Transcript Why your Club should sponsor a Z-Club

Why your Club should
sponsor a Z-Club
District 4 Spring Workshops
Lori Robinson
ICC Z Club & Golden Z Club
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What does a Z-Club do?
Why should your Zonta club sponsor a Z-Club?
How to get started with a Z-Club?
Ideas and Resources for a Z-Club
How does belonging to a Z-Club effect the students?
How to connect with school staff and teachers?
Your Questions?
Our Objectives Today
• Bring the Mission of Zonta to young women in high
school and colleges/universities Z Club International
• Create vital pathways into Zonta club membership
• Stimulate new and meaningful Service & Advocacy
projects
• Promote Zonta's international outlook
• In January 2014 194 Z Clubs and 64 Golden Z clubs in
19 countries
(May 2012 173 and 31)
Branching Out: Z-Clubs and
Golden Z-Clubs--1948 to 2014
• Community public and private high schools--ready place
to start in any town or city
• Reasonable physical proximity to the Zonta club
membership helpful
• Formal sponsorship by the Zonta club but need
"championship" leaders within the Zonta club to work
directly with the Z-Club members and school advisor(s)
• Possibility for an online Z-Club in the future?
Focus Today: Z-Clubs for HighSchool Young Women
• Develop leadership skills in high school women--learn
tasks and roles to lead a viable service club
• Engage the Z-Club members to adapt Zonta club
functions:
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Membership recruitment
Fellowship and socializing
Programs
Service & Advocacy projects
Fundraising
Public relations and communications.
What Does a Z-Club Do?
• Meet as a recognized extracurricular club in school facilities
• Hold scheduled club meetings, 1 - 2 meetings/month to
conduct business, hear speakers, work on service projects, hold
fundraisers, have fun
• Stretch the experience, activities, and knowledge of Z-Club
members--open horizons for them about their community,
Zonta International, career choices, women's issues, healthy
behaviors, and beyond
• Potential for activities away from school during evenings,
weekends, school holidays, and summer vacations, depending
on school policies and Zontian availability
What Does a Z-Club Do?
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• Strive to qualify for the annual ZI Emma L. Conlon Service
Awards, established in 1961 for Z-Clubs and Golden-Z-Clubs
from around the world
• Engage club members to create three types of service activities
• Type #1: School service--benefitting the sponsoring school
• Type #2: Community service--benefitting the local community
• Type #3: International service--projects or fundraising to draw
attention to international work, especially ZI's United Nationssponsored biennial projects
• Conlon Awards recognize the impact of projects, persistence,
and percentage of Z-Club members involved
What Does a Z-Club Do?
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Friendship
Giving back to the community
Time for me and my friends
Learning on how to put on an event
Finding out about the poverty and depressions in the
world- how I can help
• Working for a cause together
• Volunteer hours
What does belonging to a
Z-Club mean to the youth?
• ZI and District 4 want to see expansion!
• Stimulate your club with a fresh opportunity for a new Service
& Advocacy project to engage your members, a calendar they
can plan around
• Bring out the "inner teacher" and "inner mother" instincts of
your Zontians in mentoring high school students through the
Z-Club
• Utilize your members' business experience and professional
ties to give Z-Club programs, conduct field trips, explore
internships, and boost young women's readiness for higher
education and work
Why Should Your Zonta
Club Sponsor a Z-Club?
• Open pathways to future Zonta Club membership
• Enhance students' candidacy for Zonta scholarships
• Build up a clear, long-term partnership between your
Zonta club and the community high school--PR benefit
and increased good will
• New basis to connect your club to ZI Area, District, and
International clubs to show what you're doing, learn what
others are doing, and raise your club's profile
• What do you think?
Why Should Your Zonta Club
Sponsor a Z-Club? (cont'd)
• ZI Website: “Z Club International " New Manual
(June 2014)
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History and service projects
Organizing a new Z-Club
Procedures and packet information
Z-Club charter presentation
Meeting guidelines
Report forms
Emma Conlon Award
Model Z-Club By-laws
How to Get Started with a
Z-Club?
• Identify potential "champions" for a Z-Club from within
your club's members--need at least 2 to co-chair effort
• Need Zonta "champions" who can bring leadership,
coordination, and continuity for 2-3 year period--within
your club, to the high school, with the students
• Identify potential high school(s) to partner with--consider
school location, administration, range of current student
clubs, student diversity
• Interview with school leadership to determine a good fit
How to Get Started with a
Z-Club? (cont'd)
• Contact District 4 leadership for guidance as needed
• Complete the 2-page ZI "New Z-Club Authorization"
form, send with $25 for charter registration to Zonta
International
• Arrange for ceremonial new Z-club charter activities with
the school and your own Zonta club
• Start now! Get organized over the summer, be ready to
go when school opens for the fall
How to Get Started with a
Z-Club? (cont'd)
• Zonta International website--Z-Club documents in
various places
• Get to know and monitor Zonta International's United
Nations projects--and be able to present details about
them to the Z-Club members
• Challenge the Z-Club students to investigate more about
the ZI international projects to expand their knowledge
about the countries in which the projects take place,
including their location on maps, educational systems,
health care services, status of women--and understand
why the ZI/UN projects can make a difference
Ideas and Resources for a
Z-Club
• Develop quizzes for Z-Club students to stimulate learning more
about the history and location of Zonta clubs around the world
• Monitor your community newspapers--what's new and influential
that would attract high school women to participate with your Zonta
club to accomplish something unique or important or especially fun?
• For District 4--contact Shirley Ellison and upcoming District 4 ZClub and Golden-Z-Club Committee ([email protected])
• Reach out to other Zonta clubs sponsoring Z-Clubs and Golden-ZClubs
• Contribute your beginnings, your successes to District 4 website
Ideas and Resources for a
Z-Club (cont'd)
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Attend school functions
Present awards in person on Award Nights
Enlist a teacher as a new Zontian
Ask the students “who is your favorite teacher?”
What the students grow and take leadership roles
Ideas for connecting
with staff and teachers
• What to say to get teachers involved?
• How share the resources (video)
• Do any of your clubs sponsor a Z-Club or
Golden Z-Club?
• Have you in the past?
• Share your experience.
Questions?
Thank you for participating in Z Club International 101
If you have any ideas or need help in starting a Z Club
e mail me at
[email protected]
Thank you
for attending