Lights! Camera! Action!

Capture your club’s Kiwanis One Day project on film

If a picture is worth a thousand words, the value of video is enormous.  So a video or KIWANIS magazine story of a special project such as your club’s Kiwanis One Day project would be priceless, especially as it relates to storytelling potential, emphasis on service and focus on the benefit that Kiwanis clubs bring to children and communities worldwide.

Your club’s One Day project could be the subject of that professionally shot video, or of specialized coverage in KIWANIS magazine, through the Kiwanis One Day Contest. If chosen for the video shoot, your club will receive a copy of the video, which you can use to share your club’s service story, to recruit members or just to share news of the good work you do. Kiwanis International will also retain a copy for use in its marketing and publicity programming around the world.

If chosen for the KIWANIS magazine story, your club’s service to children and community will be shared with all who read the magazine, Kiwanians and non-Kiwanians alike. Copies of the article can be shared with schools, community partners and others with whom you partner or wish to partner to further educate or introduce them to Kiwanis and its Service Leadership Programs.

In 2009, the Olympia, Washington, Kiwanis club’s One Day project was selected for specialized magazine coverage about its Olympia Kiwanis Food Bank Garden. The story of the Griffin, Ga., Kiwanis club’s refurbishment of the Thomaston Mill neighborhood, with partners from the city of Griffin, Boys Scouts, Habitat for Humanity and others, was captured in a video for the club and for Kiwanis International.

To enter your club’s project in the One Day contest, log on to http://forms.kiwanisone.org/fs-KiwanisOneDayContest.aspx, and enter the pass code that appears on the page to use the electronic form to describe your project, or describe your project in a letter and send it to:

Kiwanis One Day Contest
Attn: Elizabeth Warren
3636 Woodview Trace
Indianapolis, IN 46268-3196
USA

The submission should be as complete and comprehensive as possible, providing specific details about your planned project and its impact upon and benefit to the community, including its primary beneficiary audience(s).  If Service Leadership Programs (K-Kids, Builders Club, Key Club, Circle K, Aktion Club, Kiwanis Junior) will be involved, explain how and whether or not your club needs additional financial assistance. If financial assistance is needed, please explain the need and how the funds will be utilized.

Please include information on prior Kiwanis One Day projects, including details about the work and the benefit, and provide, by mail, any photographs and/or videos of or for the project. Also include samples of media coverage from the past year and examples of how your project helped raise awareness of Kiwanis and children’s needs in your community.

Submissions for the Kiwanis One Day video contest must be received at the Kiwanis International Office no later than January 15, 2010.

The materials will be reviewed by a committee comprising members of the Kiwanis marketing and branded program staff (“committee”) to ensure the project accurately and dynamically represents Kiwanis International’s vision, mission and values.  

The committee will select finalists and submit the finalists’ project materials to the Kiwanis Executive Management Team (“EMT”), who will select a winner and runner up from the finalists.  All decisions by the EMT are final, and an announcement of the winner is expected by February 15, 2010.  The winning club will have its project professionally videotaped, and a runner-up project will be included in KIWANIS magazine.

Kiwanis reserves the right to discontinue the contest if Kiwanis, in its sole discretion, determines that the projects submitted for consideration do not meet the selection criteria.  In the event of such determination, contestants will be notified on or before January 30, 2010.