Club History  

The Wilmington Kiwanis Club was organized in August 1918 and chartered in January of 1919. There were 155 charter members dedicated to the mission of improving the quality of life for children and families in the Wilmington area. By 1920, the club had already donated $1000 in cash and two tons of coal to the Mayor's Relief Fund, a fund devoted to helping soldiers returning from World War I who were struggling to find employment. Since then, Kiwanis has continued in that tradition with projects including growing "Victory Gardens" during World War II that provided $5700 worth of vegetables, building the original H. Fletcher Brown Boys Club in Wilmington, establishing the Kiwanis Branch of the Girl's Club of Wilmington, honoring Police Officers of the quarter and year, founding, funding and publishing the Deaf Delawarean for the hearing impaired community, celebrating "Armed Forces Day", sponsoring and running over two decades of the Kiwanis Mile, helping raise funds to eliminate Iodine Deficiency Disorder, bringing the message of the dangers of Lead Poisoning to children in a multi-year partnership with Delaware Health and Social Services and countless others.

You know, maybe there's a reason a club like ours has been around for the better part of a century. Take a look at this video? You may start it by clicking the black triangle in the white circle on the left side of the big rectangle or click on launch it in an external viewer...your choice! (By the way, my sources tell me that some systems require two clicks on the start button at the Windows Media Player. So don't quit clicking until it works!)