Editing Key Club (section)

==History==

===Origin===
In 1924, the local Kiwanis Club decided to attempt to begin a service club at the Sacramento High School, and the school principal supported the idea and began searching for students willing to start the club. In May 1925, a group of boys at [[Sacramento High School]] held their first club meeting. <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.keyclub.org/discover/historytimeline/ourhistory.aspx |title=Key Club - Our History |access-date=July 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729082829/http://www.keyclub.org/discover/historytimeline/ourhistory.aspx |archive-date=July 29, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Inclusivity===
Female students were first allowed to join in 1977 (52 years after the founding of the organization). This occurred ten years before adult women were permitted to join the parent (sponsoring) organization, Kiwanis International.<ref name="urlHistory & Timeline" /> 
In 1980, the first females were elected to the Key Club International Board.  Lisa Cross and Renee Wetstein were elected as Key Club International Trustees. In addition, the first African American was elected to serve on the International Board. Greg Broussard was elected as Key Club International vice-president. In 1996, [[Craig Melvin]] was elected as the first African-American president of Key Club International.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kiwanis International {{!}} Learning to Give|url=https://www.learningtogive.org/resources/kiwanis-international|access-date=July 30, 2020|website=www.learningtogive.org|archive-date=August 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807213624/https://www.learningtogive.org/resources/kiwanis-international|url-status=live}}</ref> The 2019 Key Club International Convention's House of Delegates voted to change all references of gender-specific pronouns (i.e., he/him/his or she/her/hers) to the neutral they/them/their pronoun set throughout all of the organization's bylaws. During the same session, the delegation passed a resolution to change the phrase "''...my nation and God...''" to "''...my nation and world...''" in the Key Club Pledge; the Kiwanis Youth Programs Board of Directors, directed by the International Guidebook to review any votes from the House of Delegates, approved the changes.<ref>{{cite web
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|title=Proposed Amendments 2019 ICON
|archive-date=February 8, 2022
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|access-date=August 18, 2019
|date=August 18, 2019
|title=Key Club International Guidebook
|archive-date=January 18, 2022
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118061017/https://s3.amazonaws.com/keyclub-wpassets/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/08122529/KC-Guidebook-20181.pdf
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===Present===
Key Club International is composed of 32 organized Districts with an additional District in formation (Western Canada).<ref name="How Key Club Works">{{Cite web|title = How Key Club Works|url = https://www.keyclub.org/membership/ | publisher=Key Club International|date = September 14, 2017 | access-date = July 11, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200707005517/https://www.keyclub.org/membership/ |archive-date = July 7, 2020}}</ref> Key Club International is currently in 38 countries.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}} As of 2020, Key Club International includes 229,652 members and 4,841 paid clubs.<ref name="June 25, 2020 KCDDPR" />

Key Club International itself employs three full-time staff members and utilizes the services of nearly 120 additional specialists employed by Kiwanis International—all are employed at Kiwanis International headquarters in [[Indianapolis]], Indiana.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.keyclub.org/contact.aspx|title=Contact Us|website=www.keyclub.org|access-date=June 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606144213/http://keyclub.org/contact.aspx|archive-date=June 6, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>