About our Kiwanis club

Kiwanis helps kids around the world. Our Kiwanis club looks out for our community and the Kiwanis international organization takes on large-scale challenges, such as fighting disease and poverty. Our Kiwanis club is generous with its time. We are creative with our ideas. We are passionate about making a difference. And we have fun along the way!

For more than a century, Kiwanis has created opportunities for children to be curious, safe and healthy regardless of the community in which they live. When you give a child the chance to learn, experience, dream, grow, succeed and thrive, great things can happen.

Club History

Since 1915, Kiwanians have served the needs of the downtrodden, the less fortunate, the disadvantaged. Today, Kiwanis International is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time.

Our club has produced five district governors:

Harry Sims

Dr. Lee

Percy Rayl

Dale Vernon

Max Klamm

In addition to making many significant contributions to our community, we’ve yielded more district governors than any other Kiwanis Club in our state. Our members are service-minded men and women who are unmatched in their commitment and compassion for others. Kiwanis service projects range from efforts that help local communities to Kiwanis International’s Worldwide Service Project to eliminate iodine deficiency disorders. Kiwanis members dedicate more than six million volunteers hours and invest more than $100 million in service projects to strengthen communities and serve young children every year. Children are “Priority One!” the projects we have supported include:

  • PEP – Productivity Enhancement Program, bringing approximately 25 Russian business people to Kansas City, Kansas to learn about Western business practices
  • The 4-H Scholarship Program
  • Scholarships for the sons and daughters of Kiwanis members
  • K-Kids Club at Douglass Elementary School
  • Dictionary Project
  • Aktion Club for disabled adults
  • Key Leader Program
  • Salvation Army Bell Ringing
  • Red Cross
  • Ronald McDonald House
  • YMCA
  • Special Olympics
  • Boy Scouts
  • Girl Scouts
  • Book collection for KCK District 500 Education Center Preschool
  • Children’s Museum Annual Fishing Derby
  • Kiwanis International Foundation

The Kiwanis Mission & Vision

Kiwanis empowers communities to improve the world by making lasting differences in the lives of children. Kiwanis strives to be a positive influence in communities worldwide — so that one day, all children will wake up in communities that believe in them, nurture them and provide the support they need to thrive. Our Kiwanis club fulfills the Kiwanis mission by serving our community through Kiwanis Community Service Projects

Kiwanis Service

Service is at the heart of every Kiwanis club, no matter where in the world it’s located. Members stage approximately 150,000 service projects and raise nearly US$100 million every year for communities, families and projects. By working together, members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone.

Our Kiwanis club focuses on changing the world by serving children, one child in our community at a time. To reach more people and have a greater service impact on their communities, many clubs sponsor a Kiwanis family club — K-Kids for primary school children; Builders Clubs for adolescents; Key Clubs for teens; Circle K clubs for university students and Aktion Clubs for adults living with disabilities.

Join Us

Our Kiwanis club fulfills the Kiwanis mission by serving our community through Kiwanis Community Service Projects.

Are you ready to help create communities that let all children thrive, prosper and grow? It’s pretty easy to do! Simply contact us with your questions and apply for Kiwanis club membership here.

The kids in your community and the world are counting on you!

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