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Philanthropy and Service
Fundraisers Foundation Service Projects Youth Programs Division 17 Capital District Kiwanis International
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Through our charitable arm, the Bethesda Kiwanis Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, we support more than a dozen children-serving organizations and activities in Montgomery County with grants totaling more than $50,000 per year. Click here to view a list of organizations and activities we support.
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Throughout the year, we participate in numerous hands-on projects that serve the needs of children in the Bethesda community. Click here to view a list of service projects in which we participate.
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We sponsor Key Clubs at Walter Johnson High School, Walt Whitman High School and Montgomery Blair High School, and we provide scholarships based on an annual essay contest. We also sponsor the Walter Johnson Prom Breakfast. In addition, we sponsor the Lazarus Leadership Fellows Program, a Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Educational Foundation program intended to cultivate student leaders. Fifteen students are selected each year to participate in leadership training in the community. Finally, we contribute to numerous other youth service projects throughout the year, which may include: purchase of supplies necessary to serve meals at NIH's Children's Inn, purchase of holiday gifts for children in the Glenville Homework Club in Langley Park, purchase of school supplies and backpacks for disadvantaged children, sponsoring youth in walkathons and other fundraisers, sponsoring youth in Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) program, and sponsoring youth in the new Kiwanis Key Leader program.
Click here to view more information about our youth programs.
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As part of Division 17 of Kiwanis International's Capital District, our club helps to support the Treatment and Learning Centers of Montgomery County. Division 17 includes 11 Kiwanis clubs in Montgomery County.
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As part of Kiwanis International's Capital District, our club helps to support the 7 pediatric trauma hospitals in the Capital District. The Capital District includes all of the Kiwanis clubs in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware.
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As part of Kiwanis International, our club has helped in the $75 million effort to eradicate Iodine Deficiency Disorder, the leading cause of preventable mental retardation. The Capital District Kiwanis clubs contributed more than $1.5 million toward this effort.
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