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 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.

Members of the Royle School Kids Care Club joined with Brownie Girl Scout Troop 324 in Darien, CT to help girls in foster care. Realizing that children and teens in foster care often lack the basic necessities, the Troup decided to target pre-teen girls and created a Pillowcase Care Package.

Using their profits from cookie sales, the girls went shopping and purchased toiletries, hair accessories, a journal, pen and crayons. All new items were placed in a new purple pillowcase tied with a pink box and labeled: A Pillowcase Care Package for someone special. Made with Love By Brownie Girls Scout Troop 324. They were delivered to the Kids Care Clubs office for social workers to pick up and deliver to their clients.

The Care and Share Kids Care Club in Old Lyme, CT is an active club of forty plus 3rd, 4th and 5th graders from Center School. They meet once a month before school. They created a Holiday Movie Boxes for the Even Start program in Middletown, CT. The program provides adult, parenting and early childhood education.

After ordering "The Incredibles" DVDs (that were available in December) and Quaker Chewy Granola Bars from Kids Care Clubs, they added popcorn, candy and a few other treats. They packed it all in a decorated shoebox and presented 30 Holiday Movie Boxes to the families of the Even Start Program.

The Challenge Charter School Kids Care Club has grown to 62 busy members! The club meets once a month and accomplishes their projects onsite.

One of their favorite projects is making something for Meals on Wheels to give out to homebound seniors when they deliver their meals. In the fall the Club made napkin rings with Autumn colored silk leaves on them and in the spring they made little white plastic cups into bunnies and filled them with sugar free candy. They even received a special thank you from an elderly couple!

Some of the other projects the Club has done this year include making wooden key holders for Habitat for Humanity, ?stained glass? (tissue paper painted on) votive holders for a nearby senior center, and they collected hundreds of jackets for a local family shelter. They also make cards for Keiki cards and write letters to soldiers.

Most recently the clubs made earthy bags, decorated grocery bags, for Earth Day 2007.