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October 2013

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CONTENTS

Page 3 ..................................................... Eliminate News

Page 4 .................................. Guide to the Eliminate Website

Page 6 ....................................... Trick or Treat for UNICEF

Page 7 ....................................... Awareness Before Careness

Page 8 ................................................... Fall Fundraisers

Page 9 ...................................Club Spotlight: Berlin Key Club

Page 10 ..................................................... Resource Page

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ELIMINATE NEWS

The Switzerland-

Liechtenstein district is the

10th district to break US$1

million in funds, and they

are also the first European

district to reach this

milestone.

Hello WIUM Key Clubbers!

I hope you all have had a fabulous beginning of the school year!

As October comes to a close, don’t forget to send in your Trick Or

Treat for UNICEF funds! I am looking forward to sending out a lot

of thank you cards next month after the reports come in. As always,

if you have any questions, feel free to email or Facebook me. Happy

Halloween!!

Yours in Service and Dedication,

Baylee Radke

The Walter Zeller Fellowship

award was recently

awarded to someone

unique in the Pennsylvania

District: groundhog

Punxsutawney Phil!

Check out the article here

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Under this page you can find all of the basic information about UNICEF and it’s partners working

to Eliminate Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus, what MNT is, and a brief estimate of how many

women have been vaccinated so far in the world. The second sub-tab is titled “Do Your Part”,

and it describes the symptoms of the disease, and also covers the 5 year plan (featured on Page

1) in detail. On the Updates sub-tab, the 34 countries with MNT present are listed, along with the 25 countries

that have already eliminated MNT. The partnership between Kiwanis and UNICEF can be found on the last tab

under MNT, along with how they worked together to complete it’s first global campaign to eliminate Iodine

Deficiency Disorder in the 1990’s.

The main page under the Resources tab is divided into sections based on who you are

planning on presenting to. Whether it is potential donors, clubs hearing about the cam-

paign for the first time, non-Kiwanis organizations, etc., you name the type of group that

you are presenting to, and it is likely to be listed along with the proper resources linked

beside it. Check out the sub-tabs below to find out what else the Eliminate website has to offer.

New resources– Did you fall in love with the “Dance, Baby, Dance” t-shirts worn by the Key Club members at

ICON? You can find the design in this section along with new brochures, t-shirt designs for MNT walks, and also

buttons.

Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF– This will give an explanation of what Trick or Treat for UNICEF is, where to send the

funds, and also how you can get recognition for participating in the event.

Club Toolkits– Under Club Toolkits, there are links to pages with ideas on service projects, fundraisers, public

relations, a social media toolkit, and also a membership toolkit.

Newsletters– Links are provided here to both the SLP newsletters, and the Eliminate Project Newsletters.

Presentations– Includes various downloadable power points, and also talking points.

Banner Displays– Banner displays are downloadable in PDF form under this sub-tab, and it also comes with

guidelines on how to properly display the banners.

Brochures– Topics include: pledge forms, by the numbers fact sheets, FAQ’s, list of countries with MNT, infor-

mational brochures, and much more!

Videos– There are several different videos, targeting all branches of the Kiwanis family, and even a special

video featuring Jamie lee Curtis!

Photos– Photos to be used in power points of women and children from Cambodia

Logo Resources– Three different forms of the Eliminate logo are available for download, along with a guide

on proper usage of the logo.

Have you ever visited the Eliminate website and not known how to properly use it? Don’t worry, be-

cause this page gives an outline of all of the different tabs and resources that are provided to you!

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The progress of the Eliminate Project is shown on a map. It is color coded by where fund-

raising is currently in progress, the countries where MNT is already eliminated, and also

the countries where MNT is still a threat. When you click on an individual country, it

shows how much of the country has been eliminated of the disease, and stories are also

featured from that particular country. The next two sub tabs explain the map and how to properly use it.

The sub-tab “Summary of Fundraising Totals by District” lists all of the different districts in chart form, along

with each of their totals. Thanks to all of the branches of the Kiwanis Family in our District, we have raised

$119, 750 for the project so far.

The SLP Fundraising totals is similar, but instead totals it internationally by Kiwanis Family Branch. Congrats Key

Clubbers– we have raised $732,369 so far!

On Worldwide Report Day each year, the totals are recorded, and charted under the Worldwide Report

Day tab along with a brief article about the campaign’s progress over the year.

Under the recognition tab are different levels of recognition along with descriptions on how they can be

achieved, and also what they will receive for their hard work. The different awards under each of the levels

are outlined below.

Individual Level:

Lead Gift Donor– Individual gifts of $100,000 and higher

Major Gift Donor– Individual gifts of $25,000 to $100,000

Diamond Level Walter Zeller Fellowship– Awarded for multiple increments of the Zeller Fellowship

Walter Zeller Fellowship– Individual gifts of $1,250

Impact Donor– 350 lives saved or protected

Impact Donor--175 lives saved or protected

Club Level:

100k Club– Clubs who have raised $100,000 or more

Model Club– Reached a per member average of $750

Global Service Society– Awards based on different levels (from diamond to bronze)

100% Participation Award

Chairman’s Spirit Award– Clubs who have shown commitment throughout the entire campaign

Volunteer level: Various awards for campaign leaders at every level

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We want this to be our biggest Trick or Treat for UNICEF year

yet. Last year we had approximately 2,400 clubs participate,

with 53 Key Clubs being from the Wisconsin-Upper Michigan

District. If you participated last year, your club will receive

Trick or Treat for UNICEF boxes the second week of Septem-

ber. If you are new to the project, boxes will be available to

order at http://store.kiwanis.org/store/Kiwanis on September

16th. If you send in your photos, or post them in your Division-

al Facebook pages by November 10th,

you could see your club in the Novem-

ber edition of the Eliminate Spotlight!

For more information: http://sites.kiwanis.org/Kiwanis/en/

theELIMINATEproject/SLP/TrickortreatforUNICEF.aspx

For Alternate Fall Fundraisers: http://sites.kiwanis.org/Kiwanis/en/

theELIMINATEproject/SLP/TrickortreatforUNICEF/Fundraisingideas_TOT.aspx

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Awareness Before CarenessAwareness Before Careness

Submitted by Kristen Rosen

Everyone should know that before you start fundraising, every club needs to

spread awareness about the Eliminate Project. There are a million different

ways to gossip about the Eliminate Project:

Use the hashtag #Elimin8 on some Eliminate related posts while

you’re out saving lives (You could get a favorite and a retweet!)

Get approval by your school principal or administrator to decorate

your school or halls in the Eliminate colors: Dark blue, light blue, and

white.

Create posters at a club meeting; invite everyone to bring some

snacks and color posters during a meeting, and then display them in

the school afterwards

Have your school announcements or school newspaper cover a story

about the Eliminate Project. You could even try to get your local

newspaper to cover what the Eliminate Project is, and their mission.

At an ICON workshop, I learned that in big schools if all Key Club

members sport a shirt that has maternal and neonatal tetanus

facts on them, many people will start asking questions about the

shirts and about MNT.

You can talk to your division’s Eliminate Committee

member, or you can find plenty of tools, banners,

videos and more at http://sites.kiwanis.org/

Kiwanis/en/theELIMINATEproject/home.aspx

under the resource tab!

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Fall Fundraisers A “hole” lotta fun. Start a Halloween-themed cornhole tournament. Build and decorate

cornhole boards to look like jack-o’-lanterns. Cut out holes where the eyes and mouth

are and make or buy bean bags. Ask teams to pay US$5 to compete in the tourna-

ment.

Appeal to their tastes. Sponsor a pumpkin pie bake-off. If you attract professional bak-

ers, divide entries into two categories: one for the pros and one for amateurs. Charge

US$1.80 for each small slice of pie. Include a whipped cream, ice cream and topping

buffet for an additional fee.

A place to play. Set up a fall play day for moms with young children. Have club mem-

bers sign up to staff booths for face-painting, games, sock-puppet theater and more.

Ask for a small admission fee and see if nearby businesses would like to sponsor one of

your activities. It’s also a great opportunity to educate mothers about The Eliminate

Project. See if you can also partner with the local parent-teacher group at your high

school to gain their support for your initiative.

Cast your vote. Ask area farmers and pumpkin patch proprietors to donate pumpkins

for a decorating event. Set aside time during a club meeting for each member to dec-

orate one of the pumpkins. Ask if you can set up a display at the pumpkin patch or at

a local library or business. For built-in crowds and publicity, partner with an apple or-

chard that hosts pumpkin patch activities. Have people vote for their favorite design

by putting money in a Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF collection box. The pumpkin with the

most donations wins!

Collect Donations while Trick or Treating. While going house-to-house in your quest for

sweets, collect funds for The Eliminate Project.

Create Frankenstein’s laboratory. Decorate a “mad lab” table for your school lobby or

outside the cafeteria. Schedule white lab coat-clad volunteers to run the sale of

“concoctions” before and between classes. Sell candy-filled test tubes or syringes as

well as other such fiendish confections. Go towww.myrainbowdust.com for bulk test

tubes and candy. Or visit http://www.orientaltrading.com for countless bulk Halloween

candies and novelties.

Get in the game. Sponsor a powderpuff football tournament like the Myers High School

Key Club did. Charge for admission and refreshments.

Hold a Seriously Spooky Bake Sale. Whip up some creepy treats for a

bake sale at your school.

Hold a Creepy Crawly Car Wash. Who wouldn’t want to get their car

washed by a prince or princess? Your club will have a blast seeing

each other in costumes while helping raise funds to save moms and

babies.

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Host a horrorfest. Obtain the rights to show a scary or wickedly funny

Halloween film at your high school through www.swank.com. Ask area

grocers and restaurants to donate concession foods and supplies. Re-

cruit parents and teachers to chaperone and assist with running the

event. Then publicize your movie night well in advance at school, in

the community and on social media outlets.

Host a “spooktacular” festival. Put on a Halloween-themed carnival like

the Key Club at Pinnacle High School did. Charge small fees for tickets

to play games, make crafts and eat spooky snacks. Include family-friendly activities for

younger children as well as traditional scary activities for older kids and teens.

Host a Trunk-or-Treat. Partner with Kiwanis family clubs from your district to host a Hallow-

een tailgate. Find an appropriate parking lot with good lighting and determine activities.

Decorate your rides with dangling spiders, cobwebs and other festive materials. Invite

community members to visit each vehicle or booth for fun treats and concoctions in ex-

change for a donation to help save moms and babies.

Host a “Twilight” dance. Charge US$5 admission and invite guests to come as their favorite

blood-sucking characters. Enlist chaperones so you can party until “breaking dawn”—but

not a minute after—similar to a post-prom lock-in at the gym. Publicize and sell tickets early

(with a cut-off deadline) to determine attendance and food requirements.

Run for the cause. Host a 1-, 3- or 5K Zombie Run the weekend before Halloween. Encour-

age the “undead” to wear ghoulish getups, and honor those with the most disgusting, most

horrifying or most hilarious costumes. Ask local shops and eateries for prize donations in ex-

change for sponsorship mentions. And require runners to raise at least US$25 in pledges for

The Eliminate Project to be eligible for prizes. Check the October 2013 Kiwanis magazine for

a story about a zombie run that raised US$14,000.

Sponsor a haunted house competition—a haunted gingerbread house competition, that

is! Charge participants US$5 to display their haunted houses or ghoulish graveyards outside

your school cafeteria or in the lobby. Classmates and school staff can then buy 50-cent

tickets to use as ballots and vote for their favorites. See if businesses will donate prizes, such

as spirit wear, fast food gift certificates and movie coupons.

Start a pumpkin smash. Ask area farmers and pumpkin patch proprietors to donate un-

sellable pumpkins for a punkin-chunkin’ event. For built-in crowds and publicity, partner

with an apple orchard that hosts pumpkin patch activities. Seek a salvage yard to donate

a car to serve as the target, and then ¬ find a hardware retailer to donate materials (and

expertise) to build your catapult. Stage your event at the pumpkin patch and charge US$5

per pumpkin hurl. Check out the video of White Oaks Secondary School Key Club’s pump-

kin smash at www.keyclub.org/pumpkinsmash.

Fall Fundraisers cont.

IDEAS OFF OF THE ELIMINATE PROJECT WEBSITE

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TOTAL RAISED: US$370+TOTAL RAISED: US$370+

Instead of Trick-or-Treating for UNICEF we decided to take a different spin on it and

have a fundraiser at our towns fall festival, Pumpkins on Petunia’s. Since it was a fall festi-

val we wanted to incorporate fall into our fundraiser as much as possible; one of the first

things that you think of when you hear the word fall are the leaves changing colors. In

honor of fall and saving lives we created the ‘Tree of Life’.

Knowing that one dose of the vaccine is $0.60 and that in order for a mother and

her future children to be protected from

contracting MNT they need 3 doses we de-

cided to sell the leaves for $2 so that each

leaf saved a life. Not only did we sell leaves

but we also sold Threads of Hope for $1 and

received half of the profit for the Eliminate

Project.

Going into this project we had no

idea how it would turn out, but with the

help of many dedicated Key Clubbers we

came together and made it a success. We

split up the group and had half of them go

around and try and sell leaves and bracelets while the other half stayed at the booth

and sold leaves and bracelets. To thank people for helping the Eliminate Project we

handed out free cookies for people who bought either a leaf or a bracelet.

Even though the weather was raining and cold we still managed to raise $151

from selling the leaves and $228 from selling Threads of Hope; making it a grand total of

$379.10.

Article Written and Submitted by: Maddy Bologna, Berlin Key Club President

SERVICE SPOTLIGHT: BERLIN KEY CLUB

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WIUM Eliminate Page- http://www.wiumkeyclub.com/the-eliminate-project.html

Eliminate Project Website- http://sites.kiwanis.org/Kiwanis/en/theELIMINATEproject/home.aspx

Eliminate Project on Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/TheEliminateProject

Eliminate Project on Twitter- https://twitter.com/EliminateMNT

New Eliminate Graphics- http://sites.kiwanis.org/kiwanis/en/theeliminateproject/blogs/13-04-01/

Celebrate_Eliminate_Week_May_6%E2%80%9310.aspx

Step by Step Planning Guide for Eliminate Week- http://www.keyclub.org/service/TheEliminateProject/

Celebrate_Eliminate_Week/Step_by_step_guide.aspx

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