What Is Kiwanis?

Kiwanis is a global organization made up over member-volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child at a time.

Kiwanis has input over 118,000 hours of service and fundraised over $107M to help kids and communities around the world. Kiwanis is dedicated to building up the local and global community through service and leadership.

Kiwanis supports organizations like UNICEF and the ELIMINATE project to eliminate neo-natal tetnus.

Our District

The Kiwanis Club of Brick is part of the NJ District of Kiwanis, Division 4.

Kiwanis first entered NJ when the Newark Club held an organizational meeting at the Robert Treat Hotel on July 21, 1916. The Club was later chartered on April 26.

That Club sent Andrew C. Snyder and Albert Schurr as delegates to the first Kiwanis convention in Detroit on May 17, 1917. Snyder was elected as a Kiwanis trustee.

That fall a club was organized in Paterson.

At the time, Kiwanis did not have Districts. At the Providence Convention in 1918, a plan was drafted to form 27 districts with New Jersey divided between New York and Pennsylvania. That plan was vigorously opposed by Snyder, and after three hours of heated debate he won his point and New Jersey had its own district.

Acting upon instructions for the districts to organize their clubs, the three clubs in New Jersey (the Trenton club was also organized during this time) gathered at the Washington Restaurant in September, 1918, and the first New Jersey District Convention was called to order. After a short meeting of a nominating committee, Weston E. Goode was selected as the first District Governor. He was unanimously elected to serve during 1919. Because there were only three clubs, the delegates did not feel the need to elect other district officers.

That first convention took only about half an hour, and the only address was a short acceptance speech by the newly elected Governor.