PROJECTS

Love for Haiti
The UNM student body helped in the recovery mobilizing around the world to assist Haiti earthquake victims. Their donations helped disaster victims rebuild their lives and communities.
February 12, 2010

Martinez Town
We gathered at Eisenhower Middle School to work alongside with the Junior Honor Society in collecting bare necessities for needy families for Christmas.
December 12, 2009

Fall Induction Ceremony
A celebration and induction of our new members who have done so much this year. This year’s new members will be honored with their certificates and last year’s members will be honored with their pins!
December 4, 2009

Hanging of the Greens
A UNM / New Mexican tradition lives on as student organizations gather to decorate the campus with luminarias and carol all the way to the president’s house. Our members must fold and fill over 400 bags!
December 4, 2009

Book Drive
Albuquerque Main Library holds a bi-annual book sale where everything you can fit in a brown bag cost only $3! With donations in hand we got together to purchase kids book for our literacy initiative for underachieving schools. Altogether the club purchased 15 bags of books for donation!
November 15, 2009

Trick or Treat for UNICEF
This program has volunteers trick or treating for funds to help third world countries obtain necessary supplies for survival. Our goal this year was $300 and by 10/29 of this week long project we had already collected $297. We made an additional $263 on a single day from our bake sale on 10/30. By the end of trick or treating we had made a grand total of $830! We met our goal by 287%!

Tabling: Oct 26 – October 29, 2009
Bake Sale: October 30, 2009
Trick or Treat: October 31, 2009

Fall Rally
A weekend of service and leadership building at Kamp Kiwanis. This three day event is a great way to meet the district and new friends along with the Kiwanis. UNM had the biggest attendance with 7 members making the 3 hour trip!
Oct 16- October 18, 2009

Balloon Fiesta
The biggest cultural event of the year in Albuquerque. We gathered to volunteer and help run this international spectacular by selling and collecting tickets, parking cars, and much more. Our club completed 150 hours of service in one week.
Oct 4 – October 11, 2009

NMSU vs. UNM Tailgate Social
Food and fun as we gather to support our Lobos in the biggest game of the year!
September 26, 2009

Zozobra Social
This annual event takes us to Santa Fe for the burning of Old Man Gloom, a 50 foot marionette. We took the train to watch this behemoth puppet burn along with all the gloom in the world.
September 3, 2009

Welcome Back Days
In our everlasting efforts to grow our club, we set up our impressive booth. With our new look we turned more than a few heads.
August 27, 2009

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
A world with less breast cancer is a world with more birthdays. That world gets closer and closer at every American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. With a hundred dollar check in hand for donation, the club made a five mile walk count towards this great cause.
Tabling: April 15, 2009
Walk: April 26, 2009

Induction Ceremony
A celebration of new members as they receive their membership certificates.
April 2009

Store House Clothes Drive
The Storehouse has a very simple, but very difficult job; they provide free food and clothing to people struggling with poverty and for three months our clothes drive helped make it easier for this program to help our community.
Drive: September 17, 2007 – November 12, 2008
Donation: May 13, 2009

Welcome Back Days
This day offers a chance to meet student leaders and learn how to get involved with more than 400 student organizations.
September 28, 2008

International Convention
President Adrian Perez, Vice-President Ricardo Galicia, Treasurer Omar Perez, Secretary Kristin Bruner, and Kiwanis Advisor Michael Vigil represented UNM and the Southwest District as we got down with other CKI members from around the world at the 53rd Annual Circle K International Convention. We made the 500 mile trip to Denver with the most members in the district!
Aug 7– August 9, 2008

Southwest District Convention
District conventions are important parliamentary and social gatherings in which we vote for our new board.
February 24, 2007

Fall Frenzy
The Associated Students of UNM hosts an annual community service and campus beautification event, Fall Frenzy. Fall Frenzy gives students an opportunity to participate in service projects that benefit both the UNM and Albuquerque communities.
September 29, 2006