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BRIEF HISTORY
Under the leadership of Southwest
District Kiwanis Governor Carl F. Miller, the Southwest
District Kiwanis Foundation was formed. The Articles of
Incorporation were signed in August of 1972 and the
Bylaws were filed with the New Mexico Corporation
Commission in September of that year. The first
official meeting of the Foundation was held at El Paso,
Texas on September 8, 1972.
The Foundation was
organized as a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation to serve as
an “umbrella” over the clubs of the Southwest District;
as a means of supporting projects that no one club could
finance or accomplish by itself. One of the first
projects envisioned was to establish a youth camp
somewhere within the District. In 1974 the Kiwanis Club
of Gallup offered to donate their Kiwanis Park, a 160
acre plot of land they owned near Gallup in the Zuni
Mountains. The Foundation accepted the offer and the
land became the future home of Kamp Kiwanis.
From a “gleam in the
eye” of many dedicated Kiwanians has grown a strong and
vigorous Foundation, committed to responding to the
needs of children and youth.
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