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About Optimist Club @ UCSB

Optimist Club at UCSB is dedicated to enriching the lives of youth in the Goleta and Santa Barbara community, and like all the clubs of Optimist International, believe in young people and try to empower them to be the best they can be. Some of the volunteer projects we participated in last year include:

-Made gift bags for children in the cancer ward at Cottage Hospital
-Implemented a bicycle safety program at IV Elementary School
-Back to school canned food drive for low-income families at IV Elementary School
-Sponsored a rape prevention education with Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center
-Volunteered at UCSB's Children's Day
-Volunteered at the Santa Barbara Kid's Festival

We have lunch meetings every 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month. Interested in coming? Lunch is free for newcomers! Please contact our Optimist Club President Karen Ko for more details.

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About Optimist Club International

Meeting the needs of young people in communities worldwide, Optimist Clubs have been "Bringing Out the Best in Kids" since 1919. Optimist Clubs conduct positive service projects aimed at providing a helping hand to youth. Club Members are best known in their communities for their upbeat attitudes, and believing in young people and empowering them to be the best they can. Optmists conduct 65,000 service projects each year, serving six million young people.

"Optimist Creed"
Promise yourself
• To be so strong nothing disturbs your peace of mind
• To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to everyone you meet
• To make all your friends feel like there is something in them
• To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true
• To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and expect only the best

• To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
• To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
• To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
• To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
• To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.