Volume 1. Issue 2. October 2011
Marketing & K-Family Relations: Mid-year Issue Greetings to the Mighty New York District!
During our 4th Annual Sub F event
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Congratulations on making to the half way mark of our service year! Take this time to reflect on and to congratulate yourselves on all the amazing service you've done since we started our year in April. Give yourselves some extra credit for all your hard work in recruitment and kicking off the new academic year. Ok now enough reflecting because it's time to pump yourselves up to end the year even stronger than we started. I've been communicating with everyone as best as I can and I'm truly proud and impressed with all that you've done so far. You will find plenty of service spotlights in this newsletter. Of course, we could definitely use some more so make sure as you're planning your year that you contact your counterparts and see what they have planned. Keep me posted of all the great events you have planned so that I can include your club in my newsletters and try and make it to these events!
Table of Contents: Introduction.........................1 District Updates...................2 What are K-Fam Hours?.....3 Service Spotlight #1............4 Service Spotlight #2............5 Service Spotlight #3............6 Service Spotlight #4............7 Service Spotlight #5............8 Random Stuff!......................9
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Yours in Service, Leadership and Fellowship,
NYCKI Marketing & K-Family Relations Chair
district updates! We are now a bit over the half way mark so lets see where we stand in terms of the amount of K-Family events and hours we have completed... April: 13 events – 104.5 service hours – 20 social hours May: 13 events – 176.0 service hours – 0 social hours June: 8 events – 71.0 service hours – 0 social hours July: 6 events – 79.5 service hours – 0 social hours August: 3 events – 19.5 service hours – 0 social hours September: 8 events – 101.5 service hours – 0 social hours October: LETS GET IT TO AT LEAST WHERE WE WERE IN APRIL AND MAY! Total: 51 events 552 service hours – 20 social hours
NYCKI: Let's step it up, we are at the 50% mark but have only hit 25% of our goal for the service year. I know it's possible so together, let's make it happen!
Don't forget the fellowship tenet of Circle K, get those social hours in as well, I know you do plenty of fellowship, now go report it!
Leadership
What are K-Family Hours? Wondering what I'm basing these hours from? Thinking to yourself, what is a “K-Family hour�? Well let me explain: ANY event you attend where other members of another branch of the K-Family is present (K-Kids, Builders Club, Key Club, Aktion Club and/or Kiwanis). BUT...don't forget the logistics: If your club AND/OR the other club of the other branch has less than 30 members, you MUST have at least 3 members from your club AND from the other club in attendance. If your club AND/OR the other club of the other branch has more than 30 members, you MUST have at least 4 members from your club AND from the other club in attendance. For example, if your club has 16 members but the Key Club you work with has 39, if you go to their event with 2 of your members, IT DOES NOT COUNT.
With that said, if you have any updates you would like to make regarding your events and if they count as K-Family hours, please contact myself and/or District Secretary Samantha Pontillo (samantha.nycki@gmail.com) to make your changes so we have an accurate account of your hard-working hours!
Fellowship
Service Spotlights! (1) Service projects with Aktion Club always ends with a great time and great experience because you work one on one with its members. For those who does not know what Aktion Club is, it is a branch of Kiwanis with members who have disabilities. On September 29 th we went to Aktion Club with Kiwanians and Key Clubbers. The service project was making masks to be donated to a hospital. We started with painting the first coating of paint then left it to dry while they had their election of club officers where the club members were voted into the positions of president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, as well as having the immediate past president becoming another position to assist the newly elected president. After the elections, we finished the mask left them to dry. If the opportunity comes up, I would recommend anyone to go participate in their local Aktion club because you leave with a experience every time. Jia Shi Adelphi University Editor West Hempstead Aktion Club's winning scrapbook cover!
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Service Spotlights! (2) This academic school year, Russell Sage Circle K transferred sponsorship from Hoosick Falls to Troy Kiwanis. As president of our club, I have been attending the Troy Kiwanis meetings every Tuesday morning in our campus dining hall. Since our sponsor club meets in the Russell Sage dining hall, it makes it very convenient to keep them updated about our events and stay in touch with their members. Their club has been so welcoming, and we spend most having fun and laughing. Troy Kiwanis has been supportive and encouraging of our club activities this year, so we wanted to return the favor and volunteered to help them at their Flea Market and Bake Sale fundraiser in October. Myself and two of our club’s members, Erin and Danielle, helped set up the tables the night before and then staffed the tables on the day of the flea market. We had a great time meeting people from the Troy community and helping to raise money for Kiwanis. I even got to meet a Kiwanis member who cannot attend the meetings on Tuesday mornings. Overall, the event was a lot of fun, and I am looking forward to spending more time with the wonderful members of Troy Kiwanis at future events during my senior year here at Russell Sage College. Jane Spear Russell Sage President
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Service Spotlights! (3) On July 17th, my home club and my committee, hosted the K-Family picnic to bring together members from all branches of the Kiwanis family and build fellowships. The $300 raised that day was just a pleasant add-on to it. The attendees of the picnic had a chance to choose which of the 3 Kiwanis sponsored charities they wanted the money to go towards and you guys chose Kiwanis Pediatric Lyme Disease. When I made a phone call to the foundation, asking for information on how to submit the money, the woman on the phone sounded completely lost. It seemed that she was so shocked that we raised money for KPLD because people rarely do. She thanked me endlessly and happily gave me the information I needed. A day later, I got an e-mail saying “thank you� again and that for an additional $200, we could receive the Brittany Fellowship award. I knew that this was an easy goal to reach and promised them that I would do so. On October 10th, my home club and I hosted a K-Family bowl-a-thon, had a great time and raised $420 for KPLD. These events not only raised the funds that I had hoped for but it brought all the participants closer together. I got to know members of strong Key Club's that I didn't even know were active. There was this warm feeling that hit when I saw that members I had met at the picnic came to the bowl-a-thon as well- it showed me that we are truly a family and that I can count on Key Clubber's to come through when I ask. Now, I would like to thank everyone who came out to either of the events or helped with any aspect. Also, congratulations to NYCKI, we are now the proud recipients of the Brittany Fellowship award! Your Marketing & K-Family Relations Chair, Kelly Chan
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Service Spotlights! (4) Bright and early on a Saturday morning the Kiwanians from the Ithaca Cayuga Kiwanis Club drove to Cornell University’s North Campus to pick up six half awake Circle Kers who were ready to do some service. As the participants put on hard hats, neon vests, and gloves they prepared to pick up trash along a two mile stretch of route 79 in Ithaca. Three Circle Kers from Ithaca College Circle K joined in the festivities as well. Nadia Daoud, secretary for Cornell’s club said, “My favorite part is meeting other people and especially talking with Kiwanians.” Cornell Circle K has participated in this program for three semesters now and will continue to foster the relationship with the Kiwanians and other K-Family Clubs in the Ithaca Community as well as the Southern Tier!
Elissa Prout Cornell Circle K President
LTG Olivia Prout and Elissa Prout, Cornell CKI! Service
Service Spotlights! (5)
On June 11th, the K-Kids Club of Franklin Square hosted a Safe Kids training at their local library. The K-Kids invited CKI members Lauren Sacks, Rickie Santer and I along with Key Clubber Domenick Pesce to teach lessons on fire safety, water safety,hand washing safety, bike and helmet safety, and pedestrian safety. Everyone who attended this training had tons of fun and learned a lot of new safety procedures. In addition to learning the Safe Kids lessons, these K-Kids also reached out to their community to promote this event. Not only did this event promote safety, but they also got some new recruits of K-Kids members. Overall this event was extremely successful because we had 4 branches of the Kiwanis family cooperate in the planning process and supporting the event. Thanks all, Kathryn Graves New York District Project Chair
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Random! Coming to New York Speaking this weekend? Be sure to attend the “Bringing all the K-Houses together� workshop that will be presented by LTG Olivia as well as myself!
There is a friendly, family completion going on The Circle K club to complete
between all NY Key Clubs, Circle K and Kiwanis clubs
the most K-Family events from
to see who can raise the most money for the American
October to the day we conclude
Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Although the Out
our year at District Convention,
of the Darkness walk has pretty much passed, it's not
will receive an ice cream social
too late to host a fundraiser and donate to this great
for their members as well as their
cause. Every 40 seconds there is an individual who
any of their K-Family counterparts
loses their life to suicide, it is predicted that by 2020,
that they choose to invite!
the rate of death will increase to 1 every 20 seconds. Help us spread awareness, support others and support the AFSP! Have all donations in by Feb. 2nd 2011 and contact myself (kelchan.cki@gmail.com) or Jessica Stola (jaesto520@gmail.com) for more info!