Service and Fundraising

Service and Fundraising.

Fundraising and Service.

We can’t have one without the other.

2024 Fields of Honor

Our Kiwanis Club is again offering our community the opportunity to share in our Fields of Honor for the month of November, by dedicating a flag(s) in honor or in memory of a Veteran, a First Responder, or any Public Safety Officer.

These flags will be installed in four Clermont County Communities: Amelia, Batavia, Bethel and Williamsburg with an opening ceremony on November 4th (the exact schedule will be posted at a later date).

Flag Dedication Form – To honor a loved one who has served.
Business Sponsorship Form – Multiple sponsorship levels are available.

Kiwanis Service

Service is at the heart of every Kiwanis club, no matter where in the world it’s located. Members stage approximately 150,000 service projects and raise nearly US$100 million every year for communities, families and projects. By working together, members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone.

Our Kiwanis club focuses on changing the world by serving children, one child in our community at a time. To reach more people and have a greater service impact on their communities, many clubs sponsor a Kiwanis family club — K-Kids for primary school children; Builders Clubs for adolescents; Key Clubs for teens; Circle-K clubs for university students and AKTION Clubs for adults living with disabilities. Our Kiwanis Club has chartered a Key Club in Williamsburg High School in April of 2020; and we have chartered an AKTION Club in conjunction with Clermont County Developmental Disabilities Organization in Batavia.

Fields of Honor

Our club embarked on a new project here in Clermont County, OH. We brought four Fields of Honor to four neighborhoods November 6-28, 2021. Individuals honored a past or present service member or first responder by sponsoring a flag in their name. These full sized flags waved proudly with dedication information tagged below each flag. This is an on-going project since 2021. Please see our home page to learn how you can contribute while honoring a loved one.

Recent Service Projects

HERO Bags

Since Chartering our Club in 2019, we have completed a number of service projects. COVID-19 put a damper of many of our plans, but it also gave us the opportunity to create HERO Bags for front line healthcare workers and first responders. We were able to deliver over 300 bags to heroes in our community!

Batavia Bulldogs 5K

Our 2020-2021 Club President, Kristine West-Kahl and her family participated in the Batavia Bulldog 5K. We were happy to be there with water and snacks for her, her family, and all of the other runners and walkers.

FUNDRAISING MADE FUN

Who-Dey?!

Congratulations to our winner – Chris Bateman

In 2021, we raffled 2 Bengals tickets and did a live drawing on Facebook. This put the FUN in fundraising! Take a chance on our fundraiser:

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Shoe Fundraiser

In 2022, you may have seen our flyers for used shoes or posts on Facebook. We turned in 105 bags of shoes (filled with 25 pair each). These shoes were turned into cash that we will use to serve our community this year.

Thank you to everyone who donated and helped make this fundraiser a success!

Join Us

Are you ready to help create communities that let all children thrive, prosper and grow? It’s pretty easy to do! Simply contact us with your questions and apply for Kiwanis club membership by filling out the application found here and send to us via this link.

President, Dan Ottke 513.732.4930

Immediate Past President, Kristine West-Kahl 513.967.2638

Treasurer, John Essen 513.734.4445

Assistant Treasurer, Bob Raub 717.917.2807

Secretary, Judy Raub 717.917.2741

The kids in your community and the world are counting on you!