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—"Serving the Children of the World"—
Meet at Elk's Lodge, 289 Willowdale Dr., Frederick, MD 21702
Dinner Meeting Every Tuesday at 6:30 P.M.
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time.

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Activities in Which we Have Participated

  • Special Inspirations, Inc.
  • Most Improved Middle School Student Awards
  • Frederick County 4H Therapeutic Riding Program
  • Frederick Memorial Courtesy Van Driving Program
  • Meals-on-Wheels
  • Senior Citizen Center Courtesy Van Driving Program
  • Miracle Mile of Quarters to Benefit the Children's Pediatric Trauma Center at Johns Hopkins
  • Frederick County Food Bank
  • Bowling for Big Brothers and Big Sisters
  • Bell ringing for Salvation Army
  • Distribution of Easter Seal Canisters
  • Painting at Jeanie Bussard Workshop
  • Odd Fellows Monthly Visitations
  • Mount Saint Mary's Univ. Basketball Game Ticket Sales & Ushering
  • Distribution of Infant Car Seat Stickers
  • Mount Saint Mary's Univ. Basketball Game Ticket Sales & Ushering

Sponsored K-Family Youth Organizations

Other Organizations we Have Supported

  • Wags for Hope
  • Cub Pack 285
  • Special Olympics of Frederick County
  • Frederick County 4-H Therapeutic Riding
  • American Babe Ruth Baseball
  • American T-Ball
  • American Little League
  • Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership
  • Safe Kids Coalition of Frederick County
  • Mission of Mercy
  • Frederick Memorial Hospital SAFE Program (Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners)
  • Frederick Memorial Hospital Emergency Room Supplies for Kids (Crayons and Coloring Books)
  • Worldwide Service Project/Iodine Deficiency Disorder
  • Young Children: Priority One
  • Bulgarian Orphanage & Relief Fund
  • Hearing aids for MSD students
  • FCC dugouts at the baseball field
  • Easter Seal Treatment Center
  • Frederick Cancer Treatment Center
  • Furnish a room at FMH addition
  • Jeanie Bussard Workshop phone system
  • PROJECT IDENTI-Z for young children
  • Wheel chairs for Federated Charities
  • Drug Awareness at South Frederick Elementary
  • Frederick Memorial Hospital Pediatric Trauma Unit
  • Children's Hospital in Washington DC
  • TJ Band Boosters
  • EMS Pediatric Training
  • Smoke detectors to Frederick County Dept of Social Services
  • Frederick County Hotline
  • Frederick County Hospice
  • Rehab and refurnish Mar-Lu Ridge cabin
  • Urbana High School Band Boosters
  • Frederick County Health Department
  • Christmas Cash for Kids - Toys For Tots
  • Families Plus
  • Frederick Memorial Hospital Prenatal Care Program
  • Frederick County Sherrif's Department Youthful Offender Program
  • Crime Education for Kids
  • Baker Park Playground Renovation
  • FSK Mall wheel chair
  • Head Start Fencing Program
  • Religious Coalition for Emergency Human Needs
  • Alzheimer's Association
  • Sheriff's Department Explorer Post
  • In-Line Hockey
  • East Third Street Park
  • Teenager of the Year Award
  • Frederick County Middle School Most-Improved Student Award
  • Car seat Safety Inspection Day
  • Mission of Mercy
  • Parish Nursing
  • Math and Science Departments at Frederick High School Herman Hauver Memoriam
  • Skip Hickman Memorial Scholarship at Frederick Community College
  • Russ Turney Memorial Scholarship at Frederick Community College
  • Salvation Army Midwest Flood Relief
  • Carolina District Kiwanis Hurricane Hugo Relief
  • Florida District Kiwanis Hurricane Andrew Relief
  • Southeast Asia Tsunami Relief
  • Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Relief
  • Kiwanis International Disaster Relief Fund
Giftwrap. One of our largest annual fundraising events is the Christmas Gift Wrap held at the Francis Scott Key Mall in Frederick, MD. Through the generous contributions of our customers, we are able to support many needy groups.
Fruit Sales. Selling tasty fruit in time for the Holiday season is a popular fund raiser.
Shrimp & Oyster Feed. We jointly hold an annual Shrimp and Oyster Feed with the Kiwanis Club of Frederick, a lunch-time club.
Young Children Priority One. The major continuing service emphasis of Kiwanis International is known as Young Children: Priority One. The program encompasses projects focusing on the special needs of children from prenatal development through age five. Our club is involved in several service projects, described in more detail below, directed at the needs of children.
Circle K International is a Kiwanis organization devoted to involving college and university students in campus and community service while developing quality leaders and citizens. Emphasis is placed on service, leadership, career development, and fellowship. Circle K members are inspired to better the world through numerous projects on campus, in the community, and on a global scale. We sponsor Circle K Club at Mount Saint Mary's University.

Key Club International is a Kiwanis organization for high school students that conducts an active program of service in the school and community. Its objectives include the development of initiative, leadership, and good citizenship. It is the largest high school service organization in the world. Our club sponsors Key Clubs at the following schools in Frederick County:

  • Middletown High School
  • Walkersvile High School
  • Tuscarora High School
Builders Club is open to any middle school student who wants to join. Each club and school principal has the latitude to set conditions for membership, so it varies from club to club. Generally, any student who is interested in performing community service may join Builders Club. Not all middle schools have a Builders Club, though. Each Builders Club is co-sponsored by a Kiwanis club and the middle school. Our Club sponsors a Builders Club at Middletown Middle School.
Iodine Deficiency Disorders. Our club has raised thousands of dollars to help eliminate Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD), the world's leading cause of preventable mental retardation. The Worldwide Service Project is a joint effort between Kiwanis International, Morton International, and UNICEF. Just a spoonful of iodine over a lifetime gives protection from IDD, and it costs only five cents per child.
Middle School Most Improved Student Recognition. "This annual event is perhaps the most eagerly anticipated program of our administrative year," said Committee Chair Christine Semon of the Suburban Frederick's annual Frederick County Most Improved Middle Student Award night. "This award does not emphasize academics, but rather that Middle School students whom the teaching staff feel improved the most be it in cooperation, peer relations, or attitude. The stories you hear will probably bring tears to your eyes. They do mine." Christine continued. (pictured are the 2004 award recipients.)
Bulgarian Orphanage and Medical Relief Fund. The Kiwanis Club of Suburban Frederick Fund, one of over 450 funds held by The Community Foundation of Frederick County, has contributed over $2,000 to the Bulgarian Orphanage and Medical Relief Fund, Inc. The gift is part of the Kiwanis Club of Suburban Frederick’s ongoing international charitable commitment.

Imagine a world where children are shunted away in crumbling orphanages with too little care and too little to eat. That’s what was happening until a group of Kiwanians from Hanover, Pennsylvania, stepped in. Today, the Bulgarian Orphanage and Medical Relief fund provides vitamins and medicines to 30,000 orphans in 297 orphanages throughout Bulgaria. The result? Deaths have dropped more than eight percent, saving the lives of thousands of orphans every year.

The Mission of the Frederick County 4H Therapeutic Riding Program is to provide a recreational experience and therapeutic regimen to Frederick County citizens with medically certified mental, physical and emotional disabilities, through appropriate equestrian activities.

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