Signature project proposal

1. Signature project proposal For Kiwanis Club of Nashville

2. Program Impact Assessment • PIA TEAM - Elaine Kay, Kenny Markanich, Jesse Lee, Vic Legerton, and Dustin Alexander • Dec 2017 – March 2018 surveyed all program chairs on club projects alignment with Kiwanis goals and values and impact. • Result Summary: (full study available upon request) • 25 of 34 (74%) of all club programs either do not strongly support the Kiwanis International Goals and Values and/or support 3rd party organization goals rather than our club’s goals. • Root cause – Our club has no signature project to focus upon and no program approval process to ensure other projects support the Kiwanis Goals and Values. There are also legacy projects adopted from club mergers

3. Kiwanis Goals and Values • Membership & Engagement – to build, retain, and support a growing Kiwanis membership network • Community Impact – to perform meaningful service, with service to children as our priority. • Our Kiwanis Image: To enhance the Kiwanis image worldwide. • Financial Viability: To ensure financial viability and responsible stewardship. • 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 the application of higher social, business, and professional standards • To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship. • To provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service and to build better communities. • To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and good will.

4. Signature Project Search • Team: Elaine Kay, Vic Legerton, Dustin Alexander • March – May 2018 searched for signature projects: • Kiwanis International HQ • Kiwanis clubs in our district • Nashville Rotary club • TN department of education • TN department of human services • All current organizations we support. • Recommendation: Childhood literacy: Read to be Ready summer camp(s)

5. Read To Be Ready Summer Camp • Targets: • economically disadvantaged children • At the lowest reading level (first to third grade) • Held for four weeks during summer and state requires: • Minimum four days a week • 1:5 Teacher to student ratio • 20 hours of literacy work each week • Within our footprint: • 31 grant applications were submitted to the state and only 23 were able to be funded. • For 2018 there are 26 camps who will serve 820 kids this June.

6. Read to be Ready – Summer campSignature project proposal • Mission: To help raise the Tennessee State Government achieve its goal of raising the 3rd grade literacy rate from 36% to 75% by 2025, by adopting, maintaining, and continually improving the READ TO BE READY summer camps within our club’s geographical footprint, with both service and fundraising focus. • This is: • Achievable: TN would be the only state in the nation that reaches 75% • Existing: Dollar General seeded the development of 280 camps state wide in 2016, State has funded 2017, 2018, and 2019. • Scalable from one camp to all camps in our footprint ($42k - $1m annually.) • $1,200 a student. • Measurable: existing pre and post measurements are in place to gauge effectiveness. • Tangible: we can “own” and possibly brand the camp(s) we support. • Adoptable: Work alongside TN Dept of Ed to transition to us by 2020. • Focused: members engagement and aligns our service and fundraising efforts. • Expandable: bring in partner organizations and lead our Kiwanis district to adopt.

7. Service tiers for our member’s talents. • Offers four level of service to club members: • Front line service – Non-skilled service for short windows of time such as volunteer as a guest reader, field trip organizer/chaperone, lunch relief for the teacher, etc. Non-skilled service for short windows of time. • Behind the scenes service - trained and skilled service behind the scenes for periods of time during the year for grant application review and approval; distribute, collect, and report on program measurements, Create / realign / expand club fundraising efforts. • Leadership service – professional level service bringing member skills to contribute to the short term and long term evolution of the program, building and leading strategic partnerships with other organizations such as ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SONY, CURB, TRACTOR SUPPLY, DOLLAR GENERAL, ROTARY etc. to contribute in raising the big bucks. • Fundraiser service – create, run, and grow, a fundraising event(s) directly supporting the literacy effort such as the Kiwanis Run for Reading 5K race etc.

8. If the board agrees… we’d like to… • Get going! • Socialize the program to all club members. • Select an implementation and management team. • Determine scope of our involvement. • We can slice and dice this in many ways from fully owning one camp to contributing only supplies and field trips to all 26 camps in our foot print. • Start working with TN Department of Education to observe and be trained during this summer’s camps