Support a Builders Club and increase your impact on the community.
Sponsor a Builders Club
Builders Clubs thrive by engaging with the community around them and connecting to other clubs. You can make that happen by sponsoring a Builders Club. This means more than offering financial support. It means having a mutually beneficial relationship that helps both students and your club.
For Kiwanis clubs, the benefits of sponsorship include:
Expanding the Kiwanis family.
Expanding your club’s visibility among schools and kids’ families.
Doing intergenerational service and activities together.
Improving service impact in your community through Builders Club service projects.
The expectations for a Kiwanis club that sponsors a Builders Club are:
Pay the charter fee and annual Builders Club renewal fee to Kiwanis International.
Appoint a Kiwanis advisor to the club. Ensure the advisor receives adequate training, including adherence to Kiwanis Youth Protection policies.
Ensure the Kiwanis advisor attends Builders Club meetings and events and works with the faculty advisor to determine which activities they will help with.
Host or participate in joint activities (whether for service or celebration) involving Builders Club advisors, officers and/or members.
Invite Builders Club advisors, officers and/or members to attend Kiwanis club meetings and share their club’s accomplishments.
A Key Club or Circle K International club can also cosponsor a Builders Club — with the help of a Kiwanis club. Cosponsoring clubs have some of the same responsibilities as the sponsoring Kiwanis club. Discuss your cosponsor role with the Kiwanis club and the Builders Club advisors.
Things Key Club and Circle K cosponsors can do to make the Builders Club experience positive for its members and officers are:
Be mentors and model service leadership.
Lead meetings using the Builders Club virtual meeting kits.
Lead Builders Club through planning service projects using the Builders Club Service Toolkit.
Assist with Builders Club service events.
Invite members to assist with Key Club service projects.
Organize a Kiwanis family service project, partnering with your sponsoring Kiwanis club and Builders Club.
Train club officers.
Help the Kiwanis club meet the cost of chartering and/or renewing the Builders Club.
Learn how to charter a Builders Club in your community!