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Kiwanis Club of Carefree Unveils Fresh New Welcome Sign on Cave Creek Road Cave Creek, AZ (December 11, 2025)  For decades, an old, weather-worn sign has greeted drivers as they rolled into Cave Creek, the Kiwanis Club logo perched beside five other longstanding community organizations. Faded by time, bent by an unfortunate run-in with [...]

Carefree, AZ (December 16, 2025) — The Kiwanis Club of Carefree once again delivered an unforgettable day of holiday joy at the annual “Kiwanis Christmas for the Kids” event, held on December 6 in the center of Carefree. This year’s celebration welcomed over 790 children and over 1,550 adults, transforming downtown Carefree into a [...]

Carefree, AZ [November 13, 2025] — The Kiwanis Club of Carefree has stepped forward in a major way this holiday season, providing funding to the Foothills Food Bank to ensure 1,000 holiday meals can be delivered to families in need across the Desert Foothills community. What began as a two-holiday initiative to support Thanksgiving [...]

Cave Creek, AZ  (September 10, 2025) – The Foothills Food Bank proudly announces the successful completion of its 2024–2025 Snack Pack and School Micro-Pantry program thanks to the generous support of the Kiwanis Club of Carefree, a service organization dedicated to improving the lives of children in our community. With the Kiwanis investment, the [...]

The grant to Desert Hills School of Music will include over a dozen new instruments and the grant to the Holland Community Center will provide for the refurbishment of the interior spaces. The Kiwanis Major Projects Committee (The Committee), a project-based committee formed by the Kiwanis Club of Carefree, is pleased to announce the [...]

Kiwanis of Carefree recently received a large “Thank You” poster from the Cave Creek Unified School District (CCUSD), thanking Kiwanis for its financial grants to the district during the last year. The poster highlights Kiwanis helping fund a kindergarten field trip to MIM, a 4th grade trip to Western Heritage, a 5th grade Junior Achievement [...]

Kiwanis Christmas for the Kids On Saturday, Dec 2, Kiwanis of Carefree made 60 kids very happy with shiny, new bikes at their Kiwanis Christmas For the Kids event at the Sanderson Lincoln Pavilion in Carefree. We gave away 10 bikes each hour to kids of three different age groups. [...]

Our PreSchool team made a special video to thank you all for funding their field trip to the Mo Willems exhibit at the Phoenix Children's Museum. Please share with other members as you see fit, so they can be reminded of the differences they are making. (PS- We could not have made the video without [...]

Ms. Linda Wright, Hospitality Chair of Kiwanis of Carefree, announced the Kiwanis Christmas Event “for the kids” to be held in downtown Carefree, at the Sanderson Center, on Saturday, December 2nd .  It will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This FREE event will again feature Kiwanis giving away bicycles to the kids of three different age groups [...]

Kiwanis Club of Carefree received 50 back to school backpacks donated to from TCC Verizon, located at the Summit. Kiwanis Marketplace will be giving them away to kids for their Community Day celebration! The backpacks contain school supplies too! In addition to the backpacks, Kiwanis had the honor of accepting a grant from Verizon [...]