The Alameda Kiwanis Foundation is now accepting applications for its annual Grant Awards benefitting local 501(c)(3) nonprofit groups. The deadline to submit the 2025 application is May 16.
[1]Getting started:
- Where to get an application: Download the application [3] or request by email from [email protected] [4].
- How to submit an application: Email your completed application to [email protected] [4]. If email is not available to you, submit the completed application via U.S. mail to PO Box 1217, Alameda, CA 94501. Mailed applications must be postmarked no later May 16, 2025.
- Where to get more information: Call 510-909-4444 or email [email protected] [4] .
The 2025 grants are being funded by the proceeds from the Alameda Kiwanis annual Chili Cookoff [5] fundraiser held at the Albert DeWitt Officers Club on Alameda Point on February 1. Those proceeds—more than $20,000—will be completely distributed to Alameda nonprofits serving the community, with a particular emphasis on children and their families.
This year, the Grant Committee is reaching out to nonprofit organizations that work to combat violence and racism, and promote equity and equality. The goal is to grant at least 25% of the available funds to those organizations.
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time. The six permanent objectives of Kiwanis International, approved by Kiwanis club delegates at the 1924 Convention in Denver, Colorado, have remained unchanged:
- 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 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 friendship, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities.
- To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.