YOF ( Youth opportunity fund)
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An endowed fund for Key Club International held within the Kiwanis International Foundation.
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Provides grants for service opportunities ❏
Help you take action. Look around your community and see what you can do to improve it.
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Grand requests can range from $100- $2,000
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The YOF Grand is established through gifts to the G. Harold Martin Fellowships.
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More info at http://www.keyclub.org/service/fund/yof.aspx
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The applications are now on reviewr at https://app.reviewr.com/ms_login?ret=%2Fmslanding%3Fsource%3Dcomp etitor%26evtid%3D1775433&evtid=1775433&editing=true Create an account, and fill out the information about your desired project. The applications must be received by October 15 at 11:59 PM EST. ❏
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The Thirst Project “About 780 million people on our planet don’t have access to safe, clean water. Even worse, 4,400 kids under the age of five will die today from drinking dirty water. Those are disturbing statistics—and we’re doing something about it. Key Club International is teaming up with The Thirst Project.”
“The thirst project helps build freshwater wells in developing nations and impoverished communities to provide people with safe, clean water.”
Because The Thirst Project receives private donations to help with operating expenses, it can guarantee that 100 percent of all public donations go directly to funding freshwater wells on the ground. What Can I do to help? As a club, you can help fundraise and send the donations to the thirst project. If you would like ideas about ways to fundraise for this wonderful organization, email me at rockymountaintreasurer@gmail.com. You can also find more information about their story, and their mission on their website at https://www.thirstproject.org/
Fundraisers Rent a Key Club member: This idea is adapted from a popular service project included in the Key Club International Service Project Bulletin. Clubs can set aside a weekend day and urge community members to rent a Key Club member—or crew—for the day. The “employer” calls the club and lists the jobs he or she would like to have done, such as raking leaves, washing windows, babysitting and painting. Club members do the work and a set hourly fee is donated back to the club. Steps to success • Get lots of publicity. We’re talking fliers in the grocery store, announcements at your sponsoring Kiwanis club, school staff, PTA, church, etc. • Recruit a willing and capable crew of Key Clubbers who will take on the tasks with enthusiasm. • Be organized when setting up the appointments and efficient when completing the tasks. Couch potato The Key Club of Delphi Community High School in Indiana stages a fundraiser called “couch potato” at basketball games. “We sell tickets at home boys’ basketball games for $1 each or 6 for $5 to anyone interested,” says immediate past Key Club president Grace Mears. The tickets are put in a raffle that is drawn at halftime. The winner gets to choose two friends to sit on the couch, located on the end of the court, for the remainder of the game. A large pizza, donated by a local pizza shop, is given to the winner to enjoy during the rest of the game, and the concession stand (sponsored by the athletic office) donates one bottle of pop for each of the couchsitters”, Mears says. Steps to success • Present the idea and get permission from everyone involved, including the principal and basketball coach. • Find an easily carried couch to move onto and off of the floor for each home game. • Sell raffle tickets. • Get pizza donated for the couch potato and friends.
RMD Membership
● For the year of 2015-2016, we had a total of 87 clubs submit dues to Key Club international, out of the 98 clubs that we have . If you are one of those clubs that did not submit dues for this past year, contact me ASAP, so your club does not get eliminated from Key Club international. ● This past year, was the first year that we were able to have more than 3,000 paying members, with a total of 3,205. ● Congratulations to Arapahoe High School Key Club, for having the most paying members, with a total of 280 members. ● October 1st is when you can start paying dues, so make sure
that you start advertizing to your members.
THANK YOU!! **Thank you for reading through this issue of the coin. I will keep you up to date with any other information that comes up. ** For now, the most important things are: ● Advertizing dues ● Talk about the YOF, and send out an application. Every service project
counts ● Send me the contact information of your club treasurer.
As always, don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have. I will try my best to answer to the best of my abilities. My email is rockymountaintreasurer@gmail.com