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Preferred Charities

Preferred Charities. Service Partners. March of Dimes STUFH (Students Team Up to Fight Hunger) UNICEF Six Cents Initiative The ELIMINATE Project. No longer a preferred charity of the Kiwanis Family They are now for profit Your club can still hold book drives through them though!

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Preferred Charities

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  1. Preferred Charities

  2. Service Partners • March of Dimes • STUFH (Students Team Up to Fight Hunger) • UNICEF • Six Cents Initiative • The ELIMINATE Project

  3. 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 Better World Books

  4. March of Dimes • 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

  5. Facts • 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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!

  9. Upcoming Events in Our Areas

  10. Where Does the Money Go? • Support programs in communities that help mom have healthy, full-term pregnancies • Funds research and vaccines

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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.

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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 What Is It About?

  19. Ways For Your Club to Get Involved • Set up a booth at your school and take donations! • Happy Change! • Penny Wars! • Organize a Charity Race! • Hold a Charity Festival!

  20. Contact Information 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.

  21. 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)

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