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Local Chapter Activities Standard
This page will provide you with resources to complete the Local Chapter Activities Standard.


**Please note: All of the links below are MS Word, Excel or PDF attachments.**

Member Outreach/Engagement
Communicating with Members
Icebreakers
Increasing Member Participation
Meeting Agenda (sample)
Meeting Minutes (sample)
Meeting Overview
Member Motivation and Recognition
Member Reward Program (sample)
GK Bingo

Member Recognition Event
Induction Ceremony Information

Literacy-Based Service
Planning a Successful Activity
Activity Ideas

Better World Books
Golden Key chapters are encouraged to participate each semester with Better World Books in an effort to capitalize on the value of a book to fund and support literacy initiatives locally, nationally and around the world.  To get started, contact your Associate Director or your BWB Regional Director

Make a Difference Day
In association with the Point of Light Foundation, Golden Key chapters are active participants in the annual Make a Difference Day worldwide.  A variety of worthy causes received the "gold treatment" from Golden Key chapters, who helped serve the communities in which they live. Click here for more information and how your chapter can participate.

Learn and Serve America
Corporation for National and Community Service
Learn and Serve America gives grants to schools, colleges and universities, and community organizations to support programs that tie academic learning to service.  This approach to education, called service-learning, helps address community needs while developing students' academic skills and the habits of responsible citizenship. Visit www.learnandserve.org or contact them at 202-606-5000 x117 to participate.

Other Suggested Links
Strong American Schools

Honorary Member Outreach/Engagement
Benefits Handout for Prospective Honorary Members
Honorary Member Mailer (sample)
Honorary Member Meeting Agenda for Chapter Leaders
Honorary Member Dinners (sample)
Honorary Member Outreach Ideas
Honorary Member Brochure 
Honorary Member Overview
Honorary Member Profile Form
Letter - From Advisor to Honorary Member
Letter - Endorsement from University Official
Letter - Honorary Member Invitation
Opportunities for our Honorary Members

Prospective Member Outreach/Engagement
Ideas for Recognition (1st & 2nd Year Students)
Sophomore Reception Invitation (sample)
Sophomore Reception Letter (sample)

Sophomore Recognition Letter

Public Awareness and External Communications
Public Awareness Overview 

Ads
After Deadline
General Membership Drive
Hearing Things 4x5
Hearing Things 4x6
Missing Cash 4x5
Missing Cash 4x6
Recognized Worldwide 4x5
Recognized Worldwide 4x6

Graduate Student Recruitment

Letters
Deans & Department Chairs
Departmental "Drop-offs" Cover Letter
Student Organizations - Sample 1
Student Organizations - Sample 2
Student Organizations - Sample 3
From Advisor to Honorary Members
To Professors

Posters
Generic Call for Members
Officer Search
Who is Golden Key? 
Are You In Color?

Flyers
Graduate Students
Faculty Flyer
Student Organization Flyer
Local Events
Callout to Prospective Members

Misc
Chapter Newsletter - sample from UC Berkeley
Reasons to Get Active in Golden Key

Chapter Handout Sample
Official Golden Key Tablecloth
Phone Calling Sample Script
Public Service Announcement
Table Tent Sample
Eblast for Distribution Lists

Other Mission Related Activities
Planning a Successful Activity

Fundraising
Fundraising Ideas
More Student Organization Fundraisers
Implementing a Fundraiser

Chapter Website Standards

Official Name
The full name of the organization is "Golden Key International Honour Society". The organization may be referred to as "Golden Key" or the "Society" on second reference ("Society" must be capitalized).

Official Colors
The official colors of the Society are royal blue and gold.
The RGB colors are: 
Blue = 17, 36, 113 & Gold = 206, 153, 0
The PMS Colors:
Blue = 281 / Gold = 8005

Official Logo
The crest of the Society is its official logo. The components of the crest are an open book, which is at the base of a golden key. The key is mounted in the center of a shield, which is in turn mounted on a scroll. The scroll is supported by a staff. The book represents knowledge attained and knowledge to be attained. The scroll stands for the scholarship which knowledge makes possible, the shield denotes protection of individual goals by using knowledge and scholarship to build potential, and the key opens the door to make goals reality. The staff represents the support International headquarters provides to the chapters and members.

Proper use of Golden Key's name and logo are essential for the recognition of the Society.  Therefore, the Golden Key logo may in no way be altered from the options available here.

Color
Black and White
Grayscale




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Website Banner Images

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Note to Webmasters:

1)  Please save these graphics to your webserver.  Golden Key will not support links back to this site.   

2)  If you have a request for a Golden Key graphic that is not available here, please send your request to tlovitz@goldenkey.org.

Website Purpose

  • Marketing - To attract prospective members and sponsors.
  • Information - To keep current members or other interested parties informed of chapter happenings.

Website Design

  • Easy navigation - Users can find the information that they are looking or quickly and easily.
  • Simple layout - Limiting frames, tables, colors and fonts.
  • Professional Design - The website represents your chapter, your university and Golden Key.

What Users Want

  • High-quality content - Give the user information that they want and need to know.
  • Frequently updated - This will keep users coming back, shows that the organization is alive and running, and will keep current members up-to-date about chapter events and news.
  • Minimal download time - Not too much use of flash and other plug-ins so that users can get to the information quickly.
  • Ease of use - Website should clearly indicate to user: page titles, site name and logo, current location within the site, clearly defined links.

What Information Should be on the Chapter Website?

Society Information

Chapter Information

  • Meeting dates, times, locations and minutes
  • News and Events
  • Officers and contact info
  • Membership Requirements
  • Newsletters
  • Honorary Member information
  • Links to other chapters

Please keep in mind that...
A website produced by a Golden Key chapter not only represents the chapter itself, but also represents the Society as a whole. The content on the website should reflect the values of Golden Key.

For more detailed information, check out this handy guide created by fellow chapter webmasters.

 

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