What Is Kiwanis?

The name "Kiwanis" stems from an Indian phrase which, loosely translated, means 'to express oneself'.

What It Means To Be A Kiwanian...

Through Kiwanis membership, people can give of themselves, their experience, knowledge, time and love to those who need them most. Kiwanians work for a way of life in which they believe. They can form friendships on a first-name basis with fellow citizens they otherwise might never have met.

What Kiwanis Does...

Kiwanis performs service beyond the capability of the individual; assistance to the aging, the needy, and to youth; improvement of communities; and encouragement of international understanding.

Kiwanis Objectives

To give primacy to the human and spiritual, rather than to the material values of life.
To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional values.
To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
To provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities.
To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and good will.

Kiwanis Goals...

"Young Children Priority One"

To have all Kiwanians demonstrate a belief in themselves and in Kiwanis by supporting club efforts to:

Ensure the development of the potential in young people, by instilling a positive self-image, basic values, and a sense for their future.
Ensure that we meet the social needs of Kiwanians by developing enduring friendships, a spirit of fellowship, and a sense of the Kiwanis family in every member.
Ensure that all Kiwanis clubs will grow and that all communities will have the opportunity to experience the service of a Kiwanis club.