What is Circle K International?
Circle K International is the world’s largest student-led collegiate service organization, with thousands of members on hundreds of campuses on five continents across the globe. The collegiate branch of the Kiwanis International family, CKI is committed to developing leaders by offering unique service, leadership and fellowship opportunities that not only change the world but change members’ lives. CKI members leave college with real-life networking and advocating skills AND service leadership.
To be the leading global community service organization on college and university campuses that enriches the world one member, one child, and one community at a time. The tenets of Circle K International are service, leadership and fellowship.
- To emphasize the advantages of the democratic way of life;
- To provide the opportunity for leadership training in service;
- To serve on the campus and in the community;
- To cooperate with the administrative officers of the educational institutions of which the clubs are a part;
- To encourage participation in group activities;
- To promote good fellowship and high scholarship;
- To develop aggressive citizenship and the spirit of service for improvement of all human relationships;
- To afford useful training in the social graces and personality development; and
- To encourage and promote the following ideals:
- To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life;
- To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships;
- To promote the adoption and the application of high social, business and professional standards;
- To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive and serviceable citizenship;
- To provide through Circle K clubs a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service and to build better communities; and
- To cooperate in creating and maintaining sound public opinion and high idealism, which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism and goodwill.
Live to Serve, Love to Serve
CKI is committed to developing leaders by offering unique service, leadership and fellowship opportunities that not only change the world but change members’ lives.
