Service+Clubs+-+Lions+Club,+Kiwanis

Kiwanis Club = Ordinary people performing  =

EXTRAORDINARY WORK
Kiwanis, through guidance and example, works to develop future generations of leaders. Every day, Kiwanians are revitalizing neighborhoods, organizing youth-sports programs, tutoring, building playgrounds, and performing countless other projects to help children and communities.

The [|Kiwanis Club] was formed in Detriot, Michigan on January 15, 1915. Their focus is on the needs of ordinary people and children to create extraordinary life-changing moments.
 * History and Services provided: **
 * 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 Family of 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.

 
 * Club Locations and Obtaining Membership for your Family or School: **
 * There are countless benefits to becoming a Kiwanis member—fellowship, growing leadership skills, and the opportunity to serve children in your community and around the world.
 * To obtain membership click this link to find a [|CLUB]in your nieghborhood.
 * Simply contact a member or officer and let them know you are interested in joining.
 * Key Club:**
 * [|Kiwanis Key Club] partners Kiwanas and high school student's in their neighborhood to stress the importance of community service and leadership.

**Value of Service:**  Lions Club **History:** > **Services:**
 * "....Prior to the start of the work, it was almost impossible to see the water. After cleaning out the surface, we used a long-handled rake to remove weeds and grass from the bottom of the pond. When we finished on April 5, it was possible once again to see the bottom of the pond...." - an excerpt from Rick Clark's Kiwanis exeperience.
 * Read more [|Stories] on leadership, community service and fundraising events from real Kiwanas.
 * In 1917, a Chicago business leader asked a simple and world-changing question – what if people put their talents to work improving their communities? That business leader was Melvin Jones. He convened an organizational meeting of clubs that formed [|Lions Club International]on June 7, 1917, in Chicago.
 * The Lions work in 205 countries, in hospitals and senior centers, in regions battered by natural disaster, in schools and in eyeglass recycling centers. The Lions help, lead, plan and support.
 * The Lions Support Sight programs, working to improve sight in the future. They raise funds through campaings such as [|SightFirst].
 * The Lions work to improve their community and the planet through [|community and environment programs].
 * Want to read more about the services provided by the Lions Club? Click [|here].


 * Locations: **
 * There are 45,000 clubs and 1.3 million members making the Lions the largest service club organization in the world.
 * Click [|here] to find a club in your nieghborhood and country.
 * There are [|community clubs] that meet in person.
 * There are [|Cyber clubs] that meet online.
 * There's also [|special interest clubs] that can be based on anythinig you are interested in.


 * Obtaining Membership for your Family or School **:
 * Membership in a Lions club is [|by invitation].
 * It's also possible [|to start a new club].

**Value of the Lion's services:**
 * "...Lions from 45 clubs went on to raise almost US$500,000. They also joined forces with other community groups to build the park themselves. In just eight days, 3,000 volunteers erected the 12,000 square foot playground. Ron Hudson from the Dawn Breakers Lions Club was one of them. “I spent eight days building Matteo’s Dream,” he said, “and it was the best thing I have ever done in my life.”...." - an excerpt from Liz Lamach's Lion's experience for her son Matteo.
 * Click here to [|Read] similar stories from Lion's members around the world.

- Jim O'Neill