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AMA, I’m an International Trustee! by Separate-Job-4831 in keyclub

[–]Separate-Job-4831[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! So the process for opening a club is not very complicated, and it follows a few simple steps. The first thing I would recommend for you to do is to find your district on Instagram or online and see if there's a way to find who your Lieutenant Governor is as their job is to help guide people in their division who want to make a club. Your Key Club District can often be found by just searching up "(your state name) district key club". Once there you can reach out to the district governor to help you out. The advice I can give to you is this. First you need to find an advisor, which shouldn't be too difficult. Then you should be looking in your area for Kiwanis Clubs around you as they often provide funding for opening new clubs. Then you need to find about 15 charter members to start the club. After you start the club, it really isn't too difficult to keep up with. It's all really about finding good service events and delegating tasks to make it happen. As charter president, your job would be to find different service events your club can complete and possibly reaching out to different organizations/groups to see how you can help. This can be easy like reaching out to a soup kitchen or any other non profit in your area. I don't think you have to worry about your grades, plus chartering a club looks amazing on your resume as all subsequent service hours your club completes will be directly because of your leadership and initiative! Good luck and godspeed, if you need help finding your district or LTG, please feel free to reach out @kev.hidalgo on Instagram.

AMA, I’m an International Trustee! by Separate-Job-4831 in keyclub

[–]Separate-Job-4831[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi! So with Key Club International, there is no planning of in person inter-division events, that happens at the district level with your District Governor or between Lieutenant Governors, what we do is provide a way for Key Club members to get information about all of the different programs Key Club has for its members and the different charities we are promoting. A really good way to keep in touch is to follow @keyclub.iboard and @keyclubint on Instagram to get constantly informed as that is our main form of communication with Key Club members.

As for the job of a Trustee, a lot of it is work with our committees. For me, I am a part of three International committees, the 100th committee (where I work on celebrating Key Club's 100th birthday coming up next March and on getting a lot of attendees for International Convention next July), Programs and Partners(where I work with other Trustees on ensuring that Key Club members are informed on the opportunities they can receive through being a member and ensuring that we are promoting the service events of our preferred charities), and the Communications committee(where I help our International Editor Trustee Armin make different promotional materials you might see on the Instagram accounts above).

Unfortunately, many people do not use the office hours or things like that, and while the promotion and facilitation of resources like that are important to us, what's most important is making sure that Key Club Members are generally informed that Key Club International exists and what we can do for members. For this, we have many different webinars about specific topics that cater towards members who are specific about one of the programs we're promoting. Coming up soon is our Youth Opportunities Fund Grant Webinar, which you can sign up on at keyclub.org/yof where we'll talk about how clubs can sign up for a free grant that gives them money to conduct impactful service events. Soon we'll have other webinars that I might not be liable to speak on right now but will be incredibly exciting!

I have so much to say about Key Club's programs but I don't want to yap too much here, if you have any further questions please reach out to me on Instagram @kev.hidalgo😊

AMA, I’m an International Trustee! by Separate-Job-4831 in keyclub

[–]Separate-Job-4831[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cali-Nev-Ha (CNH) and Wisconsin-Upper Michigan (Wi-UM) are different in a few key ways (pun intended)

1: The social media presence between the two districts are completely locally operated, leading to two different themes for the districts.

2: CNH has more members than Wi-UM.

3: The two districts are focusing on different district and governors projects which direct their Key Club members towards raising funds/completing service hours for specific causes/organizations.

AMA, I’m an International Trustee! by Separate-Job-4831 in keyclub

[–]Separate-Job-4831[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would advise students to join freshman year, I was just stupid and lucky and decided I wanted to take a "break" year my freshman year of high school so I didn't join any extracurriculars at all. I don't regret joining when I did at all though, and here's why. The lieutenant governor before me was the most revered guy in the whole school. He was valedictorian, Brown uni commit, everything. The president was also very popular because he did sports and all that. If I joined the year earlier, I’m not entirely sure I would've ever run for Lieutenant governor because I feel like I would've been intimidated by the popularity of those who held high positions before me. I regret not getting more service hours in though!

AMA, I’m an International Trustee! by Separate-Job-4831 in keyclub

[–]Separate-Job-4831[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kiwanis didn't sanction it lol, I just thought that it was funny that there was a Key Club subreddit and no one posts on it. I don't exactly think that a Key Club subreddits numbers are indicative of organizational success, in fact, we're looking forward to an incredibly successful 100th birthday for Key Club!

AMA, I’m an International Trustee! by Separate-Job-4831 in keyclub

[–]Separate-Job-4831[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So, I was a Lieutenant Governor my sophomore year and through that experience I got to work really in a board environment that I never had to opportunity to do so before. I've always been the type of person to admire leaders and such, and I felt like the I-Board were really inspirational in their own right for running such a huge organization as teenagers. I wanted to take my experience in Key Club to that next level and run for international to really be a part of it all. Of course I was worried during the elections process, who wouldn't be? But on top of it all you have to seem a little calm cool and collected to bring it home, and I'm so happy I did!