About Us

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’ 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.

In June 2010 Kiwanis International launched its latest Worldwide Service Project. Our current global campaign for children, The Eliminate Project: Kiwanis eliminating maternal/neonatal tetanus, (www.TheEliminateProject.org) aims to raise US$110 million and save the lives of a 129 million mothers and their future babies. In partnership with UNICEF, Kiwanis is committing by 2015 to eliminating maternal/neonatal tetanus, a disease that kills one baby every nine minutes. By targeting this disease, Kiwanis will not only save lives but also pave the way for other interventions that will boost maternal health and child survival among the poorest, most underserved women and children in the world.

Additional Members

Abel, Don

Adler, Jeremy

Anable, Mary Ellen

Blasdel, Jeff

Bova, Mike

Case, Brooke

Currens, Tom

Curry, Gloria

Dole, Lynn

Easterling, Travis

Farless, Jim

Fedor, Jake

Foster, John

Freed, John

Ganus, Tom

Green, Jim

Hinshaw, Tom

Jordan, Bucky

Kennedy, John

Larrison, Nathan

Leestma, Paul

Leggiero, Don

Lewis, Bob

Mottier, Duane

Owens, Tom

Paris, Sue

Price, John

Rawlings, Todd

Risser, Duane

Schuyler, Larry

Solomon, Bryan

Solomon, George

Vacketta, Brad

Stehouwer, David

Taylor, Don

VanNatta, Chuck

Warren, Fran

Westmark, Lisa