Sponsor Partner Activities For 2010

This identifies some of the activities being supported by your Sponsor Partner contribution in 2010 through our focus on children and community.

• Young Children focus with TMH where we provide booklets for the hospital to distribute to new parents and clothing for newborns.
• This year over 150 books have been provided to Preschool Programs.
• Over 400 dictionaries were provided to 3^rd graders for their personal use in 4 local elementary schools
• Elementary Clubs for children at Gilchrist and Desoto Trail where 75 children are trained in leadership and service skills through our partnership with the Student Councils.  We partner with them in several community projects.
• At the Chiles Key Club we will support the continuing development of leadership and service in the 80 members.  We help with their service projects, their attendance at annual statewide training, and provide a $1,000 scholarship.
• We pickup over 10 containers of advertising products from the post office numerous times per year and deliver them to our supported charities.
• We sponsor the community Aktion Club which provides a club for challenged adults.  They run this club with our members support and have a twice monthly meeting with programs and carry out many community focused projects.
• Timberlane Road is our responsibility for road litter pickup.
• The Miccosukee Little League is sponsored by Killearn Kiwanis.
• This year we are entering into a support relationship with the Boys and Girls Club and After School programming in Miccosukee.
•  We support several service activities by other organizations:

1. Collecting and selling can tabs for the Ronald MacDonald House.
2. Providing clothing and toiletries for the women’s Refuge house nearly every month.
3. Supporting Veteran’s with books and reading material.
4. Doing dog washes for the Animal Shelter and Humane Society
5. Supporting the Southern scholarship House at FSU with food stuff and property maintenance.
6. We ring bells for the Salvation Army and sell tree ornaments for Hospice House.
7. Participating with the 5 other Kiwanis Clubs in Tallahassee in their service and fundraising.
8. Support funding is provided to Habitat for Humanity along with food and hands –on work.
9. We provide funding to the FCA, the Guardian ad Litem

• Each year we plan and do several projects.  Recent examples include:

1. A Playground element for Gretchen Everhart.
2. Trashcan structures for Killearn Properties parks.
3. Repair projects with the Fuller Foundation on several houses.

And the list goes on!!

Go To The 2010 Killearn Kiwanis Golf Classic Page.