Mission Statement

To “build our homes, schools, and communities through the arts.”

Get SmART recognizes that fine arts programs are often the first cut when school budgets decrease, especially during this economic recession.

Get SmART challenges Key Clubbers to connect directly to the community on a more personal basis: projects should be approached creatively and creating handmade items are encouraged.

Criteria For Participation

Get SmART is designed to incorporate a variety of service projects that advocate the arts. There is a wide variety of service projects that your club can do in order to participate. The Pacific Northwest District is the biggest geographical district in Key Club International; it includes parts of five states and one province. Every community is different, so projects should be different, too. When your club participates in Get SmART, please tailor a project that best serves the needs of your unique community.

However, all projects must fulfill the following criteria in order to officially participate in the Governor’s Project and be recognized at District Convention 2010.

The club project must:
♫ Advocate an appreciation of the arts
♫ Benefit your school or community
♫ Involve at least five (5) Key Club members
♫ Take at least ten (10) hours of community service time (This time can be spread out over weeks or all in a row)

Examples of Possible Participation in the Governor's Project

♪ Making personalized paper hearts to donate to grieving family members of hospice or nursing home programs.
♪ Decorating/creating cards for hospital patients.
♪ Hosting essay-writing contests in elementary school
♪ Setting up a program where high school music students tutor middle school or elementary-school kids in various instruments.
♪ Hosting a benefit concert to raise money for any organization.
♪ Arranging a trip for students to the theatre, art museum, film festival, etc.
♪ Reading to elementary-school students or hospital patients.
♪ Donating directly to organizations that distribute books, advocate music, etc.



To clarify on the requirements for the Governor's Project:

♪ The Governor’s Project has to take at least 10 hours of community service and involve at least five Key Club members.

• Five or more different people participates one way or the other.
• The club commits at least 10 community service hours over a period of time.
• The amount of people in a certain time setting does not increase the amount of hours your club receives (i.e. twenty people volunteering in a one-hour time frame only count for one hour of community service).
• The only way hours count is the time it literally takes (i.e. 3:00-5:00 p.m. is literally two hours).

Submission of the Governor’s Project Report:

♪ Use the Project Report Forms to keep track of your club’s activities for the Governor's Project. This is to help fill out the final report online.

♫ Once your club is finished with the Governor’s Project (before the next DCON), fill out the final report online. Go to the PNW District website www.pnwkeyclub.org and fill out the “Governor’s Project Report.”

Nothing ever needs to be turned in to the Lt. Governor regarding the Governor's Project.

Questions?

*Contact first: K-Family Coordinator Katie Tweet

**Contact second: Lt. Governor William Yi

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