Majoremphasis cloverdale by Sue Cummins

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Major Emphasis Program “Saving Angels”

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Table of Contents •

The Service Need

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The Plan

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Implementation

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Final Results

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Partnerships

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Member Participation

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Overall Program of ME

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Service Need Every minute, 62 children enter a Children's Miracle Network Hospital for treatment. Whether they suffer from common childhood afflictions like asthma and broken bones, or fight bigger challenges like birth defects or cancer, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals provide comfort, treatment and hope to millions of sick kids. For nearly 120 years, Nationwide Children’s Hospital has been saving the lives of millions of children and providing exceptional care to children from all 50 states and 41 foreign countries. Parents choose Nationwide Children's Hospital because they have the best and most experienced specialists, and a research institute that ranked in the top 10 in freestanding pediatric research facilities in the United States. Not only that, but parents also choose Nationwide Children’s Hospital because of the genuine passion with which they treat every child. Since we knew that CMN was a preferred charity for Key Club, we started looking into CMN hospitals and found that Nationwide Children’s Hospital was the one to help. Nationwide Children’s Hospital treats over 1.2 million children each year. And even though we knew it was a risk to choose a hospital that was out-of -state, the children at Nationwide needed our help and we were willing to do whatever it took to help them . Nationwide Children’s Hospital seemed like the obvious choice for our Major Emphasis Program because we knew we could do a lot to help them and change the lives of many children. The project was started in January and is on-going. We wanted to be a part of “Saving Angels” at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

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The Plan For our â&#x20AC;&#x153;Saving Angelsâ&#x20AC;? project, we really wanted to do something that was different from anything we have ever done before. Not, only did we want to save the lives of children at the hospital, but we also really wanted to make it special and memorable for everyone in our club. We wanted as many members as possible to participate. We wanted each member to experience the joy and happiness of doing something to brighten the lives of sick children. We wanted members to be aware of the CMN organization and what it does to help children. And, we wanted each member to realize that a small act on their part could really make a huge difference to a child in need. That is when we came up with a set of goals that would encourage all members to participate and have fun with the project. Our first goal was to raise at least $1,500 for the cause. Our second goal was to include other clubs in the project. The third goal was to get as many members as possible to participate. Our fourth goal was to buy new books and games for the children. These goals helped our committee members begin to brainstorm appropriate ideas on fundraising activities and more. After the first committee meeting, we came up with many plans for a variety of activities and events, which we have refined as our committee continues to regularly meet. As the project continued, more and more members got into it and the stronger and stronger we got. The project is not finished. It is on-going until we finish our activities and events and mail the hospital the money in May.

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Our first step was to make contact with the hospital. One of our members emailed a name and address that we found online, and that was the start of a beautiful relationship. Morgan Stern, a hospital employee connected with us and gave us some really great ideas for projects and activities to do. We even held a couple of Â˝ hour phone conversations with her that were extremely helpful. We took notes on a phone each time. Below are the notes taken from our first conversation, when we were asking for suggestions on ways to help the Nationwide Hospital. This conversation gave us a starting point for making plans. We even noted down tentative dates for some of our possible activities. Fundraising Bake sale - January 16; noon-5 Read-a-Thon - January 15; 4:30 - 9:30 (then overnight) Valentine sale See's sucker bouquets - February 8-13 Ray's & CVS Class competition - March 6-10 Donation jars in stores - start January 17 & end a month later Game tournaments - February 1; 7-9 p.m.; Kiwanis Family Kiwanis auction - March 9 Builders Club - ??? Art show? Other things to do Online cards - January 27 at lunch; February 10; 3:30-5:30 in computer lab Toy drive - box at Citrus Fair ?? Toiletry care kits for families for hospitalized children - box at CVS; starts February 1 and ends March 1. Donate stuffed gifts - January Donate non/skid socks - January Fundraising Guide Application process for applying to do particular fundraisers -can send approval letter plus banner plus chapsticks, etc. Donaton wish list Link to application

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Before holding our first committee meeting, we discussed the project with the club Board. To get to the point where we could make plans with the committee, we had to ask questions and figure out answers. Some of the questions we asked were: What were our goals going to be? Did we want to involve other clubs? Did we want to do more than fundraising? How do we involve as many members as possible? These questions we took to our Board at their December meeting. Below is a picture of our Board after the meeting. We hold 1 Â˝ to 2 hour meetings each month on a school night, at Starbucks. Our Board likes to have a say on everything we do, and especially on a major project like this one!

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Once the Board had made decisions about directions for us to head, it was then easy to create the agenda for our first committee meeting. We met, for the first time, during the earliest week after we came back from Winter Break. Below is the agenda we used for that initial meeting. We covered a lot of topics; having held a discussion at our Board meeting really helped us to plunge right into action as a committee.

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The document below shows the minutes that were taken at our first committee meeting for this project. Our chairperson shared this with our club members when we gave the committee report at the next weekly meeting.

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The committee needed some club funds to operate. Without that money, we wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have been able to purchase supplies to do some of the activities we had planned. We asked for $300 which would be given to us from club funds. After presenting this committee report at a Board meeting, the members supported our ideas and made a motion to give us the money we needed. Below is the CMN discussion portion of the minutes from that meeting.

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Creating a “List of the events” we had already done and not done really helped the committee to stay on track and to realize when they might need to change plans. As time went by, our committee would add on new events, and make changes. This really helped us stay organized because, otherwise, things could have become chaotic because of all the activities we had planned. The “list-of-events” was just a simple layout of what we should do from the beginning until the end. It also helped us figure out what plans needed to be changed, as time progressed and we got a better sense of which activities our members were most engaged in doing.

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Early on, worked on a way to engage all our members in this project; we even contacted those who hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been attending our meetings. We came up with the plan to create a magazine about our first few weeks of activities. One of our Vice Presidents agreed to create the online magazine. Once it was done, we planned to distribute it to the members through texting them. We encouraged them to actually take the time to read it by taking club meeting time to hold a drawing for a Starbucks gift certificate for those who had read the magazine. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll show you a copy of the newsletter under the Implementation section of this document.

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There was one final aspect of the plan that wanted to put into place, if possible. A couple of years ago, our members had made rice stuffed caterpillars and snowmen, and non-skid socks, (made with puff paint on their bottoms), to give to children at another CMN hospital. After having created the items, we were told that the hospital would not take them, because they were hand-made and therefore, were carriers of germs that might harm the hospitalized children. Since then, these items have been in storage. We have been working with the Nationwide Hospital staff to see if they will accept the items, instead. We seem to be having success, mostly due to the fact that the items have been in storage for so long. We can ship them off, using gloves to handle them, and they will finally find a home in the hearts of the children being served at Nationwide! We have about a 100 of these to give away!

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Implementation In order to make this project work for us, we had to stay very organized, which is one of the reasons we created the â&#x20AC;&#x153;List-ofEventsâ&#x20AC;?, and also why the committee met so often. To keep the rest of the members involved, we made regular reports at our weekly meetings, put regular updates on our club Facebook and Instagram site, created a newsletter, and often extended personal invitations to specific activities. This year, our club did something completely different from other years. This time, we wanted to do something more. We chose a hospital that was out of state and the experience was incredible. Each little step in our project might be something small to us, but we were hoping that each time our members participated they would be filled with joy to help a child, to know that some sick child might feel better from receiving a new toy or a simple book to read. We made sure our members enjoyed the events and had fun with the activities as much as possible. We asked for feedback on our activities, in an effort to insure that we were doing worthwhile projects that also appealed to our members. The project was fluid in its implementation. We adjusted when plans went awry. For example, when it looked like our Read-A Thon wouldn't have many participants due to sports and other things that were going on, we made the decision to change the date making sure that we talked about it at a club meeting, asking all the members to find a date that worked for everyone. It turned out that was the best decision we made, because we had a lot more members attend the Read-A-Thon and it was a lot more fun because of that!

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Our first activity was to hold a Bake Sale in front of our townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest grocery store. We know that Bake Sales are not particularly a new and creative idea. But, they are a tried-andtrue way for high school students to reach their community and ask for money. The way we ran the sale was to have items on display and a donation jar and signs on our tables. Then, we just told about the cause, and asked for donations, giving those who donated a baked treat as a thank-you. It worked well, bringing in $315 for the cause. Below are some pictures from that day.

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Committee meetings were the most exciting, funniest, and thinking-outside-the-box times. The meetings were filled with laughter, approvals and even sometimes, disapprovals. By going over things more than once, and holding many meetings, we really thoroughly covered just about everything that needed to be covered. This helped us fix any mistakes we might have previously had, or helped us set perfect dates and details for our events. For a while, meetings were held once every week, and the last item on the committee meeting agendas would be to choose the date and time of the next meeting. Choosing when to hold our next committee meeting was often difficult, because we had to plan so many things to keep our members active that our meetings lasted a while, and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be held during a short lunchtime. So we started meeting, late at night, at Starbucks. Below is the agenda from our second committee meeting. Notice that we were already starting to adjust our plans, based upon things that had happened. For example, we felt the bake sale was so successful that we figured we would do a second one.

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Here are the minutes from that same meeting. We use a minutetaking template and type minutes right on a laptop during all our meetings. It makes it easier for distribution to club members, and for getting accurate details out, when needed. At this point in time, even though we had been successful with our first activity, we felt that we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t getting enough members to come to our committee meetings. We held a discussion at the next club meeting and decided that meeting at lunchtime was too limiting. So, this is when we chose to change our committee meetings to be held in the evening.

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Let’s talk about our second Bake Sale. Even though it didn’t come as our next activity, chronologically, it makes some sense to discuss its success now. We have always done bake sales at least a couple of times each year. This is a typical way that we raise money for a variety of causes. While this means that we weren’t doing something unique, we were doing something with which both our members and the community are somewhat familiar. So, despite uncomfortably cold weather and rain on this second day, we did well, and made a total of $215, bringing our total in Bake Sales up to $530! From those two Bake Sales we are happy to know that we raised so much to donate to the hospital. Even though it was windy, cold, and close to freezing, at times, the Key Clubbers did what they could to help. They felt that the children deserved these efforts being made. Many of our Key Clubbers helped out and it was nice to see how they had fun and always had a smile on their faces because they knew they were helping a little angel in need.

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Once we started our project, our club president, was kind enough to leave a spot for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Saving Angelsâ&#x20AC;? project on the weekly agenda, for telling the students about what was happening with the project in that particular week. The committee chair, Anahi Ruiz, would tell the members what would be going on, and then invite the students to participate. Most members signed up for what they could, and did their best to be involved. Sign-up sheets were passed around, while the committee chair would be explaining. She would also re-visit what CMN is, and what it does for the hospitalized children. Below is a picture of a portion of a club meeting agenda, showing the committee report highlighted. Also, there is a picture of the committee chair speaking to the group.

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During one club lunchtime meeting, we even took about half the meeting to show our members a slide show about the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Miracle Network. Our committee chair put the show together and presented it to the members. Shown below is her picture as she speaks.

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So, it was about this time that our VP created the online magazine for our members. Its purpose was to educate them about what we were doing, so that we could increase member involvement. So much was going on at that time, we wanted to make sure that they knew exactly what to expect. Below is the front page of the newsletter.

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The newsletter was 8 pages in length. We put it online and then sent the url address through both text messages and Instagram. I gave information about activities we had already done, and shared details about upcoming events. The next few pages of this document show what we shared with our members in order to spur them to be involved.

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Here are 4 more pages of the newsletter.

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This is the last page of the newsletter. Then, at the meeting right after we had distributed the online newsletter to our members, we asked who had taken the time to read it. Then we gave each person a chance to put their names into a drawing to win a $5 Starbucks gift certificate. Below is a picture of the winner, with the prize he won!

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Early on, we held another phone consultation with Morgan Stern, from the Nationwide Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital. This time, we also took notes. She had a lot of great suggestions for our projects. Before the conversation, our committee chair had completed hours of online paperwork to share with them our plans. Below are the phone notes taken during this second discussion with Morgan.

Read-A-Thon- hook - "donate to the cause" Another idea- Read-A-Thon $5 per book read Banner sent from them. Donation jars? Names of businesses needed if going to them. Game night - they want pictures. They may send us some promotional items. CVS - may not be possible if they can't solicit at CVS. Worry about shipping costs Valentine candy sales- good idea; be cost conscious. Class competition - maybe do two weeks. Decorate the jars- each class differentcan do box decorating themselves.

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The Read-A-Thon was a very special project for many of our members. We raised $275 in one night. Each member had to get a pledge of $15 from a family member, teacher, friend, or by other means, and then promise to read for 4 hours. Many members were there, for a total of 75 hours of reading to get that $275. The Read-A-Thon was held on January 27, 2017, a Friday night with no school on Saturday. So we made it be an over-night event. The members had to have their own books to read. They took short breaks every once-in-a-while, and had dinner. When the reading was done, the over-night party began. The members brought their blankets, pajamas, movies, games, etc. We had a lot of fun, and best of all, we raised $275 for the children at Nationwide Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital.

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In order to thank those who donated to the cause for the Read-A-Thon, we made little gift packages. Inside was a card that described the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Miracle Network cause, and course, a few pieces of candy.

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We ran into a problem with our plans to place Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Miracle Network canisters in businesses all over our town. When we spoke to Morgan Stern the last time, she said that we would have to send them a list of every business and they would have to authorize an okay for putting a canister in those places. That brought this activity to a halt. At our next committee meeting we will discuss whether or not we wish to do this activity, under the circumstances. When we have placed canisters in businesses in the past, we have been able to bring in about $100 for a cause that way. We are thinking that there might be an easier way to raise that money in a different activity that would involve our local businesses. Maybe they would appreciation a framed certificate to display in their store, if they donate a small amount to the cause!

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We are describing all of the events that occurred and/or will occur in the next month. One of the events we have already done was the Kiwanis Family Game Night. This night was full of fun and enjoyment. We had a true bonding experience with all three clubs, with Builders Club, Key Club, and Kiwanis Club being there. The entry fee was $5 and we made $155, some coming from donations by Kiwanis at their meeting right after the event. This activity was one of those events that made us feel good about ourselves, knowing that we could help raise money, and have a fun time doing it, was amazing and everyone loved it. We played Battleships, Apples to Apples and the most popular was the pool table!

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Here is the flyer we used to advertise the Game Night with both our members, the Builders Clubbers and the Kiwanis. It was distributed at a Kiwanis meeting, as well as sent via Instagram to our own members, and shared with the Builders Club advisor for distribution with their members.

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Most of the fundraisers we attempted actually brought in more money than we had hoped. But, there was one that didn’t go as well as we would have wished! But, the situation was actually out of our control. We had planned to set up a table in front of the school office for one week before Valentine’s Day and sell items that could be delivered to the students on February 14th. We had also planned to have some of these same items available for people to buy at a table set up outside our town’s main grocery store. Again, we had hoped to be there several days. So, we went to a local Dollar Store and purchased some chocolates and teddy bears for display, Then, when it came time to set up the tables for the sales, we didn’t even try to do it. One of those days it poured 5 inches of rain; and all the other days had severe storms raging. We just didn’t feel like being outside in that kind of weather. Although, we actually made it one day in front of the grocery store, even though it rained on us while we were there, we still made $58 in 2 hours.

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It was our goal to support the Nationwide Hospital in ways other than just providing them with money. One suggestion we talked about with their representative, Morgan Stern, was to meet a need of the families of children brought to the hospital under emergency situations. She commented that they often arrive without basic grooming aids, and they have a need for items such as travel-size toothpaste, shampoo, etc. We talked to the manager of our local CVS Pharmacy and worked out a situation where we placed a labeled box in their store and then notified the community that they could purchase travel-size items and drop them in the box as they leave through the door. This project is in progress and will not be completed for several weeks. Below is a picture of the flyer we are using to advertise to the public.

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The toiletry collection project is just getting started. We’ve submitted an article in the town newspaper to let the public know what we’re doing. Some of our members are also taking the flyer to their churches to let the people in those congregations know that they, too, can help. We know that, once everything is collected, we’ll need to pay postage to mail it off, but that’s one of the reasons our Board voted to allow us to have money to operate the project. Everything we collect will be sent, and we’ll pay the price for doing so. We believe that strongly in “Saving Angels”. Below is what we sent to the town newspaper.

Cloverdale High School Key Club February 3, 2017 Dear Editor, Every minute 62 children are rushed to a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. Many families whose children are in this situation aren’t thinking about their own essentials as they focus on the desire to get their child’s needs met as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, many times the parents and siblings of a hospitalized child end up ill-prepared for their child’s long stay at the hospital. Now YOU have an opportunity to help those families who suddenly discover that they are in need of basic essentials for living away from home for an extended period of time! The Cloverdale Key Club is working with the CVS Pharmacy to allow you to purchase travel-size items like mouthwash, toothpaste, shampoo, etc. from their store, the next time you visit them; and then you can donate those items to a children’s hospital simply by placing them in a clearly marked container found near the front entrance. The Key Club will pay for the delivery of the items to the hospital. Please consider helping these families in need. Sincerely, Anahi Ruiz, Chairperson Children’s Miracle Network Project Cloverdale Key Club

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Another activity that we had planned that was not a fundraiser, was our write-an-online-card-to-a-sick-child event that we hoped to do in conjunction with our “Shine Day”. Shine Days are once-a-month times when we meet at lunch with the Special Day Class that we have on our campus. We do activities and socialize with them. For this particular activity, we were planning to go online to the Nationwide Children’s Hospital site and use their program to write cards. We had arranged to bring laptops into the room where we were meeting. We had trained members, in advance, to be able to access and use the site’s card-making program. We were ready! And then, the night before our event, we discovered that in the two days beforehand, the hospital had removed the program we wanted to use from their site! Frustration! Just when we had it all organized! So, we are planning to discuss at our next committee meeting a different project to do that is not a fundraiser!

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As mentioned briefly before, we wanted to involve other clubs in this huge project. It was decided to invite the Builders Club to join us in our efforts. They are excited and ready to fundraise on their campus, too! They plan to work during the month of March on helping us to make a larger donation to the hospital!

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To keep member participation strong, we showed a video about the Nationwide Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital at our New Member Induction event. It was well-received and helped our members to recognize what a great thing we are doing!

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Still to do, is A LOT! To date, we’ve fundraised over $1000 in about one month’s time. Our first activity was on January 18th. So, we’re doing very well towards meeting our goal of $1500. By the time we are done, we will probably go beyond that! So, here’s what’s still in our plans to implement: Fundraisers:  On campus class competitions. We have been waiting for the containers and banner to arrive from Nationwide.  Donations from businesses. We have yet discuss how we will do this, but the framed certificate as a thank you might be the direction we will want to head.  A project done by the Builders Club in support of the cause.  We’re looking into doing something at a Kiwanis meeting, probably an auction of some sort. It might even be a “Slave Auction” where we offer ourselves to work for them.  Run a special fundraiser, the purpose of which is to use the funds raised to buy books for the children. We’ll be talking about this at our next committee meeting. Non fundraisers:  Finalize the toiletry care project  Donate the stuffed caterpillars and snowmen that are in storage  Donate the already created non-skid socks

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Final Results We feel really good about the final results of this project. So far, so awesome! Our goals are slowly being met, one at a time; and in many cases, we’ve exceeded our originally set goals. Another result is that we feel we’ve strengthened the bonds with our Kiwanis family here in Cloverdale. We’ve been having fun with everyone, and are feeling closer to each other, as we attempt to do something concrete and useful for the children hospitalized at Nationwide. It’s kind of special the way we’ve brought this need to the attention of the rest of our Kiwanis family, even to the attention of other Key Clubbers in our division, since we wrote about our project for the division newsletter. All we want to do is help these special children, maybe bring a little joy or hope into their lives, and let them know that there are people who care about them and their problems. We’ve also strengthened the bonds in our own club. We’ve tried some new activities, and for the most part, they’ve been highly successful. It’s a little scary to try new things, but we feel that our members have been responding to us doing something new and different. Having such an active committee has been a huge plus in keeping us motivated and moving forward. All in all, our lives have been enriched by this project. Now, we just hope that the children at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital will have their lives enriched to the same or greater degree!

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So far, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made $1,018.00 through our various fundraising activities. As previously mentioned, we still have plans to operate the project, definitely through the month of March, and probably April as well. We have several fundraisers planned, and anticipate going well beyond the original goal of $1500. Below is an Excel data base of where we stand, to-date.

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We have strengthened the bonds with our local Kiwanis family in Cloverdale, by encouraging the participation of both the Builders Club and the Kiwanis Club. We have a Kiwanis Club membership of 40. Half of those Kiwanians have participated in our project, thus far. We hope to increase that number, particularly when we do our auction activity at one of their meetings. Maybe weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll add a few more members to the list, but if not that, we should definitely be able to add more service hours. So far, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked with several Builders Clubbers, some who attended the Game Night. We anticipate, according to the figures estimated by the Builders Club advisor, about 15 Builders Clubbers being involved in the project through their March fundraiser.

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We’ll be finalizing the plans for the Kiwanis Auction soon, as we want to hold this during the month of March. Each member who wishes to participate will fill out information used to create a data sheet about them. They will identify their skills. Once they are purchased by a Kiwanis member, the Kiwanian will be given the auction sheet with their contact information, and they can set up a time to meet to do the work they’ve agreed to do. We’ve held an auction similar to this in the past. A conservative estimate of the amount we can make from this project is $500. Below is an example of a personal data sheet that will be used at the auction. We’re calling the auction, “Kidnap a Key Clubber”.

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Many of our members grew closer together in this project by feeling the same way about a certain cause. The bonds have become much stronger. We have made sure that we are a family, all striving together in the same direction. We have gotten to know each other a little more by doing this project. We are proud to announce that our project participation record is 93% of our membership! Only 4 members did not do at least one activity. Here is a member participation chart. As you can see from the chart, we’ve accumulated 330 service hours on this project, so far. In the chart to the left, the students highlighted in yellow are no longer coming to any Key Club activities. We will work on seeing if we can get them involved in this coming month. The students highlighted in blue came to our Shine Day, expecting to do a CMN card-making project. At the last minute, due to no fault of ours, we couldn’t do the activity. This leaves us with 1 active member, (highlighted in orange), who hasn’t yet done something with this project!

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As shown in the graph on the previous page, our members have spent 204 hours in service on this project, since we first started thinking about it in December. Most of those hours have been in the last month, since the 18th of January. Shown below are the final figures as of this point in time. We anticipate about an equal number of hours spent in the upcoming months. These service hours have been accumulated through participation in 10 activities. Only eight are shown in this chart because there were two Board meetings where discussion was held, (basically like a committee meeting), and there were two Bake Sales, (the hours for both into one column).

The number of service hours for the club, to-date.

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Partnerships Division 32 Key Clubs, Cloverdale Kiwanis, Washington School Builders Club, CVS Pharmacy, Ray’s Food Place, the Cloverdale Reveille, Starbucks, and the Nationwide Children’s Hospital, have all formed partnerships with us on this project. In addition, the plans are in place to work with several businesses in town. Without any of these businesses and organizations, we couldn’t have done most of the things we have done. We anticipate that our local business support will help us raise quite a bit more money from donations. The Key Clubs in Division 32 were another big contributor, helping us make almost ½ of our sock caterpillars that we plan to donate. In addition, they gave us space in their division newsletter to share our project with the other clubs. The Cloverdale Kiwanis helped lots with all our projects done todate; and they will continue to be major contributors when they buy Key Clubbers in the auction, being incredibly generous with their money. The Cloverdale Builders Club also made sock caterpillars, coming to the Game Night and they are setting up a campus-wide fundraising campaign for the cause. The local paper printed articles about our project. Starbucks welcomed us for our committee meetings, and even sometimes fed us! These partnerships are very important to the club, generating positive public awareness of both the “Saving Angels” project and of our Key Club.

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Our local Rayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Food Place let us place collection and bake sale tables outside their stores. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thanks to them we have $588 of the funds raised thus far.

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Thanks to the Division 32 News Editors, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been featured in the division news, allowing us to share our project with other clubs.

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Our Kiwanis Club has helped us in the following ways:  Donated to our Read-A-Thon  Participated in and donated to our Game Night  Purchased Bake Sale items Their financial support for these projects amounts to over $150 at this time. Their conservatively estimated support of our upcoming “Kidnap a Key Clubber” project is around $500.

We LOVE our Kiwanis!

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Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working with the CVS Pharmacy on the toiletry collection project. We deeply appreciate the fact that they are joining with us in our endeavors.

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We are so fortunate to have an active Builders Club on our middle school campus. They not only joined us for the KFamily Game Night that we held, but, as already mentioned, they are planning their own campus fundraiser to add to what we are making for the cause. Below is a picture of all Game Night attendees, including those there representing the Builders Club.

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The Cloverdale Reveille is the town newspaper. It comes out once-a-week, and they are willing to put in our Letter to the Editor that we wrote to let the town know about our CVS toiletry collection project.

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We are grateful to the local Starbucks for allowing us to meet there for our committee meetings. We have better attendance at the meetings, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to get more accomplished when we have a longer time-frame to meet.

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Of course, the obvious partnership that we’ve formed with the project is one with the Children’s Miracle Network Nationwide Hospital. It’s been especially nice to be in regular contact with Morgan Stern, and we look forward to our continuing our work with both her and the hospital.

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Member Participation

The number of members participating in this project was a big tribute to the seriousness with which we all took the cause. In addition, the committee is taking strides to make personal contact with members who haven’t participated to-date. We hope to encourage them to become involved. In an effort to say, “thank you” by one small means, our committee will be giving project participants certificates that they can place in their school portfolios. We consider our members to be the backbone of the club, and while some members participated to a greater degree than others, we were thrilled to tally up the count that gave us a 97% participation level of those members still involved in club activities. We consider this a pretty phenomenal feat to have accomplished! And, who knows…maybe we can get those last 4 members to help with one of our two remaining activities. You never know! We think it really helped to put the project on EVERY weekly agenda since we started doing it. By talking about the activities with the members, we helped to get them excited about participating in the project. Showing a video about the hospital was a good thing to do, too. It really helped for the members to better visualize why we wanted to do this project.

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Another way to look at the statistics is to get a sense of the level of involvement on a personal basis. Below is a chart that helps further define our project participation.  The number of members who participated with over 5 hours of service was: 18  The number of members who participated in more than one aspect of the project was: 225  The number of members who took on a leadership role with this project, (helping with plans) was: 23  The number of projects in which we still anticipate hours of service over the next 6 weeks are: 8

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Below you will find a chart depicting our member participation in this CMN project, broken down by activity.

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Over-All Program Our “Saving Angels” project for the Children’s Miracle Network is not the only project that Cloverdale Key Club has worked on within the framework of the Key Club Major Emphasis Program. There are several more children’s projects that we’ve done this year. For example we fundraised for the March of Dimes and the March for Babies, for the Pediatric Trauma Program, and UNICEF. We’ve also helped with a variety of service projects that were non-fundraisers. These include sponsoring our own events for the campus Special Day Class students, assisting our Kiwanis with their Food Pantry efforts, helping at the Redwood Empire Food Bank, painting the faces of children at the Steelhead Festival, assisting the Lions Club with their Christmas Toy Run, helping the Kiwanis with their Marathon to fundraise for the Imagination Library and volunteering at a Bi-National Health Fair. There are so many projects where we provide help to children, and we can say, without a doubt, that every member has participated in at least one of these projects, so we have had 100% member participation in the sum total of them. Saving, helping, caring for children is what being a Key Clubber from the Cloverdale Key Club is about. From hunger, to being poor or sick, helping children in need is our mission. We want to save them all, as best we can. From all across the world to the house right next door, we try to help in all different kinds of environments and places.

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March of Dimes/March for Babies

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There were three times this year that we did special projects for the March of Dimes. The first was in late April 2016. We participated in the closest March for Babies event. We fundraised, mostly by asking for donations outside our local grocery store, and took $500 to donate on the day of the event. This qualified us to “walk”, but we also volunteered as helpers. Many of our members helped out with the March for Babies by collecting funds, or they just went to help on the day of the event. March for Babies is primarily for providing research to help prevent prematurity. It’s pretty special to know that something you’ve done helps a tiny being to have a chance in life, and maybe survive, when that might not otherwise have been possible. One of our members actually spearheaded the entire division participation in this event, organizing 40 volunteers to help!

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March of Dimes The past fall we held a Bake Sale in November, during March of Dimes Prematurity Awareness Month. We organized our members and raised $295. In addition, we encouraged our members to wear purple on Prematurity Awareness Day. Finally, we asked a speaker from the San Francisco Chapter of the March of Dimes to come speak to us at our Member Orientation event. It was a wonderful experience, and really got our members excited about being involved in the March of Dimes activities that month. We even put together an 8page newsletter for our members. Two of the pages are shown below.

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Pediatric Trauma Program

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This is a Cali-Nev-Ha District Project, and it culminates every year with a donation made at the annual Fall Rally. Our members fundraised for 2 Â˝ months in advance of Fall Rally, mostly by standing outside a local grocery store and asking for donations. By the time we went to the event, we had fundraised $1600 for the cause. This cause helps hospitalized children dealing with emergency situations such as bicycle accidents, home accidents, and more.

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Bi-National Health Fair

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Our members were asked to assist our Kiwanis with a booth at a BiNational Health Fair. The booth advertised our Kiwanis Clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Imagination Library program, which gives books to children under 5. The focus of the booth was to reach our Hispanic community, so we had members there who spoke Spanish. It was highly successful, with 15 new children signed up that day!

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Steelhead Festival

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This is an event that draws thousands of people each year. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a family affair, with some traveling all the way from the Bay Area to attend. We were asked to entertain children by doing face painting. It was the first sunny day in a long time, and our members really enjoyed being outdoors, doing this service project.

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Shine Days

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Shine Day is what we call one of our really special programs. We sponsor a day about once-a-month when we do activities with the Special Day Class students. Since they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t socialize with the other high school students that much, we make an effort to become their friends. With the help of one of our local Kiwanis members, we plan projects to do with them at lunchtime, and we hang out with them, showing them how to do the activity and just talking. Their teachers are thrilled with this project, and say that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made a real difference in their school lives. We usually have about a dozen members who participate each time.

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Local Food Pantry

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One of our top goals is to make sure that children in our local community do not go hungry. This is also a project where we work with our Kiwanis Club, since they operate the Food Pantry three times a year. So, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked in the Food Pantry on distribution days, as often as possible. Sometimes we cannot help, because the Food Pantry is open during hours that we are in class. But, whenever it is operating at times that we are on break, we are there!

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Redwood Empire Food Bank

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Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been to the Redwood Empire Food Bank a couple of times this year. The Food Bank is a division service initiative, and we go as often as we can to be supportive, even though the Food Bank is located in another town. We usually work on an assembly line, packaging up food for families in need, which of course, translates to children in need.

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LIONS CLUB TOY RUN

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This is an event that we help the Lions Club with every year, at Christmas time. They do a motorcycle toy run that ends up with people coming in from far away for a BBQ and fun meal. Our members help serve and clean-up, and do whatever they are asked to do. The Lions Club collects thousands of toys each year that are then wrapped and distributed to children in our community who would not otherwise have much in the way of gifts at Christmas time.

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UNICEF/ELIMINATE PROJECT

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The UNICEF project this year was a busy one for us. We started during Eliminate Week in May with a Bake Sale. In October, we put collection canisters in businesses, did a drive at school, and held a campus-wide Halloween party. Plus, in November we held a dinner, with a portion of the proceeds given to the cause. And when all was said and done, it was smart of us to do so many diverse activities over a period of several months. We were able to donate $1000 to Kiwanis International and earned a 1K patch for our banner.

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Kiwanis Family House

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Every year we make an effort to support the Kiwanis Family House in some way. This year, we did two projects for the House. The first was actually during the 2016 District Convention. We took time to visit the House and go on a tour. We wanted our members to see what it was all about. While there, we gave them a $100 donation. The second time we supported the house was when we bought a brick in honor of one of our special Kiwanis members. When Kiwanis was celebrating his 90th birthday, we showed up and gave him this special tribute. Below is a picture of our members who showed up at that meeting to honor Ernie, (who is in the center of the group).

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Kiwanis Marathon/Imagination Library Our sponsoring Kiwanis Club puts on a marathon every year in order to raise money to give books to children. We help, usually with everything from set-up to being on course at aid stations. This is such a wonderful cause, and we are grateful that we have an opportunity to share in the event that makes it possible to give books to our local children.

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So, did we succeed with our “Saving Angels” project? We feel that we did. We hope that what we’ve done can be considered a benefit to the hospitalized children who are dealing with so much in their lives that they have to go through. We hope that the money we give the hospital will be used in ways to help some survive, when they might not otherwise do so. We hope that the items we donate will bring a little joy to their lives. We hope that the teenagers and children understand from our gifts that they are not abandoned as they face the trials and tribulations of whatever is happening to them. We hope that our service will allow the hospital to buy equipment that is needed. We’ve tried to ensure that our “little bit of effort” may accomplish extraordinary things for these children. And, of course, we are not done! We still have plans for several more weeks of activities and fundraising.