The Auburn Kiwanis Club, Inc.

    The name "Kiwanis" was adapted from the expression "Nunc Kee-wanis" in the Otchipew (Native American) language, meaning "We have a good time," "We make a noise," or, under another construction, "We trade or advertise." Some persons prefer to pronounce the word "ki"; others, "kee."
    Kiwanis members are just like you.  We are trying to make a living, raise a family, and make the world a little bit better.  We do the latter by raising money and donating our time towards worthwhile projects that help make that difference.
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    We raised over $22,000 this past year to distribute to local agencies  helping the less fortunate than ourselves, especially the children. But that's not all we do!  We work locally in projects to help the community:

In 2011 we:

Assisted with the Reading is Fun Program - reading to children
Delivered Poinsettias to Auburn Memorial Hospital patients at Christmas
Delivered Poinsettias  to Cayuga County Nursing Home
Rang Bells for the Salvation Army

 
 
 
 

    We also belong to a much larger community, Kiwanis International, Inc. that is found all over the world  with more than 600,000 members in more than 13,000 clubs in 79 countries.

 History:
    The first Kiwanis club was organized in Detroit, Michigan, USA on January 21, 1915. A year later the Kiwanis Club of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, was chartered, and Kiwanis International grew rapidly into a leading service club in these two founding nations. In 1962, worldwide expansion was approved, and today Kiwanis clubs are active in every part of the world.

Our Motto:  "We Build."

Women in Kiwanis:   Membership was opened to women in 1987. There are now more than 51,000 women members, and 1 in 7 club presidents is a woman.

Kiwanis youth organizations:   Kiwanis International sponsors several service clubs for young people: Circle K International has 10,800 members on 560 university and college campuses; Key Club International has 194,000 members in 4,574 high schools; and Builders Clubs have been organized in 2,000 junior high and middle schools.

Kiwanis International service:  In one year, Kiwanis clubs sponsored 147,000 service projects. To do so, Kiwanians raised and spent almost $70 million and contributed 6.2 million hours of volunteer time. Kiwanis International's continuing service emphasis is called

Young Children: Priority One

    It focuses on the special needs of children from prenatal development to age 5. Projects conducted as part of the "Young Children:  Priority One" service emphasis involved $14.3 million and 1.3 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. Iodine deficiency is rare in areas where iodized salt is used, but in other parts of the world, IDD is the leading cause of preventable mental and physical retardation. As many as 1.5 billion people are at risk, especially young children.

    Kiwanis has so much to offer: the camaraderie, the "warm fuzzy" feeling of being able to help at the community level, the national level, and the international level.  And knowing that YOU make a difference in others' social and economic welfare improving their life.

Another nice thing about Kiwanis: you can participate as much or as little as you want.  But once you become acquainted with its members, you will want to help out any way you can!

Meetings:  How about stopping by and meeting us!  Our meetings are: every first Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. at Pavlo's Restaurant at 6 York Street, Auburn, NY (board meeting but all members are invited).  

So think about it....isn't it time to make a difference and have some fun doing it?

For more information and an application to join, call our president, Pam Anderregg at (315) 253-5630.  You won't regret it!