Kids Care Club of Alpine in Alpine, Utah collected books from the community, decorated the bags, and made bookmarks.  They will be giving the book bags to local children in need, as well as sending books to needy children in the Philippines.

To help the victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Club created and distributed 250 flyers to neighbors and friends and collected $500 to send to Haiti. 

Once a month, the 11 members of the Boulder Kids Care Club who are mostly from Foothills Elementary School, in Boulder, Colorado, gather together to help their community.

Recently, the 3rd graders of set up a small lemonade stand, a toy cash register and a batch of warm cookies at North Boulder Park to raise money to help the Humane Society of Boulder Valley. "I just feel good to help everything," said 8-year-old Daisy Booker, who was yelling at cars to get them to stop and buy lemonade and cookies.

Daisy's mother, Ricki Booker said that she and Mara Fleishman started the Boulder chapter of the national Kids Care Clubs in February. They were looking to start a volunteer organization to help kids give back on a regular basis.

"We started it here in Boulder because we really felt like we wanted our kids to be involved in giving back to the community," Booker said. "So, we kept trying to get our friends together to volunteer and it kept falling through. So, finally we took the bull by the horns."

The group's first project was in February. The kids made 85 Valentine's Day Cards and sent them to the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. Next month, they plan on doing a recycling project. Fleishman said Kids Care Clubs helps kids understand the importance of giving back. "We wanted to do things that help kids understand what volunteering means," she said.

Wendy Dray, the education coordinator at the Humane Society, stopped by the lemonade stand on Friday. She said the group came by earlier in March to see what needed to be done to help. "It's really moving," Dray said. "These guys really do their homework too. They called us before and told us what they were thinking about doing and asked the best ways they can help." Dray also said, it was a great experience for the kids to learn how to help out and give back to the community. "It's a great confidence booster for the kids to get out there and get involved and do things," she said. "It gets them used to interacting with people. And, then any time they are doing something good for people, they are boosting their self-esteem, too."

The Broomfield Kids Care Club, comprised of students from Stargate School in Broomfield, Colorado, recently completed a youth-led service project to help homeless children feel warm and special this winter. The club`s project, called "Blanket Hugs," was one of 70 recipients nationwide awarded a Disney Minnie Grant from Youth Service America, that enabled children and youth around the world to assume leadership roles developing and implementing community service projects.

The Kids Care Club partnered with The Denver Samaritan House to provide blankets to children staying at the homeless shelter over the holidays. The club toured the shelter before making the blankets and learned the residents, including children, are not allowed to bring personal items, other than clothes, with them to the shelter. The club`s blankets turned out to be very special gifts -- not only to provide warmth and comfort, but also as something personal for each child to keep.

After receiving a generous match from Jo-Ann Fabric for fleece, the club members shopped for fabric to make more than 50 individual and colorful, no-sew blankets for children at the shelter. During Thanksgiving weekend, 25 children gathered at Stargate School for a blanket party to tie and create the blankets. They also wrapped each blanket with a homemade tag that read "Made for you by kids who care." The blankets were delivered to The Samaritan House before the holidays. The children`s director decided the blankets were so special that she will be giving them to children for Christmas.

The Broomfield Kids Care Club was very touched by its experience with this project and was excited to be able to help brighten the holidays for children at The Samaritan House.

The Broomfield Kids Care Club in Broomfield, CO is a small club with lots of heart. The Club's eight members are schoolmates, ages 5-8. This May, in recognition of National Foster Care Month, they decided to make Smile Sacks for local children in foster care.

To raise money, the kids held a multi-family garage sale. They made signs, donated toys and other household items, sold food and beverages and handled all transactions with the customers. They also organized FLIP FLOP FRIDAY fundraiser at their school. Any child who wished to wear flip flops to school on this one special day donated $1. The Club raised $700 from the two fundraisers. The club members shopped for and assembled  the Smile Sacks.  They drew pictures and created a handmade tag that read "Made for you by kids who care".   When, they delivered the 25 Smile Sacks to the Health and Human Services office, the caseworkers were thrilled to recieve the new items for their clients.

A small group like the Broomfield Kids Care Club make a BIG impact and bring smiles to some children during a difficult time in their lives.