The Kiwanis Club of Greater Brandon hosts over a dozen programs within our community and takes part in several more throughout the year. Giving back to our community is our goal and our mission is to help provide a better, brighter future for our children and residents of our community.  Click on the community program of interest to learn more about each program or to get involved.

Terrific Kids Program

All of our kids are terrific! We truly believe that, and we strive to let the children in our community know we believe in them. Terrific Kids is a student recognition program that promotes character development, self-esteem and perseverance. If you’d like for information about starting a Terrific Kid’s program in your elementary school, please click here for more information.

Key Club

Our Key Club members come from many of the local high schools and provide their time and dedication by performing acts of service in their community. Key Club members build themselves as they build up their schools and communities. Participation as Key Club members helps ensure that our teens are ready to take over as the next generation of leaders. To honor those Key Club members who focus on giving back, we offer several competitive scholarship opportunities. If you are interested in starting a club at your high school, click here.

K-Kids Clubs

K-Kids is a service leadership program for our elementary school students. K-Kids provides students with opportunities to work together on service projects, develop leadership potential and create strong moral character.

Kiwanis Kicks

Having access to a functioning pair of shoes is a need for many children. Every year we ask the guidance counselors at our participating Terrific Kids schools to send in requests for students they believe are in need of athletic shoes. We then purchase the shoes and deliver them to the schools to be distributed to the students who need them.

Teacher Appreciation & Insight

We invite our principals, teachers, and guidance counselors to one of our meetings to share their program needs and ideas. A small gift is given in appreciation for their continued support of our Terrific Kid, Kiwanis Kicks, Key Club, Project Smile, and K-Kids Club programs and their hard work at each of their schools. We also have Teacher Appreciation programs at 3 local middle schools as a way to say “thank you” to the hard-working teachers in our district.

Mango HeadStart Christmas Party

It’s the most wonderful time of the year—and should be for all children of Greater Brandon. We plan a visit from Santa Claus for the students at Mango Elementary, including reading the Night Before Christmas and providing a gift for each child in attendance.

PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS

Project Smile

One in four children in the Tampa Bay Region goes hungry. Families are one event (car problem, doctor bill, etc.) from not being able to put food on the dinner table. Eight years ago, the Kiwanis Club of Greater Brandon partnered with Gibsonton Elementary School to try and address this issue. Many students were missing meals on the weekends. “Project Smile” was thus launched to provide a backpack of food each weekend for about 1/3 of the students (200 children). Every year, with community support, Project Smile expands!

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Bookworks

We love books! — And we want to spread that love of reading to our youth. The BookWorks program brings together volunteer readers and children to promote childhood literacy. Volunteers read to preschool children and then present each child with a book of their own to take home. Our volunteers presently read at 14 schools to more than 500 students using this Goodwill partnership program.

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Salvation Army – Bell Ringing

Every year around Christmas you’ll see our members and volunteers help ring The Bell to help gather donations for the Salvation Army. The donations dropped into the iconic Red Kettle are used by the Salvation Army to support their Christmas programs—providing community members in need with Christmas dinner, clothing, and toys. One of the most well-known Salvation Army toy drive these donations help

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