WESTERN QUEENS DIVISION 8A
JULY GIRAFFE GAZETTE
2021-2022 Service Year Issue 3 LTG ELIZA KACIC
Table Of Contents Paperwork Tracker LTG's Greeting Divisional Board's Greeting Governor's Greeting District Goals & Progress District Project Governor's Project District Endorsed Project International Endorsed Project The Empire Key Treasurer of the Month Thirst Week Recap Charity Miles Project Summer Leadership Conference Service Spotlight - D8a Service Spotlight - D10 Social Media Contact Information
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Paperwork Tracker
Presidents: Make sure to fill out the ERF as soon as your club holds elections!! Secretaries: Remember that MRF's are due on the 10th of every month and must be completed before the deadline in order to qualify for awards!! Treasurers: FRF's are only filled out for fundraisers where the money goes directly towards a charitable cause and NOT the club itself. They are due 1-2 days after the fundraiser is held!!
Lieutenant Governor's Greeting Greetings Division 8a! I hope you all have been enjoying your time off from school and got to spend some time eith your loved ones! I am so proud of the dedication you guys have shown these past months despite the challenges that have arisen. It is so exciting to see Key Club thrive year round through events like our Key Club Thirst Week and Summer Leadership Conference! Continue to use this free time to host summer service projects & fundraisers! Looking ahead, we have tons of great events being planned so keep your eyes peeled for that. As of right now, we have a Division Wide Charity Miles Project lasting till September 13th, so unplug and spend time this summer outside and simultaneously fundraise for the World Wide Fund for Nature. As Always, let us know what you would like to see implemented in our Division and don't be scared to reach out with absolutely anything! Reminder to my officers: Be sure to check the paperwork tracker and submit all necessary paperwork. While it is true you must meet deadlines to qualify for awards, it's never too late to submit missing forms.
Yours in service,
Eliza Kacic Eliza Kacic 2021-2022 D8a Lieutenant Governor
Divisional Board Greetings
Emily Lai
Executive Assistant Hello Key Clubbers! I hope everyone is having a great start to their summer. Despite a stressful year, you still participated in many Key Club events and made a meaningful impact on our community. Keep this spirit up! I want to give a shoutout and thank everyone who kept updated with their Key Club activities. I am excited to be working with the divisional board this summer to plan and host events for Key Clubbers to participate in. If you have any ideas on what Key Club should do this summer, please reach out to us!
Habibah Aldakak Divisional Editor
Hey D8A! I hope that you all are enjoying your summertime. I am excited to keep in touch with fellow key clubbers and I urge you to do that as well. I am also looking forward to having a productive summer full of fun time and service. Speaking of summer full of service, be sure to join the Divisional Charity Miles! It's so easy all you have to do is download the app and you raise money for WWF just by walking!
District Goals & Progress Fundraising Goal
$150,000 10.9% Completed Fill out the FRF to help reach the goal! Service Hour Goal
100,000 Hours 32% Completed Fill out the MRF to help reach the goal!
District Project Alex's Lemonade Stand When Alex, who was diagnosed with childhood cancer, was four, she set up a front-yard lemonade stand to raise money for doctors to help them find a cure. Since Alex set up her first lemonade stand in 2000 the foundation has raised more than $200 million. which has helped: Fund more than 1,000 cutting-edge research projects at nearly 150 institutions. Create a travel program to help support families of children receiving treatment and develop resources, such as our SuperSibs program to help people everywhere affected by childhood cancer.
Governor's Project Thirst Project The Thirst Project is the world's largest youth-led organization to END the world water crisis. Why Water? Health and Sanitation: Waterborne diseases kill more children every single year than HIV, Malaria, and all world violence combined. Small children typically do not have strong enough immune systems to fight diseases like cholera, dysentery, or schistosomiasis. Women and children spend on average six to eight hours each day walking to fetch water. The average distance that women and children in developing communities walk to fetch water is 3.75 miles. The time children spend collecting water keeps them from going to school and getting an education.
District Endorsed Project Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center Foundation The Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center Foundation, Inc., is one of three KPTC programs operating in the New York District of Kiwanis. The foundation supports pediatric trauma efforts at the Cohen Children's Medical Center as well as programs throughout the area to protect the safety of children and to improve the ability of local emergency medical services response teams. Every year, more children die from unintentional injuries than all childhood diseases combined. Trauma claims the lives of 25,000 children each year. Another 120,000 youngsters are permanently disabled. It doesn't have to be that way. With proper, prompt care, about 25 percent of the deaths and disabilities could be prevented or reduced. One of every six injuries is grave enough to risk life or long-term disability and requires more sophisticated diagnosis and treatment, which is why a properly equipped and staffed pediatric trauma center is so important.
International Endorsed Project Project Happiness The World Health Organization has named depression as the greatest cause of suffering worldwide. In the U.S., 1 out of 5 deals with depression or anxiety. For youth, that number increases to 1 in 3. The good news is that 40% of our happiness can be influenced by intentional thoughts and actions, leading to life changing habits. It's this 40% that Project Happiness Programs help to impact. Project Happiness helps children from Kindergarten to 12th grade led happier more fulfilled lives through Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) to regulate emotions, have good relationship skills, practice responsible decision-making, and achieve their goals in over 120 countries!
The Empire Key The first issue of the 2021-22 Empire Key is out now! Click to see the incredible newsletter written by Jerry Chen, our District Editor. Get important updates and see what Key Clubbers around the state have been up to!
Submit articles/photos to be featured in the Empire Key by July 28th, at 11:59 PM. Let us know what your personal Key Club experience has been like!
If you submit a captivating article for the Empire Key, you have a chance to win the Editor’s Choice Award! Only members will be chosen every month!
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Treasurer of the Month Our District Treasurer, Siddhaarta Venkatesh, would like to recognize the treasurers who are doing the extra mile by highlighting a new Treasurer every month! Nominating a Treasurer gives them the chance to be featured in The Empire Key and/or our social media!
A Treasurer must by nominated by any Key Clubber in good standing or an advisor by filling out the form below!
Congrats to Emily Kipp from Division 13 for being the June Treasurer of the Month!
Key Club Thirst Week Date Held: June 26th - July 1st, 2021 Big shout out to everyone who participated in our interdivisional Key Club Thirst Week; I can't wait to see more of you join in the future! For those of you who missed the opportunity to attend the meeting, the City Divisions partnered up with Thirst Project to offer an inspiring and informational week to teach us about what the water crisis is, how the water crisis impacts us, and what we can do to stop it. We kicked off the week with an amazing Webinar which was followed with a week full of activities to do based off of a bingo board. For those dedicated Key Clubbers who managed to score a Bingo, they had they chance of winning a $25 Starbucks gift card at our closing Game Night Session. Click to learn more about the water crisis!
Charity Miles: WWF Ends: September 13th, 2021 As the world’s leading conservation organization, WWF works in nearly 100 countries. At every level, they collaborate with people around the world to develop and deliver innovative solutions that protect communities, wildlife, and the places in which they live. Through Charity Miles, we can help raise donations for them, by simply just walking/running/jogging! Once you've joined the Divisional Group, use the form below to submit your final miles by attaching a screenshot of your personal dashboard for proof of walking and identity! For Every 3 Miles you get one hour of community service! End Date: September 13th, 2021
Summer Leadership Conference Date Held: July 8th - 10th, 2021 The second Key Club International Conference was held this month, and it was amazing to see hundreds of Key Clubbers from all over the world come together and celebrate a great service year despite the hectic world around us! A live stream was held straight from Florida, and we had AMAZING keynote speakers, Alex Sheen, founder of because I said I would, and business strategist George Carroll. From engaging, informational, and inspiring workshops, to a virtual photo booth, to awards session, the conference was nothing simply incredible! I want to give another shout out to the D8a Clubs that got awards and congrats to the new I-Board!
! s t a g r Con International President Salma Eldeeb, Florida District International Vice President Melanie Kim, Georgia District International Trustees Aliya Ali, Cali-Nev-Ha Ava Chae, Kansas Emily Leonard, Rocky Mountain Anton McDonald, Bahamas Ellie Nusbaum, Nebraska-Iowa Lena Oswald, Illinois-Eastern Iowa Natasha Shrestha, Illinois-Eastern Iowa Cheyenne Stewart, Indiana Subashree Venkatasubramanian, Pacific NW Kathy Ye, Georgia District Sana Yooseph, Florida
Meet our New International Board for the 2021 to 2022 Service Year!!
Service Spotlight Division 8a | Kripsy Kreme Fundraiser The Krispy Kreme Fundraiser was overall a blast to plan as well as execute. We started reaching out to other Key Clubs after deciding on the charity we will be supporting, Project Hope. We collaborated with Frank McCourt High School, Maspeth High School, Scholar’s Academy, and Sunnyside Community. Our fundraiser went on for about a month, and as the Academy of American Studies Key Club’s Treasurer, every response to our Google Forms really excited me. I happily pull out our Digital Dozens’ excel sheets and write the personalized message to every single one of our contributors. It makes me truly glad to know that there are people who care and are willing to help other people in third world countries who are suffering, even if they can’t see the impact they are making themselves. We chose to send our profit to South Asia, where they focus on reducing maternal and neonatal mortality as well as non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes and respiratory diseases. I, personally, am so delighted to have been a part of this fundraiser, supporting and advertising it for the whole month. I look forward to planning and creating more successful and meaningful fundraisers in the future.
Written By: Nichole Subur (Academy of American Studies Key Club)
Service Spotlight Division 10 | UNICEF Math 4 Good UNICEF is a humanitarian organization that aids individuals in need throughout the world. Through their efforts in 190 countries, UNICEF has improved, and often saved, the lives of millions of children. Tottenville Key Club decided to contribute to this wonderful organization in whatever capacity we could. Thus, the “Raising Money for UNICEF Through Wisdom”, a verbose but accurate title, event was born. Members were, and continue to be, advised to complete math games and/or puzzles on UNICEF’s website to raise money for children. That is all they have to do to make an impact; it is that easy. The more mathematical questions answered correctly or puzzles solved, the more members raise. In the mere 14-20 days for which this event has been ongoing, Tottenville has contributed $2,196.25. I have no doubt that until August 1st, we will have raised much, much more!
Written By: Ana Licollari (Tottenville High School)
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