Call for Grant Applications

Each year, the Siesta Key Kiwanis Club grants thousands of dollars to local organizations that are supporting children in Sarasota. We look for programs where we can get the biggest bang for the buck and help the most children. If you are an organization that helps kids in Sarasota, be sure to apply for a grant. If you know of a worthy organization, send them a link to our Grant Application. Click

here to get our application. The deadline for grant application submissions is April 15, 2022.

Imagine you are three years old. You are in pre-school class, playing with your friends. The teacher hands you a brown envelope that is ADDRESSED TO YOU. In it is a book that is about a thing you like, and it has YOUR NAME in it. The teacher reads the book to the class, and then you get to take the book home. It is YOURS. It is the FIRST BOOK you have ever owned.

The Early Learning Coalition of Sarasota County (ELC) seeks to ensure that children enter kindergarten ready to learn. The Literacy Buddy program pairs pre-school children with adults. It’s like pen pals. The children make a drawing showing a book subject - for example, “a book about cars.” With the teacher’s help, the request is sent to the child’s “buddy.” The buddy buys an age-appropriate book about cars, writes a note to the child, adds a bookplate with the child’s name to the book, and puts the book with the letter in an envelope addressed to the child at their pre-school.

Buddies do this three times a year, so by the end of the year, involved children have at least three books of their own. So please consider being a pre-schooler’s buddy. You may change a life.

For more information, click HERE.

Supporting Sarasota Teachers All Year Long

Sarasota teachers spend hundreds of dollars of their own money to decorate their classrooms and buy supplies for their students. The Siesta Key Kiwanis Club sponsors several classrooms each year but there is always more that need help. If you want to support Sarasota teachers any time of the year, check out the Adopt a Sarasota County Facebook Group, where Sarasota teachers post their needs to support their students.

Storybook Street at Braves Stadium

Patriotic Pops at CoolToday Stadium

Past President, Joy Horne-Jones at the Atlanta Braves Soft Opening

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Our View from the Kiwanis Concession Stand at the Atlanta Braves Games

SKKC Weekly Meeting

Kids Reading the Books from the Early Learning Coalition

Holiday Heroes for Brentwood Elementary

Zooming with Kiwanis

Holiday Heroes for Brentwood Elementary

Book Drop Literacy Program

Kids Need Kiwanis

Holiday Heroes for St. Mary's

Patriotic Pops at CoolToday Stadium

District Meeting

Storybook Street

Salvation Army Dells Don’t Ring Themselves

Making a Difference

Books for St. Mary's Academy

Road Clean Up on Siesta Key

Books for St. Mary's Academy

Volunteer: Extraordinary People

SKKC Weekly Meeting

SKKC Speaker

Braves Stadium

Siesta Key Easter Egg Hunt

Weekly Meeting

Storybook Street

Storybook Street at Braves Stadium

Storybook Street

Siesta Key Easter Egg Hunt

Storybook Street at Braves Stadium

Siesta Key Easter Egg Hunt

Storybook Street

Location of the District Convention

Siesta Key Circus Arts Scholarship Recipient

Patriotic Pops at CoolToday Stadium

SKKC Weekly Meeting w/ Jarrod Doherty
Gecko's Grill

Jan 19, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
SKKC New Member Training
Gecko's Grill

Jan 22, 2022
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
SKKC Weekly Meeting w/ Glenda Leonard
Gecko's Grill

Jan 26, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
SKKC Weekly Meeting w/ Shawna Smith
Gecko's Grill

Feb 02, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
SKKC Weekly Meeting w/ Laura Spencer
Gecko's Grill

Feb 16, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM