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What is
SERTOMA?
- SERTOMA
is an organization of business and professional people knit together in
bonds of personal friendship and united in the idea of service in their
community.
- SERTOMA
was founded in Kansas City in 1912 and is the second oldest service club
in the United States.
- SERTOMA
is an international organization with clubs in the United States,
Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.
- SERTOMA
is one of the fastest growing civic/service clubs in the country with
over 650 clubs and 20,000 members.
- SERTOMA
is a coined word taken from the words SERvice TO MAnkind.
- SERTOMA
stands squarely for the preservation of individual freedom and free
enterprise.
- SERTOMA
supports allegiance to our country and its constitution and belief in
its everlasting endurance through law and order.
- SERTOMA,
through it's Service To Mankind Awards, gives recognition to outstanding
citizens for humanitarian, heroic, or other notable activities performed
in their communities.
- SERTOMA
promotes high principles of business and professional ethics.
- SERTOMA promotes speech and hearing programs.
- SERTOMA
is a 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 not-for-profit international
organization. Every year Sertoma clubs raise more than $20 million
for local community service projects. Through these projects, as
well as grants and scholarships, Sertoma clubs return those funds to
their respective communities - and they have loads of fun doing it while
building life-long friendships.
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