KEY Club International
Project Ideas
The Cali-Nev-Ha Project Manual - ONLINE!!!
The original
California-Nevada-Hawaii District's Project Manual was written by Carrie
Chen, 1998-1999 CNH District Secretary. This web site is sponsored by CNH's
Division
44 South.
We welcome any comments, suggestions, or ideas. Please e-mail these to:
keyclub44s@yahoo.com.
SERVICE
PROJECTS:
* Service projects with stars next to them are best during the holidays.
Miracle Mile
for Quarters
Trick-or-Treating
for IDD - go around and collect money for IDD
Divisional
Manhunt - have officers dress up in disguise in a mall and have others
try to find them. They
need to say a secret phrase once they find them. Charge $5 for each person
that participates in it.
Answering
Phones at Telethons - answer the phone at a telethon and take pledges!
Special Olympics
- help out at the Olympics by being a "hugger," passing out drinks, or
distributing
ribbons!
*Halloween
Carnival - set up a booth and invite other clubs on campus to sponsor a
carnival for children
for a safe Halloween.
*Tree Planting
(Arbor Day) - plant a tree for more oxygen!
Mentoring/Tutoring
Program - go over to a local elementary school and tutor the kids in various
subjects!
Drives -
any type of drive works really well! However, besides the usual food drive,
canned food drive,
or clothes drive, try something like a baby food drive, sock drive, school
supplies drive, book drive,
and etc.!
*Christmas
Cards for Veterans, the elderly, and children in the Pediatric Wards -
basically make cards
and then go around and distribute them.
Spring Carnival
- Same ideas as the Halloween Carnival except maybe have bike safety and
invite the
Police Department and the Fire Department.
Salvation
Army Angel Tree - have classes at your school sponsor children on the Angel
Tree.
Toys for
Tots - this is a toy drive!
Soup kitchens
- go in and serve food weekly.
*Easter Egg
Hunt - put on an Easter Egg hunt for children and distribute candy and
have the Easter
Bunny there.
Kids Overnight
- sponsor a safe sleep over for elementary school aged children in a gym
and have
games and food!
Clean-Ups
- you can clean up a beach, park, or your school campus!
Reading Day
at the Library - read to children at your local library.
Hospital
Visitation - visit the elderly, children, and other patients in the hospital
to cheer their days up.
Adopt-a-Family
- adopt a family, and provide food and other necessities for them.
Care Packages
to a Shelter - put together care packages for a shelter. The packages can
include
necessities such as toiletries and other items.
Make Cards
- make cards for any occasion and deliver them to various hospitals and
senior citizen
centers.
CPR Clinic
- hold a CPR clinic.
Freshman
Orientation - help out at freshman orientation.
Ideni-Child
- help out with your local police department's fingerprinting children
and etc.
Recycling
- place recycling boxes and trash cans in each classroom and make weekly
trips to
the recycling center.
Homeless
Shelter - help out at the homeless shelter.
Admission
Tickets - collect tickets at games.
Health Fair
- pass out posters.
Gum Scraping
- exactly what it says. Scrape the gum off of those desks!
*Painting
Easter Eggs - paint Easter Eggs and distribute them to children.
Building/Painting
Houses - help out and build or paint a house with Habitat for Humanity.
Baby-sit
- during meeting or at church.
Newspaper
staff - help them out and distribute.
Speech and
Debate Tournament - volunteer to be a timer.
Special gifts
for Teacher Appreciation Day - give them a special breakfast.
Litter on
Roads - clean it up.
Setting Up
Chairs and Tables - set up chairs and tables at events.
Marathons
- help raise money and pass out water at the events.
Graduation-
set up, clean up, and usher.
Ronald McDonald
House - bring the food and cook dinner!
Teen Voices
- Make PSAs (public service announcements) about KEY club.
Painting
Playground Equipment - paint the playground equipment at a local elementary
school or park.
Host Exchange
Students - basically host an exchange student! or show them around school!
Distribute
Skates- promote safe skating.
Dance for
Senior Citizens - put on a dance for senior citizens.
Drug Free
Graduation Night - sponsor and promote a drug free grad night!
Leadership
Camp for Builders Clubs - sponsor a leadership camp for Builders Clubs.
Nursing Homes
and Senior Citizen Centers - visit them and put on a talent show for them
or talk with
them.
*Haunted
House - hold a haunted house for little kids for a safe Halloween.
Wheelchair
Bowling - sponsor a Wheelchair Bowling Competition.
Distribution
around the school - distribute yearbooks, programs, and etc.
Blood Drive
- hold a blood drive at your school.
Information
Table at various school events - have an information table during Open
House,
Back-to-School Night, and etc.
Posters -
put up posters for school activities.
Walks - walk
for AIDS and various other diseases.
*Valentines
for Veterans - make Valentine's Day cards for veterans and deliver them
in person.
Stuff envelopes
- help out your school's office by stuffing envelopes during registration
and etc.
Yard Cleaning
- clean-up yards.
Pet Adoption
- help out with pet adoptions.
Pass Out
Schedules - pass out schedules at registration.
Chaperone
at middle school dances - serve food, clean-up trash, help with noise control,
etc.
Distribute
Fliers about IDD and Pediatric Trauma - distribute fliers to promote public
awareness.
Hospital
Volunteering - help out in a hospital gift shop, etc.
Emergency
Lodge Bookshelf - at a shelter for battered women and children, build bookshelves
and
stock them. Then go and read to them.
Scavenger
Hunt for Canned Foods - search for certain canned food but collect them
all.
*Christmas
Tree Recycling - promote Christmas Tree Recycling. Offer to take peoples'
christmas trees
to be recycled.
*Rose Float
Decoration - help out with the entire Kiwanis Family and decorate floats!
*Summer School
- Collect Trash.
Help Out
on a Political Campaign - help out with voter registration, making phone
calls, stuffing
envelopes, and etc.
Collect Glasses
- collect glasses (similar to a drive of any sort)
Make up a
holiday - when you visit senior citizens or young children, make up and
celebrate a holiday!
Arts and
Crafts Week at Local Elementary School - sponsor an arts and crafts week
at an elementary
school.
Children's
Homeless Shelter - visit there and help out.
Beautify
Campus before Homecoming - clean up your school before a dance or huge
social event.
Parks and
Recreation Department - call up your local Parks and Recreation Department
and see if you
can help out with any events.
Ice Cream
Award - buy ice cream/popsicles for elementary school children who have
received good
grades.
*Gobbling
for Cans - collect cans during Thanksgiving for food baskets.
*Gift-Wrap
- in the holiday spirit, wrap gifts for people at the mall.
Horse Camp
- help out at a horse camp with rides, etc.
Puppet Show
- put on a puppet show at a local library or elementary school for children.
Help Train
Special Olympics - help train kids in Special Olympics in a sport.
*Veterans
Day Cards - make these cards and deliver them to veterans.
Birthday
Party for Underprivileged Kids - get together with your local Boys and
Girls Club for those
who have birthdays each month.
Happy Hats
- decorate hats for terminally ill kids who are losing hair because of
treatment.
Letters to
Servicemen and Women in Bosnia via Operation Dear Abby - write letters
and send gifts to
servicemen and servicewomen in Bosnia. Addresses are as follows:
Any Service Member
Navy and Marine
Operations Joint Force
Any Service member
APO AE 0937-001
Operations Joint Force
FPO AE 09398-0001
Hearts -
collect fabric and make hearts and stuff them. Then embroider them and
deliver them to the elderly and young in the hospital.
PLACES
TO CONTACT:
If you still
need project ideas, here are some places to call or web sites to visit!
:)
Drug
Free America
DARE
Drug
Free School Programs
National
Safety Belt Coalition: (202) 296-6263
National
Safety Council: (708) 775-2022
Safe Kids:
(202) 884-4993
Children's
Miracle Network: 4525 S. 2300 East, Suite 202 Salt Lake City, Utah
84117
Salvation
Army
Youth Center
Habitat
for Humanity: Campus Charters and Youth Programs Department 121 Habitat
St. Americus, GA
31709-3498
Boys
and Girls Club (National Headquarters): 1230 W. Peachtree St. NW Atlanta,
CA 30309
American
Red Cross: 8111 Gatehouse Rd. Falls Church, VA 22042; (876) 984-7860
Ext. 3
Beet Buddies:
100 E. Second St. Miami, Florida 33131; (305) 374-2233
Big
Brothers/Sisters: 230 North 13th St. Philadelphia, PA 19107; (215)
567-7000
Child
Welfare League: 440 First St. NW 3rd Floor Washington, DC 20001-2085
Children's
Defense Fund: 25 E St. NW Washington DC 20001; (202) 662-3674
Child Watch:
(202) 628-8787
Student
Leadership Network for Children: (202) 662-3797
Coalition
for America's Children: 1-888-544-KIDS or (202) 638-5770
Common Cents:
500 Eight Ave. New York, NY 10018
FFA:
PO Box 68960 Indianapolis, IN 46268-0999
Kabooom!!:
2213 M Street NW, Suite 200 Washington DC 20009; (202) 659-0215
National
Program for Playground Safety: Safety School of HPELS: Univ. of N. Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA;
1-800-544-PLAY
Oxfarn
America: 26 West St. Boston, MA 022111; 1-800-597-FAST or (617) 728-2488
Ryan
White Foundation: 1717 W. 86th St. Suite 200 Indianapolis, IN 46260
Safe Haven
Projects, INC: PO Box 24 Vineyard Haven, MA 02568; (508) 693-1767 or (413)
586-4662
National
Safe Kids: 1301 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Suite 1000 Washington DC 20004-1707;
(202) 662-0600 or (202) 939-4993
Save
the Children-America: 54 Wilton Rd. Westport, CT 06880
Special
Olympics: 1325 G St. NW Suite 500 Washington DC 20005; (202) 628-3630
United
Way of America: 701 N Fairfax St. Alexandria, VA 22314-2045; (703)
836-7100
California
Coastal Commission: 1-800-COAST-4U
Humane Society
(Humane Society of the U.S.)
Shelters
FUNDRAISERS:
Ahh! The
best ways to make money for various organizations, and fundraisers for
Convention are
right here! :)
Halloween Insurance - go around and tell people
that you'll clean their houses for them should anything
happen to their houses (i.e.
toilet papered or egged)
Tournament - any tournament is great! You can
have a ping pong tournament or a miniature golf tournament
where you fine people if they
go over par.
Pizza and Soda Sales at Games - sell pizza and
soda!
Car Washes - wash a lot of cars! You can even
advertise a "topless" car wash - - where you won't wash the
top of the car unless they
pay an extra dollar.
Holiday Grams - for any holiday sell packs of
candy with messages written from one person to another
(Halloween-o-Grams, Clover
Grams, etc.)
Dance - sponsor any kind of dance and people
will be coming!
Date Auction - this is proven to work! Get people
to auction themselves off for a good cause and the
money will start rolling in!
Candy Sales - the oldest one of them all still
works! People will always want candy during school!
Pancake Breakfast - sponsor one with your local
Kiwanis.
Yard Sale - just like any other yard sale except
the profits will be going somewhere else besides your
own pocket.
Laundry Alert - go around a college campus and
offer to do their laundry for what it would cost them to
do it. Don't mix up the laundry
and charge them an extra 25 cents for fabric softener! After all you're
saving them valuable time!
Senior Auction - auction off seniors to underclassmen
who will be served by the seniors all day long!
Roses for Valentine's Day - sell roses for Valentine's
Day!
Gift Wrapping - wrap gifts at a local mall.
Penny Drive - get people to donate their money
for a good cause.
Radio Station - get on air and then get people
to phone in pledges.
Dig into School Garbage Cans for Bottles and
Cans - take them to a recycling center and collect on the
money!
Kiss a Senior Good-bye - people can buy their
senior friends Hershey's kisses and send them a message!
Date Match - sponsor a date match program.
Silent Auctions - works the same as the auction.
Entertainment Books - sell them!
Food Booth - people will be hungry/thirsty at
games, so give the people what they want, at a cost of course!
Coin or Change Drives - get people to donate
lots of change! That way it adds up to a considerable amount!
Service Auction - auction off KEY clubbers to
various offices and people and the KEY clubbers will then
clean up offices, run errands,
or etc. for the day.
A-thon - any of these work really well! have
a Dance-a-Thon, Walk-a-Thon, Run-a-Thon, Bake-a-Thon, etc.
Bobbing for Hot Dogs - take one hot dog and wrap
a $20 bill around it. Then make the Jell-O rise about 6
inches and let it sit for
one night. The next day, take a $10 bill and wrap it around a hot dog and
let that
sit for one night too. Do
the same with 2 $5 bills, and 10 $1 bills. People take turns to bob at
50
cents a person.
Baked Goods Eating Contest - see how fast people
can eat a cake!
Hairy Leg Contest - collect money from people
to get others to shave their legs.
Talent Show - sponsor a talent show.
Bake Sale of Smoothies Sale - hold a bake sale
or try a new and creative smoothie sale.
Dog Walking - walk dogs for people.
Face Painting - do this at a carnival and paint
faces!
Dunk Tank - good way to cool off in the summer!
SOCIAL EVENTS:
Well, everyone loves a party or a dance! Here
are some socials where you can just hang out with your
fellow KEY clubbers and have
some more fun! :)
Bowling Social - go bowl! :) Everyone will have
fun!
Awake-a-Thon - what better way to bond than all
through the night? :)
Christmas Caroling - go caroling through neighborhoods
and then gather at someone's house for popcorn,
hot chocolate, apple cider,
etc.!
Kiwanis Family Dance - hey! What about those
Circle-K'ers and KIWINS, time to mingle and bond! And
try getting Kiwanians to be
chaperones!
Guest Speakers - hold an event and get a guest
speaker there!
Pool Party - time to party out in the sun! :)
Bonfires - have a party at the beach and have
a bonfire at night!
Movie Socials - watch some great movies and have
some fun!
Homeroom Decorating - decorate the classrooms
together!
Karaoke - some brave person will get up there
and sing! :)