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Mission Statement
"Key Club is an international student-led organization which provides its members
with opportunities to provide service, build character and develop leadership."
Vision
"To develop competent, capable, and caring leaders through the vehicle of service."
Core Values
The core values of Key Club International are leadership, character building, caring,
and inclusiveness.
Pledge
I pledge, on my honor,
to uphold the Objects of Key Club International;
to
build my home, school and community;
to serve my nation and God;
and combat all forces which tend to undermine these
institutions.
Motto
Caring – Our Way of Life
Originally, Key Club adopted as its motto, “We Build,” the same motto
as its parent organization, Kiwanis International. In 1976, the organization opted to change its motto to “Caring –
Our Way of Life” because these words more clearly conveyed members’ reasons for helping others.
Objects
- To develop initiative and leadership.
- To provide experience in living and
working together.
- To serve the school and community.
- To cooperate with the school principal.
- To prepare for useful citizenship.
- To accept and promote the following
ideals:
- To give primacy to the human and spiritual,
rather than to the material values of life.
- To encourage the daily living of the
Golden Rule in all human relationships.
- To promote the adoption and application
of higher standards in scholarship, sportsmanship, and social contacts.
- To develop, by precept and example,
a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
- To provide a practical means to form
enduring friendships, to render unselfish service, and to build better communities.
- To cooperate in creating and maintaining
that sound public opinion and high idealism which makes possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and good
will.
History of Key Club
Key Club is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. What
makes Key Club so successful is the fact that it is a student-led organization that teaches leadership through serving others.
Members of the Kiwanis International family, Key Club members build themselves as they build their schools and communities.
Today, Key Club exists on almost 5,000 high school campuses, primarily in the United
States and Canada. Growth efforts, however, have taken the Key Club experience internationally to Canada, the Caribbean nations,
Central and South America, and most recently to Asia and Australia.
Key Club International 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. The organization offers a wide range of opportunities to its members:
- Leadership development
- Vocational guidance
- College scholarships
- Subscription to the KEYNOTER magazine
- Service-learning
- Personal enrichment
- Value-added member benefit programs
- Liability insurance coverage
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