About Us:

Established in 1953, the Mount Vernon Kiwanis Club currently pursues an active range of programs and activities to support the children of our community. To do this, we partner with four of the premiere charitable organizations in our area, namely United Community Ministries (UCM), Good Shepherd Housing, New Hope Housing and Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services. We sponsor Key Clubs at four nearby high schools, Mount Vernon High School, West Potomac High School, Hayfield Secondary, and South County Secondary. We also sponsor the K-Kids Club at Stratford Landing Elementary and are in discussion with Carl Sandburg Middle School about beginning  a Kiwanis Builders Club this semester. We buy and distribute books to the pre-kinder Head Start classes at Gum Springs.

We provide karaoke to the boys and girls at Sacramento Neighborhood Center and both karaoke and bingo games to the clients of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services. This summer we sent kids from Creekside Neighborhood Center to Fairfax County summer camp programs and from Sacramento and Creekside Centers to the National Aquarium in Baltimore and to the Air and Space Museum in Chantilly. We collect food at the Hollin Hall Safeway for UCM's Food Pantry and we sell Xmas trees at  Belle View Shopping Center to raise funds for all our community service projects. We do more than this (ask us about our disabled Boy Scouts troop or ESL and computer training classes) but you get the idea.