Portage Community School District

Key Club is the oldest and largest high school service organization in the world. We meet various times throughout the year. We work closely with the Portage Kiwanis Club to raise money for children in Portage and surrounding communities. We create and join other service projects to help serve and develop leadership skills in our members. We also work with neighboring clubs such as Pardeeville, Baraboo and Reedsburg to promote projects that help children.

Projects could be raising money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, ringing bells for the Salvation Army, passing out books with the Kiwanis or even making fleece tie blankets for hospital patients.

If you are a student or a parent of a student interested in Key Club, please contact Ronda Kopfhamer at kopfhamerr@portage.k12.wi.us to find out more information.

Activities and Service Projects:

Key Club is a student led service organization focused on helping other children in our community. We help hand out books with the Kiwanis, work with area food pantries, ring bells for the Salvation Army, and raise money for leukemia.

Past projects include helping at the Sharing Supper, hosting a dodgeball tournament, helping Penda with its Family Fun Day, ringing bells with the Salvation Army, and raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

International and Regional Information:

Key Club International

http://www.keyclub.org/home.aspx

Wisconsin Upper-Michigan District

http://www.wiumkeyclub.com/

Mission Statement

Key Club is an international student-led organization which provides its members with opportunities to provide service, build character and develop leadership.

Vision

We are caring and competent servant leaders transforming communities worldwide.

Core values

The core values of Key Club International are leadership, character building, caring and inclusiveness.

Pledge

I pledge, on my honor, to uphold the Objects of Key Club International; to build my home, school, and community; to serve my nation and God, and combat all forces which tend to undermine these institutions.

Motto

Caring–Our Way of Life

Objects

To develop initiative and leadership.
To provide experience in living and working together.
To serve the school and community.
To cooperate with the school principal.
To prepare for useful citizenship.
To accept and promote the following ideals
- 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 application of higher standards in scholarship, sportsmanship, and social contacts.
- To develop, by precept and example, more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
- To provide a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render unselfish service and to build better communities.
- To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which makes possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.

Advisor:

Ronda Kopfhamer

kopfhamerr@portage.k12.wi.us