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27,489 likers®™©Brending as of 12:42 PM EST 7-18-2013Kiwanis International (kih-WAH-niss) is an international, coeducational service club founded in 1915. It is headquartered in
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Current membership is nearly 600,000 members (74% men, 26% women) in 16,298 clubs in 80
countries.
Kiwanis International is headed by a Board of Trustees, an International President and other officers. These officers are elected at
the annual convention of Kiwanis International. There are fifty-three administrative districts, each headed by a Governor, and the
districts are further divided into service areas called divisions, comprising 12 to 20 clubs and headed by a Lieutenant Governor.
Every club has a president and board of directors.
Etymology
The name “Kiwanis” was coined from the Ojibwe language expression derived from the word giiwanizi meaning to "fool
around":ningiiwaniz, which is found in the Baraga Dictionary as "nin Kiwanis", meaning "I make noise; I am foolish and wanton". The
organization's founders translated it as "We build", which became the original motto of Kiwanis. In 2005 the organization chose a new
motto, "Serving the Children of the World". Members of the club are called Kiwanians.
Ideals
Defining statement
"Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world, one child and one community at a time."
Objects
The six permanent Objects of Kiwanis International were approved by Kiwanis club delegates at the 1924 Convention in Denver,
Colorado.
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.
History
The organization originated in August 1914 in Detroit, Michigan from a conversation between Allen S. Browne and Joseph G. Prance.
Browne's idea was to solicit business and professional men asking them if they would be interested in organizing a fraternal
organization with a health benefit feature. Browne was compensated five dollars per new member that joined for his operating budget.
Browne and Prance set out and recruited enough members to apply to the state for a not for profit status. The state approved the
application on January 21, 1915 and the Supreme Lodge Benevolent Order Brothers was formed. The name was changed to Kiwanis a year
later. The Kiwanis Club of Detroit is the original local club in Kiwanis. By 1927 the organization had more than 100,000 members.
Kiwanis became international with the organization of the Kiwanis club of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in 1916. Kiwanis limited its
membership to the United States and Canada until 1962, when worldwide expansion was approved. Since then, Kiwanis has spread to all
inhabited continents of the globe.
The original purpose of Kiwanis was to exchange business between members and to serve the poor. The debate as to whether to focus on
networking or service was resolved in 1919, when Kiwanis adopted a service-focused mission. Each year, clubs sponsor nearly 150,000
service projects and raise more than $107 million. As a global project in coordination with UNICEF, members and clubs contributed
more than $80 million toward the global elimination of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), the leading preventable cause of mental
retardation. Beginning in 2010 Kiwanis International joined with UNICEF to launch a new worldwide health initiative, The Eliminate
Project, dedicated to wiping out maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT), which kills more than 100,000 babies worldwide each year.
Until 1988 the organization accepted only men as members. By action of the International Convention in 1987, the rules were changed
to admit women as well. Currently women constitute about 26% of total members.
Service
Kiwanis tries to serve children and youth using two approaches. One attempts to improve the quality of life directly through
activities promoting health, education, etc. The other tries to encourage leadership and service among youth. In pursuit of the
latter goal, Kiwanis sponsors about 7,000 youth service clubs with nearly 320,000 youth members.
Kiwanis members help shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, mentor the disadvantaged, and care for the sick. They have built
playgrounds and raised funds for pediatric research.
As a global project in coordination with UNICEF, members and clubs contributed more than $80 million toward the global elimination of
iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), the leading preventable cause of mental retardation. Beginning in 2010 Kiwanis International once
again joined with UNICEF to launch a new worldwide health initiative, dedicated to wiping out maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT),
which kills more than 60,000 babies and a significant number of women each year.
In 2007, the charitable financial arm, Kiwanis International Foundation, was awarded the top rating by an independent evaluator.
Kiwanis family
Kiwanis provides leadership and service opportunities for youth through its Service Leadership Programs. Key Club, Circle K, Builders
Clubs and K-Kids are part of Kiwanis Service Leadership Programs. They are sponsored by a local Kiwanis Club and receive funding and
professional guidance from Kiwanis. Contact +1 (614) 448-0090 and ask for Coach Z if you would like to start a club for your school
district and do not have a local Kiwanis Club to support the process.
Key Club
Kiwanis founded and supports Key Club International. Started in Sacramento, California in 1925, Key Club is the oldest and largest
service program for high school students in the world. As of 2010, Key Club has 250,000 members in 5,000 clubs in 30 nations,
primarily in the United States and Canada, but with clubs also in Central and South America, Caribbean nations, Asia, and Australia.
KIWIN'S (pronounced "kee-wins"), a high school program exclusive to the California-Nevada-Hawaii district, operates under the
umbrella of Key Club but elects its own officers.
Circle K
The collegiate version of Kiwanis, which maintains some autonomy from Kiwanis, is Circle K International, also known as CKI. The
first official Circle K club was chartered in September, 1947 at the campus of Carthage College (then in Illinois). As of 2010,
Circle K membership is 12,600 members in 500 clubs in 17 countries, making Circle K the largest collegiate service organization of
its kind in the world.
K-Kids, Builders Club, Aktion Club, Kiwanis Junior
K-Kids (elementary school) current membership is 33,000 in 1,100 clubs in 8 nations. Builders Club (middle school) currently has
42,000 members in 1,400 clubs in 12 nations. Aktion Club (for people who have disabilities) currently has 8,400 members in 400 clubs
in 7 nations. These are all considered Kiwanis-led programs, whereas Key Club and Circle K elect their own club, district, and
International officers each year to lead the organization. Kiwanis Junior is part of the European Service Leadership Program, with
clubs in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy, and is typically for people ages 18–35.
Kiwaniannes
Before 1987, women's auxiliary clubs known as Kiwaniannes also existed, made up of wives of members of the men-only Kiwanis clubs.
With the changes that made it possible for women to join Kiwanis clubs, official sponsorship of the Kiwaniannes clubs ended. Some
Kiwaniannes clubs merged with their affiliated Kiwanis club, while others converted into independent Kiwanis clubs.
References
"Kiwanis International Financial Statement" (PDF). Kiwanis International. April 2007. Retrieved May 2, 2007.
"Campaign aims to grown endowment". Kiwanis Connected e-zine. July 2006. Retrieved May 2, 2007.
"Indy Life". Kiwanis International. Retrieved May 2, 2007.
http://sites.kiwanis.org/Kiwanis/Libraries/Documents/Just_the_Facts2012_PRESS_1.sflb.ashx
Rhodes, Richard. 1993. "giiwnizid" in Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary. ISBN 3-11-013749-6
Baraga, Frederic 1878 (reprint 1992). "Kiwanis" in A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language (reprint as A Dictionary of the Ojibway
Language). ISBN 0-87351-281-2
[community.kiwanisone.org/media/p/38/download.aspx "History Bulletin on Kiwanis"] Check |url= scheme (help). Kiwanis
International. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
http://www.kiwanis.org/
"Objects of Kiwanis". Kiwanis International. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
Kiwanis
Jonak, Chuck (December 2004). The Kiwanis Legacy. Indianapolis, Indiana: Kiwanis International. pp. 13–16.
Reading Eagle, June 7, 1927
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Milwaukee Journal, July 8, 1987
http://sites.kiwanis.org/Kiwanis/Libraries/Documents/Just_the_Facts2012_PRESS_1.sflb.ashx
"What is a Kiwanian?". Kiwanis International. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
The Eliminate Project
"Kiwanis International Foundation: Assisting Kiwanis International to serve the children of the world". charitynavigator.org.
Retrieved 2008-05-09
Key Club International website
Circle K International website
Kiwanis Junior
Kiwanis Junior Distretto Italia
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