- Helping Children from Cradle to College
- Giving Scholarships to local Children for their Education
- Learning to Dance better
- Working with our Sponsored Youth Clubs
- Meeting new members and socializing with other members
- Annual Family Safety Day for the Mid Coast Community
- Touch-A-Truck
- Priority One Project Reading is Fundamental, Books and Children
- Chamber Annual Business Show Case
- Weekly Meetings at the Samoset Resort
- New England District Convention and Training Conferences
- International Convention
- Inter clubbing with other Kiwanis Clubs
- Speaking programs at each of our weekly meetings
- Volunteering at the Lobster Festival
- Blues Festival Vendor and Working in the Food Wagon
- Soap Box Derby Rallies two times a year
- The Rockland Kiwanis Grand Raffle give-away
- Hosting Training Conference at the Samoset Resort
- Helping Children around the World through Kiwanis International
- Annual Haunted House
- Playing Santa at the Salvation Army’s Holiday Party
- Happy Dollars, Sharing stories at meetings
- Parking Cars at the Owls Head Transportation Museum
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What does the
Kiwanis Club of Rockland Do?
Reading is Fundamental" Programs in the Rockland, Union and
Vinalhaven schools
Sponsor Builders Club at the Rockland Middle School
Sponsor Key Club at Rockland High School
Sponsor Key Club at Georges Valley High School
Offer scholarships annually to high school students who are
furthering their education
HOBY Programs in Rockland & Thomaston (Hugh O’Brien Youth
Leadership)
Annual Bell Ringing for the Salvation Army
Sponsor Salvation Army Annual Holiday Dinner for youth
Sponsor Holiday Hugs Program
Annual Family Safety Day to offer bike safety instruction and
distribute Bike Helmets
Touch a Truck Day part of the Family Safety Day
Sponsor Little League, Basketball and Football teams
Support Boy and Girl Scouts
Support Big Brothers-Big Sisters
Support the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center in Boston for
education and research
Offer Annual Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Training to the Mid Coast
Emergency Response Units
Support the Kiwanis International Worldwide Service Project
Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD) to eliminate mental retardation in
children by iodizing salt
Sponsor Dial-A-Story (593-9000) at the Rockland Library
Sponsor Spring and Fall Soap Box Derby Rallies
Support the Red Cross Blood Drives
Weekly Meals on Wheels
Annual Special Olympics Dinner in the Spring
Support and built Kiwanis Park in Rockland, and helped build
playgrounds at MacDougal School, South School, Vinalhaven School,
Gilford Butler School, Cushing School and Thomaston Elementary School
Supported the Rockland Community Skate Park Project
Community wide Food Drives
Helping Community Festivals and Chamber events with volunteers
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How do Kiwanis Club of Rockland
Raise Funds?
- The annual Kiwanis Grand Raffle
- Haunted House
- Annual Christmas Tree Sales
- The Kiwanis Food Wagon
- The Kiwanis Schooner Day Posters
- Blues Festival Vendor on Main St.
- Special Olympics Dinner
- Dance Classes
- Skip-A-Meal
NOTE:
100% of the profits raised
for kids goes to kids!
Very few organizations can say that!
All Administration costs
are raised separately through
additional efforts by Kiwanians
parking cars, giving happy/sad dollars
and paying their annual dues.
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Objects of Kiwanis International
• 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 relationships, to render altruistic service and
to build better communities.
• To cooperate in creating and maintaining that
sound public opinion and high idealism which makes possible the increase
of righteousness, justice, patriotism and good will.
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