South Sioux Falls Kiwanis
Service Projects:
Adopt A Familyat Christmas–
Our Signature Project
The purpose is to provide $500.00 for families in need to help make their Christmas special.
Bishop Dudley House/The Good Sheppard Center/Children’s Center – Welcoming All People In Need
The Good Shepherd Ministry Center. a non-profit, ecumenical ministry, provides daytime shelter and services for people who are homeless, poor or newly arrived in our community. For many, these services make the difference to getting a new start – and rebirth in confidence and hope that leads to a happy ending. They come to us to find a place to shower, do laundry and use our phones to search for jobs and housing. Adults find respect and dignity, and kids spend precious moments just being kids.
Compassion Child Care – Caring For Your Most Precious Gift
Compassion Child Care exists to provide daycare for families in need where they can experience the compassion of God and hear the good news of Jesus Christ. Compassion Child Care is a daycare for children ageing from 2months to 5 years of age. Children hear that God loves them and has a plan for their loves. Compassion Child Care is part of the Sioux Falls Ministry Center. The center is located downtown Sioux Falls, on the corner of 11th Street and 2nd Avenue. This convenient location helps meet the physical and spiritual needs of all people.
Ephemeral Productions Acting Academy
Can quoting a playwright's lines in front of an audience reduce a child's feeling of alienation and a propulsion to violence? Well, that might be a stretch. What an activity such as drama can do, Kim Bartling firmly believes, is provide an outlet for emotions and a sense of belonging.
Family Visitation Center – Where Children and Families Reconnect
Family Visitation Center is dedicated to preserving parent-child relationships by providing a safe and supportive environment for children to visit with non-custodial adults where there has been domestic abuse, child abuse, conflict with visitation, or long-term difficulty between parent and child. The Family Visitation Center offers children the opportunity to continue or establish relationships with non-custodial family members in a safe, comfortable, child-focused setting through onsite services
Feeding SD/Back Pack Program - Fighting hunger by filling tummies.
This program provides at-risk children with nutritious, easy-to-prepare food for the weekend until school and access to the meal programs resume. The food is packaged for the children to carry home, freeing them from the stigma of poverty that many low-income children face among their peers. Schools were chosen as distribution sites because of their relationships with the students, the ease of access, and the safe environment they provide.
Food To You Mobile Food Pantry
Food to You Mobile Food Pantry is a way to get groceries and household items to those who need them on a weekly basic by distributing them in the neighborhoods after daytime work hours.
The purpose is:
- To provide a supplement to existing food assistance in the Sioux Falls area in order to decrease hunger and poverty through greater availability of food and household items.
- To assist the public in building caring relationships with neighbors served through this program.
- To express the Christian value of serving and working in respect and partnership with all parts of the community, both those served and those being served.
Ground Works – Midwest – specializing in school teaching gardens
Teaching gardens, like those within the GW-M network focus on linking the garden (built on the school grounds) to academic studies in math, science, language arts, and health and wellness. Teacher designed supplemental resources provide the necessary guidance to take lessons out of the classroom setting and into the garden beds. Every teaching garden begins with a local leadership team comprised of teachers, neighbors, community volunteers, and students. Genius, creativity, and innovative ideas already exist in each school. GW-M assists in helping establish leadership teams that direct the teaching garden program.
Haiti Crayon Collection Drive– for Kiwanis Club of George, Iowa
This program provides crayons for children in Haiti. Each child will receive three crayons for use during their school year. The crayons are collected from area schools every Spring. We then haul them to George, Iowa where they are packaged by residents of a local retirement center and shipped to Haiti.
Harmony South Dakota – social transformation through music
Harmony South Dakota believes that music provides a powerful opportunity for children to learn how to become a vital part of their community. The experience of making music in community also develops a child’s self-discipline, self-confidence, concentration, coordination, emotional awareness, patience, cooperation, imagination, and cognition.
Hawthorne Elementary School, Sioux Falls School District – Education for all. One student at a time.
Our Mission: To Educate And Prepare Each Student To Succeed In A Changing World. Serving children PK through 5, all students at Hawthorne Elementary School will be provided learning activities that will maximize their learning potential in becoming proficient students who are capable, productive citizens with good character. South Sioux Falls Kiwanians help with Hawthorne Elementary School at the Mid-winter and Spring Festivals as well as providing and delivering Christmas Baskets to student families identified by school personal as being in need.
HOBY- to inspire and develop our global community of youth and volunteers to a life dedicated to leadership, service and innovation
For over five decades, Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) has inspired young people to make a difference and become catalysts for positive change in their home, school, workplace, and community. As America’s foremost youth leadership organization, HOBY has a long and impressive history of successfully motivating youth and volunteers to outstanding leadership. HOBY aims to inspire and develop our global community of youth & volunteers to a life dedicated to leadership, service, and innovation.
Holiday Clearing House, Helpline Center – connect.prevent.support
By helping Sioux Empire families and teens in need over the Holiday season. Christmas can be difficult for families without enough money to buy gifts or a tree. Holiday Clearing House is helping make the holidays a little brighter for such families. Donors are matched up with a family based upon their specific needs, so the gifts can be tailored-made to fit a family. South Sioux Falls Kiwanis, as donors, adopt teens because in many other gift drives, that age group is left out.
Horse Power, Child Scholarships – Special Horses for Special People
Through the use of horse-assisted activities, we believe participants can grow physically, emotionally and cognitively. Programs are tailored to each individual’s specific needs and provide varying levels of interaction with horses.
Kids Against Hunger - Feeding families around the world…and around the corner
It is our mission to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed God’s starving children throughout the world. It is our vision to set up food packaging satellites in the USA and around the world, and to spearhead community and youth volunteer packaging of Kids Against Hunger’s highly nutritious meals. It is also our vision to deliver Kids Against Hunger’s food through partnerships with humanitarian organizations in the USA and worldwide.
McCrossan Boys Ranch FCA – New Hope For A Better Life
McCrossan Boys Ranch opened in 1955 as a private, non-profit residential group care facility. We reach out to troubled boys between the ages of ten and twenty who have experienced conflict in family, school or community. Here these boys receive one-on-one counseling, education, and the love and care that many of them long for. We strive to help them be the best that they can be.
The Banquet – Nourishing the Community
Volunteers are the heart and soul of the Banquet ministry. Our mission is to equip volunteers to provide food and feeding to those served through this ministry. We provide a safe place where people can gather, receive nourishment and experience love in action. Volunteer groups come from churches, businesses, service clubs, schools and individual families.
The Banquet – Project: S.O.S – Supply Our Students
The Banquet provides area students with essential school supplies. Many dedicated individuals, businesses, churches and other organizations contribute to make this project a tremendous success. The Banquet has given more than 6,400 school supply packets to students this current school year. Ninety percent of those supplies are given to students right here in the Sioux Falls School District. The Banquet is the only agency that provides school supplies forstudents in need. Although our biggest push for supplies comes just before the start of the school year, The Banquet collects items for Project: S.O.S. year round.
The Salvation Army Angel Tree/Bell Ringing – Doing The Most Good
The Salvation Army, founded in 1865, is an international religious and charitable movement, that is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Our message is based on the Bible. Our ministry is motivated by a love of God. Our mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and meet human needs in His name without discrimination.Gifts will be used throughout the year to support Salvation Army services in our community. South Sioux Falls Kiwanians spend one Saturday during the Christmas season Bell Ringing for donations. The Angel Tree program, provides gifts for children in need ages 0 to 12. South Sioux Falls Kiwanians spend one day accepting gifts for the Angel Tree at the Empire Mall, as well as contributing gifts and dollars to the program.
The Teddy Bear Den - to promote healthier pregnancies, healthier babies and a healthier community
The Teddy Bear Den has been instrumental in establishing a program that encourages local low income pregnant women to put themselves and the health of their children at the top of their list. The Den promotes family bonding and offers incentive items, resources and referrals to community services: this is a key opportunity to educate mothers about health matters related to themselves, their babies and their families.
Since June of 1996 the Teddy Bear Den has inspired over 17,000economically disadvantaged pregnant women in the Sioux Falls community to seek early and regular prenatal care. Our entire program is geared toward the low-income pregnant women, pregnant immigrant women and pregnant teens as they are least The Teddy Bear Den is a unique program in the city of Sioux Falls; there are no other programs that provide incentives or rewards to limited income pregnant women in exchange for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. One likely to receive adequate care during pregnancy.of the most unique features of the Den is the 265health care providers, clinics, social service agencies, schools and treatment centers that collaborate to make referrals, stamp participant point books, and help to verify that our participants are maintaining a healthy lifestyle during their pregnancy.
The Teddy Bear Den is an incentive and education based program for the limited income pregnant women in our community. We provide referrals, education and incentives to pregnant women, teens, new parents and their families.
Toy Lending Library–PLAY.LEARN.GROW
To create an opportunity for children zero to five years old to enhance their learning development through play
Playing is very important for children’s healthy development and that experience has been limited in many families in the Sioux Falls area. Teachers who visit children noticed that not all have toys or appropriated toys that could help them learn. Soroptimist International of Sioux Falls became aware of the need and addressed it by creating a free Toy Lending Library for children zero to five years old.
United Day Care, Inc. – to provide quality day care services in a Christian environment
The center serves children ages 2 through 10 years at a rate based on their family income. It is further the mission of the center to provide an environment for these children that fosters physical, social, cognitive, language and emotional development.
Together we shall share the opportunities and responsibilities of childrearing. Our joint commitment shall be to maximize the intellectual, physical, social and emotional growth of each child in a nurturing and loving environment.
Youth Enrichment Services, Reading to Daycare Children – Caring, Preparing, Enriching
The Reading Buddies Program provides a reading experience to Y.E.S. Day Care Center children . Each Tuesday, two Kiwanians read to two groups of children. It has become a welcome event by the children who call Tuesdays, Reading Buddy Day. After the books are read, they are left with the Center for the children to enjoy throughout the year.
The mission of Youth Enrichment Services, Inc. is to enrich and develop the lives of children, youth and families in the Sioux Empire through comprehensive and educational services necessary to meet evolving needs. We provide programs for infants through school-age and offer Community-Based Head Start for families that meet qualifications.