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What is CKI?
• Circle K International (CKI) is the
premiere university service organization in
the world sponsored by Kiwanis
International. With clubs on more than
450 campuses globally, programming is
based upon the tenets of service,
leadership and fellowship, with service
being the most important of the three.
• The mission of CKI is to develop college
and university students into a global
network of responsible citizens and leaders
with a lifelong commitment to service.
What is CKI?
• The vision of CKI is to be the leading
global community-service organization on
college and university campuses that
enriches the world one member, one child
and one community at a time.
• CKI is a student-led organization.
• Currently, CKI consists of 30 districts,
one district-in-formation, and seven subregions in 17 nations across the world.
Strategic plan
• Guiding document for development of
CKI and CKI programs. All board
decisions are based on this plan.
• The current plan is for 2007-2011.
• The plan has five goal areas each with a
set of priorities:
1. Strategically market CKI internally and
externally to effectively increase awareness of
organization.
2. Improve member satisfaction and meet their
expectations.
3. Create and deliver high-quality leadership
development programs and opportunities.
4. Strengthen organizational structure to build,
support and sustain strong, effective CKI clubs.
5. Identify global differences and limitations in
order to expand existing programs and services.
Service initiative
• The service initiative of CKI was
designed to educate all CKI
members about the problems
and issues that face children
ages 6-13 worldwide. Through
personal interaction and public
awareness, we enable children to
develop the skills and ideals
necessary to be successful.
Service initiative projects
• After-school programs:
Turn off TV, Turn on to Life –
Circle K clubs should provide
service to already established
after-school programs, initiate
their own long-term after-school
program, or participate in afterschool program projects
throughout the year.
Service initiative projects
• Literacy:
Open a Book, Show Them the
World – Circle K clubs should
become involved with
improving the scholastic
achievement of children.
• Health and Safety Issues:
On Call for the Future – Circle K
clubs should become involved in
helping children take care of
themselves.
Community Service and
Awareness Week
• Community Service and
Awareness Week (CSAW) is
designed to provide Circle K
clubs one specific opportunity
each year to put forth extra effort
to support the projects and
programs of the current service
initiative.
• CSAW occurs annually during
the first full week of February,
and ends with International
Service Day on Saturday.
Community Service and
Awareness Week
• One goal is to heighten campus and
community awareness of CKI and the
service initiative.
• Another goal is to further educate
club members on the service
initiative, and motivate each member
to become actively involved in related
service activities.
• A final goal is to provide recognition
for your club’s efforts by obtaining a
Community Service and Awareness
Week banner patch.
Tomorrow Fund grant
• The Tomorrow Fund, housed in
the Kiwanis International
Foundation, is an endowment
account intended to further the
purpose of CKI.
• The fund has reached endowment
and stands at US$207,842 as of
January 31, 2008.
• A grant program has been
developed to help fund Circle K
club and district service projects
that address important needs in
their communities and campuses.
Tomorrow Fund grant
• Since the fund reached its
endowment in 2005, 41 grants
have been made for a total of
US$22,923.
• Donations can be made to the
Tomorrow Fund directly, or
through Carthage-Pullman Society
memberships, for a minimum
donation of US$250, or through
Sapphire Circle Honorary
memberships, for a minimum
donation of US$1,000 made in
honor of someone.
Partnerships: Six Cents
• 70% of the earth is covered in water, the
same as the human body.
• To live healthily, human beings must
consume 1.5–2 liters of water each day.
• 97.5% of all the water on earth is salt
water, and 2% is frozen in icebergs and
glaciers, or hidden in aquifers, leaving
only .5% of all the earth’s water available
for drinking.
Partnerships: Six Cents
• Drinking safe water is fundamental to
human life.
• Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation,
combined with poor hygiene, contribute
to the deaths of more than 1.5 million
children under the age of five who die
from diarrhea each year.
• Oral rehydration salts (ORS), an
inexpensive mixture of sugar, salt and
water, are the simplest, most effective and
cheapest way to keep children alive during
severe episodes of dehydration.
Partnerships: Six Cents
• Cost of one sachet of ORS =
six cents (US$0.06)
• All donations should be mailed to:
U.S. Fund for UNICEF
333 East 38th Street
New York, New York 10016
• Checks made payable to:
U.S. Fund for UNICEF
with the word WATER in the memo
field to ensure proper processing
Partnerships: Better World Books
• CKI is proud to partner with
Better World Books to help
break the cycle of poverty
through education and literacy.
• Better World Books supports
the National Center for Family
Literacy by their Book Drives for
Better Lives Program.
• 34 million people in the United
States cannot read or write.
Education and literacy bring
dignity and hope to others.
Partnerships: Better World Books
How it works:
• Better World Books sends
collection and shipping boxes,
posters and tape to your CKI
club. There is no cost to the
chapter to participate.
• CKI clubs promote the drive on
campus and place collection
bins in strategic locations. CKI
members collect and ship the
books. Better World Books pays
for the shipping.
Partnerships: Better World Books
• To date, Better World Books
has converted more than 11
million donated books into
$4.5 million in funding for
literacy and education.
• In the process, we’ve also
diverted more than 6,000 tons
of books from landfills.
• Resources available:
www.betterworld.com
Partnerships: March of Dimes
• The mission of the March of
Dimes is to improve the health of
babies by preventing birth defects,
premature birth and infant
morality.
• The mission is achieved through
research, community services,
education and advocacy.
• One in 8 babies is born
premature. A premature birth
occurs before the 37th week of
pregnancy.
Partnerships: March of Dimes
What can CKI do to help?
• Participate in Prematurity
Awareness Month (April) and Day
(November 12th).
• Help the babies at Neonatal
Intensive Care Units (NICUs) by
collecting books, donating
cameras and film, making blankets
or volunteering to assist in Sibling
Hours.
• Educate teens using the new
teen-2-teen series.
Partnerships: March of Dimes
What can CKI do to help?
• Provide folic acid education: Pass
out orange juice on campus while
informing students about the
importance of folic acid for
women of childbearing years to
reduce the chance of birth defects.
• Form March for Babies teams.
• Use other March of Dimes
resources:
marchofdimes.com/youth.
Partnerships: Students Team Up
to Fight Hunger
• Students Team Up to Fight Hunger
(STUFH) is a nationwide food drive
organization which partners colleges
and universities with their local
food bank to raise food for the
hungry in their local community.
• There are families going hungry in
every college community and they
desperately need a helping hand.
Your college campus is a natural
source for food drives and
volunteers and CKI clubs are the
perfect answer to their pleas for
help.
Partnerships: Students Team up
to Fight Hunger
• How can you help? Here are four
simple steps you would need to take
to feed the hungry in your local
college area:
1. Get permission from your school
to place food drive bins around
the campus.
2. Coordinate with your local food
bank to arrange a drop-off time.
3. Advertise the food drive.
4. Conduct the drive, emptying
bins regularly and picking them
up once the drive is complete.
Partnerships: Students Team Up
to Fight Hunger
• Each pound of food raised
represents a meal, and last year
alone over one million pounds was
raised by 75 colleges.
• Imagine how many people could be
fed with the participation of 450
Circle K clubs.
• Simply contact Dan Kahn at
[email protected] to join forces and
help feed the hungry in your area.
Leadership Academy
• Open to all CKI members
who want to grow their
leadership abilities.
• The 2009 event is May 15-20
and runs a full six days of
intense leadership
development at Waycross
camp in southern Indiana.
• Students must be nominated
by their district administrator
to attend.
Leadership Academy
• The curriculum for this program
combines Brendon Burchard’s E6
Framework with the Kiwanis Key
Leader program.
• Students are led by two lead
facilitators and then each small group
of 12 has a volunteer neighborhood
facilitator. These adults help guide
students through the self-discovery
program.
• The only cost to attend this event is
the cost of transportation.
Resources
• The CKI Series online resources,
sample topics:
–
charter presentation
–
CKI sponsorship
–
Kiwanis-family relations
–
applying for an Employee
Identification Number (Tax ID)
• Posters and brochures for
recruitment and marketing
Resources
• Marketing & PR Guide:
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A guide to help your club
understand how to increase the
recognition and understanding of
CKI so that members and clubs can
serve their communities
• Kiwanis Sponsorship Resource
Guide:
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A guide for sponsoring Kiwanis
clubs about their roles and
responsibilities to CKI clubs
Resources
• Advisors Guide:
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How to guide, FAQs, finance,
liability
• Club Officer Guide and online
resources:
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A guide for club presidents, vice
presidents, secretaries, treasurers,
secretary/treasurers, and bulletin
editors on their duties to their CKI
clubs
Graphic standards
• Visual elements used to communicate
consistent message about CKI and help
to make CKI a household name.
• Elements are used in all forms of
communication: Web, brochures, fliers,
etc.
• Previously every club, member, district
and the International office has
mismatched promotional pieces. Public
did not know we were all from the same
organization.
Graphic standards
• The CKI logo and word mark should be
used to brand our name.
• Fonts: Goudy Old Style for body and
Century Gothic for headers. Use any
other fonts to add creative accents.
• Colors should be full color.
• Megaphone should always be on the
front of whatever is being produced.
• Graphic standards are available online
at www.circlek.org/templates.
Club status
• Club dues are payable October 1.
• When a club pays dues for the
minimum based on school
enrollment by November 30, the
club status is active.
• Minimums based on school
enrollment:
–
20 member minimum for
4-year institutions with
1,000+ enrollment, OR
–
15 member minimum for 2-year
or 4-year institutions with fewer
than 1,000 students
Club status
• When a club does not pay any
dues by November 30, on
December 1 the club status
changes to suspended.
• A club is put on retained status
when the club pays for less than
the minimum amount due. A
club on retained status can move
back to active status with a
payment of dues for at least the
minimum.
Club status
• A club on inactive status can
move back to active status with a
payment of dues for at least the
minimum and a US$100
reactivation fee.
• Clubs are put on inactive status
if no dues payment is made at all
on October 1 of the following
year.
Ten steps to CKI chartering
• Step 1: Select the college/university where you wish to build a Circle K
club.
• Step 2: Order a New Club Building Kit #1 from the International
Office (800-KIWANIS, ext. 411).
• Step 3: Secure a sponsoring Kiwanis Club near the college/university.
• Step 4: Meet with the school student activities director to discuss the
proposed Circle K club.
• Step 5: Secure a faculty advisor. A teacher or school employee who is a
member of the sponsoring Kiwanis club can be a good selection, but
should not be the same person as the Kiwanis advisor.
Ten steps to chartering
• Step 6: Order the New Club Building Kit #2 from the International
Office (800-KIWANIS, ext. 411).
• Step 7: Recruit members. Remember that membership is open to any
student who is interested in community service.
• Step 8: Organize a Circle K club meeting to adopt the club’s bylaws and
elect the charter officers and directors.
• Step 9: Charter the Circle K club following the instructions in the New
Club Building Kit #2.
• Step 10: Launch the Circle K club by scheduling regular monthly
meetings or semimonthly meetings.