In order to carry out all the projects that Kiwanis is involved with throughout
the year, each member is asked to join one or more committees.
| Board of Directors | | Richard Mauck |
| Bulletin | Publishes weekly a club newsletter with notes from the weekly morning club meeting, as well as a Calendar of Events (including upcoming Projects, Events, and Programs) and noteworthy news.
Mission: Promote the goings-on of the club by 1) Sending the newsletter out weekly by email, 2) distribute it at weekly meetings, and 3) provide to the Web Associate to make sure it is updated and archived on the website. | Teresa Powell |
| Burbank Builders Club | | Teresa Powell |
| Community Services | Plan, coordinate and implement service projects that benefit the Community as a whole. Current ongoing projects include Sacred Heart, Kiwanis Kloset, Our City Forest, Camp Castanoan, Wildlife & Rehabilitation, California Redwoods, SJ Museum, Special Games, Books Aloud, and John Farley Turkey Day.
Mission: Support our current local community activities and expand support for Special Games. Provide information to Web Associate to make sure it is updated on the website. | Steven Schrupp |
| Del Mar HS Key Club | | Beverly Koehler |
| Education | Plan and implement a campaign to encourage giving of funds to the West San Jose Kiwanis Foundation to fund support for Youth Services and Sponsored Youth.
Mission: Meet or exceed 2007-2008 annual pledge drive. | RC Ackerman |
| Fundraising | Oversee Fundraising projects to support various Community, Youth, Scholarship and Leadership programs. This includes the major fundraiser K-Bell Classic Track meet, and others such as Xmas in the Park, Xmas Tree Lot, SVSE (Silicon Valley Sports & Entertainment like the Grand Prix, San Jose Sharks) Projects, Ink Cartridges, Border Book Sales, Entertainment Book Sales, Polish Auction and Turnaround Scholarship Ticket Sales. Consider a Fundraiser if a Kiwanian is in the local or Bay Area Newspape | Richard Mauck |
| Fundraising - Foundation | Plan and implement a campaign to encourage giving of funds to the West San Jose Kiwanis Foundation to fund support for Youth Services and Sponsored Youth.
Mission: Meet or exceed 2007-2008 annual pledge drive. | David Burnham |
| Harker HS Key Club | | Allen De Martini |
| House | Set-up and take down Club weekly meeting room (badge box, banners, projector screen, WSJ Club sign for outside), greet guests, present house report at weekly meetings, take attendance and turn in attendance sheet to Secretary (Bill Scoble), and take down all banners. Make sure Badge Box is neat and orderly; keep stocked with Membership Applications, Guest Badges, Pens, Attendance Sheets and New Member Checklist. Ensure flag and banner is at all appropriate offsite meetings and is returned to t | Hugh Smith |
| Interclubs | Coordinate Interclub meetings with all of the other clubs in our Division (this should be done roughly at a rate of two per month). Ensure our club has at least four members at each Interclub. Other Interclubs to be scheduled are the Governors Visit (Fall/Winter), Midwinter Conference (February), International Convention (June), District Convention (August), Lt. Governors Installation (Sept.), and Sponsored Youth (Key Club and/or Builders Club).
Mission: Achieve Round Robin (interclub with eve | Terence Stone |
| K-Bell | Plan, organize and manage the Club’s annual K-Bell Track meet, the clubs major fundraiser. Scheduled for March 14, 2009.
Mission: Have a great K-Bell; great athletes, great Kiwanis participation, great advertising (put forms on the WSJ website in October), finish before 900pm! Begin Corporate Sponsors activities in October; regular advertisers in December. | John Maloney |
| Kiwanian's for Kiwanian's | Coordinate support for fellow Kiwanians who are ailing or in need of support and assistance (getting to medical appointments; perform minor handy-man projects around the house; provide in-house assistance so the care giving spouse might get some spare time off).
Mission: Untiring support for our Kiwanians. | Donald Lavoie |
| Membership | Major focus is to hold Special Guest Day in January. Secondary focus is to develop and implement an ongoing plan for fun to retain and recruit new members to meet the Club’s growth goals of 100 members by the year 2015.
Mission: Net 7 new members in 2008-2009. Hold Special Guest Day January 21, 2009. | Douglas Greer |
| Our City Forest | | Gerald Neece |
| Priority Too | Coordinate, plan and implement service projects whose primary focus and benefit is senior citizens. Current ongoing project is the Second Harvest Brown Bag program.
Mission: Maintain consistent support for our main project. | Ronald Santucci |
| Programs | Coordinate interesting and exciting speakers of interest to the membership to support the broad diversity of WSJ Club members. Consider having a Spiritual Program in conjunction with Spiritual Aims 12/24/08; Roundtable meeting 12/31/08 (new years eve); Polish Auction 1/7/09.
Mission: Provide a balanced mix of interesting and entertaining programs (e.g. community service, local events, political, science, sports, technology) . Work closely with Membership to have a Special Program for Speci | George Dobbs |
| Public Relations / Marketing | Develop a campaign to ensure that the community gets to know Kiwanis through media, brochures, and "letters to the Editor" in local papers.
Mission: Spread the word about our Service! Provide regular articles to local newspapers of club projects; improve club marketing materials for handouts at projects. Promote key events as needed by other committees. | Barry Le May |
| Records | | William Scoble |
| Social | Plan, coordinate and implement FUN times for the Club’s main social events which usually includes some mix of the following: Christmas Season Holiday Party, Santa Clara "Central Park" Melodrama and Chinese Food dinner, Mystery Trip, Family BBQ and President's Pre-Installation Reception.
Mission: Give primacy to the club's social side of life. | Lynne Stephenson, Stason Shishido |
| Spiritual Aims | Coordinate, plan and implement service projects whose primary focus is of a spiritual nature. Current ongoing project is Loaves and Fishes, Our Daily Bread and Martha's Kitchen.
Mission: Complete "round two" of TB testing to broaden the member base available for the Loaves and Fishes. Work with the Programs Committee to support a "Spiritual" program on 12/24/08 club meeting. | |
| Sponsored Leadership Organizations | There are two major emphasis: 1) Organize efforts to support our two Key Clubs (Harker Academy and Del Mar High), reconsider reducing or stopping the support of the Circle K (San Jose State) and increase support for the Builders Club (Luther). This can include attend meetings for sponsored youth organizations; support for their Club and Division functions including Trainings, Rally's, Conventions and service projects; help coordinate joint Kiwanian/Sponsored Youth service projects; 2) Provide S | |
| Technology | Develop a service program that utilizes technology to reach out to children and promote Kiwanis' name.
Mission: Consider establishing a program with Next Vista for Learning (www.nextvista.org) to develop an "on-line" learning video for high school students. | Rod Dewell |
| Web Communications | Ensure public- and member-accessed West San Jose website is updated for meetings/programs, events, projects.
Mission: To keep our website current and relevant for members' online experience. | John Maloney |
| Young Children Priority One | Coordinate, plan and implement service projects that benefit young children. Projects have included Kiwanis Family House, Mervyns Shopping Spree and Xmas Family Giving Tree, Pediatric Trauma Prevention (PTP), and car seat Safety.
Mission: Support Kiwanis Family House with donation and service; increase the number of children served by the Mervyns Shopping Spree; and continue the Xmas Family Giving Tree; support District goals for PTP. | |
| Youth Services | Coordinate, plan and implement service projects whose primary focus and benefit is youth. Current ongoing projects Oak Grove Tutoring, Belize Student Sponsorship, and Crisis Line. Evaluate new actvities with Boys/Girls Clubs of America and Baja California orphanage program (through program speaker from the CA Fish & Game Dept.)
Mission: Ensure existing projects are well staffed and educate membership on activities. Evaluate expanding into local Boys/Girls Club to support agreement between Kiw | Craige Edgerton, Patrick Congdon |
