About our Kiwanis club

Kiwanis helps kids around the world. Our Kiwanis club looks out for our community and the Kiwanis international organization takes on large-scale challenges, such as fighting disease and poverty. Our Kiwanis club is generous with its time. We are creative with our ideas. We are passionate about making a difference. And we have fun along the way!

For more than a century, Kiwanis has created opportunities for children to be curious, safe and healthy regardless of the community in which they live. When you give a child the chance to learn, experience, dream, grow, succeed and thrive, great things can happen.

The Kiwanis Mission & Vision

Kiwanis empowers communities to improve the world by making lasting differences in the lives of children. Kiwanis strives to be a positive influence in communities worldwide — so that one day, all children will wake up in communities that believe in them, nurture them and provide the support they need to thrive. Our Kiwanis club fulfills the Kiwanis mission by serving our community through Kiwanis Community Service Projects.

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.

• Object 1 – To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.
• Object 2 – To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
• Object 3 – To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards.
• Object 4 – To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
• Object 5 – To provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities.
• Object 6 – To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.

Kiwanis Service

Service is at the heart of every Kiwanis club, no matter where in the world it’s located. Members stage approximately 150,000 service projects and raise nearly US$100 million every year for communities, families and projects. By working together, members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone.

Our Kiwanis club focuses on changing the world by serving children, one child in our community at a time. To reach more people and have a greater service impact on their communities, many clubs sponsor a Kiwanis family club — K-Kids for primary school children; Builders Clubs for adolescents; Key Clubs for teens; Circle K clubs for university students and Aktion Clubs for adults living with disabilities.

Meet Our Board of Directors

President: Dan DeLotell

President-Elect: Kara Tieman

Vice President: K.C. Rase

Secretary: Katie Dyer

Assistant Secretary: Sharon Carver

Treasurer: Todd Medley

Assistant Treasurer: Wayne Thompson

Immediate Past-President: Jamie Colley

Board Members:
Bill Ogg
Ginny Dyer
Roger Drake
Misty Simco
Candice Tackett
Matt Hammer
Angie Duduit

Read the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth Bylaws.

Join Us

Our Kiwanis club fulfills the Kiwanis mission by serving our community through Kiwanis Community Service Projects.

Are you ready to help create communities that let all children thrive, prosper and grow? It’s pretty easy to do! Email us at [email protected] with your questions and find out how to apply for Kiwanis club membership HERE.

The kids in your community and the world are counting on you!