What is Key Club?

Mission statement:

�Key Club is an international, student-led organization providing its members with opportunities to perform service, build character, and develop leadership�

Key Club is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. What makes Key Club so successful is the fact that it is a student-led organization that teaches leadership through serving others. Members of the Kiwanis International family, Key Club members build themselves as they build their schools and communities.

Today, Key Club exists on almost 5,000 high school campuses, primarily in the United States and Canada. Growth efforts, however, have taken the Key Club experience internationally to Canada, the Caribbean nations, Central and South America, and most recently to Asia and Australia.

Key Club International is an organization of individual Key Clubs and is funded by nominal dues paid by every member. Its officers are high school leaders elected by the members at district and International conventions. The organization offers a wide range of opportunities to its members:

Leadership development
Vocational guidance
College scholarships
Subscription to the KEYNOTER magazine
Service-learning
Personal enrichment
Value-added member benefit programs
Liability insurance coverage

Originally, Key Club adopted as its motto, �We Build,� the same motto as its parent organization, Kiwanis International. In 1976, the organization opted to change its motto to �Caring � Our Way of Life� because these words more clearly conveyed members� reasons for helping others.*

Key Club Pledge

I pledge, on my honor,
to uphold the Objects of Key Club International;
to build my home, school and community;
to serve my nation and God;
and combat all forces which tend to undermine these institutions.

Motto

Caring � Our Way of Life

Objects

To develop initiative and leadership.
To provide experience in living and working together.
To serve the school and community.
To cooperate with the school principal.
To prepare for useful citizenship.
To accept and promote the following ideals:

    To give primacy to the human and spiritual, rather than to the material values of life.
    To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
    To promote the adoption and application of higher standards in scholarship, sportsmanship, and social contacts.
    To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
    To provide a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render unselfish service, and to build better communities.
    To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which makes possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and good will.

Key Club Colors

BLUE: Unwavering character GOLD: Service WHITE: Purity

*Taken from www.keyclub.org.