<p>Hey everyone! I'm looking to start a club at my school that makes a difference, not to pad my application. I was looking into starting a club that would help a local animal shelter but I feel like it would be more meaningful for me to start a club that could be carried on after I leave school that could make a big impact on people's lives. The only problem is that I am having a hard time with ideas. I would love your opinions and ideas!</p>
<p>Start the Princeton Female Fan Club ;]</p>
<p>In all seriousness though, why not just do the animal shelter one? It’s something you care about. Chances are that whatever you start won’t continue after you leave unless the school or some other students really want to promote it, so might as well enjoy your time.</p>
<p>Well, it depend on what kind of hobbies do you like, or topics of choice. If you want a club to remain for years to come, then you might want to promote it as much as possible. Organize many events, like a social or something, and make sure you could get an advisor that’s really interested into the club. Reward you members after every big event, and make it fun for everyone including yourself. Here’s a list of clubs, to give some ideas.
Art Related-National Art Honor Society, Anime
Community Service-Key Club, Rotary Club
Civil- Human Rights, Environmental, Model UN, Diversity
and more…hope that helps.</p>
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Model UN and Key Club are for D-Bags who are trying to pad their application without actually caring. Why do you need to be in a club to do community service?</p>
<p>Rotary Interact is the best club. Our club picks out issues that we feel strongly about and help raise money for them. This semester, we’re focusing on Polio.</p>
<p>I’ll help you make one if you need my help.</p>
<p>I care about Model UN…</p>
<p>who’s the d-bag now?</p>
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You.</p>
<p>10 char</p>
<p>I care about Model UN too.</p>
<p>Anyway, just look for any causes that you feel strong about. You could always try to find various large causes to donate to. </p>
<p>Oh, I just came up with one. How about causes people have forgotten about? Like victims of Katrina? It could be called: Forget-me-not</p>
<p>You don’t need to make a club in order to help out. People are more likely to want to help out with a club that they’re already in or that they’ve heard of for all their high school career than they are to want to help out with some new no-name club. Unless there is no extant community service club, you’ll be clogging up the system by making one of your own. Get involved with a club and propose a Saturday activity if you want to help out directly (though I know, at least here, it’s very difficult for teenagers to help at animal shelters) or, if you’re okay with helping out indirectly, propose a bake sale or something similar to make money for donation.
And yes, you can take on leadership even if you didn’t start the club. I host yard sales, coordinate events, propose charities to donate to, etc. in my community service club and I’m not the leader, much less the founder. I don’t think anyone even knows who the founder was, it was so long ago. We just all consider the girl who led it for two years, Sept 2006-May 2008, to be the founder since it was moribund before then.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say Model UN is a great club for making a difference, but it’s really fun anyway!</p>