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District Aktion Club
Aktion Club is a community-service group for adult citizens who live with a disability. The mission of Aktion Club is:
- To provide these adults an opportunity to develop initiative and leadership skills.
- To serve their community.
- To be integrated into society
- To demonstrate the dignity and value of citizens living with disabilities.
Aktion Club members strive to return to their communities the benefits, help, and caring they have received, as well as develop important skills in the process.
District K-Kids, Bring Up Grades (BUG) and Terrific Kids
K-Kids is a "student-led" community-service organization, which operates under school regulations and draws its members from the student body.
K-Kids clubs can also be established in a community-based organization. Such organizations might include, but are not limited to: community library, Boys Club, Girls Club, YMCA, YWCA, or a church.
K-Kids is unique because it's sponsored by a local Kiwanis club, composed of a cross section of the community who are interested in volunteering to make their local community and the world a better place for our children.
Bring Up Grades, or BUG is a program designed to provide recognition to students who raise their grades to an acceptable range, and maintain or continue to raise them from one grading period to the next. Recognition includes being placed on the school's BUG Honor Roll; a pizza, ice cream, or other food-themed party; and presentation of certificates, pins, and other giveaways.
Terrific Kids is a student recognition program that promotes character development, self-esteem, and perseverance. Students work with their classroom teacher and establish goals to improve behavior, peer relationships, attendance, or schoolwork. Students then work toward achieving the goal during a specific time period. The teachers and principal determine the best schedule for recognition. Some schools recognize Terrific Kids during each grading period; others recognize students more often.
District Builders Club
Builders Club is the largest service organization for middle school students (ages 12 to 14), with more than 40,000 members worldwide.
Builders Club is a “student-led” community service organization, which operates under school regulations and draws its members from the student body. Community-based Builders Clubs also may be established at community facilities such as: churches, libraries, YMCA’s, or lodges. Builders Club is unique because a Kiwanis club, composed of a cross section of the community who are interested in volunteering to make their local community and the world a better place for our children.
District Key Club
Key Club is a service organization for high school students, which operates under school regulations and draws its members from the student body. The club is a unique organization because it is sponsored by a local Kiwanis club, composed of a cross section of the community who are interested in volunteering to make their local community and the world a better place for our children. Key Club's objective is the development of initiative, leadership ability, and good citizenship practices. It functions not only on a local level, but on a district and international level as well. This highly developed structure provides programs, literature, and the opportunity for students to relate to other teenagers from across the globe. Key Club is the largest service organization of its kind with over 135,000 members from approximately 3,900 clubs.
District Circle K
Circle K is a co-educational service, leadership development, and friendship organization, organized and sponsored by a Kiwanis club on a college or university campus. It is a self-governing organization and elects its own officers, conducts its own meetings, determines its own service activities, and establishes its own dues structure. Its Objects include the Objects of Kiwanis. Once organized, a Circle K club continues to be sponsored by a Kiwanis club. Although the ultimate responsibility for Circle is that of the Kiwanis Board of Directors, the sponsorship function is most directly carried out by the Kiwanis club Committee on Circle K Clubs, assisted by a faculty advisor (who may or may not be a Kiwanian) designated by the college or university administration..
District Key Leader
Key Leader is a new leadership experience for today's youth leaders. It will focus on service leadership as the first, most meaningful leadership development experience. A Key Leader will learn the most important lesson of leadership—leadership comes from helping others succeed.
- Key Leader is designed to reach students in the middle of the pack as opposed to those at the top of the academic pyramid.
- Key Leader is designed to begin a process of personal leadership growth and development as opposed to being a weekend event that is forgotten weeks or months later. It will be a life-changing experience.
- Key Leader is designed to open doors to leaders as young as recent eighth grade graduates. Leadership development shouldn't wait.
- Key Leader is designed to teach what it means to be a youth leader in three different communities: the local community; the state or national community; and the global community.