About Kiwanis Club of Tempe Nuevo  

Kiwanis Club of Tempe Nuevo, above all else, is a SERVICE club.
We have a variety of service projects which support our sponsored schools, including Thew Elementary, and McClintock High Key Club. 

Our service projects include:

Food drives
Bell  ringing for the Salvation Army
Holiday Family Photos for the students, families, and staff at Thew Elementary 
Supply water at the Special Olympics
Partnering with the Tempe In Education (TIE) Foundation to deliver rice and beans to our schools
Provide school supplies 
Bring lunch to teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week
Scholarships to middle school and high school students in Tempe

We have two fundraising projects to support our efforts:

A golf tournament each fall
The Catch-A-Wave Car Show on the third Saturday in March


We do as much as clubs twice our size, but we are a dynamic club of caring friends
making a difference in Tempe, Arizona.

Our Club Meetings

Kiwanis is Native American meaning "We have a good time," and that we also do!  
Our Kiwanis Club meets on the second and fourth Tuesday at 12 Noon for Lunch
at

Shalimar Country Club Restaurant

2032 East Golf Avenue

Tempe, Arizona 85282-4030

These meetings are open to the public.
We offer speakers that business and community leaders, other community service providers,
and educators . 
 Each meeting  begins with the patriotic song (America), the Pledge of Allegiance to our Nation's Flag, the Southwest District Kiwanis Pledge (below) and a thought for the day.  
Each Luncheon meeting is closed with a joke to bring a smile to everyone's day.  
We hope you have lunch on us and find out more about Kiwanis Club of Tempe Nuevo.

Kiwanis History

The very first Kiwanis club was organized in Detroit, Michigan. The group received a charter from the state of Michigan on January 21, 1915, and this is regarded as the birth date of Kiwanis.

The first clubs were organized to promote the exchange of business among the members. However, even before the Detroit club received its state charter, the members were distributing Christmas baskets to the poor. A lively debate ensued between those who supported community service as the Kiwanis mission and those who supported the exchange of business. By 1919, the service advocates won the debate.

Kiwanis became international with the organization of the Kiwanis club of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in 1916. Kiwanis limited its membership to the United States and Canada until 1962, when worldwide expansion was approved. Since then, Kiwanis has spread to all inhabited continents of the globe.

Southwest District Kiwanis Pledge

As our country's flag signifies purity, valor and justice, may we as true Kiwanians exemplify those virtues as we serve the children of the world.

  The 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, 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.