Eva Donahue emdonahue@smcps.org
Key Club Faculty Advisor

 

From left to right: Amy Lee, Alexa Cohen, Chelsea Baxter, Matthew Brigham, Karina Fontanez, and Sponsors Eva Donahue and Glynnis Schmidt.

Mission:

An international, student-led organization providing its members with opportunities to perform service, build character, and develop leadership.

 

Key Club:

Key Club is the largest high school service leadership organization in the world.

 

Key Club empowers its quarter million youth members to lead and serve in almost 5,000 clubs in 24 nations. Providing more than 12 million service hours annually, Key Club proves to be an ever-popular high school organization for teenagers seeking to cultivate leadership skills, develop friendships, and perform service in their communities. Since the first Key Club at Sacramento High School (California) in 1925, Key Club members demonstrate a passion for helping others and develop excellent leadership skills they carry with them for a lifetime.

 

Student-Led:

Key Club 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.

 

Inclusiveness:

The requirements for Key Club membership are set forth in the Bylaws of Key Club International. Specifically, Key Club membership is open to any student who desires to become a leader in his/her school and community and wishes to provide services to others.

 

Leadership:

Every Key Club elects its own officers annually. A president, one or more vice-presidents, a secretary, a treasurer and an editor are elected each year. The club is organized into committees, which are responsible for planning and implementing the club’s service projects, social activities, and leadership development. To be successful, it is important that every Key Club member find a role in the club.

 

Caring: Our Way of Life:

Each Key Club has autonomy to select and plan its own service projects. However, members unite to make an international impact under the banner of the Major Emphasis Program, Children: Their Future Our Focus. There are two components to The MEP: Service Partners and Service Initiative. Partnered with Key Club International are UNICEF, Read and Lead, March of Dimes, and Children’s Miracle Network. The Key Club Service Initiative invites members to serve children in an educational hands-on-approach and charges every two years to meet the needs of children.