Key Club is an international student-led organization which provides its members with opportunities to provide service, build character, and develop leadership.
Key Club is a service organization for high school students which is operated under school regulations and draws its membership from the student body. This club is unique because it is sponsored by a local Kiwanis Club. Key Club is also different because its functions are not only on the local level but also on a district and international level. The Key Club is highly developed in its structure and provides programs, literature, and the opportunity to relate to teenagers from thirteen different countries around the world. Key Club is the largest service organization of its kind with over 129,000 members and approximately 3,800 clubs.
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, a 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 make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and good will.
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 to combat all forces which tend to undermine these institutions.
BLUE: Unwavering character
GOLD: Service
WHITE: Purity