These 2 ACE tools can help create a guiding vision for what you do.
By Tony Knoderer
Why does your Kiwanis club exist? The obvious answer: to serve kids and change their lives. After all, that’s the reason people join Kiwanis in the first place. But it’s true for all clubs — whether they’re thriving, struggling or anywhere between.
If your club seems to be drifting a bit, it might be time for everyone to ask a more focused question: What is the club’s purpose?
The answer can give members a guide for much of what the club does. Whether your club is deciding its next service project, what to tell people you’re recruiting or how to approach potential partners, a clear purpose makes your place in the community clear to everyone.
Two of our Achieving Club Excellence (ACE) tools can help define that purpose:
- Community survey. Ultimately, your purpose isn’t just a matter of what your members want to do. It’s also a matter of meeting the community where its needs are. So find out! Use this tool to gather the information and data you’ll need to address the community’s concerns and preferences.
- Club vision. This step-by-step tool helps your club create a vision that guides and inspires. And that helps make everyone more enthusiastic about the service they do and more effective in persuading other people to join.
Don’t forget: These resources can be found on the ACE tools webpage, which includes other common concerns clubs face — and pairs them with the tools that help address those issues.