JOIN OUR CLUB!
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
PROPERLY attend meetings for AT LEAST 4 weeks within a 2 month period – we highly recommend those 4 weeks be consecutive – by doing the following:
Read and watch content on the current week’s meeting page
Fill out the “I Attended!” survey at the end of the program
Leave a comment using Disqus at the bottom
Optional: make a donation to our efforts
After 2 meetings, email our Membership Chair at membership@siliconvalleyrotary.com to inform us of your interest in joining.
After 4 meetings, fill out the application below.
EXPECTATIONS OF MEMBERSHIP
After submitting your application, the club leadership will send you a confirmation email. In it, we will ask you to please submit your availability so that we can schedule a Meet and Greet with you. This can be either one-on-one or with a small group of current eClub members. In addition, we will invite you to join a program recording as well as an online social.
After we have determined that you have met our application requirements, the application will be sent to the board for a vote, and then to all of the eClub members for their approval. If there are no objections, you will become a member of the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley! At this time, you will be paired up with a mentor who will help welcome you into the club.
Please note that once you have met the membership requirements, the approval process generally takes about 2-3 weeks.
Please carefully consider these requirements and expectations before submitting your application.
Members are expected to attend weekly in order to stay informed on what is happening with our club. One is required to attend at least half the time, but given the flexibility of our eclub system, we believe that your goal should be to attend every week, and make up any missed meetings appropriately.
Members pay USD$150 for dues every six months. Timely payment of dues is expected for everyone. We also offer the option to pay monthly at USD$28/month.
Members are expected to engage in club activities whenever possible. Those living in or near Silicon Valley will have multiple opportunities to join in social and service events. All members can join in the recordings of programs as participants to converse with and ask questions of our speakers.
Members are expected to join at least one club committee.
Members are expected to be comfortable with internet and collaborative tools. We use Zoom Video Conference and Google Drive extensively, so it is necessary to have a Google account in order to take part in video conferences and share documents and other files. We also use a private members-only Facebook Group and Slack for internal networking and group discussions.
Members are expected to be patient with online communication. When content in a meeting or email seems strange or offensive, members are expected to ask clarifying questions rather than responding directly to something that the person posting the given content might not have meant. In short, it is better to ask than to react.
Members are expected to understand and seek to live by the Rotary Four-Way Test, which you can find at Rotary’s page on Guiding Principles.
You must complete at least four meetings within a two month period. It’s best if those are in four consecutive weeks, to make sure you are comfortable with making it a habit to attend the online meeting every week.
If nothing above has made you reconsider joining the club, then after finishing four weeks of proper attendance (which includes completing the attendance survey and leaving comments in the Disqus system), you are welcome to complete the application linked below.