What We Do

• Weekly meetings.
• Monthly Outreach projects.
• Quarterly Fundraising activities.
• Key Club Sponsorships – We partner with Schalmont and Schenectady High Schools to ensure Key Club is available opportunity for teens in our community.
• Schenectady Kiwanis Foundation provides support to our community of youth.

What It Means To Be A Member

Personal Impact:

• Make business and professional contacts
• Learn first-hand about local, national and international issues
• Improve and use leadership skills
• Participate in the life of your community and the world
• Develop lifelong friendships while engaging in worthy community projects

Local Impact:

• Help children and youth in your own community
• Make a difference for local nonprofit organizations
• Provide a role model for others to participate in service to their community
• Provide a source for those seeking opportunities to serve

Worldwide Impact:

• Assist children, young adults, the aging, and the needy
• Improve communities
• Encourage international understanding of Kiwanis objectives (below)

Objects of Kiwanis:

The six permanent Objects of Kiwanis International were approved by Kiwanis club delegates at the 1924 Convention in Denver, Colorado. Through the succeeding decades, they have remained unchanged.

• 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.

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