<p>hi, so i'm trying to create a new advocacy club. i'm very interested in hunger/poverty, global issues, diseases, etc. however, our school already has many clubs that are somewhat related to these. </p>
<p>we already have clubs like:
-AIDS Prevention
-Key Club
-MUN
-Speech and Debate
-Constitutional Law
-DECA
-NHS
-Robotics</p>
<p>Practically everything. And they're all highly successful. However, I'm not interested in any one club in particular at this point.</p>
<p>Can anyone please give club ideas? Any clubs you've had in your high school that you thought were interesting?</p>
<p>do you have an Amnesty International chapter at your school? if not, you should look into that. or SPARE: Students Providing African Relief and Education.</p>
<p>Yeah we have this Immigration Freedom Club started by this one student a few years ago. SPARE sounds a little like peer coaching, student leadership, key club, literacy foundation, all put together. Lol yeah I know, we do have everything....</p>
<p>that's how i thought it was at my school too. i also adamantly refused to join key club because i thought it was too full of resume-liners (and i hate resume-liners!)... so for a while i wasn't in a community service club at school. then i realized i was really into random acts of kindness, so i founded a club, gave a ploy (the members stay anonymous), and we haven't faded into obscurity yet. :-)</p>
<p>think of something you really support. and i mean really. not just your bandwagon causes (okay, no cause is a bandwagon cause, but i think you know what i mean) but something people don't usually think of - and start the club.</p>
<p>Because they seem like resume-building clubs. I want one that's interesting to me, not just some regular club. I'm just not sure what kind of club would be successful, get people interested, etc.</p>
<p>I thought SPARE sounded like a good idea. I'm not sure where you got the whole "peer coaching" idea from. You could fundraise and hold meetings and benefit concerts and it could be really cool. Maybe in the future you could even sponsor one of those spring break trips to like south africa or the carribbean to help out.</p>
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<p>I think that the best thing to do here is to join the club that has the same goals as you and stop it from being a resume-building club. You should join the club, prove that you're in it for the club's mission and not for a resume, rise to the top, and make it so that everyone in the club is there for the mission and not for a resume building activity. Make people attend events; miss 2 events, you're out. Starting a new club when there are already this many (and many of which appeal to the same objectives) is just asking for trouble and saying that you created a club for the purpose of creating a club. What I'm saying is that it's much more impressive for someone to take something broken and fix it than to go out a buy something new.</p>
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<p>Also, I think it's stupid to do what you think will get other poeple interested. If none of the clubs fit your agenda/desire, do something on your own. You don't need the support of a club (especially a brand new, first year club) to pursue your desires. Create a club if you see interest in your school for acheiving your goal.</p>
<p>We have Amnesty International and Global Humanitarian Alliance..although as an ignorant outsider, I admit that I have no idea how those two have different purposes/goals.</p>