What is Key Club?
Key Club International is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization that teaches leadership through service to others. Members of the Kiwanis International family, Key Club members build themselves as they build their schools and communities.
Key Club History
Key Club was started in Sacramento in 1925 and was comprised of the key boys in the school, thus called Key Club. It was modeled off the Kiwanis club. It soon expanded to include the whole school and became a service organization. In 1939, Florida became the first established district. The year of 1947 held changes for Key Club. In May the first Keynoter was published and in December the first Key Club week was observed. In 1952, Key Club reached 1,000 clubs. By the year 1967, the first international club was chartered in the Bahamas. In 1977, girls were permitted to join Key Club. (Hooray!) In 1997 Key Club became technologically advanced by creating their first website. Today Key Club consists of 250,000 members, in over 30 countries, with 5,000 clubs.
Just the facts
- Key Club has more than 250,000 members
- There are more than 5,000 clubs
- Key Club is represented in 30 countries
Where is Key Club?
Key Club exists on more than 5,000 high school campuses in 30 countries:
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Australia
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bermuda
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Dominica
- Germany
- Guadeloupe
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Malaysia
- Martinique
- Netherlands-Antilles
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Panama
- Philippines
- Singapore
- South Korea
- St. Lucia
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United States of America