The April Zone newsletter p. 3, see
Documents, has an article about the charter of the Pacific Northwest Passport Rotary Club. Some interesting remarks that I pulled from that are listed below.
Why “Passport”? Membership in a Passport Rotary club is a passport:
Into Rotary for people who have busy lives and other commitments;
To other Rotary clubs by encouraging members to visit local Rotary clubs and to take part in their service projects, fundraisers and other activities;
To the local community. Members who already volunteer in other community groups become Rotary ambassadors to those groups and bring ideas for projects back to the club.
This last idea is one that we have not spelled out as such, but that I will be adding to the website page About Us.
The article goes on to say:
We now have three Passport Clubs in our Zones—the D-7040 Rotary Passport Club, the Scarborough Rotary Passport Club in D-7070 as well as the ninth Passport club in the world and also the newest — the Pacific Northwest Rotary Club in District 5050, which held its Charter Night in early March.