September 2014

New York District Key Club Division 6

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Lieutenant Governor Greeting………………………………….……… Page 3 Division Board………………………………………………………..….……. Page 3 District Executive Board………….………………………………...….. Page 4 Upcoming Events………………………………………..………………..... Page 5 Major Emphasis…………………………………………………………….…..Page 6 Major Emphasis Program–UNICEF……………………………….…..Page 6 District Charities & Projects…………………………….…………..Pages 6&7 District Projects– Make-A-Wish Foundation…..………....…..Page 7 Governor’s Project…………………………………………………………....Page 8 The Eliminate Project………………………………………………………. Page 8 Save the Date– LTC and ICON………………………………………...Page 8 Service Spotlights…….……………………………………………………...Page 9 Paperwork Status Update…………………………………………..…. Page 10 Report Forms………………………………………………………………….. Page 10 Contact Information……………………………………………………….. Page 11 Social Media……………………………………………………………………..Page 11

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Lieutenant Governor Greeting

Dear Division 6, I hope you all are having a wonderful school year so far, and have began the process of revitalizing your club. I advise you to begin serving as soon as possible, and to do all you can to encourage new members to join your club. My goals for the rest of this service year are many, including establishing better communication be-tween clubs and their sponsoring Kiwanis Clubs, creating ties between clubs in the di-vision, and encouraging club representation at LTC! I look forward to working with you all, and wish you the best of luck in these upcoming months. Lastly, I would just like to remind you all of the September Divisional, which is taking place Monday, Sep-tember 29th, 2014 at West Hempstead High School, and will begin at 6:30. I look forward to seeing you all there! Yours In Service, Zainab Nathani

Division Board

Daniel Ruano Executive Assistant

Alexandra Michaelis Secretary

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District Governor Jacob Spencer

District Executive Assistant Theresa Lin

District Executive Assistant Kiera Solomon

District Treasurer Anusha Syed

District Secretary Heather Farley

District Webmaster Danny Qiu

District Bulletin Editor Sharon Lin

District Executive Board

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Upcoming Events

Bowl For a Kause East Meadow Kiwanis

is hosting its annual Bowling for Kamp Kiwa-nis fundraiser.

Where: South Levit-town Lanes

When: Sunday, Octo-ber 5th from 2-4 pm

Proceeds will be used to send a camper to Kamp Kiwanis

$12 for SLPs (this includes Key Clubbers) and $17 for adults- this gets you 2 hours of bowling, pizza, soda, and snacks. Ads can be purchased for $25

KPTC International Festival - Cook-Off and Talent Show

The KPTC SLP committee is celebrating the different cultures of the world with an inter-national festival fundraiser.

Will be held at Levittown Hall on Sunday, November 2nd at 4 PM

There will be an International Cook-off where participants can enter a food from one of the world's cultures.

There will also be a Talent Show, where participants can enter a talent associated with one of the world's cultures. Please let me know if you are interested in entering one of the above competitions!

Trick or Treat for UNICEF Since UNICEF has partnered with Kiwanis for The Eliminate Project, the money that members of the K-

Family raise with Trick or Treat for UNICEF can go to The Eliminate Project! If you have not yet received boxes, you can order them at the Kiwanis Family Store with the following

link: https://store.kiwanis.org/Product/Trick-or-Treat-for-UNICEF-KI92014-2696.htm#sthash.9Pq2Xj0G.yT44uu55.dpbs

Once you’ve collected all of your donations, send a check or money order (made payable to the Kiwanis In-ternational Foundation) and your completed gift form to: The Eliminate Project: Campaign Office Kiwanis International Foundation 3636 Woodview Trace Indianapolis, IN 46268 USA ATTN: Trick-or-Treat

Clubs that submit $250.00 or more by December 31st will receive a special banner patch!

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Major Emphasis

District Charities & Projects

The Major Emphasis of Key Club International is Children: Their Future, Our Focus. It is this emphasis that Key Club International has challenged all Key Clubs to follow through with as well. New York District Key Club has tried its very best to rise to this challenge, as can be seen from the focus of its District Charities and District Projects. Now you, the

individual clubs, must strive to support the cause of children as well!

Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center Aids in providing necessary equipment to treat children affected by trauma as well as providing Safe Kids workshops to prevent trauma causing accidents from occurring, and training for proper medical assistance. Total Raised: $150.00

Major Emphasis Programs– UNICEF To help with the fulfillment of the Major Emphasis, Kiwanis has partnered with other organizations and pro-grams to give us four Major Emphasis Programs. These four are UNICEF, Children’s Miracle Network, March of Dimes , and The Eliminate Project. UNICEF, or the United Nations Children’s Fund, believes in the advancement of humanity by working for the nurturing and caring of children. UNICEF upholds the Convention on the Rights of the Child which states the unalienable rights that should be guaranteed to every child. They work with other organizations to try to clear the path for children to ex-perience the right to: survival, health, an education, a caring family environment, play, their culture, protec-

tion from exploitation and abuse of all kinds, and to have his or her voice heard and opinions taken in-to account.

To help, you can fundraise for UNICEF, help their campaign to vaccinate every child, buy UNICEF cards and gifts, or even just spread awareness and news about the ways UNICEF is changing people’s lives!

You can also help support UNICEF’s initiative to provide every child with clean water by not using your smartphone! Go to www.uniceftapproject.org on your phone, and for every ten minutes you don’t touch your phone, UNICEF’s sponsors will provide clean water to a child for a day!

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District Charities and Projects Continued

The Eliminate Project Kiwanis aims to eliminate Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus from the world by vaccinating all women of childbearing age with three vaccines that makes them immune for 10 years. The cost of the three vac-cines is $1.80 and can save a mother and multiple children. Partnered with UNICEF, Kiwanis aims to

accomplish its goal by 2015. Total Raised: $5427.00

Make-A-Wish Foundation This foundation tries to make the wishes of sick children come true, to empower and strengthen them as they battle for their lives. To help, one can donate money, time, and even air miles! Total Raised: $414.00

District Projects– Make a Wish Foundation

St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital The mission of St. Jude’s is to advance cures and prevention of catastrophic children’s diseases through re-search and treatment. Total Raised: $238.42

Kamp Kiwanis Allows underprivileged children, as well as children and adults with disabilities, to enjoy a normal experience at sleep-away camp in a caring, comfortable environment. Total Raised: $296.00

Kiwanis Pediatric Lyme Disease Foundation Helps pay and negotiate payments for treatment of Pediatric Lyme Disease, a serious illness caused by ticks, that can become dangerous and fatal if left unattended. Treatment is usually very expensive and not covered by insurance. Total Raised:$0.00

The Make a Wish Foundation is an organization that grants the wishes of children with medically life threatening conditions in America and its territories.

As of right now, the Foundation grants a child’s wish every 38 minutes. There are many ways to help. These ways include: donating money, donating air miles, donating items to help grant a wish, fundraising, joining a walk to fundraise for Make a Wish, buying products that support the Foundation, volunteering, and more. See all the ways you can help at http://wish.org/ways-to-help

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Governor’s Project

Here are some refreshers and updates about the Eliminate Project: The goal of The Eliminate Project is to raise $110 million The Eliminate Project Committee of New York District Key Club has set a goal of $25,000. Kiwanis is partnered with UNICEF in this endeavor . They will consider their goals having

been met if enough money is pledged to reach the goal of $110 million by ICON 2015. Thus all the money does not necessarily have to be raised by then.

An idea booklet has also been created to help you pick a fundraising or service idea for your club: fundrais-ing ideas book for SLPs

There are many ways you and your club can be recognized for your donations. This includes the Elimidallion for a $625 donation and the Walter Zeller Fellowship for a donation of $1,250. For more information, go to this link: Kiwanis Family Recognition

Be sure to check out www.theeliminateproject.com for more information

The Eliminate Project

Governor Jacob’s Governor’s Project is Water: The Key to Life. This project aims to aid in the effort to provide clean and uncontaminated drinking water to people in those parts of the world that currently

do not have access to it. You can start your efforts in supporting this initiative by conserving water and donating the money

saved to charities that help provide clean drinking water all over the world. Total Raised: 1,156

Save the Date– LTC and ICON

Leadership Training Conference When: March 27-29th Where: The Desmond Hotel and Conference Center in Albany, NY Theme: Espionage Price: $280– Student, $300– Chaperone Shared, $600– Chaperone Private Website: http://nydkc.org/events/leadership-training-conference/ Registration: https://classic.regonline.com/builder/site/?

International Conventional 2015 When: June 25th-28th, 2015 Where: Indianapolis, Indiana Will include a tour of nearby sites This ICON will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ki-

wanis in the city where Kiwanis’ headquarters is lo-cated

This ICON will bring Key Clubbers, Circle K-ers, and Kiwanians together to celebrate the end of the Elimi-nate Project

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Service Spotlights

“Kones for Kids” Fundraiser By Caitlyn Kirk, G.C. Tech Key Club President

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! G. C. Tech’s Key Club held an ice cream fundraiser at Uncle Louie G’s these past two weeks from September 17th– 26th. All the money raised is being donated to the John Theissen Children’s Foundation! On behalf of my club, I would like to thank anyone who participated! I would also like to thank Uncle Louie G’s for allowing this fundraiser to take place!

Thank you to all Division 6 Key Clubbers who attended the Alzheimer’s Walk and volunteered to help make the event a suc-cess! Below is an article published on the New York District Kiwanis Website!

Youth Groups Aid Alzheimer’s Walk

Kicking off a new school year, the Service Leadership Club of the Long Island South Central Division continued its long-standing tradition of supporting the Alzheimer's Walk at the Old Bethpage Restoration Village. K-Kids, Builders Club, Key Clubs and Aktion Clubs woke up early on the first Saturday of the 2014-15 school year to help set-up and run the annual walk organized by the Alzheimer's Disease Resource Center of Long Island. As they have for the past 10 years, the SLPs members marked the walk course, carried materials to where they were needed, set up and emptied trash containers, assisted at registration tables, worked crowd control and, manned the water stations.

Participating SLPs included the Bowling Green K-Kids, WT Clarke Builders Club, the East Meadow High School Key Club, the Macarthur High School Key Club, the West Hempstead High School Key Club, the Uniondale High School Key Club, the WT Clarke Key Club and the East Meadow Aktion Club. Uniondale Key Club had the greatest number of volunteers with WT Clarke Builders Club a close second.

In addition to providing the bulk of the volunteer work force running the walk, the LISC SLPs also donated over $500 to the cause.

Alzheimer's Disease Resource Center Executive Director Maryann Ragona praised the K-Kids, Builders Club, Key Clubs and Aktion Club for their ef-forts during her opening remarks. "Without the young people of Kiwanis, this walk would simply not be possible.” she told the crowd. “Kiwanis and its K-family has been with us since our first walk in Eisenhower Park. Over a decade later, year after year, these young people are still here doing everything and anything to make this event as success.”

“Despite the difficulties of motivating school-based clubs after only three days of school, I am proud to say Key Club Di-vision 6 along with the Bowling Green K-Kids and WT Clarke Builders Club always find a way to get some members here every year,” commended LISC Service Leadership Chair Lt. Gov.-Designate Rich Santer. "This year, our Key Club Lt. Governor Zainab is away at a District Board meeting. I applaud her for her recruiting effort prior to her departure and thank Division EA Daniel Ruano and Divisional Secretary Allie Michaelis for taking charge in the Lt. Governor’s absence,” he said.

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Paperwork Status Update

Election Report Forms– Thank you to all the clubs in the division for submitting their election report forms! Monthly Report Forms– These are to be submitted by the club secretary by the tenth of every month. They indicate the service and number of service hours your club has performed in the past month. An important point to note is that the number of service hours on the MRFs is calculated by multiplying the duration of the service project by the number of people who attended. The MRFs allow me to keep up with the work your club is doing and allow me to know that you are active. They also give the district the opportunity to total the number of service hours performed. If you have not com-pleted MRFs for past months, please make them up! The next form is due October 10th! Fundraising Report Forms– These should be submitted at the conclusion of every fundraiser. These report forms allow the district to know how much money is being raised for what charities so that totals for the District Charities, District Pro-jects, Governor’s Project, and Local Causes can be calculated. These should be submitted with a proof, such as a copy of the check, a letter from the organization indicating how much money was donated, etc.

Report Forms

ERF April MRF May MRF June MRF July MRF August MRF September MRF Division Avenue X X X East Meadow X X X X X X GC Tech X X x x X X Garden City X X X Island Trees X X X X X X X MacArthur X X x X X Sacred Heart Academy X X Uniondale X X X X X X W.T. Clarke X X X X X X West Hempstead X

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Contact Information

Kiwanis Committee Representative Kim Scharoff Email: kscharoff@gmail.com

Cell:(516)680-7360 ______________

Governor Jacob Spencer – jacobspencer.gov@nydkc.org Secretary Heather Farley – heatherfarley.sec@nydkc.org Treasurer Anusha Syed – anushasyed.treas@nydkc.org Bulletin Editor Sharon Lin – sharonlin.editor@nydkc.org

Webmaster Danny Qiu – dannyqiu.tech@nydkc.org Executive Assistant Kiera Solomon – kierasolomon.ea@nydkc.org

Executive Assistant Theresa Lin – theresalin.ea@nydkc.org

Division 6 Lieutenant Governor– Zainab Nathani Email: ZainabNathani.ltg@nydkc.org

Cell: (516)305-0221 Address:2456 Devon Street

East Meadow, NY 11554

Social Media

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New York District Key Club Division 6