Program Partners & Preferred Charities
Key Club International has partnered with three organizations to help serve the children of the world (including US HIGH SCHOOLERS!), Erika's Lighthouse, Schoolhouse, and The Nature Conservancy. The two Key Club preferred charities, UNICEF and Thirst Project, are ways we connect with Key Clubbers around the globe to raise funds and awareness for their charities.
We encourage clubs and divisions to hold service projects or fundraisers that benefit these organizations. Below is some information about what each organization does and how you, your club, and your division can help them. For more information, visit KCI's site.
Erika's Lighthouse
Our mission is to make sure no young person feels alone in their depression. We are dedicated to creating a community of empathy and education. We create upper elementary, middle school and high school teen depression awareness programs so educators and teens can create safe spaces to learn about depression, letting students know they are never alone, and there is somewhere to turn.
Visit their site for more information and ways to help HERE. There are small things you can do easily at a meeting or on campus.
Schoolhouse
Key Club has partnered with Schoolhouse to bring free tutoring to thousands of learners across the world. If you're interested in learning something new, or you're interested in becoming a tutor yourself, sign up today!
Click HERE to volunteer or get support.
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy is a global conservation organization dedicated to conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. Guided by science, The Nature Conservancy creates innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world’s toughest challenges so that nature and people can thrive together
Click HERE for more information and ways to help.
Here are specific links to a ToolKit, "How To" Guide, and Nature lab (for videos and teacher resources) and to help you get started.
UNICEF
UNICEF works to meet children's needs with service, health care, education, and safe water and sanitation throughout the world. To assist in this project, Key Clubbers around the world partake in Trick or Treat for UNICEF every October.
Start Strong: Zambia: Members around the world are raising money to help young children in Zambia, a southeastern African nation, have the best start at life possible.
Click HERE for more information and ways to help.
Thirst Project
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Thirst Project is a nonprofit organization that works with the support of young people to END the global water crisis by building freshwater wells in developing communities that need safe, clean drinking water.
To learn more, Click HERE. Learn how YOU can invite a Trailblazer Speaker to your campus ASAP!