About CKI
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What is Circle K International?
Circle K International is the world's largest collegiate service organization. We promote service, leadership,
and fellowship to our members and to the community that we serve. The club is sponsored by Kiwanis International
as part of their youth services programs. It allows the young people of today to become more responsible leaders
for tomorrow. Check out the international website here
What is our Mission?
Developing college
and university students into responsible citizens and leaders with
a lifelong commitment to serving the children of the world.
What is our Motto?
"Live
to Serve. Love to Serve."
I pledge
to uphold the objects of Circle K International, to foster compassion
and goodwill towards others through service and leadership, to
develop my abilities and the abilities of all people, and to dedicate
myself to the realization of mankind's potential.
Circle K Internal Structure
Like other large
organizations, there is a vertical structure in Circle K. Basic levels
and brief explanations are outlined below:
Club - This
level is comprised of members within a particular school or university.
Here, a board of officers runs the operations of the club. A president,
administrative vice president, service vice president, treasurer, and
secretary make up the executive board. Our club is the Circle K International
- University of California Berkeley Chapter.
Division
- Each club is part of a division, which is comprised of other clubs
within a close demographic area. Each division has an elected Lieutenant
Governor (LTG) whose job is to bring clubs of the division together
and assist them with their individual needs. Our club falls under the
Golden Gate Division, which comprises of schools such as San Francisco
State University, De Anza College, Ohlone College, etc.
Our club falls under the Golden Gate Division, which comprises of the following schools: California State University East Bay, De Anza College, Foothill College, San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, Santa Rosa Junior College, and University of California Berkeley
District
- Each club in a division then falls under a district which is usually
bounded by state lines. Our district is the California-Nevada-Hawaii
District and is comprised of 8 divisions. During the annual district
convention, delegates from all clubs in the district elect a governor,
secretary, treasurer, and publications editor to service on the district
executive board. A board of district chairs is then appointed in order
to carry out specific district focuses and events throughout the year
in which clubs from all over the district can participate and attend.
For more info about the California-Nevada-Hawaii District history, click
here.
International
- Of all 30 districts in the organization, they together comprise Circle
K International. At this level, there is an international president
and vice president as well as 9 elected trustees who then serve as the
bridge between the international level and the district level. For more
info about the history of the International level, click here.
What is the Kiwanis Family?
The Kiwanis Family consists of Kiwanis International and all the
organizations that it sponsors, including Circle K, Key Club, Kiwins,
Builder's Club, K-Kids, Action Club, and the new Young Professionals
Club.
Kiwanis International is the mother organization of all the
service clubs below with its mission “To serve the children of
the world” through international initiatives and service leadership
programs. It focuses on the needs of ordinary people and children
to create extraordinary life-changing moments like feeding the hungry,
building playgrounds, raising funds for pediatric research, developing
youth as leaders and much more. Website: http://www.kiwanis.org
CAYP Kiwanis (Young Professionals Kiwanis Club) is similar
to Kiwanis International except its focus is to cater to young people
(ages 18 to 40) who are too busy to devote their time because they
are developing their careers, creating a family, traveling or still
going to school. Website: http://caypkiwanis.org/main/
Key Cub International is the oldest and largest service program
for high school students, on more than 5000 campuses primarily in
the United States and Canada. Its mission statement “provides
members with opportunities to provide service, build character”
and integrates the core values of leadership, character building,
caring, and inclusiveness. The motto of Key Club is "Caring—Our
Way of Life" reflects the mission of the organization. Website:
http://www.keyclub.org/< br/>
KIWIN’S is under the umbrella of Key Club International
but still its own organization equivalent to Key Club. It has the
same functions of Key Club to perform service deeds with fellow members
to improve their schools and communities and promote good citizenship
through service. Website: http://www.kiwins.org/
Builders Club is the largest service organization for middle
school students (ages 12 to 14), with more than 40,000 members worldwide.
As a middle school student, one is at the crossroad between childhood
and young adulthood. At this age, we search for exciting and new opportunities
to help develop our character, and the Builder’s Club is one
organization that can help one find such a development and discovery.
Young teens learn that individuals working together can and will make
a difference to the world around them. Website: http://www.buildersclub.org/
K-Kids is the youngest and fastest growing service organization
for elementary students worldwide (ages 6 to 12). Just like Builders
Club, it can be a “student-led” community service organization
or community based. With its motto is “We Build,” members
learn to work together as a group and yet be strong individually and
are given the opportunity to develop self-esteem, leadership skills,
morals and standards, and respect for others. Website: http://www.kkids.org/
Aktion Club is a community-service group for adult citizens
who live with a disability to develop initiative and leadership skills
through hands-on service. Activities such as car washes, paper drives,
and recycling projects enable members to participate in the active
life of the community, social interaction awareness, improve self-esteem
and other benefits. Website: http://www.aktionclub.org
What are the membership benefits?
Dues-paid membership affords the following material benefits:
- Eligibility to apply for the annual $1,000 Kiwanis scholarship for dedicated members of community service. For more information, please click here.
- Insurance of up to $5,000 per member to cover costs for injuries incurred at service projects
- Eligibility to attend District Events, among which include Fall Training Conference, District Convention, and Go West.
- Eligibility to receive subsidies for the costs of going to above-mentioned District Events.
- Ceremonious recognition at above-mentioned District Events.
- Hours of community service performed are officially recognized in both individual member's monthly Member Recognition Report and in official numbers for Club Total Hours.
- Voting rights for following year's Executive Board
Dues-paid membership also offers immaterial but perhaps more important benefits, because it allows you, the member, to become more involved in this organization.
- Service benefits: find out what you want out of college and life by volunteering for various endeavors
- Leadership benefits: become a leader- chair your own project through the Chair-a-Project Program (please talk with the Project Coordinator) and/or step it up by applying to become part of the upcoming year's Board of Officers
- Fellowship benefits: find warm friends who are just as passionate as you are about community service, and contribute to a mission bigger than yourself!
>For more information about dues-paid membership, please talk with the Treasurer.
How do you become Dues Paid?
Circle
K International - University of California Berkeley Chapter - Minimum
Membership Requirements
The
criteria for new membership in the University of California Berkeley
Circle K International:
1.
The candidate must be a student with at least half time status as
defined by the University of California Berkeley.
2.
The student must maintain the status of good standing with the University
of California Berkeley. The University of California Berkeley requires
that the student must pay all registration and tuition fees, maintain
a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.0, and abide the
bylaws of the University in order to achieve the status of good
standing.
3.
The student must pay all International and District dues within
90 days of joining the club.
4.
After the stated period, if any of the above membership requirements
are not fulfilled, membership will immediately be revoked by the
acting President of the club.
All undergraduate and graduate students meeting these requirements
are eligible for membership in the University of California Berkeley
Circle K International Club regardless of race, color, national origin,
gender, creed, sexual orientation, religion, age, or disability.
By paying club dues of $37, an official member of Circle K gains
benefits such as liability insurance, transportation to all service
projects, and eligibility to attend District and International events.
Plus, they gain the rewarding, lifetime memories that come with being
part of the one of the world's greatest service organizations.
History of Circle K
In
1936 Jay N. Emerson, a member of the Pullman Washington Kiwanis Club,
presented a plan to his club proposing that the Pullman Kiwanis Club
purchase a house that could be rented to young men in need of assistance
to attend the local college. The plan became a reality as the Kiwanians
established the "Circle K House" at Washington State College. For ten
years the "Circle K House" became affiliated with a Greek letter organization,
although it continued to be sponsored by the Pullman Kiwanis Club.
Eleven
years later (in 1947), Donald T. Forsythe, Trustee of Kiwanis International,
aided in transitioning Circle K from a fraternity to a service-oriented
organization. That year, during September, the first Circle K club similar
to our present-day organization, was chartered at Carthage College in
Carthage, Illinois.
For
two years, the Carthage College Circle K Club existed alone. But on
March 26, 1949, the University of Western Ontario became the second
Circle K Club to charter. Carthage College and the University of Western
Ontario were soon joined by the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute on May
13, 1949. Circle K gained momentum and grew rapidly throughout the United
States; sixteen more clubs chartered in 1950.
With
the formation of Circle K clubs, Kiwanis International established a
Special Committee on Circle K Clubs in 1952. The motto of the organization
became the same as that of Kiwanis International: "We Build."
This year Circle
K International defines a new, more fitting motto to describe its purpose:
"We Love to Serve. We Live to Serve."
For more information about the club history, please click here
What is the Cal Nev Ha District?
The
first Circle K club was founded in 1947, and the California-Nevada-Hawaii
District was one of the two founding Districts of Circle K International,
along with the Michigan District. California-Nevada-Hawaii was instrumental
in the internationalization of the organization. Chartered on December
12, 1957, the district was founded with thirty-one clubs and has grown
to over forty clubs at the present.
The District has won a variety of awards over the years, and has had its host of International officers as well. Cal-Nev-Ha has won Distinguished District several times over the past two decades, has had two International Presidents, and many International Trustees. This district has always been in the foreground, both in membership, achievements, and most importantly, service. Visit the district website here
What is the DSI?
Each year, Cal-Nev-Ha has specific District Service Initiatives. This year, the DSI is Project Give: Offering a Helping Hand. We will focus on aiding our communities by helping those in poverty, the homeless, and low socioeconomic schools. We will also play an active role in how we give back to our communities through hands-on efforts and donations.
What is the DFI?
Each year, Cal-Nev-Ha has specific District Fundraising Initiatives
(DFIs) that allows clubs to focus their fundraising efforts.
To Be announced
What is the ISI?
On an International level, there is a service initiative involving March of Dimes, Better World Books, Students Team Up To Fight Hunger (STUFH), and UNICEF
Links
Pediatic Trauma
Programs
Tomorrow Fund
Cal-Nev-Ha District Website
Circle K International Website
