Florida Key Club's Sunshine Source Vol IX No 5 Mar-Apr 2014

Selling Service
To Your Members
By Trey Foody, Jesuit High School
Editor
Having trouble promoting your
club’s events to members? Trey
Foody, Jesuit High School Editor,
has some tips from his club that
could help you promote service
and leadership in your club.
Chaos seems to be the best description
of the lives of high school
students; we have Key Club – and
about a thousand other activities
in our lives. So when the leaders
of any club try to promote service
events, it means they must “sell”
the projects during weekly meetings.
Jesuit High School does this
by using PowerPoint presentations
with as many “options” as we can
find.
We have found videos on
YouTube that introduce our club
members to the people who will
receive our service. (We started
this with a video of a neonatal
hospital unit when our students
were going to work with a Fami-
ly Reunion of Premature babies
born in the last year.) We
have placed additional information
and photos of work sites
on the screen so that our members
can get excited about their
future service initiatives. We
have slides for all projects that
are being discussed at each
meeting; the leader of each service
project is required to create
his own slide or presentation
and email it to the Club Editor at
least 12 hours before the meeting.
The Club Editor then arranges
a PowerPoint presentation
the night before, sets up a
the big screen in our meeting
room and runs with that show
each Wednesday morning.
In addition to these Jesuit
Key Club has access to a private
club website on Jesuit
High School’s Canvas page,
a web program that allows
teachers, club moderators
and coaches to communicate
personally with their
students, club members and
athletes. With Canvas, members
are able to have service
project information at their
fingertips. If members miss a
meeting, they information will
be delievered to them via Canvas.
Our Club Editor’s weekly mission
is to put together a perfect
meeting- and then the perfect
follow-up on Canvas. After our
meetings, those projects and slides
are sent to Canvas for the parents
and club members who need reminders
or information about our
events.
In a digital age, clubs may want
to pursue many new ways to enhance
the “sales” part of the service
they do. Parent and club
member communication – along
with a powerful presentation at
meetings – allows everyone to
learn about service, to accomplish
that service, and to enjoy the service
every week.