D23 August Newsletter

AUGUST 2020

VOLUME 4

THE KEY TO DIVISION 23 The Official Newsletter for New York District Key Club Division 23

In this issue LTG Greeting- Page 2 Governor's Bulletin- Page 3 Governor's Project and District Project- Page 4 District Endorsed ProjectPage 5 International PartnersPage 6Â K-Family Picnic and Swiftkick Session- page 7 Service Project Ideas and District Goals- Page 9 Service Spotlights- Page 9 D23 Member of the Month- Page 10 Paperwork Chart- Page 11 Upcoming Events and Contact InformationPage 12 Social Media- Page13

Written by Charlotte Allen, Division 23 Lieutenant Governor

Lieutenant Governor's Greeting

Happy August Division 23, I hope everyone has been staying safe during the pandemic and healthy. I'd first like to start off with a huge thank you to Harley Club Webmaster, Mari Rosenzweig, for designing us a division seal. You can see the seal on the bottom of this page!

Since our clubs are from the Greater Rochester Area and the Finger Lakes, we have the Rochester Flour City logo and the Finger Lakes interwoven between it. It also follows the brand guide! Another reminder, I am hosting our second divisional August 23rd at 7 pm! I will send out a link closer to the date but for now, don't fill up your schedule for then! Also, shoutout to Elena Fuentes for goign above and beyond in our Charity Miles Fundraiser! She has walked over 350 miles and is number 1 on the leader board, because of this she is our August member of the Month. That's all for now, happy Key Clubbing :) Yours in Service and Caring, Charlotte Allen, NYDKC Division 23 Lieutenant Governor

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Governor's Project Canines for Disabled Kids

Canines for Disabled Kids' aims to increase and insure independence for children with disabilities and their families through the use of service dogs, as well as understanding and awareness throughout the community. Canines for Disabled Kids offers free services to families to help connect children with the service dog that can best help them overcome restrictions caused by disabilities. The dogs help the kids increase their confidence! Please consider donating or focusing a service project around this wonderful cause!

District Project: Project Hope Project HOPE transforms the health of people and communities around the world.

They work on the front lines of the world’s health challenges, partner with communities, health care workers and public health systems in order to ensure sustainable change. Project HOPE aims to place power in the hands of health care workers to save lives worldwide. This is a great project for this year because of COVID19. Project HOPE helps healthcare workers worldwide and this is exactly the kind of place we should be putting our resources so that we can overcome this pandemic.

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District Endorsed Projects Kamp Kiwanis is a New York District Endorsed Project. Kamp Kiwanis is a summer camp for children with special needs and children with disabilities between the ages of 8 and 14 years old.

Kamp is paid for through donations. This allows children the ability to go to a summer camp that is fun and affordable.

Featuring: Kamp Kiwanis

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International Partners Featuring: Landscape Structures

Landscape Structures is an organization that installs, manufactures, and builds playgrounds. They have installed over 80,000 playgrounds worldwide.

"Landscape Structures has joined Kiwanis International as a vision partner to bring play to communities across the globe. [They are] proud to provide high-quality commercial playground equipment and planning consultation services that reflect the high degree of integrity that Kiwanis clubs expect."

Featuring: US Army "The Army strives to strengthen local communities through service and to build character and leadership among youth such as Key Club members.

Through the Kiwanis Speakers Bureau, U.S. Army personnel can connect with Kiwanis-family clubs at club meetings, raising awareness of what today’s Army can provide and offer access to local Army support and resources. The Army also gives exceptional opportunities in higher education that can help young people throughout their lives."

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K-Family Picnic Every year the K-Family (Kiwanis, Key CLub, Builders Club, K Kids, Aktion Club) come together for a picnic of fundraising and service! This year the picnic was done virtually through Zoom.

There was a Q+A from KPLD Founder John Gridly, a take a bite out of Lyme picture, Kahoot, and bingo!

Swiftkick Webinar Our second Swiftkick virtual webinar with PNW will be on August 30th at 7pm and is free! This webinar will be on Membership Retention and Recruitment and is hosted by Tom Krieglstein. Club officers are expected to be there! In this program, we'll break down the hidden secrets to recruiting and retaining group members and officers so that the party keeps going on long after you've left the dance floor. Sigh up on our division's Many Link!

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Service Project Ideas District Webmaster, Kristen Lew, has created a list of ways to serve virtually. Here are some of the ideas from the list! You can find more ideas from Kristen's list on our Many Link! (many.link/nydkc23) -Online Tutoring (for younger students in your district) -Charity Miles (join division 23 for March of Dimes charity) -Free Rice game (answer trivia to donate rice for the World Food Program) -Atlas Go (workout to raise money) -Livestream a Fundraiser -Wordsofthanks.online (write cards for healthcare workers online) -BeanBeanBean (trivia questions that earn money for food banks) -Movie Nights (through Netflix Party or Youtube Party) -Make and donate fbaric face masks -Bedtime stories (record yourslef reading a bedtime sotry for children's hospitals -Donate baked goods (to shelters, food banks, etc) -Make paper cranes and donate them to children's hospitals or senior homes -Gorcery buying (buy groceries for people at high risk for COVID-19

District Goals Service Goal: 90,000 hours

Fundraising Goal: $120,000

11% completed

12% completed

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Service Spotlights Division 23 Fundraiser

In the last two months, my division has been participating in Charity Miles Fundraiser! In an effort to increase inter-club activities, I decided to make a fundraiser for all members of Division 23 to participate in. We have all been going on tons of walks lately so I thought, why not raise money while we walk! This means that every member and officer in our division is welcome to join! What we are going to be doing is through an app called Charity Miles which is available to IOS and Andriod Devices and is FREE! We started this fundraiser in June. We will keep it going until September 5th. All you have to do is download the Charity Miles app!

Once you download the app, select the March of Dimes Charity. March of Dimes is a Key Club endorsed charity and it is one of the options on the app Charity Miles. Then you can join our team (this will accumulate everyone’s miles so we can see how much we have walked/run and how much money we have raised together)! So far we have ran/walked/bike over 1300 miles which means we have raised over 325 dollars. Our goal was to raise 100 dollars and we all came together to successfully smash that goal! Elena Fuentes is number 1 on our leaderboard with over 350 miles! She has gone above and beyond and has done a great job in making the success that this is! Thank you to everyone who has been participating; it's not too late to join!

Written by: Charlotte Allen, D23 LTG Leaderboard: 1. Elena Fuentes, Birghton, 351 miles 2. Charlotte Allen, Harley, 146 mi.

3. Sophia Segal, D1 LTG, 144 mi.

4. Isabella Wattie, Penfield, 140mi.

5. Mari Rosenzweig, Harley, 104 mi.

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Member of the Month Congratulations Maya on becoming the divison 23 Member of the Month! You have done a great job serving your community and we can't wait to see what you do next!

To become the next Member of the Month or nominate someone, you can fill out the form on the Many Link ( https://many.link/nydkc23 )

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Paperwork Chart

Shout out to Brighton, Harley, and Webster Thomas for getting all their paperwork in!

Monthly Report Form (MRF) This is filled about by the club secretary. It is due by the 10th of the following month. This is important so that the district can see how clubs are doing and where clubs are at, as well as help keep track of how many hours we have served.

Fundraising Report Form (FRF) This is filled out by the club treasurer. Fill out a couple days after a fundraiser. It helps the district to keep track of how much money we have raised for other organizations.

Election Report Form (ERF) This is filled out by the club president. It is to be filled out ASAP after your club holds elections. It asks for contact information for club officers. This is important so we can keep in touch with everyone.

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Upcoming Events Swiftkick Webinar- August 9th at 8pm D23 Summer Divisional - August 23rd at 7pm D23 Back-to-School Divisional- October (Date and time TBD)

Contact Information LTG: Charlotte Allen - division23@nydkc.org Circle K LTG: Yuan Shang - yuan.shang@nycirclek.org Kiwanis LTG: John Treahy - treahy646@rochester.rr.com Kiwanis LTG: Marie Schoenacker - marie0808@frontier.com KCR: Dr. Betsy Vinton - bvinton@harleyschool.org KCR: Andrea Doyle - andrea_doye@bcsd.org Governor: Mariam Makar - governor@nydkc.org Secretary: Jason Xiong - secretary@nydkc.org Treasurer: Winnie Huang - treasurer@nydkc.org External Executive Assistant: Anthony Lim anthonylim.ea@nydkc.org Internal Executive Assistant: Tatiana Solodova tatianasolodova.ea@nydkc.org Bulletin Editor: Rachel Joh - editor@nydkc.org Webmaster: Kristin Lew - webmaster@nydkc.org District Administrator: John Goldstein nydkca@frontier.com Assistant Administrator: Michael Berthel mjberthel@gmail.com Assistant Administrator: Jason Steiner - ianjs@aol.com Page 12

Social Media International- @keyclubint and @kci1920 Sistrict- @thebestsistrict District- @nydkc Division- @nydkc23

International- @keyclub District- @nykeyclub

International- @keyclubintnl District- @nydkc

International- Key Club International District- NYDKC

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