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Key Club is the largest service leadership organization in the world. Key Club empowers its quarter million youth members to lead and serve in almost 5,000 clubs in 24 nations. Providing more than 12 million service hours annually, Key Club proves to be an ever-popular high school organization for teenagers seeking to cultivate leadership skills, develop friendships, and perform service in their communities. Since the first Key Club at Sacramento High School (California) in 1925, Key Club members demonstrate a passion for helping others and develop excellent leadership skills they carry with them for a lifetime.
STUDENTLED Key Club is an organization of individual Key Clubs and is funded by nominal dues paid by every member. Its officers are high school leaders elected by the
members at district and International Conventions.
INCLUSIVENESS
The requirements for Key Club membership are set forth in the Bylaws of Key Club International. Specifically, Key Club membership is open to any student who desires to become a leader in his/her school and community and wishes to provide service to others.
LEADERSHIP Every Key Club elects its own officers annually. A president, one or more vice presidents, a secretary, a treasurer, and an editor are elected each year. The club is organized into committees, which are responsible for planning and implementing the club’s service projects, social activities, and leadership development. To be successful, it is important the every Key Club member find a role in the club.
CARING: OUR WAY OF LIFE Each Key Club has the autonomy to select and plan its own service projects. However, members unite to make an international impact under the banner of the Major Emphasis Program, Children: Their Future Our Focus. There are two
components to the MEP:Service Partners and the Service Initiative. Partnered with Key Club International are UNICEF,Read & Lead, March of Dimes, and Children’s Miracle Network. The Key Club Service Initiative invites members to serve children in an educational hands-on approach and changesevery two years to meet the needs of children. . Circle K International is comprised of college and university students who are responsible citizens and leaders with a lifelong commitment to community service worldwide. As a collegiate organization, Circle K International holds the promise of today’s student becoming tomorrow’s leader. It exists to meet the personal needs of the individual collegian through the qualities of leadership, the rewards of service, and the unique spirit of friendship. Leadership, service and fellowship; the embodiment of the three tenets