace Centers. Many of them have gone on to serve as leaders at international organizations like the United Nations and World Bank or to form their own social impact organizations.

Donate to Rotary Peace Centers

From left: Linda Low, executive director of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Lorena Rodriguez, director of regional outreach and partnerships for the Rotary Peace Fellowship Alumni Association; and Vicki Puliz, Rotary Foundation trustee, speak at the Strengthening Bonds Through Shared Understanding breakout session during Global Goals, Local Action: Rotary Commemorates the United Nations at 80. 11 December 2025. San Francisco, California, USA.