Committees
Chair: District Governor Nathan Gonzalez
Members: Melissa Juarez-Best, Aly Johnson, Ben Weingarten, Aspen Hess, Kyle Hakala, Lola Pollard, Sally Roberts
Purpose Statement: The Executive Committee consists of the District Executive Officers, the District’s International Trustee, and the Administrative Team. The Executive Committee serves as a council to and as an extension of the District Governor and their goals. They plan district board meetings and events, discuss objectives in early stages, and make minor district decisions.
Chair: District Secretary Melissa Juarez-Best
Members: Jinu Lee, Willa Vogen,
Purpose Statement: This committee focuses on reviewing and updating the bylaws for the MinnDak Key Club District. The committee works closely along with the Public Relations committee to help ensure the bylaws are known to the district through social media. This committee also focuses on updating the contests and awards so members are able to earn their recognition at the District Leadership Conference efficiently. Our goals as a committee is to get at least 4 amendments passed through the district Key Club and Kiwanis, and to have the contests and awards updated by no later than October. We also hope that with the biweekly Minndak posts on the secretary Instagram, you’re able to gain a better understanding of our organization and how we operate!
Chair: Division 6 LTG Malik Bah
Members: Aliyah Ryan, Azalea Steffes, Eoin Porrata, Leopold Famoso
Purpose Statement: The Membership Development Committee, or MDC, is crucial to our District as we are focused on ways to find new members, keep our members, and promote Key Club in general! Our goals this term for this committee are to have each Lieutenant Governor charter a Club in their division and to increase our membership district-wide by 25%. Growing MinnDak is our first and foremost priority, meaning we want all clubs in MinnDak to gain more members and for an influx of new clubs to be created this term!
Chair: District Bulletin Editor Aly Johnson
Members: Leopold Famoso, Deqa Ahmed, Azalea Steffes, Malik Bah, Eoin Porrata, Aliyah Ryan, Willa Vogen
Purpose Statement: The Public Relations, or PR, committee focuses on making content that is posted on district social media platforms! We use this content to inform members from across our three states and to post opportunities and reminders! Find us on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat! New goals for the 2024-2025 term include creating an entirely new website, starting a post cards initiative, and raising our instagram following to over 1,000 people! We work closely with the Review Committee to ensure resources and bylaws found on our website are updated and helpful! We also update the website and create archives to ensure equitable reasources for all MinnDak Members.
Chair: District Treasurer Ben Weingarten
Members: Aly Johnson, Deqa Ahmed, Melissa Juarez-Best, Jinu Lee, Emma Duffy, Azalea Steffes
Purpose Statement: The newsletters committee creates monthly district newsletters for all of MinnDak. We meet once a month to discuss articles to put into the newsletter. The newsletter committee makes a cohesive and uniform email to inform all of our clubs as to what is happening across MinnDak! These newsletters are shared via email with club executives from their divisional LTG. Feel free to share these newsletters with your entire club!
Chair: Division 7A LTG Deqa Ahmed
Members: Jinu Lee, Azalea Steffes, Aliyah Ryan, Eoin Porrata, Ben Weingarten
Purpose Statement: The MinnDak Key Club Kiwanis Family Networking Committee aims to help strengthen our relationship with other branches of the MinnDak Kiwanis Family like Builders Club, Akition Club, K-Kids, Circle K, and of course, Kiwanis! Our current focus is reconnecting all of the builders clubs with the district board but planning a joint Builders Club/District Board Meeting. After this, we plan to refocus on chattering more builders clubs within MinnDak. By the end of our term, our goal is to leave with a strong connection between the MinnDak District Board and all of the MinnDak Builders Clubs!
Chair: Division 3B LTG Leopold Famoso
Members: Ben Weingarten, Emma Duffy, Malik Bah, Eoin Poratta, Thi Nguyen, Aspen Hess
Purpose Statement: Our goal is to plan and coordinate all district service projects. We brainstorm and come up with service projects and details to ensure enjoyable and helpful service for our communities. We execute our projects on time and with care to make the best possible experiences for our members. Last year our projects included Kindess Rocks, which were rocks painted at Fall Rally with words of inspiration and donated to a Fargo elementary school; Meals on Wheels bags which were used to pack meals for those in need. Our biggest project is one we have done both in 2023 and 2024, in which we work with the organization Harvest Pack to pack meals for the hungry. Over the last two years MinnDak has packed 80,000+ meals!