Club History  

Stewart Ross, past Governor of the Minnesota-Dakotas District, participated in Greater Mankato Diversity Council training to be a diversity facilitator in the Mankato schools in 2005-2006. When that training was complete, Stewart and about 20 other facilitators went into middle school classrooms in Mankato and North Mankato and provided a wonderful curriculum to the students. As the second cohort of facilitators finished their training, Stewart saw the need to bring the two groups of trainers together and felt that a new Kiwanis club would be one way to do that - and to bring something unique to the Mankato community and to Kiwanis International.

Stewart's initial email to diversity facilitators and to his network of friends and acquaintances yielded many positive responses and a few membership applications right away - within a few weeks, the list had grown to well over the minimum needed for chapter status and we began the process of forming the new club.

Organizational meetings were completed in March and we held our first official meeting in April, 2006.

A year later, we have 54 members and have two service projects we are working on - Kids Against Hunger and Walking in Two Worlds!