What It Means To Be A Member

Personal Impact:

• Make business and professional contacts

• Learn first-hand about local, national and international issues

• Improve and use leadership skills

• Participate in the life of your community and the world

• Develop lifelong friendships while engaging in worthy community projects

Local Impact:

• Help children and youth in your own community

• Make a difference for local nonprofit organizations

• Provide a role model for others to participate in service to their community

• Provide a source for those seeking opportunities to serve

Worldwide Impact:

• Assist children, young adults, the aging, and the needy

• Improve communities

• Encourage international understanding of Kiwanis objectives (below)

Objects of Kiwanis:

The six permanent Objects of Kiwanis International were approved by Kiwanis club delegates at the 1924 Convention in Denver, Colorado. Through the succeeding decades, they have remained unchanged.

• 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 standards.

• 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 goodwill.