At its evening meeting on June 4, the Kiwanis Club awarded grants to support the following community nonprofits:
- Alameda Adaptive Arts for special needs adult music classes.
- Alameda Boys & Girls Club for mental health initiative for 600 underserved kids.
- Alameda Education Foundation for teacher mini-grants.
- Alameda Family Services for counseling services supplies.
- Alameda Food Bank for fresh produce purchases.
- Midway Shelter of Alameda for services for unhoused women and children.
- Alameda Meals on Wheels for emergency food packs.
- Alameda Post for local news reporting.
- Alameda Pride for queer teen programs.
- All Good Living Foundation for school food closets.
- Bay Area Music Project for after school music programs.
- Girls Inc. of the Island City for mentoring programs.
- Rhythmix Cultural Works for performing arts and culture programs.
- The Foodbank Players for theater productions benefiting the Alameda Food Bank.
- Christ Episcopal Church Warming Shelter for services for homeless neighbors.
For the 2025 Grant Awards, the Alameda Kiwanis Club Grants Committee emphasized work to combat violence and racism, and to promote equity and equality.
Funds for the awards were raised at the club’s annual Chili Cookoff fundraiser on February 1, at the Albert DeWitt Officers Club on Alameda Point. The cookoff is the Alameda Kiwanis Foundation’s major fundraiser for the year, with all proceeds going to local nonprofits. This year’s cookoff raised $20,000 for community grants.
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world, one child and one community at a time.
