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Kiwanis
Sierra Oakhurst Kiwanis Club
Meeting Every Tuesday at Noon
- Kiwanis was organized in Detroit,
Michigan, USA, on January 21, 1915.
- Kiwanis focuses on the needs of
ordinary people and children to create extraordinary
life-changing moments.
- Kiwanis and its Service Leadership
Programs boast a membership of more than 600,000 men, women,
and youth in nearly 16,000 clubs in more than 70 countries and
geographic areas.
- Members of Kiwanis and its Service
Leadership Programs volunteer more than 21 million hours and
invest more than $113 million in their communities around the
world.
- Kiwanis is taking itself from a good
organization to a truly great organization that defines
excellence for service and leadership and builds leaders
through service opportunities.
- Kiwanis International is the only
service organization that builds leaders at every level—from
the youngest Kiwanis Kids all the way through several youth
programs and adult programs. (Kiwanis Family of Programs)
- Kiwanis’ impact on the world will be
measured by the 10 million young leaders it nurtures, rather
than by the number of members it attracts.
- Kiwanis continues its service emphasis
of “Young Children: Priority One,” which focuses on the
special needs of children from prenatal development to age 5.
In a typical year, “Young Children: Priority One” service
projects involve more than US$14 million and 1 million
volunteer hours.
- In 1994, Kiwanis launched its first
Worldwide Service Project, a $75 million campaign in
partnership with UNICEF to eliminate iodine deficiency
disorders by the year 2000. IDD projects have been funded in
95 nations. Kiwanis International Foundation has raised nearly
$100 million to eliminate IDD worldwide.
- Kiwanis One Day occurs annually during
the first weekend of April. It is an opportunity to
unite Kiwanis-family members from around the globe and their
communities in a dedicated day of action devoted to hands-on
community service projects.
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