Preferred Charities

Service Partners

• March of Dimes• STUFH (Students Team Up to Fight

Hunger)• UNICEF

– Six Cents Initiative– The ELIMINATE Project

Better World Books• No longer a preferred charity of the

Kiwanis Family– They are now for profit

• Your club can still hold book drives through them though!

– Consider donating your book drive money to one of the other preferred charities

• Leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health

• Founded in 1938 by Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Mission: To improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality

March of Dimes

• Premature birth is when a baby is born too early (before 37 weeks)

– Typical pregnancy lasts 40 weeks– More newborns die from premature birth

than any other cause

• 1 in 8 babies are born early in the U.S.• 13 babies will die today from

complications of their early birth

Facts

How Can We Help?

• Help in a local Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

• Awareness Ribbons• Letter Campaigns• Make cards for families• Donate• Signature Chefs auction• Assist at March for Babies

Signature Chefs Auction

• Creative chefs from the area create signature dishes

• Must buy a ticket to attend

• Items also get bid on during live and silent auctions

March for Babies

• More than 20,000 companies participate in March for Babies each year

• Walk is usually a 2-6 mile course• Reasons for walking

– Raise money– Celebrate, honor, or remember the little

ones

• Create a team today!

Upcoming Events in Our Areas

  Date Course Length

Location

Winona Saturday, April 20th

3 miles Lake Lodge Foot of Main St.

Rochester Saturday, April 27th

6 miles Eagle’s Club

Mankato Sunday, April 28th

4.5 miles

Wheeler Park, N. Mankato

Grand Rapids

Saturday, April 13th

3.5 miles

Civic Center

Duluth Saturday, April 27th

3 miles DECC

Fargo Saturday, April 13th

3 miles Scheels Sports Arena

Rapid City Saturday, May 11th

3 miles Storybook Island

Where Does the Money Go?

•Support programs in communities that help mom have healthy, full-term pregnancies

•Funds research and vaccines

Students Team Up to Fight Hunger

• U.S. National nonprofit organization

• Purpose: To put food in the mouths of those who need it most

• Mission: To increase the gathering of food at college campuses throughout the country, which will link the hearts and souls of college students with their less fortunate hungry neighbors

Facts

• Nearly 15% of U.S. households experienced some food insecurity in 2011

• In the U.S., 14 million children live in a household where people have to skip meals or eat less to make ends meet

• Throughout the world, 24,000 people die every day from hunger and related causes

• Over 20 million people in the U.S. seek emergency food assistance

How Can We Help?

• Encourage your club, school, K-Family, and friends to skip one meal. Give the money to your local Food Bank.

• CANtribute, CANstruct a masterpiece out of cans, and have a CANpetition

• Grow greens and donate them to your local soup kitchen

• STUFH the Bus Food Drive• Have a Week of STUFH• “Food Fight” with another college, club, etc.

Regional STUFH Food Banks

• Minnesota– Second Harvest Heartland, St. Paul– ECHO Food Shelf, Mankato– Second Harvest Food Bank of the Northern

Lakes, Duluth– Channel One Food Bank, Rochester– North Country Food Bank, Crookston

Regional STUFH Food Banks

• North Dakota– Great Plains Food Bank, Fargo

• South Dakota– Second Harvest Food Bank of SD, Sioux

Falls– Black Hills Regional Food Bank, Rapid City

Saving Lives: The Six Cents Initiative

•More than 2.6 billion people lack even the most basic sanitation facilities and safe drinking water sources•One in five children in developing countries is susceptible to diseases caused by bacteria that grow in unsafe waters—and 5,000 die every day

What Is It About?

• At a cost of only 6 cents, a mixture of sugar and salt called oral rehydration salts (ORS) offers the most effective and cheapest way to save lives during dehydration

• CKI is working with UNICEF to provide these rehydration salts to those in need

What Is It About?

• With the money raised, UNICEF also is working to provide long-term solutions for the problem, which includes providing clean water resources through the installation of filtration and sanitation systems

• Water filters installed in schools and communal areas can benefit entire communities

• Set up a booth at your school and take donations!

• Happy Change!• Penny Wars!• Organize a Charity Race!• Hold a Charity Festival!

Ways For Your Club to Get Involved

Circle K clubs and members wishing to make donations to the “Six Cents Initiative”

should direct checks to the Kiwanis International Foundation (3636 Woodview

Trace, Indianapolis, IN 46268) with a notation that it is for UNICEF/water and

sanitation programming.

Contact Information

Fundraising Ideas

• Dance to Eliminate (Winona)• Tappy Hour (Mankato)• Book drive (SDSMT, ICC)• Trick or Treating for UNICEF (Gustavus,

Mankato)• Run to Eliminate (District Event)• Signature Chefs Auction (Mankato, CSS)• Make and sell bracelets for Eliminate (ICC)