1. How to be a Great Key Club Member

2. Help with Membership Recruitment and Retention Service Projects
Publicity
You have to keep and gain members, and know creative ways to do so.
Fun and creative projects are part of keeping members. Creative Projects can be hard to plan, but can be the best projects.
Publicity allows your idea to spread and become popular.

3. Membership Retention & Recruitment
Food at meetings
Pizza and snacks is a great way to entice people to come to meetings.
Member of the month
Have baked goods for winner each month; have a certificate for them (include photos and descriptions of what they did to earn the award from throughout Key Club year)
Icebreakers
great for people to get to know one another and feel included in the club.
When you have member of the month photos or service events you can make a slideshow of photos during meetings:
Include photos from recent service projects or other events to show members who did not attend what they missed so that they will attend the next event. You can also put these photos in club’s Facebook group.
Scrapbook throughout year, instead of waiting until close to the deadline to make a scrapbook for the DCON contest. Ask your editor or committee chair if he/she is willing to create the scrapbook throughout the year and occasionally bring it to meetings (same concept as slideshows during meetings)

4. Membership Retention & Recruitment
Share fun Key Club facts
Famous people that were in Key Club (Bill Clinton, Tom Cruise, Elvis Presley, Brad Pitt)
Put this information on posters, announcements, Facebook posts, word of mouth.
Contests between grades
Which grade can raise the most money or perform the most service hours?

5. Membership Retention & Recruitment
Bowling
Talk to a bowling alley to see if they can give your club a deal (e.g., discounted rate for lane, then charge Key Club members normal rate to make a profit)
Dinner/lunch at restaurants
Ask if they can give your club a percentage of the money (choose popular restaurants for teens, or snack places, such as frozen yogurt shops)

6. Membership Retention & Recruitment
Movie Nights
Open to your entire club or school, charge admission or charge for food
Meeting dates posted around school
Post flyers and posters with the date
Bring friends to meetings
If everyone in your club brought a friend your club size would double

7. Membership Retention & Recruitment
Leadership development activities
Frequent service projects
Making the members feel important
Member only ice-cream socials
Tournaments
1. Leadership development activities-explain each; include other more field day-like examples (e.g., water balloon toss, relay races)
2. Frequent service projects; In-meetings and outside of school (will give examples on next slides)
3. Ask members to be Committee Chairs, so they become familiar with leadership.
4. Having social events that are member only, will keep members and bring members in.
Icebreakers

8. Service Projects Projects during meetings
Making cards for the military
PB&J for the homeless shelter
Reading with younger students
Making get well soon bags for children in hospitals
1. Having projects during meetings will bring more members to the meetings.
2. A simple, no-time,easy project is making card for the military or nursing home
3. Contacting your local soup kitchen and making food for them is a hands-on meaningful projects members will love.
4. Reading with younger students-easiest of elementary school on campus or close to school; coordinate with teachers to spend time reading with or tutoring younger students after having quick informational meeting

9. Service Projects Beach/Park clean up Concerts Carnivals
Directing parking at city events
Fundraisers for organizations
1. Some examples include: March of Dimes, Jeans for Teens, Habitat for Humanity, and Miracle Network
2. Fun, summer time projects that members will want to participate in
3. Concerts-local bands, charge admission, at school or local arena
4. Hold a carnival at your school for a local elementary school and promote values to them. Ex. Drug awareness.
5. Find a way to directly help your community

10. Publicity Be sure to get your friends to your club’s meetings.
Key club week is a great time to invite friends to service projects.
Partner up with other clubs that participate in service to spread the impact of your club throughout your campus.
Host events on your school’s campus to get the attention of other people at your school.
1. Flash mob-use flash mob to raise awareness for certain cause, ask permission to pass out flyers about whatever you’re raising awareness about
2. Displays on campus-e.g., mesh cage with all the water bottles thrown away/recycled on campus in one week to raise awareness about plastic waste
3. Habitat for Humanity-partner with other clubs to raise enough money to build a house, or commit to volunteer every Saturday
4. Fair-organize a fair with games and food for local community to support an organization; also could put on the fair for the children who are part of a certain organization, i.e. Boys and Girls Club

11. Resources
Your Lieutenant Governor and Assistant Administrator can answer any question you may have.