Defining Statement:

Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time.

Purpose

To improve lives through fellowship in service worldwide.

Values

    * Committed to Kiwanis International Objects
    * Embraces diversity
    * Committed to club as primary outlet for service and fellowship
    * Open to the exchange of ideas
    * Responsive to member needs
    * Committed to developing youth and adult leaders

Objects of Kiwanis

    * 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, amore intelligent, aggressive, and servieable 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.