D23 January Newsletter

JANUARY 2021

VOLUME 9

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 ProjectsPage 5 International Partners- Page 6 District Member of the Month, NYDKC Strategic Plan, and The Empire Key - Page 7 Dues and LTG Election - Page 8 Service Spotlights - Pages 9-13 Service Project Ideas and District Goals- Page 14 Member of the Month- Page 15 Paperwork Chart- Page 16 Upcoming Events and Contact Information- Page 17 Social Media- Page 18

Written by Charlotte Allen, Division 23 Lieutenant Governor

Lieutenant Governor's Greeting Happy New Year Division 23!

I am so proud of all that we have accomplished so far this year, I hope we can continue this hard work into the 4th quarter of the service year. So far this year we have raised MRF submissions by 20-30%! Also, shoutout to Victor Key Club for their 4 projects in December! Also, shout out to Webster Schroeder for raising over 100 dollars for holiday gifts for School 17 in the inner city. Keep up the great work you all, I am so proud of your accomplishments this year! Let's finish strong!

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 Kiwanis Pediatric Lyme Disease Foundation The Foundation started in 2000 when Kiwanis Gov. John Gridley wanted to helped you children with Lyme Disease. The Foundation helps pay for medical treatment since most insurance companies don't cover it, It is solely funded through donations and there are currently 27 active grants. You can help support by holding a fundraiser

Kamp Kiwanis

Kamp Kiwanis is a summer camp for special needs children and children with disabilities between the ages of 8 and 14 years old. Kamp us pay for through donations. This allows children the ability to go to a summer camp that is fun and affordable.

Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center KPTC "supports pediatric trauma efforts at the Cohen Children's Medical Center as well as programs throughout the area to protect the safely of children and improve the ability of local emergency services response teams". It provides funds and staff to care for suffering children.

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International Partners Featuring: Children's Miracle Network "More than 10 million kids enter a children’s hospital like Golisano Children's Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center across North America every year. To provide the best care for kids, children’s hospitals rely on donations and community support, as Medicaid and insurance programs do not fully cover the cost of care. Since 1983, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals has helped fill those funding gaps by raising more than $7 billion, most of it $1 at a time through Miracle Balloon icon campaigns."

Featuring: Nickelodeon "Nickelodeon currently presents two major campaigns each year that encourage action in kids globally. Worldwide Day of Play reinforces Nickelodeon’s mission to make the world a more playful place by leading active, playful events across the country.

Nickelodeon’s Get Dirty campaign seeks to educate kids, families and teachers about what they can do to help protect the planet in fun, mindful ways."

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District Member of the Month Know someone that has been going above and beyond with their Key Club duties? Nominate them by filling out the form! Selected nominees will be featured in The Empire Key and/or NYDKC social media. This is for the district not the division! Use this link to nominate someone or yourself: https://forms.gle/zYihXS4qZyEZuJX1A

NYDKC Strategic Plan Max Coppola, Aurora Hom, Charlotte Allen, and Chloe Baker have been working on the creation of a 3-Year Strategic Plan for the District. In order to create the best product, we want the input from YOU. Fill out this google form to provide feedback for the district.

The Empire Key The Second Edition of the Empire Key is here! The Empire Key is the NYDKC Newsletter release quarterly! To check out the publication use this link! You can hear from the Executive Board, see service from our division, and learn about International! To submit articles to the Third Edition of the Empire Key, use this link Page 7

Dues 101 Clubs need to pay dues for 11 members. Each member should pay a total of $13, $6 go to the district and $7 go to international. Regular dues are due February 1st. If you are struggling to get members to pay, I recommend that clubs either ask their sponsoring Kiwanis clubs for help paying dues or host a fundraiser. Raising money can help offset the price or get rid of it completely. It can be hard to get members to pay dues so these ideas can help with payment. To pay dues you need to have contact information for at least 11 members (email addresses and graduation year), then log on to the Membership Update Center (MUC) and update officers and club membership (add new members, retain returning members, and remove members who have left). Then submit payment online, or print the invoice and pay by check. For more information check out the KCI Website.

LTG Elections I am on the search for a successor, someone to take over as LTG in April.

(Just because I’ll be at college doesn’t mean I won’t be there to help you though!) Being LTG has been a really rewarding experience for me, while I wasn’t able to go to board meetings in Albany and meet with other members of the district board, I still learned a lot about leadership, time management, and engagement. This has been one of the best opportunities for me and I highly recommend LTG to others who are looking to do more for their communities. While there is a bit of paperwork involved, you learn to manage it quickly and some parts of it are fun! I have heard from 3 people that are interested in running for LTG, if you haven’t let me know that you are interested, please do so soon so I can give you more information. Elections will be held in February. To those that have let me know their interest, I will probably try and meet with you all to give you more information before the election if it is something you want to pursue. Keep in mind you can not run if you are a senior.

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Service Spotlights Featuring: The Harley School The Giving Tree The Harley School Key Club has continued its partnership with the nonprofit, Happy Birthday Cha Cha Cha, for the holiday season with our giving tree project. Happy Birthday Cha Cha Cha works to deliver birthday joy to children in need in K-2 classrooms by delivering birthday bags to children that includes items such as socks, books, and food. The Harley School Key Club has worked with this organization in the past, and this year was no different. While our Key Club members were masked up when dropping off the donations, we still had a great turnout for donations, and our spirits were equally as high as in years past. This was a great service opportunity for our community and members to be a part of during this unconventional covid holiday season.

Written by: Maggie Syrett, Harley VP

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Service Spotlights Featuring: Victor Holiday Cards for Nursing Homes Using a tutorial provided by the Key Club officers, Key Club members each created two holiday greeting cards that were mailed to a local nursing home. 1 hour of service was given for every 2 cards made.

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Service Spotlights Featuring: Victor Food Drive Collection Key Club members donated cans to the school-wide Victor Canned Food Drive.

These cans would then be donated by the school to families in need in the VCS District. For every 10 cans donated, 1 hour of service credit was given

Bottle Caps for Chemo Key Club members each collected and donated a bag of plastic bottle caps to Victor Key Club. These bottle caps would then be donated and shipped off to Mexico, where they would help provide chemotherapy treatments for cancer patients. 0.5 hours of service credit was given for every bag donated.

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Service Spotlights Featuring: Webster Thomas

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Service Spotights

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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)

1. Write cards to frontline workers 2. Create paper and art crafts for children's hospitals 3. Record an audio for a book for children's hospitals 4. Tutor students in elementary and middle school 5. Host a virtual movie night fundraiser for an endorsed charity!

6. Colorasmile cards for veterans 7. Trash Clean Up

District Goals Service Goal: 90,000 hours

Fundraising Goal: $120,000

67% completed

62% completed

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Member of the Month Congratulations Elena on becoming the division 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

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 Regular Dues Deadline - February 1st Harley Key Club Blood Drive- January 22nd, 10 am - 3 pm D23 Divisional- Sat, February 6th at 2 pm

Contact Information

LTG: Charlotte Allen - division23@nydkc.org Circle K LTG: Yuan Shang - yuan.shang@nycirclek.org Rochester Kiwanis LTG: John Treahy treahy646@rochester.rr.com Genesee Kiwanis LTG: Heather Henderson heather35976@gmail.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 17

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

International- @keyclub District- @nykeyclub

International- @keyclubintnl District- @nydkc

International- Key Club International District- NYDKC

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