Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time.
We are a club of about 45 people who love to serve!
You’re Invited!
The Kiwanis Club of La Crosse is a community service organization. Our club meets every Tuesday at Noon at The La Crosse Club next to the Radisson Hotel, Downtown La Crosse. We start with a meal, followed by a speaker from the community. The meetings are completed by 1:05 p.m. Our club actively volunteers, raises money and disperses about $15,000.00 annually to local causes with a primary concern of helping kids. Come, learn about our club and what we do to support our community projects.
“Only a life lived for others is worth living.”
— Albert Einstein
Who We Are
The Kiwanis Club of La Crosse is a community service organization. Our members have a heart for serving the community, and we like to have fun while we're doing it! Our diverse membership comes from a wide range of industries. From volunteering at the Salvation Army to building a dock for Pettibone Park we seek to change the world one child and one community at a time.
Our Mission
The objects of Kiwanis International are:
-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 makes possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism and good will.
150,000
Service projects sponsored each year by Kiwanis International
$100m
Raised each year by Kiwanis International
6,000,000
World -wide hours devoted to service
History
The La Crosse Kiwanis Club began on October 27, 1919, with Charles Cone as President and Lee H. Motl as the Secretary. The charter date was December 16, 1919 with a charter membership of 100 members. The Kiwanis Club of Winona, Minnesota was the sponsoring organization. We were the tenth club to be formed in the Wisconsin District and the 171st formed in the United States and Canada. In the formative years, Kiwanis leaders chose to adjust the organization's purpose from a member-benefit society to a group devoted to serving others.