THOUSANDS SERVING MILLIONS.

KIDS AT HEART

Kiwanis International is a global community of clubs, members, and partners dedicated to improving the lives of children one community at a time. Today, we stand with more than 550,000 members from K-Kids to Key Club to Kiwanis and many ages in between in 80 countries and geographic areas. Each community has different needs, and Kiwanis empowers members to pursue creative ways to serve the needs of children, such as fighting hunger, improving literacy, and offering guidance.

Kiwanis clubs host nearly 150,000 service projects each year.

Kiwanis International.
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Mission

Kiwanis helps kids around the world. Local clubs look out for our communities and the international organization takes on large-scale challenges, such as fighting disease and poverty.

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Values

We are passionate about making a difference. Helping kids grow and succeed is at the heart of everything we do. But how we do it is just as important. We believe our neighborhoods and our world are best served when people of all ages and different backgrounds work together to share their time and talents.

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THE OBJECTS OF KIWANIS

The Objects of Kiwanis guide our organization. They are our values. Our beliefs. Our core. Delegates approved the six permanent Objects of Kiwanis at the 1924 Kiwanis International Convention in Denver, Colorado. They have remained unchanged through the decades.

  • OBJECT 1

    To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.

  • OBJECT 2

    To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.

  • OBJECT 3

    To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business and professional standards.

  • OBJECT 4

    To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive and serviceable citizenship.

  • OBJECT 5

    To provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service and to build better communities.

  • OBJECT 6

    To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism and good will.