FUNDRAISING AND ACTIVITIES
FUNDRAISING
We raise money for our activity fund in several ways. Cleaning tables at the Purdue dining courts for special summer conferences and the fall Gold Rush involves many in the club. A pancake breakfast at Westminster Village along with a garage sale also brings us funds to donate to community youth organizations. Finally, the football season finds Kiwanis volunteers manning one of the gates at Ross-Ade Stadium for all the home games.
ACTIVITIES
Around twenty youth centered organizations in the county are given monetary awards each year from the money we raise.
Twice a year we invite elementary students along with their parents to lunch at MCL Cafeteria. The first group is the BUG kids who have brought up their grades during the school year and the second group is the children who have improved their citizenship to the extent that their teachers have recommended them for this special treat.
Diapers and money to buy diapers are collected and turned over to the YWCA women's shelter. 5,597 diapers donated in 2011. (97,130 so far)
A music student is selected from West Lafayette High School for the Howenstein Award which comes with a plaque and a monetary award. This is named in honor of Howie Howenstein, the musical director at West Lafayette for many years and a long time Kiwanian.
For ninety years the club has sponsored the Purdue Football Banquet to honor the team, coaches and parents. The dinner and honors take place each December in the Purdue Memorial Union.
Finally, Lafayette Kiwanis volunteers along with Circle K ring bells for the Salvation Army's red buckets ($4770.11 collected in 2011). The following week an auction of garage sale type items is held with the members bidding and the money going to the Salvation Army ($4,592 collected in 2011).