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  • How fresh is your club website?

    How does your club website rate? Anelis C. of South Dakota said it best: “I think it is very important to keep your website updated. If someone is interested in your club, they would like to know what’s happening now …”
    Here’s an easy 1-2-3 test. Make sure these three critical areas of your home page are current, with nothing older than 30 days:

    1. Club news
    2. Events calendar
    3. Welcome message or details about your club and club meetings

    If yours doesn’t pass, help is only a few clicks away. Get ready-to-run news briefs at www.kiwanisone.org/readytorun. Schedule at least one event per month and post meeting dates and details promptly on your calendar. Post a welcome message and some information about your club front and center on your home page. And see www.kiwanisone.org/idealsite for examples.

    Got your website basics under control? Then take it to the next level by consulting the best practices checklist at www.kiwanisone.org/webtools

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  • Journey of a thousand steps begins with one pair of shoes

    Would you to like to go to school barefoot? Might be fun for a while but how about if you had to walk for miles every day to get there over dusty rocky roads, risking cuts, infections and worms? Not so much fun after all.

    But fewer children in Tanzania are forced to attend school barefooted after an Illinois Kiwanian’s detour off his 2008 African safari. Seeing firsthand the disparity between the material wealth of his own country and that of those barefooted kids, Rich Rosenberg decided to found Soles for Africa to distribute gently-used shoes to African schoolchildren. With the help of his local York Community High School Key Club, Rosenberg has sent more than 3,000 pairs of shoes to those in need – kids helping other kids one step at a time.

    To learn how your club can foot the cause, too, see page 26 in the June 2011 issue of Kiwanis magazine at www.kiwanismagazine.org

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  • Kiwanis magazine’s June edition is now online

    The sun never sets on the Kiwanis family. With clubs in more than 80 countries, members of CKI and Key Club are serving 24-7-365. In June, Kiwanis magazine goes global with stories about how the Kiwanis family reaches beyond their own country’s borders—and beyond their comfort zones—to make an international difference.

    Their efforts:
    Provide clean drinking water and new shoes—An Arizona couple’s leap of faith to fund a new well grows to include building a new school and help for entire Cambodian village, page 15, and an Illinois Key Club collects gently-used shoes for a local Kiwanian’s foundation that helps children in Tanzania, page 24.

    Rebuild structures and their clubs—The resurgent College of the Bahamas CKI club resurrects an unfulfilled Key Club dream to rebuild the chapel at an HIV/AIDS camp on Kiwanis One Day, page 28, and Key Club members from Bradenton, Florida, tackle a major home fix-up, Extreme Home “Keyover”-style, page 32.

    Save kids from IDD—As The Eliminate Project kicks off,  take a look back at how Kiwanis’ first global service project, eliminating iodine-deficiency disorders, is faring after US$100 million and nearly 17 years of effort from Kiwanis family members like you, page 34.

    We also invite you to take an active role in your Kiwanis magazine:

    You’ll find the June edition as well as archived issues at www.kiwanismagazine.org

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  • Check out the new Builders Club online

    A new Builders Club website has launched at www.buildersclub.org, just in time to give members, advisors and parents an introduction before summer vacation. Buildersclub.org continues the layout strategy that Key Club started last June. The overall design theme has not changed, but the navigation, home page and content were overhauled. This format has already launched with Key Club, Key Leader and Aktion Club and is receiving positive feedback from all users.

    Check it out and send us your feedback at buildersclub@kiwanis.org

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  • Lost your tax-exempt status? We’ll help you fix it!

    Was your club one of the approximately 275,000 organizations whose 501(c)(3) status has been revoked? Has your club completed the mandatory annual report filing, now required by the IRS in order to maintain tax-exempt status?
     
    Join us Thursday, July 14 at 4 p.m. ET for this very important and FREE webinar to learn how your club can regain and maintain its tax-exempt status. Let our experts guide you through the process!
     
    Space is limited, so reserve your webinar seat now online. For those who can’t make it on July 14, the webinar will be archived on KiwanisOne.org with links to necessary IRS forms.

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