History

The Kiwanis Club of Fairfield was chartered as one of 7,700 clubs in 80 countries in 1954.

The Kiwanis Club of Solano County disbanded and merged with us October 1, 2018.  

We are known as the Kiwanis Club of Fairfield.

Volunteers helping with the Produce Pipeline in Fairfield. Kiwanians and Key Clubbers providing food for the Opportunity House the first Tuesday of each month. A community center abuzz with cheerful diners devouring succulent crab. What do all of the activities have in common? Kiwanians… Fairfield Kiwanians to be exact.

The Kiwanis Club of Fairfield is a group of 30 individuals who believe in making their community better through donations of time and money. Crab feeds and the like are critical fundraisers that allow the members of the club to raise money that goes directly back into the community underwriting and sponsoring such activities as high school scholarships with Assist-A-Grad, Easter Egg Hunt, End 68 Hours of Hunger, Opportunity House meals, Kiwanis One Day, Salvation Army Bell Ringing, Breakfast with Santa, and Produce Pipeline.

 While children and their well-being are the focus of many activities, any worthy local community cause is examined for potential assistance. Fairfield Kiwanians pride themselves on “not just writing checks” to help, but providing hands-on support to a myriad of local projects and entities.

Officially, the members of the original lunch club meet the second Thursday at the Kroc Center in Suisun at 12:00pm.  The perpetual agenda includes: announcements, recognition of birthdays and anniversaries, “happy and sad” dollars (members proclaiming good or bad news), as well as the administration of well-intentioned “fines” by the president for perceived “infractions” in meeting and/or community conduct (aka, nothing more than good-natured ribbing to raise additional dollars for community disbursement).

Unofficially, members meet on various weekends on a completely voluntary basis to lend a hand to those local community entities in need. Years past have seen many a busy month. On many weekends, an activity took place that benefitted the local community.

In the spring and fall, members of the Kiwanis Club of Fairfield have teamed up with teenage Key Clubbers (high school aged, community sponsored youths) to clean both Rolling Hills and Tabor Parks through the city of Fairfield's Adopt-a-Park Program. 

Our club also sponsors the Kiwanis Family House in Sacramento. The family house is located adjacent to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento where family members of critically ill children hospitalized nearby may stay for an unlimited time for a greatly reduced cost. The family house is a regionally-sponsored Kiwanis mainstay for those in need.

In between noted activities, Key Club advisors with assistance from many active members - the Kiwanis Club of Fairfield sponsors 7 Key Clubs at Armijo High, Fairfield High School, Rodriguez High School, Vanden High School, Public Safety Academy, Early College High School and Will C. Wood High School. We are busy assisting with numerous youth-oriented projects championed by high school members to raise money as well as provide many hours of local community service.

In noted practice, the Kiwanis Club of Fairfield takes its mission to make the local community a better place seriously. The club continues to maintain a long tradition of hands-on assistance and fundraising begun when the local membership contingent was officially established and chartered in 1954. In fact, the local club’s biggest fundraiser – the annual crab feed filling the Fairfield Community Center with in excess of 300 hungry seafood lovers - will yet again take place in early January for the 44th consecutive year, making it one of the best attended and longest-enduring community fundraisers.

As Kiwanis International explains in an informational brochure, the community-minded “champions for children” organization was founded in 1954 and is currently headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.  More than 8,000 clubs in 96 countries consist of in excess of 260,000 members. All of which extol the long-standing international vision and focus of “serving the children of the world” through beneficial hands-on community involvement and development.

Additional information about the international organization is available at www.kiwanis.org.