Dream Center Project
Every year Kern Kiwanis selects a project partner in the community; we will work with them for that year, helping them fulfill their supple needs and volunteer and time. This year's project is The Dream Center, named by the founding foster youth who helped design service delivery, is Kern County’s only one-stop resource center for current and former foster youth up to the age of 25.
Kern Kiwanis will deliver items that are on the Dream Center’s Wish List, these items are not extravagant, they are everyday items such as: socks, t-shirts, snacks, bottles water, utensils, and other household items.
Take a Kid Fishing
Kiwanis Club takes students with special needs on a fishing trip 2019
The Kiwanis Club of Kern, Bakersfield took students with special needs to Hart Lake on Tuesday. It was those students first fishing trip and 17 photojournalist Lee Ortlieb captured the sights and sounds of their trip.
Thanks to this year's sponsors for making this year one of the best!
2019
Every March Kern Kiwanis, Department of Park & Recreation, Department of Fish & Game, and Kern County Superintendent of Schools host a day of fishing at Hart Park's Mirror Lake for special needs children from Sunset Elementary School and other area schools. Take A Kid Fishing is Kern Kiwanis' largest service project of the year in scope of size, participants and expense.
Contributors and Volunteers alike have given their time, talents and resources to share with others what their family and friends once shared with them-a day of fishing. The time together with their community enriches the lives of students who may not have the opportunity to learn a new sport in a fun and encouraging setting which will create memories that last a lifetime.
Students are guaranteed to catch at least one fish; most catch more than one. Volunteers clean, tag, and bag the fish so that students are able to take their fish home to be cooked and enjoyed by the entire family.
After all the fish have been caught students are provided a lunch of grilled hamburgers and hot dogs prepared by volunteers.
Scholarships & Grants
Kern Kiwanis has provided scholarships to one
student at every high school in Bakersfield for the last 30 years. As Kiwanians we value perseverance and want to recognize students who have improved, demonstrating hard work and leadership. More
recently, our scholarships grants have been awarded to students who have surmounted their challenges while displaying quality of character, not the students with highest GPA. Scholarships may be applied to 4-year universities, community colleges or trade schools.
The Kiwanis of kern Foundation also awards grants to other nonprofits who are providing unevaluable
services to our community. Grants are provided to start-up or all-volunteer nonprofits who are “doing the work” and need the support to continue their
mission.
Project Easter Basket
This project is for the community by the community! Easter baskets are put together using donated items and funds from our foundation (raised by fundraising) and given to area kids in need. Easter baskets were given to recipient organizations, including shelters and outreach programs.
P.O. Box 2533 Bakersfield, CA. 93303-2533